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It's different: Holmes' board going into the scandal included an unusual roster of names for a healthcare startup, with leaders who had more experience in politics and government than healthcare OTOH, JetZero's board includ
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> If you think any major social media site is not willfully ignoring some percentage of the bots, I've got a bridge to sell you. Sell me. How do they usually do that? Any concrete example?
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Landmark moment because it's the first time? Don't you think that's an accomplishment in itself? Just like the first flight, or the first satellite, none of those were particular impressive.
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3y ago
You just proved the Elon hatress is just as strong
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> Sales growth has ceased entirely for them since 2022. I'm pretty sure you're wrong. But feel free to provide numbers to prove you are right.
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SLS flight cost is $2B. Each launch. Did you forget to include the decade prior? It's so expensive that it can fly no more than once a year. The next flight is scheduled for Sep 2025, three years after the first flight. I bet you think
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> Many times maintainers will use open source projects on their resumes, advertise them on forums, give presentations, and then will be antagonistic towards even very friendly and objective issues and PRs. Is it different than someone ad
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I'm in the US and a frequent Uber users, and I've only tipped once over 10 years. My rating is 4.93, so I don't think the drivers see me as an asshole.
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> I concur, using credit cards is rather dangerous Your link is about chargeback. I'm pretty much exclusively using credit cards for daily payment and I can't even remember the last time I got any problems. I never pay interest
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> This is exactly the definition of a "bubble". There is no such thing as bubble definition. Everyone has one depending on their point of view. You have one. > the market might have an overly optimistic view on the success
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I wasn't trying to convince you. I was telling you that your arguments didn't make sense, and that people love car for valid reasons. Address their need and they will use public transportation. You chose to shame people who don&#x
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3y ago
You can say that pretty much about any personal items -- laptop, phone, clothes, shoes, even your house. Manufacturing them cause harm to the environment and they're idle most of the time. Some of your clothes may stay unused for years
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What makes this a "release" compared to the release of non-Google models?
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> Part of what makes hackernews worth participating in is that the owners are not profit-maximizing and trying to extract the maximum possible value from the site. How do you know? Just because there is no ads doesn't mean they don&
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The point is that thing can change. Intel was king a decade ago. TSMC is on the summit at the moment. Intel can be back in a few years if their plan works out: https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-roadmap-2025-explainer/
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3y ago
> things are plainly obvious. To you. You are projecting.
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3y ago
Doesn't mean iPhone was underspeced. N95 was priced at $750 vs. $500 for iPhone. N95 could have up to 4hrs talk time, 8hrs with WiFi turned off! iPhone could do 8hrs. iPhone could also browse the web for 6 hours, play videos for 7hrs,
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Symbian the OS was solid. Symbian the devices were mediocre. iPhone was much more polished and consumer friendly. Touch screen, size, weight, iOS, the browser, data -- it's hard to attributes iPhone's success to a single thing, bu
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Cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game, nobody made their methods public, on any side. How do we know that you aren't from Chinese intelligence who is trying to figure out why they could trace back to the Chinese hackers in this case? I
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There are no lack of spending for schools and housing and infrastructure and welfare. 15% of federal spending is for defense, of which F-35 spending is part of. To compare, 22% is for social security, 14% is for health, 10% is for medicare,
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> The choices being made for the F-35 have much more to do with government tender processes, military red tape, corruption, and general government incompetence than physics or engineering. Say who? what were the competing solutions and h
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> oddities in American flights And you framed it as if every American airline charges extra for any baggage of any kind
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Why do they need to pack an extra phone instead of using their primary one?
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> We should not aim for endless productivity There is no such thing as endless productivity. We should always aim for higher productivity, because that means getting more for less. What we should not do is to reward solely based on produ
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Automation is always a good thing in the long run for the society collectively. If you have a counter example of bad automation please elaborate. It's the short term pain, or individual lost that needs to be addressed.
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> Looks like technology can only help people to create a more sophisticated ways to kill each other. If technology can help to create more sophisticated way to kill each other, it can also be used to create the defense against the same.
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> Then again, Bill Gates thinks it may have plateaued He didn't say AI may have plateaued. He said the OpenAI may have reached the limit of the current design. Very different thing. From your link below: He anticipates a stagnation
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It wasn't obvious. Otherwise it wouldn't be a bet! Everyone and their dog would want to be deep in the game, like what's going on with LLM at the moment. Nvidia revenue and R&D budget has traditionally been, and still are
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Did you know that car ownership in the Netherlands, the country renown for its cycling culture, has been on the rise? https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2020/10/car-fleet-growing-fast...
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Most of them look exactly like the ICE versions of the same maker. Can you give example of EVs that you don't like, and the ICE vehicles that you like?
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