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by relativ575 3y ago
There are negative externalities with any mining, especially as it's often done in developing countries with poor labor protection. However if you are serious about it you should strive to improve the condition of mining workers, as op
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by relativ575 3y ago
> My prediction is that we are already at the peak of what people want in terms of capturing and sharing their experiences for a long time (the next level will be to add smells, but that likely requires direct brain/computer interfa
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by relativ575 3y ago
Strictly use Meta as an example, since the HN crowd loves to bash them, during the same two decades they've released Presto, PyTorch, React, llama. Can you see SOME advancements?
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by relativ575 3y ago
> There are no employment contracts and you can be fired for any reason without notice. You can also leave the job at any time, which as a frequent HN user I'm sure you know and may have used it to your advantage. > There really
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by relativ575 3y ago
But for hundreds of million people? Have you ever considered why car ownership increases as countries are getting richer? like in China or India. Car isn't only status symbol, it allows people to move more easily. Public transport is n
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by relativ575 3y ago
I think it's safe to assume that AI has to pay for the book as well, sooner or later, as shown in the deals OpenAI has made with content publishers such as AP [0]. The question is how much they should pay. [0] - https://www.
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by relativ575 3y ago
Survivor bias. This is what often mentioned in any thread about business success, yet nobody has mentioned it here. Institutions also often don't recognize researches that end up going nowhere. What we can say is that finding a gem is
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by relativ575 3y ago
This kind of comment exists on every security thread and it's amusing. Even if they know for sure the identity of the hackers, they wouldn't risk revealing their tools and methods just to satisfy the general audience. Do you think
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by relativ575 3y ago
Really? you don't think there are many people like that? how successful have they become?
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by relativ575 3y ago
They may have real time traffic information, but please show where Google advertise Map has up to the minute accuracy, for the entirely map. Even if it does, things happen. What if the road collapsed 10 mins ago? Would you be blindly follow
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by relativ575 3y ago
Was it? Or did they only intend to save the time it needed to make more books?
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by relativ575 3y ago
The public know the difference? I bet many people on HN don't, let alone the general consumers. Would you rather them ignore it than doing further research? There is such as a weird bias for Apple on HN, unlike any other tech companies
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by relativ575 3y ago
How is it forced? The article is very short and informative. There isn't a single personal opinion in there.
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by relativ575 3y ago
That's new to me. Who are those analysts?
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by relativ575 3y ago
> My position is that Google and meta have monopolised the audience. Meta have said that people don't come to them for news - [0]. Do you have numbers to counter? What prevents Canada's government to create a news portal, then
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by relativ575 3y ago
And for your mental health. Why do you think people spend so much time and money on home decoration?
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by relativ575 3y ago
> Get rid of golf courses first. I saw many on my road trip from one side of the state to the other. Do you know what the golfers would say? "How about you tech people stop playing games, so there would be less energy consumption an
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by relativ575 3y ago
> "I don't need this so nobody should have it" is a terrible take The opposite opinion that you seem to advocate is equally terrible -- "I want it so everyone should accept it" (which is the title of the post). H
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by relativ575 3y ago
The only reason? Tech people here have some very self-flattery view. The main reason, and I wouldn't call it the only reason, the phone being an essential item is because it meets the needs of average consumers, not just for the tiny t
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by relativ575 3y ago
It is true, yet I can't reconcile the fact the overall excitement and optimism this generates, vs. the lukewarm and skepticism towards news about advance in other hard problems such as fusion, battery, self-driving, space exploration,
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by relativ575 3y ago
>> that Uber was a house of cards gaining market share by subsidizing rides with investor money > they were They no longer are, and they don't lose customers. So no house of cards, because they didn't collapse when subsi
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by relativ575 3y ago
Do this exercise. Pick any country. See how many taxi apps available. They may not be called Uber and Lyft, but I bet there are only a handful at best, anywhere you pick (see Careem). That's the nature of the business.
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by relativ575 3y ago
Are you American and therefore part of that Ponzi scheme?
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by relativ575 3y ago
No. In my case it'd be same days (15th and 1st) as paydays, or earlier if the payday falls in the weekend or holidays.
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by relativ575 3y ago
Announcements often get played repeatedly -- "Train 101 to Lisbon is now on track 5". Why do you want to torture station's workers with that? Instead, make an effort to start a conversation with your fellow travelers, or grac
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by relativ575 3y ago
First of all it isn't a product. It's a f*king research paper. Like dozens other showing up on HN every day. Most of them never becomes a product. Second of all, by whining nauseously you drown out discussions on the merits of the
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by relativ575 3y ago
> The USA was pushing to an unconditional surrender of Japan, well aware that it was one of the few things the Japanese would deny for a surrender. Surrender was already in negotiations, it was just the unconditional part the Japanese we
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by relativ575 3y ago
> can create a disinformation campaign with the tools I have and optionally 2-3 smart, motivated individuals, for free You can, and it may cause unbelievably nuisance, but not to the devastating outcome of a tactical nuke. Can you prove
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by relativ575 3y ago
Care to elaborate in numbers? Where did you get that data?
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by relativ575 3y ago
> Tesla beat estimates about 20k but tesla had severals sales - I thing 4 or 5 times Yes they did do discount. Tesla still has higher margin than pretty much all the other car makers. They still have room to adjust price if they want. &g

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