revelio

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by revelio 4y ago
Strictly speaking, that's doing something inefficient for the benefit of people living in rural areas, not society as a whole.
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by revelio 4y ago
To follow up from my sibling comment, Tidjane Thiam (CEO 2015-2020) is not Swiss. He's French Ivorian.
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by revelio 4y ago
Content moderation isn't physically taxing. Presumably you meant mentally taxing, even then it's debatable to what extent that is true.
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by revelio 4y ago
The spying scandal didn't involve "an executive" and "a former employee", it involved the CEO and several senior executives. Tidjane Thiam resigned in 2020 over it whilst denying wrongdoing, and was CEO at the time
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by revelio 4y ago
>> institutions admit they are racing to catch up LOL these institutions aren't racing anywhere, they've been publishing papers written by SciGen and other obvious nonsense text generators for years and are still doing it:
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by revelio 4y ago
SPA is just an abbreviation of "single page application" and only means a web app that doesn't do full page reloads, it doesn't require the use of any specific framework, so Gmail definitely qualifies and it used it from
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by revelio 4y ago
Index funds are killing off activist investors.
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by revelio 4y ago
Huh? Gmail was a spa and that dates from 2004. I don't think a VC writing a blog post says much about how tech had changed. Smartphones existed before the iPhone and Android, they just weren't as popular.
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by revelio 4y ago
It's not that unusual. The JVM ecosystem works the same way.
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by revelio 4y ago
I wonder if there's enough info about how to do tradesmen's jobs online for that to happen. Programmers are at risk because we filled the internet with free training materials but many jobs aren't like that especially anythin
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by revelio 4y ago
The surprisingly intellectual cabbie is practically a trope. They get to talk to a lot of different people so can end up learning all sorts of things you wouldn't expect.
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by revelio 4y ago
You're right. Academics and graduates are terrible for claiming universities teach critical thinking, yet never stating exactly what they mean or how they think they're doing that. Maybe an obscure philosophy class tries, but the
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by revelio 4y ago
Unconvincing. The LLM approach must be easier to learn the first time, but do you really want to write out an English sentence any time you want to change font size or make a word bold, or draw out a table? No way. The GUI is much faster
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by revelio 4y ago
These are called narrow banks or full reserve banks. No such banks exist. There are a few reasons why: 1. It's not appealing to the market when fractional reserve banks get bailed out, as just happened with SVB. Why would you turn down
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by revelio 4y ago
We must start systematically sandboxing developer tools. It's scary how sensitive dev workspaces are, and how much random crap we run. After decades of training the world's parents and grandparents not to download and run programs