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by rexreed 4y ago
But in other news, the US Supreme Court has ruled that Corporations are People, so...
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by rexreed 4y ago
There's nothing obvious about M022 – Use barrier cream . If I saw that, I'd assume it means brush your teeth with toothpaste, no toothbrush needed.
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by rexreed 4y ago
To be fair, very little of what Google search does works as described lately. Google is not about retrieving search results, it's about displaying advertising and promoting content that is related to your query, but not your specific q
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by rexreed 4y ago
Depends which direction that revenue is going. Anyways multiples of profit is a better measure if the business is making money. After all you could have a multi-billion dollar company tomorrow selling gas for $1/gallon. but you'd
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by rexreed 4y ago
It's much simpler than all that. Excel is just easy to use and quick to get results and powerful enough to extend, easy to share with others, and is a broadly accepted file format. That's why it works. Everything else is more comp
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by rexreed 4y ago
exactly. or even ask these AI systems to define it. Just like a parrot, they'll repeat what other say without actually understanding what understanding is.
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by rexreed 4y ago
Who said machine learning had anything to do with "understanding" or "reasoning"? There's no reasoning or understanding in these systems. Just probabilistic computations based on big data. And before you go saying &
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by rexreed 4y ago
My understanding of the term vaporization means turning a solid into a vapor... so that implies there's nothing substantial left after vaporization that can't be otherwise removed simply through ventilation.
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by rexreed 4y ago
I responded in much the same way below - your job as a sender is not to guarantee that the receiver will do its job in processing but to provide a reliable set of webhook messages so that if the receiver does fail, at least they can discove
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by rexreed 4y ago
There's no way to guarantee that the receiver will process the webhooks in order since you have no control over the receiver, but you CAN guarantee you can send them in a given order or at least identify the order of those webhooks and
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by rexreed 4y ago
What they tell you and what the reality truly is, are very different things. Venture capital is a hustle, and once you learn how to dance the hustle you can find a partner.
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by rexreed 4y ago
Can I ask what exactly were your Google dreams? What about Google made you scramble your life like this? I'm really curious why people go Gaga for Google
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by rexreed 4y ago
Serious question: why do people "really, really want to work at Google"? Google seems to be cranking out increasingly mediocre products, canning existing products, making engineers chase their own tails, and just being a bad playe
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by rexreed 4y ago
What's worse than managing infrastructure you own? Managing infrastructure you don't.
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by rexreed 4y ago
Landline phones are an example of centralized infrastructure. You don't own anything but your phone, and the landline company owns and manages the rest, and you can be cut off at any time. Landline vs. mobile isn't as different as
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by rexreed 4y ago
Of course nothing is inevitable. Things never go back to the old way, but things do revert. Just look at some of the replies here and you'll see comments such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32319989 and others
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by rexreed 4y ago
The more this keeps up, the more we'll be back to where we were in the 1990s - self-hosted apps on non-cloud infrastructure that are owned and managed by the companies and orgs who build on them, and not held hostage by cloud companies
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by rexreed 4y ago
Check out the wacky C-levels at DataRobot: https://www.datarobot.com/leadership-team/ Someone actually has the title of "Chief Go-To-Market Officer" separate from the Chief Customer Officer, Chief Strategy Of
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by rexreed 4y ago
There are so many nonsense C-levels. I agree on CCO. I've seen "Chief Innovation Officers" "Chief AI Officers" and more and I couldn't tell you what they are actually accomplishing, and why there needs to be a
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by rexreed 4y ago
So-Called C-level Executives do So-Called C-level work, which doesn't relate to anything in reality that founders are used to. A lot of C-level hires is about looking the part and talking the talk, but not actually doing much work. The
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by rexreed 4y ago
That's right! What better form of 2-factor authorization than giving someone a human to talk to and show some form of ID (if needed) for someone to reset access to a system? Of course there needs to be trust for the public library empl
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by rexreed 4y ago
Or perhaps someone can setup an email system primarily for the benefit of public library users. Run it as a non-profit / low-profit and provide basic support, do not require 2-factor authorization. Basically the way email was for many
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by rexreed 4y ago
You still have to have money to pay people. Having volunteers instead of employees means you don't need to pay people. Not having to pay people means you don't need to raise as much money. It's not about paying taxes on the s
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by rexreed 4y ago
Noisebridge is a registered non-profit California corporation, with IRS 501 charitable status. The secret sauce for non-profitable Makerspaces and such is to not be profitable, and structure as a charity, because that's what it most li
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by rexreed 4y ago
Take it from my personal experience, Hacker Lab won't be saved. There are no mysterious philanthropists or charities that throw their money or resources behind unsustainable hackerspaces or startup community resources. So many tech spa
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by rexreed 4y ago
The fact that the CTO was replaced so quickly is not just a sign of scapegoating (which I am sure it is), but also the truth is that so many of these C-level tech executives are utterly incompetent at their jobs, and it takes a crisis for m
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by rexreed 4y ago
Assume they are full of shit unless they prove otherwise. Being actually good at marketing is pretty rare. Most marketers are those with poor skills and little talent who find marketing's ambiguity a perfect place to hide and do work i
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by rexreed 4y ago
Marketing, in the hands of skilled, experienced marketers should not be noticeable since it optimizes audience, message, channel, and delivery. Unfortunately most marketers are talentless hacks with poor skills who apply the same hammers to
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by rexreed 4y ago
What are we supposed to glean from this as energy laymen? How do you provide data in a way that provides real meaning? All this data but no real insight.
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by rexreed 4y ago
That's why it's selling for so cheap. Probably overpriced.

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