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by rexreed 4y ago
This article is not readable without paying for techcrunch+
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"Dualit Limited, Registered office County Oak Way, Crawley, West Sussex RH11 7ST. Registered in England".
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by rexreed 4y ago
Isn't it obvious? They look and feel very uncomfortable, and they don't offer any significant advantages over the alternatives. Sometimes being different isn't necessarily better.
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by rexreed 4y ago
These things come in waves. Myspace - Facebook - Snapchat - Tumblr - Vine - Tiktok. There will be something next, and it will come from somewhere new. Don't ask why, just ask when.
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by rexreed 4y ago
What no one could forsee is how many different devices and gadgets the smart phone would subsume: * Camera & Video recorder * Calculator * GPS * Video streaming device (aka "TV") * Game device * Email and communication device
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by rexreed 4y ago
It's hard to prove counter-examples of companies that have had significant traction but were unable to raise money, because, well they were unable to raise money. The only alternatives are those companies who have had large amounts of
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by rexreed 4y ago
Long story short, nothing to do with your actual business or business model or innovative technology or hand-wavy "disruption" or large addressable market size or traction or any of the other things that VCs tell the plebs matter,
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by rexreed 4y ago
This TITO is basically a rip-off (if not a resell / remarket) of the Today Sunshine M1 Sedan ( https://www.todaysunshine.it/en/m1-today-sunshine-features/ )
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by rexreed 4y ago
Microsoft spent a Billion dollars for an exclusive license of GPT-3, and now they want their return. Expect to see GPT-3 hyped on every platform (including Github).
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by rexreed 4y ago
Here's how I think about SaaS investments. If it's something I want or am curious about, but doesn't really have a tangible ROI, I decide if it's worth my disposable income and disposable time. If I have neither disposab
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by rexreed 4y ago
Your decision making delta is really $40 a year? How much is your time worth?
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by rexreed 4y ago
Of course GPT-3 doesn't "understand" what you are doing. All it's doing is generating high probability text based on a huge training corpus. It's guessing what text will come next. That doesn't mean it understa
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by rexreed 4y ago
The last issue of Transactor was going to be 1982 Vol #3 / Issue #6, when they were going to shift its readership to the much larger US publication, but they got so many inquiries to keep it going, plus a new sponsor / advertiser
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by rexreed 4y ago
Tech news / "journalism" is even worse.
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by rexreed 4y ago
What worries me more are bad people doing bad things with AI, malicious use of AI, or just AI negligence. Deep fakes. Algorithmic decision making taking the human out of the loop (such as bad content moderation and automated account shutdow
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by rexreed 4y ago
Let's quote more of this for context: Pagan began working at the Amazon delivery hub in October and, within two months, had been promoted to a role on the safety committee for the facility. The new role didn’t come with a pay raise, an
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by rexreed 4y ago
The US Government?
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by rexreed 4y ago
It's true you can't disconnect the decisions of the business from the ones making those decisions. But you also can't hire your way out of current problems, especially hiring lower in the organization and hope for change. To
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by rexreed 4y ago
The forces of resistance to change and the pro-services culture at IBM are strong. Very strong. See how far the desire and will to change goes when placed up against the marketing and sales culture at IBM and pressures from the market.
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by rexreed 4y ago
That's when they went all-in on professional services as their primary go-to-market, chasing high buzzword quotient stuff that was meant to capture services revenue and lock into proprietary software. Remember WebSphere?
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by rexreed 4y ago
IBM has stalled because it stopped innovating, and instead pushing highly cumbersome, expensive, consulting-centric "products" that are nothing more than expensive services tied to proprietary technologies. Where IBM isn't pr
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by rexreed 4y ago
Sounds like typical market swings and gyrations in highly speculative markets. Happens in other boom-bust speculation assets from gold to oil to tulips. Are these "winters" or just wild market swings?
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by rexreed 4y ago
It's called denial. Also the slow release of bad news is an attempt to stem the losses of employees leaving a sinking ship. Controlling the press narrative. Lots of reasons for it. And no, tech "journalism" doesn't work
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by rexreed 4y ago
Aren't these just trail cam pictures?
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by rexreed 4y ago
Back in the day we used to call this being a workaholic. Old wine in new bottles as they say.
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by rexreed 4y ago
An increase in the supply of money doesn't correlate to the distribution of that increased supply into the hands of consumers (by way of salaries). Prices go up, and the cost burden of those prices are unequally distributed. Raw materi
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by rexreed 4y ago
Do .com domains still matter? Especially expensive "good" ones? Does a mortgage company really need to be known as "better.com"? Does a screen recorder really need to be known as "loom.com"? Yes these are short
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by rexreed 4y ago
Because calling it what it is - loan for equity for SMB businesses - isn't as sexy . Using some exotic name for an old thing makes the old boring thing seem better, even when it isn't.
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The VCs aren't innocent fools, they're complicit partners.
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by rexreed 4y ago
If we use Vimeo for video hosting would there be some way to automatically post to Vimeo or some other way to get the file up there and available for immediate viewing? Other approaches besides S3?

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