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by rexreed 5y ago
We are living in a multi-device, instant-access, access-anywhere, cloud-based world, and the desktop file-based paradigm has trouble with this reality. The vast majority of non-technical people would struggle with desktop-based files when t
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by rexreed 5y ago
What's sadder than companies spewing this marketing gobbledygook are the customers and the consulting firms that buy into them. Enterprise (and government) buying decision-making is highly flawed and these smart enterprise software fir
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by rexreed 5y ago
Have you set up some sort of endowment? How are you ensuring long-term financial viability?
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by rexreed 5y ago
Wow, very impressive. What sort of trading yields such mega returns? Is the value in cryptocurrency or has it been realized in actual cash returns?
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by rexreed 5y ago
But if you have a few hundred products then this doesn't become so easy. And where exactly does Zapier deliver that file from in a secure way? If I'm going to go through all that trouble, I might as well just use a Wordpress elect
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by rexreed 5y ago
Hey pc! Is there a way to tie a digital delivery to the payment? Let's say you're selling an e-Book or an audio file or the latest collectable nonfungible (jk). Is there a way to have Stripe send a digital file or product upon suc
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by rexreed 5y ago
We are but fruit fly lifespans in the grand schemes of the universe. We will be here and then gone and the earth will rotate away. All our damage to the ecosystem will be folded in like the asteroid that impacted tens of millions of years a
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by rexreed 5y ago
A biological blink of an eye.
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by rexreed 5y ago
Here's another one that uses the same word in opposing contexts: After he left out the left door, there was no one left.
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by rexreed 5y ago
But as you can see from the responses to the GP comment, many nonzero people on HN think and believe the contrary. So, the comment attempts to impose on the reader the perception that any contrary belief to what the commentary implies is a
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by rexreed 5y ago
Are you speaking on behalf of the entire HN community? I didn't realize we all spoke with one voice. If anything, the HN groupthink is counterproductive. I find that the true value of the HN community is the diversity of the voices and
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by rexreed 5y ago
Not in this case: See the first page of results for DDG's search on how valve index works: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=how+valve+index+works&atb=v... Compare to Google: https://www.google.com&#x
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by rexreed 5y ago
What speculation? I quoted the above article stating that, and there's more on this topic. There's a reason for those Infocards.
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by rexreed 5y ago
It's Google's prioritization with ads and preferred sites taking priority even over those SEO-optimized sites. Google would much prefer to be the sole source of your traffic instead of pushing you to other sites. Google's bus
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by rexreed 5y ago
There's an even bigger picture than possibly monetizing ecommerce revenue (through... ads?). The biggest impact is that they get to use all the content generated on the Internet to create these search "results" that synthesiz
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by rexreed 5y ago
They key here is that transformer-based "search" isn't actually providing links to the sources of information such as how search works now, but rather synthesizing information as a result of being trained on the corpus of Int
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by rexreed 5y ago
Search quality at Google has been decaying over the past decade. Accuracy and quality of search results is compromised to optimize advertising revenue, penalize competitors or neutralize threats, and cater to the various needs of political
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by rexreed 5y ago
Side note - why does it feel like so many of Google's products, and especially their most core offerings are in a state of ongoing decay? Search is getting worse. Maps today is worse than maps 10 years ago. Even their Google home assis
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by rexreed 5y ago
Sounds like an HR compliance issue
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by rexreed 5y ago
[*] Re-launches. The White House has had an AI.Gov site for a few years, operated by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. For a short while during the transition, the AI.Gov site redirected to a subsite managed by NIST,
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by rexreed 5y ago
If it weren't for many of the other problems of helicopters including convenience and noise. How many helicopters will fit in an IKEA parking lot? And how many will be able to bring back whatever you buy there? Extend that thought expe
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by rexreed 5y ago
As a researcher in AI, what are you really spending most of your time on? What problems are you solving?
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by rexreed 5y ago
We got our current revolution for three major contributors: * Big data. Lots of big data. Mostly unstructured and unqueryable driving demand for... * Innovations in machine learning. "Deep learning" enabled by big data and algorit
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by rexreed 5y ago
They miss for the same reasons they have missed throughout the decades: they overpromise and underdeliver. That was the reason for the past two AI "winters" and most likely will be the same reason for the upcoming AI winter. What
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by rexreed 5y ago
When people think flying cars, they don't think of something without wheels that can only land in certain spots that requires years of training to operate that is significantly expensive to be outside of the reach of 99%. They think of
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by rexreed 5y ago
So they just add up all the employee months and split the profit equally per employee month?
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by rexreed 5y ago
BCG. Accenture. Deloitte. KPMG. E&Y. CapGemini. I could go on. They all sell the same crap and produce the same sh*t and somehow they keep their huge clients who overpay for low quality work. What a racket.
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by rexreed 6y ago
Yes but how is it being done in this case?
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by rexreed 6y ago
How does the 10% profit share work? Do they take 10% of profits and divide them equally among all employees? Contractors? Full time? Part time? Interns? Does someone know how the profit share works?
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by rexreed 6y ago
The above response is a great example of spin, or if you prefer, this nice euphemism: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/polishing+a+turd

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