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by richardw 5y ago
They don’t need a record because they’re not marketing to investors. If you want to sell your business, this is an advert. Sellers don’t need to worry about the buyer’s alpha.
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by richardw 5y ago
(2017) and it seems running since 2007, going strong. https://www.tinycapital.com/companies
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by richardw 5y ago
The career one can be hard. I typically care more than most. I thrive in environments where what I’m doing adds value and fits my own values. I love the challenge, I love building, I love working with amazing people. I’m nearer the end of m
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by richardw 5y ago
That’s very interesting. I wouldn’t have guessed that.
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by richardw 5y ago
Apple’s value is the set of customers who sign up first on iOS rather than web (edit: and who couldn’t be nudged to the web). I’d guess the number isn’t the full billion, but enough that Netflix doesn’t want to lose them.
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by richardw 5y ago
Ads is why a kid in Africa can browse most of the web. The web is default open. I’m not in an ad industry.
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by richardw 5y ago
The front page is a treasure. Many redesigns are attempted and they never work (for me, YMMV). Don’t jiggle what obviously works and everyone is very used to, unless you test the heck out of it. I read the short headline, and the top commen
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by richardw 5y ago
Or if the AI thing doesn’t work out. Or some retarded President ends up in a nuclear war with China/Russia. Either of those are way above 1% chance of entirely hosing civilisation. AI is binary. We get on with it or we don’t. Nukes are
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by richardw 5y ago
Not the expert you’re looking for but here’s my intuitive reasoning: Because light will always be moving at the speed of light for you. You move at 0C. As you speed up, time slows down to preserve that.
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I think when you get home and your key doesn’t work on the lock, it might tip you off.
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by richardw 5y ago
It’s immortal and cyclical. There is no beginning or end. Popular focus is obviously on one part of that cycle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)
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by richardw 5y ago
“It was designed” - that’s the key. We all know how hard it is to make things simple. That doesn’t come naturally. Hardest stuff I’ve ever done is to go through complexity to reach what is simple. (Definitely paraphrasing someone else there
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by richardw 5y ago
On the curve, hospital beds are basically flat compared to a covid spike. There is no rational amount of beds that is enough, because bed estimates are always a guess: wrong and wasteful because too many and then suddenly too few. And then
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by richardw 5y ago
I’ve long wanted it to be octopi but my iPhone and most sources say no. Out of the dictionaries, only Oxford English seems to include but says based on a misunderstanding. Some detail on history here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#
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by richardw 5y ago
Its proven. It’s physics. I can’t catch covid from you because we’re probably on different continents. Living across the street works as well if I don’t open the door. This has been tested for every transmissible disease every organism has
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by richardw 5y ago
You’re standing on the shoulders of a lot of giants, telling them you’re coming for them. Where do you thing the leverage is here? Those guys are driving cars and writing JavaScript automatically. Tuning NN knobs can also be done automatica
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by richardw 5y ago
Neural networks let anyone bullshit a good game until things get tricky. Back in the day frontpage was going to kill web development because anyone could make a website. Now we can slap newer tech we don’t understand together and profit wi
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https://microconf.com/ and surrounds
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by richardw 5y ago
It’ll happen, just elsewhere first: https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/china-ev-swappable-batt... Good overview here: https://youtu.be/2-xWYScsvts
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by richardw 5y ago
> because they are full of contempt for the skill and intelligence of ordinary people No. They just don’t know what makes it hard. I don’t know where the robot train drivers are. We’re doing cars and planes but it seems trains have fewer
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by richardw 5y ago
DARPA Grand Challenge kickstarted a lot of careers and companies and it was a pitiful amount of money as well. In WWII there was no time for serendipity and black swans. Only guarantees, before the other side got it, within a few years.
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by richardw 5y ago
Says modelled on this, which attracts another $15 for each $ invested. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel Look, last year it didn’t exist. They haven’t capped all investment in the industry. If it does well it co
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by richardw 5y ago
I really wanted my name for an email address. Finally got it with gmail. That’s been a total hassle in recent years since I get many mails for other people, or mistakes, etc. Or gmail ignores the “.” and that amplifies mistakes people make.
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by richardw 5y ago
Or a foreign government paying more to not give back the data. Just for the economic impact. One that might be under sanctions from the target country, say.
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“Let’s recap”?
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Initial Stress-Derived Noun(en.wikipedia.org)
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by richardw 5y ago
I bought two expensive ones. Read all about how to look after them. Despite many efforts over ages I couldn’t get it right and finally threw them in the trash. I’d rather have a subscription to inexpensive non stick pans. I don’t want to se
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by richardw 5y ago
There are a lot more trees than overturned trucks. Not having sensors that see trees without reducing comfort is a choice. If the car can’t drive safely in a situation, it needs to require a driver.
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It can’t be that hard to focus on the rooms with people in them, reduce the other rooms to eg one change an hour.
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by richardw 6y ago
The same ethos added to pro cycling is pretty much considered cheating but I’d guess not in the inner chambers. Fair game as long as you pass the tests? Draw oxygenated blood out and put it back in halfway through a tour. Now that’s called

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