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by rvba 2y ago
Most here will disagree with me, because public help is socialism but this is one of the places where the state could really help. Sadly hospices are underfunded and just run wrong - people stay in their rooms to die. Those children could
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by rvba 2y ago
Is Nadella doing anything else apart from outsourcing? I would argue that Microsoft is the same ship as it was with Ballmer, but the times changed a bit, both the software and market matured. But essentially Microsoft still sells the same s
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by rvba 2y ago
They botched the remake since it was done by incompetent people. That was (still is?) the time where Netflix was trying to build a library so they threw random people at random projects. Death Note Remake / live action film was botched
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by rvba 2y ago
The matrix to some degree is inspired by Ghost in the shell .
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by rvba 2y ago
Some people freeze up when they have to do their jobs...
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by rvba 2y ago
Iant Harvard 10% best on scholarships and 90% children of rich and connected parents? Not total idiots, but still.
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by rvba 2y ago
> who wants to work somewhere with no services Nobody wants to work there, yet lots of people work there since they need money. And it's the employer who chooses the location. Of course top talent does not need to work in a crappy c
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by rvba 2y ago
The article states that "a reported five years of research and development" was required. I think an EUV machine litography might be harder to make if you need to invent it from scratch.
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by rvba 2y ago
China couldnt produce ballpens utill around 2017. If companies can defend themselves against espionage and/or takeovers there can be a moat. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01&
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by rvba 2y ago
Cant this be easily circumvented with a GPS spoofer app?
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by rvba 2y ago
Why couldnt NVIDIA auction some to get best price? I mean locking customers long term is probably better, but a certain % of product still vould be sold for a spot price? This made me wonder what is the optimum split on that - obviously dep
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by rvba 2y ago
Poor kids
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by rvba 2y ago
People got to eat. The unproffessional interviews are usually for the lowest paid jobs. Some pleb gets into a psotion of power and abuses it. However I had my own strange interviews with supposedly "proffessional" people - and it
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by rvba 2y ago
Arent most of those karate demonstrations fake? Yes there are some really strong people out there who can break the boards in a legit way, but most of the time the boards are simply discretely cut before the demonstations. Thanks to those c
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by rvba 2y ago
Those laws are there to be applied selectively. When you are a nobody, they wont care. When you are a person of interest this law will be applied to you. If they want you are just a tourist, otherwise you are a spy who took 5000 photos.
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by rvba 2y ago
What is the business model of an "AI smart-matching tool for humanitarian aid"? Spunds like a word salad, or a weekend project for a developer that could be hosted for few bucks per month.
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by rvba 2y ago
> In a traditional celebrity endorsement, the people promoting brands' products are well known and well represented and deliver a predictable result for the businesses that hire them This sounds like a hit piece by "old" s
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by rvba 2y ago
IMDB forums used to be a community for film and TV but amazon killed it in its infinite wisdom of lowest common denominator
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by rvba 2y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/longreads
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by rvba 2y ago
It so weird that ships and boats somehow are female and are referred to using the word "she", when neutral gender "it" exists.
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by rvba 2y ago
What social norms will you get from weird spiderman movies on youtube (that look like some sort of russian psy-ops) or from chinese tiktok algorhitm, that shows educational stuff for chinese children and complete utter garbage for those in
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by rvba 3y ago
OpenAI exists on a lot of computers allready - since their ideas are part of Microsoft Copilot. People here are usually programmers, who can and are allowed to do more than average users. If we treat "open" as "open to the ma
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by rvba 3y ago
Spammers are smart enough to post their spam on reddit too. Then upvote it with bots.
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by rvba 3y ago
They probably optimize your engagement NOW - with clickbaity videos. So their KPIs show big increases. But in long term you realize that what you watch is garbage and stop watching alltogether. Someone probably changed the engine that shows
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by rvba 3y ago
They hired people who introduce Jack Welch methods. This is like in that Steve Jobs video about product people being kicked out and exchanged by ones who dont care about product: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4 Th
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by rvba 3y ago
I could easily write a wall of text about Polish honorifics, that can easily be used to express all the honorifics mentioned in the Wikipedia article, and much much more. But probably nobody's really interested. I mean, there are even
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by rvba 3y ago
Meanwhile facebook does not show you updates about your friends. And yes, I know they post rarely and they cannot "feed" your.. feed since it would be nearly empty. But those few posts that friends make are not promoted at all. Yo
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by rvba 3y ago
> "LHC micro black holes will destroy Earth" hysteria. I will be heavily downvoted for this, but here is how I remember it: 1) LHC was used to study blackholes and prove things like Hawking radiation 2) LHC was supposed to be s
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by rvba 3y ago
Before iphone came out there were smartphones too. But they became quite irrelevant when iphone came out. (Android was like a year later) Same fate can happen to metaverse - someone can make a better VR platform. Doesnt help them that what
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by rvba 3y ago
IMHO when you talk about PCs "becoming the big thing" - it is more Windows 95 time. In 1989 market was still fragmented and PCs were weak (286, amiga, mac + old 8bits like atari and commodore).

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