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What are the 10B companies from China that invented anything new btw?
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That's why robots make so much traffic now. Those other companies are trying to get data. Google theoretically has reddit access. I wonder if they have sort of an internet archive - data unpolutted by LLMs On a side note, funny how all
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If you are senior leadership and you find that your org has some people do useless side projects for fun (and tons of money) what delivers no value, your job is to solve this problem by reassigning or firing them. Facebook VR never needed a
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Projects to land them a fat salary while delivering no value. No wonder they used any means necessary (including HR) to defend their source of money. They probably knew very well they are a net loss for the company. Lots of big orgs have su
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If you want to build 3d glasses probably you should fpcus on 3d glassess and software for it. Not some new OS so you can start making the glasses 2 years later. Just like when you want to bake a cake, you dont start by designing an oven, or
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Getting stock in exchange of grants makes more sense than "pure" grants. This stock can later be sold, to benefit the taxpayer.
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"I can't believe it's not butter" product
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If wikipedia can show the Jimmy Wales banners, then sure it can go for the throat of some politicians. It allready collects few hubdred million per year, spends like 10 on wikipedia itself and rest goes for political projects. They could do
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Wikipedia is so bad at simplest PR. It should close itself before elections to burn the politicians that try to screw it.
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The 51% would be controlled by the few people from funds, who live in USA - and who are easy to "influence"
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EU-based company can ignore USA same way USA ignores everyone else now.
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The previous CEO had a plan. You could agree with the plan or disagree with it. Current CEO has no plan, sabotaged the idea of last one and cries on twitter. Not a good outlook. TSMC can just wait Trump out.
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Sure, a lot of problems could be solved with a cultural shift, but most people are in a rat race to survive And those in politics are not interested in change since because (the cynical part starts here) they are selected / sponsored b
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Weak managers and teams dont want to hire the person who actually delivers something that works. The new person could show how unproductive they are.
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I think most people dont meet in houses anymore. Perhaps because they have roommates? And yes I know people in the past had them too. On a side, a thread full of 600k per year FAANG programmers writing that life is easy for everyone is incr
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It does not take decades to ruin something. In the example here: scientists can go somewhere else and never come back. Even if the next administration vhanges course you will never know if there wont be constant flip-flopping. That's b
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So will we be able to have more than 11 programs on the taskbar without them being compacted? Or a 2 row taskbar? So I can easily switch between my 40 windows open? What is good for productivity?
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It is even worse. The AI can build a profile of you and then feed you stuff that works on you. Not even fear, more like a personal bubble that feeds you stuff that works on you
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Come on: openAI has a product that you can "touch" - both on your phone /home computer and at work, since their tech sits behind copilot (msft hit the jackpot with the licence). It is a virtual product yes, but come on - no v
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Jack Welch thought strikes again
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If the model cannot handle when we are now, then it is a vad model. Same for a model crashing. Different thing is if it showed that repayment is inpossible. The article mentions a ery important subject, but quality is low.
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Because dividends are (at least in theory) perpetual.
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I read that IOS will pepvide the battery percentage pn screen (e.g. your battery is 75% charged) and also estimated time to reach 100% capacity when charging Android had this for 15 years or more...
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If you need change for the sake of change, then maybe your time is worthless.
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How is farm equipment predictable? Droughts and floods make farming unpredictable.
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Google, Facebook, Microsoft and many other of those old big companies are profitable though and they dont go anywhere in next 5 years (even if first 2 bleed out users)
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It's on the CEO then for allowing that to happen
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Wasting taxpayer money every time they build a bridge?
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It looks mostly like a project for self promotion of the two authors. Maybe they offer some consulting services. Funniest is that one of them wrote that they have "learned about it after Y2K bug". I thought one learns about this
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