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by s17n 9y ago
Post I replied to was imagining a world where margins go down, which seems very plausible, compute is a commodity.
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“Parentese” speech leads to improved language development (2014)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by s17n 9y ago
Question is whether those companies will culturally be able to compete in a low-margin space. I don't know anything about Microsoft but wrt Google I've often thought that the insane margins on the search ads business have made it
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Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to run a Mastodon instance?
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by s17n 9y ago
Probably the bookmakers are actually OK with the betting activity that is described in the paper, but they have limits on successful accounts as a safety mechanism to prevent themselves from losing too much money in the event that somebody
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by s17n 9y ago
There are libraries for SVD in any language you'd want to use.
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by s17n 9y ago
Because then you are compromising the utility of your url-as-search semantics, complicating your implementation, and probably distorting your data and/or schema. A better solution is to make the distinction between "display"
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by s17n 9y ago
I didn't... you mean the overuse of commas?
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by s17n 9y ago
Sure sounds like that person's job can and should be automated, leaving the remaining recruiters doing more interesting work.
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Why Investors Can’t Get Enough of Tajikistan’s Debt(nytimes.com)
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by s17n 9y ago
You talk here about creating an "addictive" product. People in the industry usually use the euphemism "engagement" rather than "addiction" but either way, do you think that this type of product will eventually
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by s17n 9y ago
A better metric would be average lifetime of a product, otherwise comparing companies with different ages is meaningless. Of course, you have to do something to account for products that haven't yet been killed.
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by s17n 9y ago
Any new product is either: - A startup, which will likely fail - Not the core business of the company which created it
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by s17n 9y ago
You mentioned companies with only one product, aka startups.
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by s17n 9y ago
According to the above poster, Google has killed 27% of their products. Way more than 27% of startups don't make it.
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by s17n 9y ago
It's what you call a "clickbait title" but it's an interesting little article nevertheless.
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by s17n 9y ago
Companies with only one product are very likely to shut that product down when they go out of business or are acquired.
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by s17n 9y ago
Is Google actually more likely to shut down a given service than any other company?
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by s17n 9y ago
The use-case here is a decentralized mechanism for providing (at least approximately) validated timestamps, which it seems to me a blockchain can do.
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by s17n 9y ago
"Developing" (or less euphemistically, "poor") is better because "3rd world" has specific cold-war related connotations that are less and less relevant as time goes on - eg, a poor former soviet bloc country wo
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by s17n 9y ago
Nodes will always be able to organize outside of the mechanisms provided by the code. Managing this phenomenon is what governance is all about.
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by s17n 9y ago
The corporate accounts thing is actually pretty interesting - a cost that was previously absorbed by large companies (doing the accounting for expensed food orders) is shifted to the restaurants by a third-party entrant in the space (Seamle
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by s17n 9y ago
Ultimately a cryptocurrency needs a functional governance model to survive - it has to be possible to update the code, and so people have to decide somehow on which version is valid, and this creates the opportunity for a power structure to
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by s17n 9y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+the+fuck+did+I+just+rea...
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by s17n 9y ago
Enables automated vulnerability disclosure.
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by s17n 9y ago
The real magic of testing is when you're working on a project with like 1000 engineers and millions of lines of code and you can just change shit that you don't fully understand and rely on the tests to make sure that you aren&#x2
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by s17n 9y ago
They explicitly said that it doesn't sent the images to Google servers, AI is done locally on the phone.
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by s17n 9y ago
This guy's onus is out of control.
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by s17n 9y ago
The two way functionality works with only one pair of buds - the other user holds the phone
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by s17n 9y ago
Saying "you're doubling down on sophistry" instead of just "you're wrong" doesn't actually make you more convincing.

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