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by screye 3y ago
Open source = no money. Facebook doesn't want the models to be the money making bit, because they aren't a licensing/subscription service. They are an ads and soon hardware-platform company. They want those bits to be what pe
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by screye 3y ago
Optimists always over play their hand. Convincing people in cities to not own cars would be the biggest win any of these global orgs can achieve. It is still likely impossible. But, it is an easier sell. Convincing people to use shared spac
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by screye 3y ago
$3k+ is exactly the right price point. A customer cannot be disappointed from a product they don't buy. And the type of enthusiast who spends 3k+ on it, will be satisfied before they even wear it. At 3k+ it will likely be the unchallen
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by screye 3y ago
I hate how India delivers competent public services. It is oppressive & authoritarian. The oppressive Indian Railways make it difficult to move around in the nation, while the amazing private network of high speed trains in the US is li
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by screye 3y ago
Apple doesn't make money by selling to their target demographic. They make money by convincing buyers that they need a $5,000 monitor to do work that certainly does not require it. I can bet that most people and companies buying the pr
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by screye 3y ago
> don't think society currently has an appetite for a $3000 product Apple currently sells a pair of 500$ headphones and a 5000$ monitor. High margin products that are sold as fashion to their top fans is Apple's thing. They wil
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by screye 3y ago
> side-loading of apps on Android 90%+ users are never going to use apks. If this ban kills the network effect (the R0 of the viral infection), then the last 10% aren't going to last long either.
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by screye 3y ago
> Japanese do not place nearly as much emphasis on human-to-human relations Is this because of how their society has developed over the last 50 or so years, or has it always been a trait of Japanese society. Because if the decay of human
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by screye 3y ago
Don't know why you're downvoted. Most Americans seems to put in more effort into their dogs, than people used to with their children 100 years ago. Take care of your kid like you'd a long-lived dog, and that's enough att
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by screye 3y ago
I've a Galaxy Fold 3 and now 4 for about 2 years now. It is my biggest cellphone QOL improvement since the Pixel mainstreamed AI photography in the first pixel. Best extra $400 spent per year or so.
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by screye 3y ago
I'd hope that 'total collapse' would be self evident enough that I would not have to look at the data. But, Good data would convince me. for social collapse, 'Pew Research' has conducted stellar surveys. I'd st
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by screye 3y ago
We seem to disagree on the basic facts. Don't think anything productive will come out of this. I WILL save this comment and come back to it in 10 years just to be petty. (or eat my own words if it goes that way)
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by screye 3y ago
Yes. But not the way you might think. Let me be clear. I am not a Bhakt, don't particularly love Modi and have complained quite often about bad policies during his regime. My goal is to help people build a representative view of India,
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by screye 3y ago
That's why I pointed to the 'process of partition'. The border-lines were drawn by a man who had never visited India over a few months. They withdrew all state machinery overnight, and somehow expected 2 nations born into war
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by screye 3y ago
I'll give the country 10 years to implode I am willing to take a bet for any $$ value with 10x odds in your favor to contest that claim. more inclusive, social justice oriented, and less violent Hot take. If you genu
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by screye 3y ago
In South Asian politics, bribes are a way of life. No one goes to prison for bribes. They go to prison, and then it's decided which bribe will be used an excuse to put them there. Imran is currently ushering in an 'Arab Spring&#x2
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by screye 3y ago
Not exactly. The brits were to blame for process of partition (or lack there-of). The haste, wanton disregard for life, the casual approach towards the largest refugee crisis in human history was certainly avoidable. They were also to blame
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by screye 3y ago
Queen-umm-ahn ahn as in 'Oliver Kahn'
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by screye 3y ago
For teams building Layer 2 solutions for enterprise customers, bing/google based web browsing is a huge pain point. Being able to hit higher quality public stores of information is a great time saver. Will be nice to know their approac
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by screye 3y ago
unrelated, but spiral Kougn-Amann's have been a thing for a while now. The supposed best-in-the-world croissant bakery also sells them [1]. Would highly recommend both the croissants and Kouign-Amanns. [1] https://www.tripad
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by screye 3y ago
Every post about H1B misuse leads to people eventually talking about the validity of the H1B itself. So, I'll dive straight in. There is no good way to talk about H1-Bs without first talking about one's values around immigration.
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by screye 3y ago
Using cloud gaming as an argument to block this merger, sets a dangerous precedent. Effectively, CMA is dreaming a future where cloud gaming has taken over. It is passing a judgement based on where the industry could go, rather than where i
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by screye 4y ago
The US did force [1] cars to be bigger, and everyone started buying bigger immediately. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-wants-to-close-the-suv-lo... If lanes are smaller, then people buy smaller cars. If parking
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by screye 4y ago
I agree with your solution, and that densification is the most important piece of the puzzle. However, it is a chicken and egg problem. The second you build new housing in an area that requires a car, the person sinks in the cost of a spare
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by screye 4y ago
This is task for paid educators and not free youtube channels. The problem here is that educators do not make their content available for free online. I don't blame them. Educators are in a perpetual cat-and-mouse game with their stude
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by screye 4y ago
Prompt engineering is an 'oil' alright. It's a lubricant to make models work better. The idea of engineering being backed by solid mathematical understanding is a relatively post-calculus idea. For the longest time, we built
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by screye 4y ago
Nuclear is the only type of energy that can guarantee a low variability in production. > But when it comes to cost, they suddenly check out, Nuclear is expensive because of 2 reasons. First, because we didn't build any, we have zero
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by screye 4y ago
How does Texas's research output affect its ability to pull in top professionals from elsewhere ? The mid-west has amazing public STEM schools in UMich, Wisc, UIUC, Purdue....and yet their economic centers are in free fall. On the othe
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by screye 4y ago
While the intentions of this change are admittedly malicious, I support the move away from the traditional concept of tenure. Tenure is about exploiting researchers through their 20s as PhDs/post-docs and 30s as assistant-professors, w
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by screye 4y ago
This is the inevitable conclusions of stranger danger and car-based suburbanization. When people only access the world via car and avoid walking around, they never build familiarity with their own neighborhood. All locations worth stepping

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