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by sfifs 4y ago
Will be interesting if Samsung buys TSMC 3nm capacity for their top-end :-)
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by sfifs 4y ago
The vast majority of Apple chips are phones, not Macs. Samsung is neck & neck and their top end phones are definitely competitive, performing better in many ways for many people.
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by sfifs 4y ago
Chesterton's Fence principle - Usually a good idea to read the motivation / History behind the law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Ac... I'd say the effect sought to be achieved
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by sfifs 4y ago
Glad you were able to make the connection. Too many folks passionate on reforming transport focus primarily on the moral/technical problem/solution Vs the actual "job to be done" for people of owning a personal car. Wher
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by sfifs 4y ago
If you are in a democratic country, your society has explicitly granted your government authority through your voting systems to be the ultimate arbiter and parts of it can and does get revoked as the will of the society changes.
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by sfifs 4y ago
This is exactly why I gave up on higher level calculus. It was full of highly illogical "tricks" in a way diametrically opposite to go how physics is rarely illogical. That plus the fact that even with fairly low power computers a
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by sfifs 4y ago
Not impossible. Insignificant in volume.
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by sfifs 4y ago
The comment was in response to this, not CI/CD. > I can't think of a good reason Apple would want to support developers who want to publish in their (very) walled garden but aren't willing to purchase at least one macOS de
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by sfifs 4y ago
Hobbyist? Student? Education? But of course that doesn't add to their monopoly profits :-)
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by sfifs 4y ago
Isn't it good if people learn not to trust photos and images shared in social media and learn to treat them as entertainment. So much productivity gains :-)
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by sfifs 4y ago
This is a conclusion I have intuitively come to for several years now - good to see a terminology for it. Indeed major advancements for technological civilization will come out of energy plenty. If you keep double-clicking into most of worl
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by sfifs 4y ago
Why should every small sub-section of geographies "pay-out" for themselves. The whole point of higher level organizing constructs (company, conglomerate, state, country) is we take systemically better decisions - which at a nation
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by sfifs 4y ago
Nope. Changed houses a few months ago. Nothing's changed.
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by sfifs 4y ago
> I have done enough research on production ML now to know that it pays to simply overfit to the most recent data and constantly retrain. > It puzzles me when people say that small companies can’t retrain every day because they don’t
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by sfifs 4y ago
Maybe it is "marginally better" where you come from. Uber and their ill have always been always parity priced or more expensive in the markets I have lived in. The killer value proposition is the car actually turns up in a timely
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by sfifs 4y ago
This is the right answer. Empirically, continuity of brand assets actually drives higher brand recognition and awareness/shoppability advantage over time, particularly for consumer goods. Look through the disastrous Tropicana branding
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by sfifs 4y ago
The question I asked was about cost/benefit trade offs of organic and indeed as the linked article indicates, what are the trade offs with how the math adds up. I am not pre-supposing that a switch to organic is even desirable like thi
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by sfifs 4y ago
I think the question really is about benefit/trade-offs of the work/costs that goes into the organic. Apart from of course outright fraudulent actors. Case in point is Sri Lanka's current economic meltdown (1) - which is to a
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by sfifs 4y ago
No longer. At least in my space (Data Science), I've been able to hire good Singaporean talent from NUS/NTU
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by sfifs 4y ago
So reading the English text it is not clear what exactly is the unlawful part. Is the fact that data is flowing to US based servers (which I assume is trivially managed by changing GA server location to Europe) or the fact it is flowing to
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by sfifs 4y ago
Yes caste discrimination exists to various extants. You may not have seen it as most people who come abroad as professionals are "higher" castes who were historically economically and educationally privileged though this is changi
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by sfifs 4y ago
Yes caste discrimination exists to various extants. You may not have seen it as most people who come abroad as professionals are "higher" castes who were historically economically and educationally privileged though this is changi
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by sfifs 4y ago
So yeah one hypothesis is there was an advanced pre-historic culture that's now buried under the Persian Gulf and the fairly rapid filling of the Persian Gulf dislocated and drove dissemination of culture and common mythological elemen
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by sfifs 4y ago
Why can't all patent applications be mandatorially opened for a public comments period for a period of say 3 months for anyone else to file any objections? The act of patent application provisionally would protect the idea till the pat
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by sfifs 4y ago
FICO Xpress (not free) has been very good in my experience.
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by sfifs 5y ago
Perhaps the problem is setting the wrong incentives. The way to deter fraud is not necessarily to make the benefits administration overly strict but to directly dis-incetivize fraud through stiff penalties. For instace if benefits fraud had
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by sfifs 5y ago
Yes indeed. My phone is usually on silent mode.
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Tell HN: Google's “Find My Phone” Requires 2FA on Android
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by sfifs 5y ago
> . My initial viewpoint was why would scammers bother to fish for bitcoin when bank transfers/gift cards are a lower barrier Because bank transfers at least are inherently traceable. It just requires a sufficiently motivated govern
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by sfifs 5y ago
South East Asia is pretty much opening up and treating Covid as endemic. You shouldn't have problems.

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