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by slivym 9y ago
The headline of this is that it was implemented in response to a legal police search that resulted in uber getting banned in a country because it was breaking the law. It was then repeatedly used to obstruct justice. This wouldn't be n
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by slivym 9y ago
No. Not at all. The theory was to avoid government manipulation. It's actually much more susceptible to market manipulation due to the lack of regulation.
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by slivym 9y ago
You can say that it can change to be something other than a currency, but unless you actually have something interesting to say about how it actually will become something else then you're really not saying much. It could become a hedg
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by slivym 9y ago
As a former Intel employee this aligns closely with my experience. I didn't work in validation (actually joined as part of Altera) but velocity is an absolute buzzword and the senior management's approach to complex challenges is
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by slivym 9y ago
The statement is bad but the underlying choice not to fix it probably won't change. If they do fix this it's likely because of the PR backlash rather than because fixing compatibility with a very old API is important.
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by slivym 9y ago
This is kind of an absurd article. Even assuming that the numbers are right and that Uber managed to get out of most of the shares since they were due to Lewandowski, and assuming that the value of those shares have dropped (which is NOT ho
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by slivym 9y ago
These guys are not doing what Tesla are doing. Tesla as a company is focused on building a manufacturing plant that is capable of producing Electric Semi Trucks. That's what they're working on. Electric Trucks is the product of th
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by slivym 9y ago
Forgive me if this I'm being waaay too naive, but it doesn't seem like the parallelism side of this is a big deal. Playing N games in parallel and then feeding them back in for training doesn't seem like an incredibly innovat
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by slivym 9y ago
That's not really true. Intel's competitors are doing a great job of finding metrics via which they can claim their transistors are '10nm' or '7nm', but if you look at the actual full dimensions of the transist
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by slivym 9y ago
When is the last time an investor was held to the statements they made before they acquired a company? In the UK we actually have competition laws that stop large companies being sold if it would result in significantly layoffs or lack of c
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by slivym 9y ago
It's perceived like that by me, and I work in the industry. You can take Levandowski, Kalanick, Jobs, Zuckerberg, or many others. If there's no problem with Brilliant Assholes in technology then why are there such a clear pattern
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by slivym 9y ago
Apple is the largest corporation in the world by market cap. It does not find itself drifting like a plastic bag in the wind. Apple spends over $5m per year on lobbyists. A sum that no regular business would be able to afford - a form of in
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by slivym 9y ago
Step one: be rich enough to afford to significantly invest in automation. Step Two: Get Richer. The problem is that to get that initial investment money you need to work, and the jobs that you're doing to earn that money are disappeari