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by snoot 4y ago
If true, it seems like “will not affect metaverse” is an empty promise.
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by snoot 4y ago
Number of papers is still a meaningless indicator of who has the ‘research crown’, even if only at one conference. I’m sure you are aware that quality and quantity are two different things. Also, the title is ambiguous and not making the na
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by snoot 4y ago
> It needed to take in more money, and the huge amount of debt made that worse. This grossly understates it. The interest payments alone on the new debt are > $1BN per year. It ran just fine before the acquisition. After the acquisit
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by snoot 4y ago
“Submitted the most papers” = takes research “crown”.
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by snoot 4y ago
Not only that, but it (Helium) was clearly a fraud if you read their technology white papers with a critical eye. This guy has no credibility whatsoever if he is posting this today , indeed he looks like a complete stooge.
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by snoot 4y ago
“Twitter as a business could have kept running in exactly the same form he acquired it in - he could have been moderately successful had he just left everything alone.” This is not correct. The acquisition added a huge debt load. That’s wha
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by snoot 4y ago
That’s true practically everywhere in the world. Can you name a place you’d like to live where it is not?
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by snoot 4y ago
Right. If you want to buy a house in a desirable place, you’ll have to compete with other people who want it.
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by snoot 4y ago
It’s true that you could get a basic program back with old. But any data was lost and I saw break get pressed accidentally fairly often at school and amongst friends.
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by snoot 4y ago
Seems like putting up an idea is giving it away, so the cost part would be redundant.
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by snoot 4y ago
I agree with all of this except for one point: Having an ordinary key on the keyboard that would effectively kill -9 the current program and clear the screen was a crazy design decision, especially for a machine where saving data meant us
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by snoot 4y ago
Supermarket shelves in the Bay Area are full enough, but many full product lines are missing.
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by snoot 4y ago
Do chickens actually worry about this?
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by snoot 4y ago
Trigger Warning: may elicit images of graphic violence. Although I agree with your general sentiment, I feel your comment should have been prefixed with a trigger warning. Use of the term ‘sunny-side’ is problematic and insensitive, part
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by snoot 4y ago
> Apple and Microsoft’s moats seem way more defensible. Probably not defensive against antitrust action that simply defines a moat as anticompetitive.
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by snoot 4y ago
Pkark?
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by snoot 4y ago
Seems like you can’t define it, and without a definition your criticism of the article is meaningless.
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by snoot 4y ago
> China is a strange hybrid, that is neither fully communist, nor "fully" capitalist Typically this ‘strange hybrid’, where the people serve an authoritarian state which exerts arbitrary power over ostensibly capitalist industr
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by snoot 4y ago
What is ‘merit’ exactly?
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by snoot 4y ago
What about if it were plutonium? If you’re willing to pay for it to be produced, should you be allowed to use it for whatever purposes you want?
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by snoot 4y ago
There is a huge difference between decisiveness and aggressiveness. There is no need at all to be an asshole in order to make good decisions.
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by snoot 4y ago
If galactica wasn’t offline, I’d refer you to a paper showing that it is.
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by snoot 4y ago
I second this - people keep making this claim, but I haven’t heard anyone articulate what would come into existence, especially since whatever it is could presumably be made on Linux.
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by snoot 4y ago
You’d like your app stores controlled by the government?
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by snoot 4y ago
According to him, he just made some mistakes labelling things and it got out of hand.
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by snoot 4y ago
Not only would I not work there, at some point soon I’d refuse to hire anyone who could have left but hasn’t. A healthy organization needs people who can question bad leadership. Elon is driving those people away. Those who are left will
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by snoot 4y ago
Bizarre. You want to work for him no matter what project?
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by snoot 4y ago
> people who otherwise would end up as little more than punks at Jane Street What a terrible way to end up. No wonder they turned to crime, with that as the only alternative.