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by swexbe 3y ago
This is clearly an overreaction. Cloud will be fine.
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by swexbe 3y ago
The new middlemen are cloud (unless you're amazon/google) and internet providers.
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by swexbe 3y ago
It really isn't cheaper. Netflix pays $1bil/yr to aws. The only advantage streaming providers have is that you're already paying for an internet connection. But TV over internet solutions have been a thing for a long time so
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by swexbe 3y ago
Nor sure why anyone would expect somwthkng else. Streaming doesn’t make things any cheaper than traditional tv, production might be slightly cheaper but not because of streaming. Shareholders still want the same roi. Everything being VoD is
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by swexbe 3y ago
Rules for thee
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by swexbe 3y ago
If not, how is this more useful than something like Siri?
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by swexbe 3y ago
>Not even close. The vast majority of shareholders own stock through ETFs and pay no attention to the finances (or politics) of the companies they own. Right, but many would sell their ETFs and buy others if they suddenly started to deli
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by swexbe 3y ago
Cars were not "incredibly dangerous" when they first debuted because they topped out at about 40 mph (and went considerably slower most of the time). That's pretty comparable to a horse and carraige.
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by swexbe 3y ago
Institutional investors have to option of retaining voting rights. About 1/4th seem to do so. https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/about-us/investment-stew...
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by swexbe 3y ago
Objective as in objective function.
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by swexbe 3y ago
For every good local tourist guide in the training data there is 500 garbage SEO articles. No wonder the AI sounds more like the latter. And it won't get better in the short term. Differentiating between quality articles and SEO spam i
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by swexbe 3y ago
Bad policy tends to stick around for longer when you don't allow criticism of the ruling elite.
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by swexbe 3y ago
Don’t underestimate how entrenched 1920x1080, 3840x2160 and a few other resolutions are outside of Apple.
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by swexbe 3y ago
This take is so 3 months ago.
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by swexbe 3y ago
No true german would ever have a hard time discerning between ä and ă. That would be like mixing up p and b for an anglophone.
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by swexbe 3y ago
It’s hard to get toothpaste back into the tube.
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by swexbe 3y ago
”Taliban issues statement to tell U.S. 'Afghanistan feels your pain'” interesting.
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by swexbe 3y ago
Tesla won’t save the world. This is probably not problem we can solve with more growth, sadly. Also, TSLA has by far the highest P/E of any major car manufacturer…
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by swexbe 3y ago
No sympathy for drunk drivers. A non-intoxicated driver would slow down in a more risky driving environment.
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by swexbe 3y ago
Or a good argument for. Depending on your convictions.
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by swexbe 3y ago
Not to mention, all profits go directly out of town.
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by swexbe 3y ago
The American military is paid for by debt. The US can only take on this debt because they have the world’s reserve currency. It’s essentially a flat tax on the rest of the world.
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by swexbe 3y ago
How do you prove who actually signed the document? Docusign does this by only sending the signing link to the signer’s email. I don’t see how you could prove that no one else had access to that link if you’re self hosting.
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by swexbe 3y ago
VSc over ssh? Jetbrains Gateway? I think both work decently.
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by swexbe 3y ago
That's true, but most medium articles & blogs are experts writing for other experts. I guess what's missing is broadly experts writing for laymen.
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by swexbe 3y ago
The answer is more people with a background in STEM should go into journalism. Sadly, that sort of specialization is expensive and the public's willingness to spend on news seems to have gone down.
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by swexbe 3y ago
Because gp didn’t read the article and assumed this was about github copilot?
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by swexbe 3y ago
Except, shipping by boat has been more cost effective since the beginning of history. The furthest you can get from the ocean in Japan is like a full days walk.
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by swexbe 3y ago
Seems like the distinction is mainly between which tools are available to you as a scientist (at least if we stick to comp-sci, math is in a league of it's own). When, or if, we can completely model a human brain, a psychologist would
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by swexbe 3y ago
If my BST implementation isn't sorted, it also doesn't work.

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