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by sytelus 7y ago
I would really want the ability to disable network access for a select extension. So an extension can look at the DOM all it wants or read the webpage but can never communicate to the outside world or access the local file system outside of
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by sytelus 7y ago
Most of the contract work is of this nature. The major differentiation between contract worker and employee is "work at will" i.e. there are no expectations for fixed hours indefinitely. If you can't get fired because of not
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by sytelus 7y ago
You are conflating different issues here. Income equality is not actually due to free markets. Monopolies in free markets do emerge but in the socialist system (defined as government providing services in return of taxes other than infrastr
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by sytelus 7y ago
Discussions are good for critic and improvements. But to get up and running i.e. setting up your environment, building things, understanding existing design, running from source, finding roadmaps, getting list of open issues and setting up
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by sytelus 7y ago
You obviously missed the core of the story. The title itself is "The boss who put everyone on 70K". The CEO took cut from $1M to $70K. At least two people resigned because of pay cuts to $70K.
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by sytelus 7y ago
This. Comparison shopping for airplane tickets is what killed flight comfort.
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by sytelus 7y ago
I feel OpenAI has stayed fairly close to its mission and principles. I'm not sure about why so much secrecy, they could have just NDAed and let the reporter take look at things which is common practice even at Apple. However, apart fro
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by sytelus 7y ago
No, OpenAI has very explicitly made this clear: https://openai.com/charter/ . Our primary fiduciary duty is to humanity. We anticipate needing to marshal substantial resources to fulfill our mission, but will always di
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by sytelus 7y ago
Simple rule: Require that new hires should be able to become productive without having to talk to anyone (physically or electronically). The rest will fall in place.
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by sytelus 7y ago
Raising minimum wage is not same as paying equal wages to all (which is what this article describes). No one is trolling and comparison to Soviet experiment is close, if not exactly the same. Please read the article.
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by sytelus 7y ago
Even in the developed world, governments have an enormous amount of process overheads and forgo optimizations that are otherwise obvious in places like a startup. This is for a reason aka very high functional guarantees which require extens
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by sytelus 7y ago
If I was founding a new country today, I'd put in the constitution that governments shall not impose tax more than 33% aggregated in all forms on any person. Between federal tax, sales tax, social security, tolls, sales tax, property t
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by sytelus 7y ago
There is a lot of good intentions here but we did run a very large scale experiment for 69 years on about 300M people. It was called the Soviet Union and the results weren't pretty economically for the people. So the concern remains ho
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by sytelus 7y ago
Gosh... no one in their right mind should ever select Concur for reimbursement. I could understand a big company talking heads getting lured in because their secretaries would be suffering through Concur crapware, not them. For startups, I
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by sytelus 7y ago
The issue is that airlines would simply modify this design to increase passenger density instead of offering the same density but with more space. The solution to ever-shrinking space in the airplane, however, is economic, not technical. Im
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by sytelus 7y ago
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by sytelus 7y ago
This has been a recurring theme in history. If you want to overthrow the world's largest best equipped most powerful armies, build a small guerilla force of ragtag rebels. This also applies to startups, research, engineering and other
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by sytelus 7y ago
While I fully support right to repair, hack and alter - I really think this is design decision that should be owned by designers and not politicians. There are N number of devices without removable batteries and there are M reasons why desi
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by sytelus 7y ago
I get GPL and fully appreciate its philosophy. The problem happens when you actually use it in practice. Because of its viral nature, anyone with different licensing must convert to GPL if they use your code. For many scenarios, this is act
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by sytelus 7y ago
Money is a measure of labor you own from an average human. A billionaire owns labor from about a million humans perpetually to practically any of his/her whims. With so much labor available at hand, a person can control entire governme
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by sytelus 7y ago
fastai is popular among practitioners as well as many researchers rather than just outsiders or outcasts. I've personally learned from it a lot and is amazing contribution. However, there is still a large population that is still unawa
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by sytelus 7y ago
Wait... so if you buy book then it seizes to be GPLed? This is quite confusing. For DL research, most code is MIT licenced and legal folks at many industrial labs would be quite hesitent to permit use of code from this repo with feels like
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by sytelus 7y ago
I am perhaps glass half empty sort of person but it’s important for me how far is it to go than how far have we came. The fact is that it’s been literally 50 years since moon landing and Mars landings is still as far as it was in 90s. Cance
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by sytelus 7y ago
You are downvoted by fanboys but you are exactly right. I am surrounded by researchers working in DL and I have say at least 40% of them have never heard of FastAI or Jeremy Howard. However folks who are active on Twitter, listening to popu
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by sytelus 7y ago
Wow, Orielly lawyers are determined to screw this up. The thing is GPL v3 licensed which means I can’t copy any of the book code in my closed-source product or competitions or even MIT licensed code. The readme says I cannot make copies of
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by sytelus 7y ago
Loss in the stock market, manufacturing, 10% of China population in lockdown. The number of deaths so far is under 2500.
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by sytelus 7y ago
In other thread, people commented that "it's becoming real" because now we have TWO cases in US among the population over 300M. The current economic damage is at least $50M/death due to COVID-19 virus! I'm not sure
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by sytelus 7y ago
I think China has indeed handled it really well and I doubt if many other countries would have been so effective. On Dec 31, the first case reported and the virus didn't even have a name. The first death didn't even occur until Ja
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by sytelus 7y ago
I'd suggest not doing tiers. Segmentation is repulsive. Why do I ever want to be a bronze-level customer in your product world? It perhaps makes sense for products that have monopolized or established firmly or where costs are truely s
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by sytelus 7y ago
While this is well written, I would urge people to NOT to follow this advice. Subscriber churn is a real thing and losing $1000/yr subscriber hurts way more than losing $100/yr subscriber. Additionally, it takes an order of magnit

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