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by telltruth 7y ago
Getting education in US as a foreign student from 3rd world country typically requires existence of rich parents.
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by telltruth 7y ago
There are 118 million customers who are ok with it, however.
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by telltruth 7y ago
If you have ever interacted with Azure, you might have found that quality is far less of a focus then selling it at any cost. It's a model Oracle has practiced for long time. Just go give it a spin at portal.azure.com. Also, these new
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by telltruth 7y ago
People tend to see performance of CEOs by stock price. While it makes sense as shareholder, it's a very narrow view. From revenues as well as profit perspective Ballmer actually grew Microsoft more than Nadella. Market just decided n
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by telltruth 8y ago
“At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate to the interests of the nation and the masses. Hence selfishness, slacking, corruption, seeking the limelight are most contempt
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by telltruth 8y ago
That's not how it works. In a truly free marketplace, eventually one, two or three winners would emerge over time and they would have an order of magnitude more capital than the rest of the players. Using that capital they can be light
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by telltruth 8y ago
Corollary 1: You are legally allowed to kill all of your competition while not improving your monopoly product as long as you keep your product free. Corollary 2: Human attention is considered equivalent to monetary value of exactly $0 by U
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by telltruth 8y ago
You can have opinion on anything without knowing anything. This is what forums like this is about :). But if you want to give an informed opinion , you do need to understand the tech. For example, how do you decide what restrictions to put
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by telltruth 8y ago
The big problem is that these people don't understand what current tech really is. The media and Musk have hyped this up as "AI" but it's not even remotely AI. These people go around and present slides as if sky is falli
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by telltruth 8y ago
Interestingly everyone who hasn't done anything technical but wants to ride AI train chooses to become "AI Ethics" person these days. You can look up vast number of these AI ethics "experts" giving talks on this sub
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by telltruth 8y ago
Ev Williams is my founder hero. People often sweat about having a cool idea or atleast great tech before they do startups. Not Ev Williams. He has created startups after startups that has no real novelty, has no technology challenges and ev
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by telltruth 8y ago
This is quite disappointing. Lot of good people I've known who joined this team at early stage are all gone and it shows. Kipman simply didn't seem to get this. Magic Leap should have at least taught them that it is very bad idea
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by telltruth 8y ago
Some rich people serve as target for being hostage as opposed to exerting influence. I have to wonder how many politicians are holding guns to Google and FB for serving them information+money in exchange for not striking anti-trust or other
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by telltruth 8y ago
Had you heard about Sergei Brin obsessed about speed of page load on Google and could accurately tell how many seconds passed to a decimal? I'm using Google Music on iOS. It is by far the slowest app on device, sometime literally takin
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by telltruth 8y ago
I'm wary of these type of claims by Apple. They seem carefully craft such claims to be factual in some twisted sense but not reflective of actual state of things. For example, at every announcement they have claimed that their custom
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by telltruth 8y ago
Spatial OS is not Google offering by any means. Google is simply huge investor in that company and those folks are using GCP as part of investment aggrement. It’s a dumb move by them but it pays their bills for now. But you are correct. Tak
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by telltruth 8y ago
This is common theme of Evan Williams startups. He starts a company to build new blogging platform because last one sucked. Enormous amount of head spinning marketing is done to acquire millions of bloggers. Then the company is sold to suck
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by telltruth 8y ago
Normally companies retire products because they are lightly used or have fallen far behind competition. Google kills stuff on whims. Google Reader, url shortner, code search, Picasa - all these are terrible examples of things that got shutd
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by telltruth 8y ago
GitHub is most aweful search that I have regularly used. It doesn’t even have basic dedup capability, forget about any thing slightly less basic like limiting search to file names. And it’s not that it is hard to derank potential dedups giv
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Alphabet closes Schaft robotics unit(venturebeat.com)
1 points by telltruth 8y ago|0 comments
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by telltruth 8y ago
Wow. Is this already copied by the Chinese cloners? https://www.amazon.com/Koowheel-Electric-Balancing-Hovershoe...
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by telltruth 8y ago
Amazon recruiters are some of the least organized. There have been times when I got contacted by 3 recruiters during same week but none of them knew about others. There have also been times when Amazon recruiter calls me and I tell them I w
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by telltruth 8y ago
TLDR; Apple has added a lot of vegetation information on map which makes maps look more "fuller". They are also doing better 3D models of buildings in very small area, very likely using 5000 humans in India as opposed to machine l
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by telltruth 8y ago
Amazon is already an ad agency for vast number of 3rd seller while also offering fullfilment services. You can see the impact of transitioning to this business model. Large number of those “sponcered” listing is crape. A sizable 3rd party s
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by telltruth 8y ago
Is there any evidence that women are actively prevented from getting on the board due to bias? If not then I worry about these kind of laws. I am seeing too many big shots desperately painting themselves as minority messiah to boost own car
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by telltruth 8y ago
Before everyone starts overreacting, please read the article first. There is no formal announcement from FB for this. Few users noticed their tweeted posts getting deleted and they suddenly arrived at conclusion that this is FB’s new policy
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by telltruth 8y ago
Stock market aside, it is yet to be seen if Netflix model is viable on long term. Current content budget growth is larger than revenue growth and lot of the new memberships are coming from International market which will saturate at some po
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by telltruth 8y ago
Chrome extensions are gold mine for data collectors. There are no checks and balances and its extremely hard to tell what these extensions really do under the hood. A well funded data collector can make "free" extension that compe
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by telltruth 8y ago
Oh... that's not even their piece de resistance. Watch this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM0T6hLH15k These folks lied straight on face of everyone like there was no tomorrow.
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Whistleblowing guide: Why you should remove the metadata(expressvpn.com)
2 points by telltruth 8y ago|0 comments

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