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by tgma 3y ago
Indeed. The track record of monarchies turned republic is not great. Iran comes to mind.
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Machine Translation Testing via Syntactic Tree Pruning(arxiv.org)
1 points by tgma 3y ago|0 comments
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by tgma 3y ago
I personally don't believe the valuation is far off or unreachable, but someone giving you a valuation that you have the potential for in the future today with zero risk and low pain is still quite different than having to work your
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by tgma 3y ago
> We’re forgetting that all of FAANG IPOd when they too were much less than $20 billion We are forgetting that because... well, it ain't true . Facebook was way over $20B at IPO. Google was close but still higher.
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Ask HN: What are downsides of non-Delaware C-Corps for VC funded startups?
3 points by tgma 3y ago|1 comments
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by tgma 3y ago
LOL. That would be naïve. They just have to retaliate in such a way that keeps plausible deniability with the regulator.
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by tgma 3y ago
If that was the genuine intent, they would have deducted the price to buy one from the device, but that never happens, so allow me to be skeptical of the reason.
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by tgma 3y ago
Apple cut the phone charger for environmental reasons too. It always has to be the end user who sacrifices for the environment.
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by tgma 3y ago
You state that as if your link does not substantiate what I said earlier. For the benefit of the people who don’t click on the link you cite, it simply proves as I said, that they never made an aggregate profit over their lifetime and you a
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by tgma 3y ago
According to rando analysts who don't have a stake. Note that Twitter pre X as a business was unsustainable and I don't think it ever made a net profit in aggregate over its lifetime. It was all selling the dream even before the a
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by tgma 3y ago
This is patently false. Tons of empirical evidence of organizations that have improved and innovated much more effectively. The world’s most valuable company comes to mind.
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by tgma 3y ago
The sad part is most of biotech stuff peddled ends up nowhere or quickly eaten up by big pharma. They do it for the money too. Somehow FAANG is worse? This is just propaganda trivializing programming. Unfortunately all other professions put
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by tgma 3y ago
You’d be surprised how many people in the US have purely iPhone social circles. They won’t care. The graph is almost disjoint. Outside tech nerds, android == poor.
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by tgma 3y ago
Piracy isn't stealing -- full stop. No ifs and buts.
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by tgma 3y ago
- Is the text French? - No. QED.
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by tgma 3y ago
Jack, Jaak, Jackyoo. Jay-Aye-Cue... Also not the point; Jaques is more difficult to guess the correct pronunciation of than Jaq. That's the point.
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by tgma 3y ago
The article attributes the change to the shift in political power, but it may very well be bottom-up backfiring of policies that could be easily seen as pointless or stupid by regular people who got sick of the extreme push.
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by tgma 3y ago
Well, the average real estate agent is also a shit negotiator on your behalf. The incentive structure makes it so irrespective of the skill set. The agent’s primary job is to sell themselves to you when they get the listing not to sell your
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by tgma 3y ago
European tech worker is compensated so measly everyone is equally poor I suppose. Just like every commun... ehem ... socialist system, it achieves equality at epsilon.
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by tgma 3y ago
You were an adult when you took the job, weren't you? Many people are unhappy and/or quit Google's FTE employment too, and feel undervalued at Google as FTE. The employment agreement is consensual.
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by tgma 3y ago
I don't understand the concern. If a company has a choice of hiring more people with more elasticity, or not hire as much or at all, is that somehow a terrible thing to do? Half of the things that feel like Google wanted to eject them
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by tgma 3y ago
Yeah. Nothing against your article. As someone whose native language is RTL I can tell you this is not an isolated case at all. If you're used to operating a computer in RTL languages like Arabic script you'd see this stuff every
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by tgma 3y ago
This is nothing unique to maps. It has to do with Unicode bidi algorithm mixing RTL and LTR text in various contexts. Note that in RTL languages you have things like numbers that are rendered in LTR and mixing them introduces complexity. h
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by tgma 3y ago
Aside the commercial fail, Itanic EPIC design is an interesting architecture especially when revisited from the lens of GPU computing world we live in today. Itanic also contributed EFI and popular 64-bit ABI conventions.
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by tgma 3y ago
Do you consider yourself part of the "antitrust community?" Ok, if so, please let me know then, "doing it right," in your own opinion, entails doing more or less than is done now, in aggregate?
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by tgma 3y ago
Whatever "antitrust community" might be, if exists, almost by definition will be filled with people who are on balance biased towards more extreme enforcement of antitrust. Otherwise they would have no reason for being. So not sur
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by tgma 3y ago
I think the polish matters, especially considering that the majority of users with the default setting will be just fine appreciating the benefit. It wasn't intended to be a trade-off either. Just an unfortunate side effect of the addi
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by tgma 3y ago
I don't understand what the objection is to the methodology. Are you claiming there is another party that has a better sample (even subjectively so) and was pushing it and didn't succeed? If anything, standards committees are oft
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by tgma 3y ago
And gRPC is basically HTTP/2. Difficult to get more standards-friendly than that. I suppose when some people advocate for "standards" they just mean the shitty systems prevalent in the industry they happen to have been used t
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by tgma 3y ago
This is exaggerated to the point that I consider it fiction. BTW Google doesn't substantially use gRPC within their datacenters. The industry has always been this way. Back in the day there were many many processor ISAs that are now c

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