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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
If you remove the premium offered by people who just want to scrap the business for parts, and no prospective owners can afford it at your target price, is the business actually worth that much as a going concern? It sounds to me like your
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
>But imagine taking a resilient business like a McDonald's franchise and subjecting it to Musk levels of chaos. I dunno, look at private equity buyouts, which Twitter kind of resembles—Musk somehow convinced banks and Twitter itself
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
I would be okay with automated traffic law enforcement if police officers were forbidden from making traffic stops for the sort of violations that the cameras issue fines for. It would turn the most common motoring offenses into predictable
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Maybe that particular proof wasn't in its training data, and presenting it in the input added it to the model's corpus for your session? These models seem to work similarly with code. If you ask them to recreate something that app
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
He was probably in a rush. People use these tools to offload work they might otherwise have done if they had more time. People who understand the systems limit their use to tasks where small occasional errors are acceptable. People who don&
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
According to that link, it sounds like they are: >Title III prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities by businesses open to the public (also referred to as “public accommodations” under the ADA). The ADA requires that bus
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
There might be precedent, if their site and app don't make reasonable accomodations. https://casetext.com/analysis/national-association-of-the-de...
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Buying an hour of fire feels quantitatively different from buying an hour of light. When I go camping, my solar-fed LED lanterns are plenty bright, but I still need to cook and stay warm. I can do that using heat, which the efficient lights
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
HN runs ads to benefit YCombinator. Notice how you can't comment on the "<YC-funded startup> is hiring <roles>" posts.
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Looking at how the banks who funded Elon's purchase are valuing their stakes, it looks like it would have gone to about $18.48/share by now. Fidelity is evaluating their shares on a $15B total value, so ($54.20 * ($15B/$44B))
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Too late for anyone to actually see this, but am I the only one who is terribly amused that Apple's silicon lineup now consists of A-series, R-series, and M-series chips, with the R-series handling realtime workloads? I feel like I&#x2
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
It does feel like they're well into the uncanny valley. We'll see how they fare against the ineffable "ick" factor. Google Glass cost half as much and was in a much tighter form factor, but it failed because the general
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Three big issues off the top of my head: * Hosting costs. Reddit was very lucky to have imgur pick up a lot of its bandwidth in its early days, but free image/video hosting sites are cyclical: absent a benevolent billionaire, the costs
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
The way that it is handled today, "ADHD" seems to represent a spectrum of symptoms rather than a well-understood root cause. I've seen people go through school and adulthood, with different doctors vacillating between "y
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Well, uranium could be an example. The US doesn't mine much of it anymore - instead, they buy most of what they need from Russia. There's still plenty of it out there, but if you ever stumble across an old mine out West, there&#x2
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
The PNW has interesting geography: the Cascades run North/South right near the Western shore, and they catch most of the rain that the Pacific hurls at the area. West of the mountains, it's temperate and damp. The Olympic peninsul
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
It seems like wealthy nations often leave resources in the ground until they really need them. Mining, refining, logging, chemical processing...these are dirty businesses. Why muddy up your local communities and reduce your future reserves,
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
"The Cloud" == "Somebody else's computers" If your government passes a law saying that GPUs can only be purchased or rented with a license, as OP was suggesting, all of that capacity disappears with the snap of a fi
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Health insurance companies could buy the info, charge you more. Same reason why, if you insist on installing an app from your auto insurance company, you should not let it access location data.
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
>Fourth, there's really no role for "brands" in the metaverse. Despite all the hype, no real world brand has had any significant success in the metaverse. IMHO, this is a crucial and often overlooked point. In order to gai
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
The funny thing is, World of Goo was already released this way on Android, and the old version still works fine offline. Too bad it's no longer available on the Google Play store.
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
No, I explained how your earlier comment was facile to the point of being incorrect, like you asked. How you interpret that is up to you.
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
It's not a closed system, we import massive amounts of energy from the sun every day. Some of it escapes back into space, depending on the atmosphere/albedo/etc. Anyways, how do you think radiators work on space stations?
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
But if I did more work and less ticket-punching, my bar would look worse than my colleagues' bars in the annual layoff decision-making chart.
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Panel awnings seem like they would be a win-win for parking lots. The cars get shade, the local area gets energy, and the lot owners get a side source of income. Is it not cost effective to raise the panels on stilts? Are there liability co
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
Can "pip install" actually run code? My understanding was that it doesn't, and a package needs to be imported by a script before anything gets run.
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
What exactly are they supposed to be lying about? I do not understand what you are getting at. Do you not believe that governments want to monitor financial transactions and flag suspicious ones for further investigation? Or do you believe
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
It wasn't a revolt against taxation, the issue was that the colonies had no say in how their taxes were collected and spent. The slogan was, "No taxation without representation ."
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
One of the book's protagonists, Hiro Protagonist, lives in a converted storage unit with a roommate. It is presented as a normal way of life for people who are struggling to make ends meet.
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by tiedieconderoga 3y ago
>The law specifies that no penalties apply to users of TikTok. But app store operators and TikTok itself could face fines of $10,000 per violation per day, with an individual violation defined as “each time that a user accesses TikTok, i

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