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by tqi 3y ago
Has anyone had any success using an office-pod[1]? They don't seem cheap, but do seem less expensive than converting an otherwise unfinished space (like a basement or garage). [1] https://www.wayfair.com/commercial-offi
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by tqi 3y ago
This coincided with a reevaluation of the role of objectivity in journalism, and the rise in the number of journalists who also self identified as activists. While I don't think The View From Nowhere was every really possible, I do thi
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by tqi 3y ago
Great illustration of lying with statistics. This is objectively true, but the conclusions are murky at best. Urban vs highway miles, geographic distribution, driver demographics all almost certainly have more to do with this metric than th
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by tqi 3y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful and clear explanation! The analogy to drunk driving makes sense, but in the context of business is it so important to get ahead of the harms that we have to legislate against pre-harms? Innovation and merit and und
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> I didn't spot what paper you mean other than 'related to Amazon' Lina Khan (FTC chair) wrote an influential paper called The Amazon Paradox laying out a new antitrust doctrine which argues that rather than consumer harm
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by tqi 3y ago
It seems like the implicit assumption is that there must be a harm somewhere, we just haven't found it yet. But as a consumer, I'm not sure that is true? Even the Amazon paper seems to admit that there isn't any consumer harm
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by tqi 3y ago
Got it, that makes sense that its not well established. I saw from your profile that this is actually something you are studying, which is very cool! I've always wondered what the examples of this (predatory pricing -> drive out com
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by tqi 3y ago
What does that mean when it comes to software though? For something like Uber or Instacart that seems pretty straightforward, but for most tech companies I'm not sure how to determine what is predatory. Otherwise aren't all unprof
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by tqi 3y ago
Roughly, pick a date and start writing all new data to both, while running etls to backfill data from old to new. Once that is done, you use a feature flag to do a small % of reads from the new system and wait and pray. If nothing major pop
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by tqi 3y ago
I know that is a thing that companies do, but what are the examples of this actually working out? I have a hard time working out the economics of it. Unless there are strong network effects that advantage incumbents, as soon as they raise p
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by tqi 3y ago
Yeah to expand on that a bit, I think VCs have a portfolio of bets and need extreme, outlier wins in order to come out ahead. So even if the scale doesn't make sense for a business, VCs will push them to pursue it because it is optimal
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by tqi 3y ago
Fair point, by "beat" I mean create a sustainable business. I think that in a lot of cases orienting a company around building a $100M/yr business and a $1B/yr business are mutually exclusive, because product/sales&
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by tqi 3y ago
I think another way to beat silicon valley competitors is to not take as much VC funding. In some ways, it reminds me of when boxers try to move up weight classes beyond their "natural" weight. Often the abilities required at the
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by tqi 3y ago
That does seem to how the FTC is operating, if this NY Mag article is to be believed: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/12/lina-khans-rough-yea... Who could have predicted that turning a large, complicated
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by tqi 3y ago
I think you'd expect them to be similar, but not exactly the same? This feels like the original author is over anthropomorphizing LLMs, and expecting them to interpret prompts the way humans would, but it seems obvious that changing th
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by tqi 3y ago
Maybe I'm not understanding what the original user was testing here, but it seems like the finding is that different inputs result in a statistically significant difference in output length? Seems pretty unsurprising?
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by tqi 3y ago
What is your point, that newspapers should lay out A1 with "concerns" ordered whatever arbitrary metric you personally have decided is the "right" measure of importance?
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by tqi 3y ago
As someone who has no idea of these things, I have always causally wondered what the effects of a breakthrough in quantum computing would be: 1) Does secure online browsing become impossible? 2) Does the entire crypto currency market evapor
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by tqi 3y ago
Respectfully, "I firmly believe" followed by an assertion from a non expert passing as "facts" is a pox on our modern society.
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by tqi 3y ago
I think the meta point across the other answers in this thread is that when people choose less "secure" options, it's often because they have a different set of input values for their cost/benefit calculation. Too often,
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by tqi 3y ago
I think this is more likely to be the case that Hybrids are dominated by Toyota/Lexus. See: > Overall, hybrids have 26 percent fewer problems than cars powered by internal combustion engines (ICE). Some standouts include the Lexus U
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by tqi 3y ago
> I am not too keen on living my life based upon how billionaires think Yeah I mean, it's just a thought he expressed once. I don't think OP is saying Munger invented or owns the concept, just that it encapsulated a view that t
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by tqi 3y ago
> The argument I generally hear from certain microeconomists is that they still expect there to be value in niches, given Google's highly general nature. If you're looking for super specific topics, it often doesn't perfor
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by tqi 3y ago
Agreed that it's not intuitive. My guess is that it's not a network effect in the traditional sense (where having more users makes the product more valuable), but rather that there is something about a product category being free
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Honestly, so what? Most websites aren't that important, so this "impressively large" study is mostly useless stats. I use the same weak password / spam email address for any website that idgaf about. Is that a problem? O
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by tqi 3y ago
Different companies can set different policies. A large enough company can set different policies for different orgs.
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Who is this meant to convince? Has anyone ever changed their mind as a result of reading a listicle of complaints? This seems more like something for people who already agree with the author to read and self righteously think "yeah, th
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by tqi 3y ago
The other reply in this thread might beg to differ: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38295849 I think the reality is no discipline, be it Engineering, Product or Finance, is immune to flights of fancy.
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by tqi 3y ago
> That depends on how the incentive structures for your corporate purchase department are set up Sure, but that seems orthogonal to the pros and cons of having more layers of oversight (busybodies, to use your term) on infra spend. Badly
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Those busybodies are also there to keep rogue engineers from burning money on useless features (like AI chat bots) that only serve to bolster their promo packet...

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