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by tyrfing 4y ago
> He sees VR as the next screen, and the metaverse as the content for that screen. He wants to capture and shape the VR market. VR is just part of it, it's the easiest version of XR and will be viable for years before good AR. It&#x
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It's tautological, but mostly from poor construction. The crashes like this have a lot of forced selling, both from margin calls and LP/depositor redemptions. Two factors contributing to this are algorithmic leverage (DeFi and oth
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> Now it's hurting pensioners, not just a bunch of degenerate gamblers and moonbois. No, that's your public institution making degenerate gambles on late-stage startups. The largest venture capital investor in Canada isn't
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Seems like the base full time wage would have been 24k, with many of the positions changed to part time at 11k/year with no benefits. So, maybe? McDonald's will likely have better compensation. https://www.afm.org/
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They don't own the trademarks, there's a lot of interesting history [1] and it seems a company called Polabe Holding [2] does. The allegation seems to be that they acquired Commodore USA assets which included a license to use the
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> The same could be achieved simply asking "are you older than N years old? [Yes] or [No]". The term of art seems to be "neutral age gate", and something like a checkbox to indicate you're under 13 is explicitly
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On the technology side, it lines up with the switch to GAA from FinFET. That 2nm/20a process is just a stopgap before 1.8nm/18a, and has more to do with 1.8nm than any of the old processes. Seems TSMC is sticking with nm for their
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Step 1: get lots of venture capital (860 million) Step 2: give away money Step 3: somehow start making money Like most companies you'll see on HN, they are currently on step 2. The discerning reader may note that this sounds like a ter
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> Just for instance: one of every three kids in foster care are prescribed psychotropic medications Not particularly surprising to me. 1) Everyone I met experienced some horrific stuff growing up, and 2) psychiatric evaluation and care w
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Because the survivors are risk averse. 2 years ago people were cheering as they proclaimed the death of oil and companies with ~ 60 billion in debt went bankrupt. Now the Fed is pushing the economy into recession (lower demand) and high oil
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Low single-digit operating margins aren't typically described as "so profitable" in any other context.
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> The market settled on this extremely convoluted system, which makes no sense to outsiders, specifically because it's so profitable Which exact parties are extracting excess profits?
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It absolutely is a priority. Here's the most recent report for Congress: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22048520/department-o... There are a large number of different programs with varying capabilitie
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> They’re on the same process node, and only increased frequency a bit. It's going from N5 to N5P, chosen by Apple over N4. > But no one [expects] that from Intel or AMD every year anymore. That's not accurate, a minor perfo
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I absolutely disagree, it's very poor quality. The best example I've gathered incidentally is "what's this song" regressing between versions to replying with an admonishment to turn off the music or podcast, no matt
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Seems like an error, considering the complaint doesn't state that AA reported the burglary. They were served a search warrant for records of everyone on the flight, and only produced this person's info.
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> Mr. Lowe was provided no clarification regarding his arrest, other than being shown a copy of his Tarrant County warrants. Informed that bail would not be set for him because he was a fugitive from justice, Mr. Lowe was told his only o
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> Microsoft will partner with Qualcomm and have their own custom SoC like the M1 Microsoft partnered with Qualcomm 6 years ago and there have been a number of terrible systems released. You probably haven't heard of them because of
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Far be it for me to defend Ford's quality, but an airbag recall certainly isn't comparable to this. It was Takata's fault and affected a long list of OEMs, including Tesla. The real problem here is Tesla refusing to fix the p
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> The “fiduciary duty” to investors means sociopathy is the only way that businesses are allowed to conduct themselves. Larry Fink disagrees, and companies like Exxon have learned that not only is it not the only option, it's not an
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I'm not sure the data supports that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempt... Fleeing countries has an ancient history, and it's naturally always been easier for higher classes with acc
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It's pretty similar to other big 2021 IPOs. Rivian, Robinhood, UIPath, etc. The ones doing well are only down 50-60%. Now, these companies have pretty good access to capital, and retail getting ripped off is no problem. The interesting
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That site says I'm at 6%, and I agree 95%+ is accurate. Some particularly obscure stuff is only on YouTube or Bandcamp, that's maybe 3%, another 1-2% is simply unavailable due to various licensing issues, generally odd albums for
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Sure, if you're working at Google in 2000, you're fine. However, cash flow isn't enough, and a lot of tech is very cyclical. If a business has already hired to sustain growth which doesn't appear, they will lay people of
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The most robust option for you then would almost certainly be a map-focused option, like VW's newest Travel Assist ("swarm data".)
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After you have a binding deal like the one he signed, it's very hard to get out of it. Being forced to complete the deal anyway has precedent, like 2 years ago when LVMH tried to back out of their Tiffany deal due to Covid. https:&#x2
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> We certainly agree section 45 is ambiguous as to whether the Legislature intended for the definition of fish to apply to purely aquatic species. There's 9 pages of analysis on the scope. Changing "invertebrate" to "
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> They did. They said that “fish” includes, among other things, any inverterbrate. This is incorrect. It includes "invertebrates", not "any invertebrates". The question is whether a bumblebee is as much of a "fis
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They make $200/year per user in North America, all 250 million of them. Cut that to 1/3 and their value as a company is far lower, but they still make more per user than a subscription service like Netflix. Now, you can say "
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That's an interesting case. It's basically a single wire fraud charge, with money laundering added on due to making new accounts to commit the alleged crime. There are recent developments in the area (Kelly and Blaszczak cases) bu

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