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by ucaetano 8y ago
> advertisement never creates value for the society, it's a 0-sum game You're plainly, absolutely, completely, wrong. But, as you made the claim, I'll wait for your burden of proof. > They never add value they only shif
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by ucaetano 8y ago
So you'd kill advertising and content for everyone else just because you're personally willing to fork up money?
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The revenue stream won't remain intact. This lowers the effectiveness of ads in the long run, reducing the price of ads and reducing the revenue for content producers. There's no way to spin this around: this reduces revenue for t
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> What could that wouldn't with a private platform? Well, with a private company you don't have the one who makes and enforces the rules also running your social network. And that's a very, very bad scenario. We'll be
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> Nothing pisses me off quite like the time waste that is podcast advertising. Why would you be more willing to pay to an app developer who will shut down the revenue stream for the content creator, than to listen to the ads and therefor
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> these organizations would self-manage their own social media infrastructure What could possibly go wrong...
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> Is Assange just supposed to roll over and not defend himself? Defend himself from people saying that he smells? That he paints his hair? Really?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Oh, yeah. Compare him to most other public figures. When's the last time you saw Obama or some other public figure release a 100+ long list of items people should not say about you, including that you smell? This is beyond ridiculous,
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Well, it mostly tells you about what Assange worries about his public image.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I don't see why you are downvoted There are views which are verboten on HN: supporting AMP, supporting ad-based business models, telling people not to use free services if they don't like them, and criticizing certain publi
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by ucaetano 8y ago
But the real question is: has Assange/WL ever been any different? Has it ever not been a tool sponsored/handled by some intelligence agency?
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It is sad to see how low WikiLeaks has fallen, and makes me think more and more that there has never been much of WL beyond Assange himself. It has reached comical levels of insanity, illusion of grandeur and narcissism.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Didn't you get the memo, you're not supposed to talk about that, WL doesn't want you to.
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Sure, but intentions are irrelevant. What matters is what happens.
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Nobody is talking perfect, just not "fake it till you make it" Theranos-style.
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> for a moment take them at face value Why would you do so? This is like saying "Let's assume the sky is purple. Then, we can conclude that the sky is purple."
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Again, not comparable. You're comparing a new, luxury car, with the general death rate of roads. You'd need to compare the rate of accidents of a Tesla with and without the system engaged, or at least the Tesla compared to other l
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Those numbers are not comparable, and you don't have enough information to make such claim. It is plainly irrelevant, no matter how "the best data available" it is.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Indeed, but it seems that the V2 and V3 TPUs are quite appropriate for NN training.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> If you are doing safety critical Well, Tesla clearly isn't doing safety critical work on autonomous systems (it wouldn't have even launched "autopilot" if it was), so 4 years is indeed a big lag.
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I'm fine with accepting a system that's better than humans, given some a priori evidence of such. But this isn't the case. This isn't the case of a company launching a system that performs better than humans through ex
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by ucaetano 8y ago
When the mistake results in human decapitation, you better not make them. Tesla is moving too fast for the quality of its own technology.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> As a point of reference - Google’s TPU V1, which is the one that Google uses to actually run neural networks (the other versions are optimized for training) is very similar to the specs I’ve outlined above. The TPU V1 is a 2015 chip (p
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Everyone tries to legally minimize the amount of taxes they pay, often resorting to procedures with names such as "backdoor ROTH" or "Mega Backdoor Roth IRA". But when those same people see a company doing the same, they
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by ucaetano 8y ago
The loophole was closed, so I guess the lobbying either wasn't about that or wasn't effective. And EU tax laws aren't determined in Washington.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Well, let me know when you claim zero deductions on your tax return.
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The era of the camera: Google Lens, one year in(blog.google)
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Anybody is capable of supply chain. I can fly into Shenzhen, shop around for ODMs and in a day have an order for a custom designed phone based on an ODMs white label model, with my logo, brand name, app preloads, etc. Anyone can do it, beca
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Spend it, preorder one. It most likely will never make it to production. At this point in time, if the creators were being honest, they would either have announced an OEM sign up, or have announced that it has already been delayed beyond Sp
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by ucaetano 8y ago
It doesn't need a Shinkansen when the country is twice as big as the Bay Area. But it has high speed rail. And regardless, replacing existing infrastructure with something like the Swissmetro is a terrible idea.

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