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by umeshunni 1y ago
Probably a good thing considering the decline of science and tech in the US and Western world in general. A casual visit to any major labs and observing their demographics makes it clear where all the talent in STEM is being created. It&#
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Ooh - I have a Synology NAS and didn't realize it can convert files on sync. It's also ironic that we're considering docx etc as open formats these days.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
I remember reading somewhere (can't find the source now) that we generally know that during tool use, we are able to treat the tool as an extension of the body -whether it's a simple tool (like a hammer or a knife) or more complex
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by umeshunni 1y ago
https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-chatgpt-ads-job-listing-...
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by umeshunni 1y ago
They're also building the same thing between Las Vegas and SoCal: https://www.brightlinewest.com/ (un)surprisingly, this will be operational well before the California HSR (SF->LA) boondoggle.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Access + Visual Basic 6 was peak enterprise app development utopia.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Facebook tried "Facebook Watch"
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by umeshunni 1y ago
FWIW, there were attempts to build an RSS Ads product at Google: https://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search/Google-Puts-RSS-Advertising...
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Also, comparing GDP (rate of production) to valuation (area under the curve) is silly. Like comparing velocity to distance.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
It's the opposite. Most revolutions (bolsheviks, cuba, iran, arab spring etc) have made people significantly poorer, while most innovations have made people significantly richer (railroads, electricity, first and second agricultural re
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by umeshunni 1y ago
How do you know that the shirt shirt is correct SPF?
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Private market valuations and public market caps shouldn't be compared. Compare revenue or employee count instead.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
I think another point is that there's a huge difference between a founder-CEO (or near founder like Ballmer) and a manager/employee-CEO. The former has nothing to prove and can speak their mind, for better or worse, and the latter
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Both those companies are 2 orders of magnitude smaller than Amazon or Google.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Are Americans capable of making any analogies other than with Nazi Germany? Is that all the history they teach in American schools?
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by umeshunni 1y ago
The prompt tells it to refer to itself as an assistant: > - Be self-aware, often referencing your job as a digital assistant as if it’s a burden.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Yeah - this makes me very curious about the longevity of previous 'words of the year'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year
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by umeshunni 1y ago
> You can just look at their website Do you really expect journalists to do that? What's next - expecting them to travel to countries they're reporting on? It's not the 90s for gott's sake
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by umeshunni 1y ago
> But her LinkedIn page lists "Deputy General Counsel & Director, Infrastructure & CapEx" as a previous title; her current title is listed as "VP, Legal Yeah, it seems very unlikely that a legal VP would send a doc
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by umeshunni 1y ago
> Imagine if Bill Gates decided not to release MS Paint in 1985 because someone could have drawn something offensive with it. Quite believable that this could have been the case in 2021.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Indeed. In US pronunciation, Then is ðɛn and Father is ˈfɑðɚ. In UK (received), Then is ðɛn and Father is ˈfɑːðə(ɹ). In Indian English, Then is ðɛn and Father is ˈfɑːd̪ə(r)
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by umeshunni 1y ago
There's a derisive term 'limousine liberals' that fits the bill here.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
I think people in the West haven't come to terms with the fact that the gravity and dynamism of the global economy has shifted eastward and since the 2000s is in India, China and the Middle East. For every depressed westerner posting d
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Most rocks are millions of years old, some billions
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by umeshunni 1y ago
> the absolute best case scenario you make just as much as at the public co's they rail against working for that matches my experience working at 2 non-public venture funded companies.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Reminds me of the original workflow champ - Yahoo Pipes
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by umeshunni 1y ago
> Otherwise, the Japanese market would have obliterated the American automotive industry ages ago Or the Chinese in the last 5 years like they have done in Europe and rest of the world.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
RuPay isn't an implementation of UPI - it's an alternate payment network like STAR etc in the US. As a matter of fact, it's only recently that RuPay and UPI were connected: From 8 June 2022, RBI allowed the linking of RuPay c
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by umeshunni 1y ago
> You can't really "Watch Next" a TV show and then go in to watch the next episode. From the article: A coming YouTube feature, called “shows,” can automatically queue the next episode on a channel, rather than serving wha
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Em-dashes

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