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by vl 6y ago
>They will soon realize they don't need to pay SF wages. The reason they pay “SF wages” is because they can’t hire talent at other prices, not because of some goodness of the heart. While total talent pool might be slightly expanded
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by vl 6y ago
> There has been a lot of discussion recently about how young people’s familiarity with Elvis or even the Beatles is dwindling 10 years ago my wife and I went to a cafe after Ringo’s concert. We met there her university classmate with bo
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by vl 6y ago
Same way you dispose regular garbage, which has same challenges. I went to the tour of recycling plant, and as part of the tour they told us what happens with Seattle garbage: they excavate a pit, line it up with plastic, put garbage in, co
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by vl 6y ago
The only redeeming quality of Google Maps is that it is incredibly good product. But at the same time it’s extremely anti-competitive: essentially very few companies can invest many billions of dollars it took Google to collect the data for
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by vl 6y ago
And another reasons is that dollar is a world-wide reserves currency. This arrangement essentially creates unlimited credit for US. To maintain this status carriers, planes and other weapons are required. While everyone in US benefits from
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by vl 6y ago
You just don’t understand how things really work at the rest of the world. Yes, corporate would be mildly unhappy, but they know that it happens all the time. Notice that they got on the plane on “stand-by” without available seats in the fi
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by vl 6y ago
And this is why we need federal shall-issue CCW permits and common weapon lows. This hot mess of nonsense across the states needs to stop.
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by vl 6y ago
My point is more nuanced: YT is worth so much because it is a monopoly. To make it monopoly it is today, Google had to have: extremely deep pockets, efficient infrastructure. Very few other companies could have accomplished that.
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by vl 6y ago
Also it’s interesting that Google is the only company (except, perhaps, Amazon), that could pull off running and growing YT. YT is strongly subsidized by getting cost reduction by using shared Google infrastructure. Also billions of dollars
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by vl 6y ago
YT is uniquely integrated with Google infrastructure. It can be spun off on paper, but if it’s spun off technologically, its expenses will rise a lot, since right now it gets cost reduction by sharing infra with other Google properties.
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by vl 6y ago
Public education is not “free”, we pay for it with out taxes. And right now we are paying, and our children are not getting an education...
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by vl 6y ago
It is well-though-out and illustrative comment, but since it doesn’t follow leftist narrative mob downvotes it.
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by vl 6y ago
But practically speaking, currently it is at the dead end: Results like this are highly speculative and unfalsifiable. There is no unifying theory in sight. String Theory at this point is essentially a pseudo-scientific cult (see Lee Smolin
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by vl 6y ago
If you want do be nitpicky about it, they announced specific cell designs, which means that they developed them, i.e. they have the “technology“.
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by vl 6y ago
Of course they do. Specifically they went into a lot of details during last investor presentation.
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by vl 6y ago
>OK, but what about before that? Well, the standard answer is that “time didn’t exist”. This is of course in unsatisfactory. The truth is that nobody knows, and so far it looks like we are unlikely to know. If you think about it, it does
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by vl 6y ago
All elements come from somewhere. With the minor exception of heavy element decay, there is no nuclei synthesis on Earth. So elements planet and we consist of were made before, some of them in stars and then spread out though supernovae exp
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by vl 6y ago
Think about it, it’s a great business: they process water, sell deuterium, and then also sell by-products! :)
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by vl 6y ago
Most likely it was other way around - they wanted a machine which can reliably drive tiny screws. They invented the machine, but it required pentalobe screws, so they went with that.
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by vl 6y ago
Apple engineers don’t have specific mandate to make devices harder to repair, the are tasked to make devices cheaper to produce. It so happens that it also affects ease of repair. For extreme example of this look at the Kindle - obviously i
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by vl 6y ago
Fair enough, I’m in Seattle, ie Pacific time zone. So it was around 2-3am.
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by vl 6y ago
In Soviet Union and then Russia there was not enough school capacity. So schools worked in two shifts. Half of my school years I started school at 1pm. Wasn’t that bad, I actually preferred it. As for “natural sleep cycle” and “improved qua
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by vl 6y ago
But how is it deferent from humans? They make mistakes too! All that matters is rate of mistakes.
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by vl 6y ago
Have you actually tried it? Because entire point I’m making is that it’s not like this in practice. You get used to it quickly and know when you need to monitor it and be ready and when you can relax.
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by vl 6y ago
In practice it doesn’t work like this. Current Teslas allow Autopilot on the streets, it just tries to go forward on the intersections (with FSD it also tries to take turns). Stops on the lights and stop signs, btw. So the way you use it, y
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by vl 6y ago
They ship by plane, and I believe it's constrained by weight, not volume. I.e. iPhone 12 Pro weighs 189 grams, packaging + cable approx 50 grams more. And USB-C 20W brick is 62 grams. I.e. adding power brick would increase shipping wei
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by vl 6y ago
Evolution and markets are efficient. The purpose of your genes to copy themselves (“Selfish Gene”). As long as it happens, evolution doesn’t care what host is doing in leisure time.
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by vl 6y ago
It’s not exactly correct though: at this resolution - maybe, but at resolution high enough there are gaps between galaxies. The reason for that is that region of space we can observe is finite. If it would be infinite, and between any two o
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by vl 6y ago
Interestingly Soviet Union was well-known for paying foreign commercial bills on time. This one should have slipped through bureaucratic cracks.
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by vl 6y ago
I personally love space and aviation stuff. But, as economies become more efficient and global, it’s increasingly unlikely that it will be possible to finance such projects. See: people haven’t been on the Moon for 50 years, Concord haven’t

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