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by yardie 8mo ago
My impression was that Europe had a lot of old money. A lot of traditional and family banks that were only willing to risk it on "a sure thing." The startups I did work at were the founders did a stint in SV after being recruited
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by yardie 8mo ago
Yes, the problem is capital. US has loads of it and Europe does not. So a lot of European startups have 3 options: remain niche, get bought out buy US investors, move the corporate seat/brain trust to the US. There are many small Europ
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by yardie 8mo ago
One of the things Jim Farley, Ford CEO, brought up was they have a lot of 3rd party suppliers, and changes take a long time to implement. So a firmware update may require change notifications and responses from dozens of suppliers for somet
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by yardie 8mo ago
And decisions made in London have drained those other cities of investment and tax revenue.
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by yardie 9mo ago
I go to friends' houses and the kids are watching the dumbest, most egregious things imagined on Youtube, constantly. When I ask if they go outside to play, they claim it's too hot, too cold, or too dangerous. They are attracted t
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by yardie 9mo ago
I've seen, on multiple occasions, the professor's recommendations get overruled by the dean or university administration. If the school wants them there, they stay.
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by yardie 9mo ago
To all the parents: read Careless People. Realize everyone, including the author, is flaming hot trash. And never let your kids near social media ever again.
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by yardie 9mo ago
> When one would finish her exam, she would come back to the room and tell all the remaining students what questions she had and how she solved them. We never considered that "cheating" and, as a professor, I always design my e
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by yardie 9mo ago
I'm glad she got her flowers in the end. As a fellow Hokie who was in school around then I wish I knew of her and her accomplishments while I was a student. She was a distance learning PhD student so would have only been in Blacksburg
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by yardie 9mo ago
The EU is moving in the opposite direction and trying to become more cohesive. The politicians and technocrats see the Euro as hamstrung with weak fiscal policies.
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by yardie 9mo ago
You have to renew them? I've been using the same card since '03. I went in a 2 years ago to pay my fine for a book lost in the couch cushion for a few months. Librarian thought it was quaint that I still have my old tattered libra
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by yardie 9mo ago
I finally had to give mine up. Needed to reset the password which required a trip to 4HELP office and I live halfway around the globe now. But the kiddo will be starting college soon so I can mooch off their edu email address.
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by yardie 9mo ago
Didn't take long for the US conspiracy theorists to get involved. It's not the 50s anymore. People have access to far more information and start and stop a revolution of their own. Given everything we've seen over the last 20
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by yardie 9mo ago
Tesla Model 3 Standard is 280HP/210kW. And it's only really limited by the C of the battery pack. Under optimal conditions I've measured 310HP, according to the Canbus app. EVs are incredibly powerful. Even the humble Nissan
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by yardie 9mo ago
These are very simple utilities. I expect AI to be able to build them easily. Maybe in a few years it will be able to write a complete photo editor or CAD application from first principles.
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by yardie 10mo ago
> the idea of the government telling people how to use private property doesn't sit well Between zoning, easements, nuisance laws, government has a lot of say in how you use your private property. Owners even stepped it up a notch a
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by yardie 10mo ago
The Spanish financial crisis in 2009 was an overabundance of private debt. Developers used that debt to build lots of flats, too many in all the wrong places. Those developers then went out of business and construction has been moribund sin
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by yardie 10mo ago
> Safari.... I dont know why this battery life argument keeps coming up because it is not the case. It hasn't been so for at least 5 - 6 years. I can assure you, this is still true. I use Chrome when plugged in at my desk and Safari
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by yardie 10mo ago
I've done the US university dorm living. I was already pretty well socialized being involved in many social causes and clubs. Unlike the movies, my roommate and I didn't turn into lifelong friends. Our living arrangement was stric
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by yardie 10mo ago
EU universities, the amenities are quite meager, as they should be. But for dorms it’s usually single occupancy. Unlike the US where you’re expect to have roommates.
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by yardie 10mo ago
AI is a tool. If it doesn't work I'm not going to fix the tool; I'd rather find another tool that can do the job.
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by yardie 10mo ago
I asked Google for more information about AI datacenter in space. This was the first sentence, 'AI data centers are being developed in space to handle the massive energy demands of AI, using solar power and the vacuum of space for cool
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by yardie 10mo ago
> It also bans communal prayer on public roads and in parks, with the threat of fines of C$1,125 for groups in contravention of the prohibition. I'm a stoopid American but I thought Canadians enjoyed freedom of speech. Since they re
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by yardie 11mo ago
My company did not retain customer data or retained very little. So compliance for us was very simple. If your business venture relies on that PII data you're going to have a hard time. And I'm not exactly sympathetic since I&#x27
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by yardie 11mo ago
> no need for notaries and in-person verbal agreements, etc. With the advancement of AI being used to commit fraud through chat, video, and audio calls I think we're at the precipice of needing to in-person verbal agreements again.
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by yardie 11mo ago
I believe the FTC had a case years ago. But the market has moved on. YT took off backed by Alphabet capital. Tiktok took off withe Bytedance capital. There was a time when FB/IG/WA commanded most of social media. And Meta did use
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by yardie 11mo ago
> due in part to burdensome privacy regulations. A large part is due to their approach to startup investing and chronic undercapitalization. GDPR is coming up 10 years now and the worries about it were overblown. What hasn't budged
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by yardie 11mo ago
> reorient our education system away from performative progressive ideology and towards achieving practical results. NCLB was cooked up by Republicans along with defunding schools, school choice, and the homeschooling. You are correct th
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by yardie 1y ago
Who knows. I was busy sailing, cooking and fishing. One day my Google searches are Spanish prioritized, the next day they are American prioritized. Starlinks are relatively power hungry so we power it up, connect, gather weather and other t
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by yardie 1y ago
Starlink IPs are assigned to the closest ground station. I used Starlink during a transatlantic crossing. The first half of the trip our IP address was based in Madrid. At about 2/3 of the way it changed to a Virginia based IP. And as

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