BlackJack

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Tech investor plan to buy landmark SF bar (Toronado) turned into tortured battle(sfchronicle.com)
2 points by BlackJack 1y ago|0 comments
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Notes on Trinidad and Tobago(mattlakeman.org)
1 points by BlackJack 2y ago|0 comments
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by BlackJack 2y ago
ANA is good but isn't even the best airline in its' own country. LH isn't the best airline in its' own group (Swiss and Austrian have better seats/service, and Swiss has equivalently good coverage). United is probab
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by BlackJack 2y ago
The British were engaged in the slave trade, then worked to outlaw slavery but replaced it with indentured servitude that was basically like slavery with a trivial income. That and exploitative colonial government meant you don't need
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by BlackJack 2y ago
Processed foods usually refers to packaged snacks, food with lots of added ingredients, corn oils, artificial ingredients, etc or fast food/junk food ordered at restaurants/fast-casual places.
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by BlackJack 2y ago
In the past, he had call options that he could've sold for profit but instead he exercised them to get even more GME stock. It's literally the opposite of dumping. The whales manipulate markets much more than anything Keith Gill
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by BlackJack 2y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Google on related stuff Veo is the name of a video model. VideoFX is the name of a new experimental tool at labs.google.com, which uses Veo and lets you make videos. Thanks for the feedback though, I see how it's
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by BlackJack 2y ago
Guaranteed value is a licensing payment that compensates the publisher for allowing OpenAI to access its backlog of data, while variable value is contingent on display success, a metric based on the number of users engaging with linked or d
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Lawmaker Presses Loro Piana After Reports of Exploiting Indigenous Workers(nytimes.com)
1 points by BlackJack 2y ago|0 comments
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by BlackJack 2y ago
That's not even close to true. Look at the massive growth of slavery and religious violence under Arab and Muslim conquest across Asia and Africa. Arab and Western conolialism have different flavors but enormous exploitation and abuse.
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by BlackJack 3y ago
Archibald sells a vicuna sweater for $3.1k, and they say the at cost price is $1.9k [1] Given maybe $500-800 in production cost, shipping, duties etc, the cost is probably $1k. It is significantly more expensive than other fibers. 1. https
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The next chapter of our Gemini era(blog.google)
6 points by BlackJack 3y ago|0 comments
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by BlackJack 3y ago
So sad to hear that. QDB brought me so much joy to read.
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by BlackJack 3y ago
Love this book, and looks like stripe.press has some other really good books like Hamming's The Art and Science of Doing Engineering. That being said, the UX of this page is horrible. Scrolling hard, navigating hard, bad font. I cannot
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by BlackJack 3y ago
I've read most of Matt's "Notes on [X]" In general they are well written and interesting. In some cases though it's too simplified and at times insensitive. In particular, I've talked to people who are from Nig
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by BlackJack 3y ago
Have you done the math, even at a ballpark level? Commercial Real Estate (CRE) is estimated to have ~$500B loss in 2023 and nearly the same in 2024 (different from debt repayment) [1]. Stock indices were fine. In general, there's way m
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by BlackJack 3y ago
That's a good point. I agree it's not clear cut one way or another and we gotta let it play out.
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by BlackJack 3y ago
disclaimer: I work on GenAI at google, but views are my own The question is, how did the model create Mario&Luigi or Scrooge McDuck without training on copyrighted data? It can't just crawl Wikipedia because Fair Use in Wikipedia d
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by BlackJack 3y ago
After reading your comment, I checked their history. The account has 7k+ karma, and if they're professional marketer they are promoting: * DALLE * Stable Diffusion * Tabletop RPGs * Sega CD * Nice suburban housing * Neuralink * Cliffno
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Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company(longform.asmartbear.com)
28 points by BlackJack 3y ago|2 comments
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by BlackJack 3y ago
A good PM doesn't have to know the differences, but should understand that mixing encryption protocols is going to break things. Ideally an eng lead would be flagging these issues.
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by BlackJack 3y ago
"On June 9, the day of the alleged poisoning, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation conducted an inspection at the restaurant and conducted a follow-up inspection on June 13. The department found a total of 31
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by BlackJack 3y ago
I agree but want to correct you on the public school point. Excluding the service academics, there are 2 or 3 schools with sub 20% acceptance rates, and every other public school is above that. See [1] and [2]. And these are the best public
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by BlackJack 3y ago
I read the comments and many are in this vein: "Agreed, moderators with a power complex are the worst thing about this site. Don't even care about this API crap." Never realized mods were so disliked. I thought the blackout s
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by BlackJack 4y ago
Madoff was arrested fast because his sons went to prosecutors and admitted to the fraud. That's very strong evidence + direct witnesses vs. here where they have to prove fraud and gather evidence.
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by BlackJack 4y ago
Amazon Ads 31B is an annual figure. Last quarter it was ~8B. Same thing with cloud; AWS pulled ~18B last quarter. Amazon Ads is a legit threat to Google, especially with product searches. Instagram struggles to monetize commercial queries t
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Ask HN: How to find Shopify app beta testers?
2 points by BlackJack 5y ago|0 comments
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by BlackJack 5y ago
I upvoted this comment, but people are not so dumb to only eat junk food. There are environmental/psychological factors why people overeat. Other research shows that people will overeat "healthy food" i.e. huge dollops of oli
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How $400/wk unemployment will affect the economy(medium.com)
2 points by BlackJack 6y ago|1 comments
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The difference between 'Minimum' and 'Viable' in MVP(deepproduct.substack.com)
1 points by BlackJack 6y ago|0 comments

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