Xixi

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by Xixi 20d ago
I do think it's a defensive move, but at first order it's defensive against OpenAI, Anthropic, and arguably Google. NVIDIA doesn't want to end up squeezed by those three as they increasingly make their own metal, etc. Ensurin
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by Xixi 2mo ago
I strongly recommend Merchants of Doubt [1], it's fairly clear what happened: learning from the "mistake" of the tobacco industry financing research, the oil industry understood that producing their own honest science was a l
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by Xixi 2mo ago
Static types are not _that_ useful to catch bugs, if only because type related bugs tend to surface very quickly, especially in strongly typed language like Python. So a good CI suite is usually enough to catch them, but you do need good co
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by Xixi 2mo ago
There's been a pendulum swing of sort during my career: static languages like C++/Java, then dynamic ones like Python/Ruby/JavaScript, and now back toward typed languages like TypeScript/Rust/Swift. My read is
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by Xixi 2mo ago
An expat is someone living outside (ex) of their homeland (patria, technically fatherland rather than homeland if we are pedantic). All immigrants and non-immigrants [1] are expats, by definition, no matter the connotation some people have
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by Xixi 3mo ago
Jet engines are far more high-tech than most people imagine, but I'm not convinced this is evidence of some inherent Chinese weakness. The obvious explanation is that China started much later in an insanely difficult field. They are na
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by Xixi 3mo ago
PACs and super PACs are the key difference. Lobbying in the US includes practices that would fall squarely into the definition of corruption in many other Western countries. There's nothing inherently wrong with people or groups talkin
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by Xixi 3mo ago
That sounds more like FIRE / geographic arbitrage than expat in the traditional sense. What people often mean by a "true expat" is something completely different: someone sent abroad by their employer, usually with a generous
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by Xixi 3mo ago
I stand corrected, I was not aware of the full mechanism, and I was still stuck at the proposed multiplier and not the actual one.
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by Xixi 3mo ago
Nasdaq "solved" that problem by including a 5x float multiplier for stocks with less than 20% of shares available to the public...
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by Xixi 5mo ago
I understand the desire to end that murderous regime. If I were Iranian, I'd want to see it ended too. But do they really think bombs will achieve that? More importantly, would more bombing actually bring the regime down? Regimes rarel
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by Xixi 6mo ago
I wonder to what extent in this instance it is driven by the EU regulating (mostly) foreign companies rather than (mostly) domestic ones. Said differently, it is much easier for the EU to be impartial and competent when regulating Apple or
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by Xixi 6mo ago
I'm not sure I'd put it down entirely to Osaka versus Kyoto. My impression is that these things often have at least as much to do with upbringing, formality, and social background as with region. I don't know where you'r
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by Xixi 6mo ago
But what if there's not enough diesel? That's what at stake here, with oil exports from the Middle East dwindling... Oil price might not even go up that much, or for that long, if the economy crashes hard enough.
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by Xixi 8mo ago
I’m building something similar for Japan: https://altstack.jp . Still work in progress!
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Steward-Ownership(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Xixi 10mo ago|0 comments
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by Xixi 10mo ago
Steward-ownership is a philosophy more than an actual structure, my understanding is that each such company is in practice structured somewhat differently. This article explains roughly how Patagonia is structured: https://medium
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by Xixi 10mo ago
There's a little known alternative: Steward-ownership [1]. It's the kind of structure used by Novo Nordisk, Bosch or Patagonia. LLM summary: "Steward-ownership is a model where a company’s control stays with long-term steward
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by Xixi 10mo ago
NASA once offered the UK to launch its satellites almost for free. That offer was rescinded as soon as the UK abandoned its national space program. [1] From a European perspective, it’s impossible to look at the current situation and believ
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by Xixi 11mo ago
I agree with your sentiment, but let's not rewrite history too much. Snow Leopard didn't have any new feature, but under the hood it was a massive undertaking IIRC: it introduced a 64-bit kernel and 64-bit system applications like
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by Xixi 11mo ago
Sarkozy was not the only one sentenced to jail in that trial: Claude Guéant and Brice Hortefeux were also convicted, receiving sentences of six years and two years, respectively. And then there are the many other trials involving Sarkozy an
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by Xixi 1y ago
I've been building AltStack.jp, a curated directory of Japanese digital services (cloud hosting, registrars, email providers, and more) all operated in Japan, by Japanese companies. It’s aimed at people who want to be less dependent on
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by Xixi 1y ago
I've been working on AltStack.jp [1], a curated directory of Japanese digital services (think cloud hosting, registrars, email providers, etc.), all made and operated in Japan. It’s for anyone in Japan looking to reduce reliance on for
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by Xixi 1y ago
I think another factor is real estate: a population shrinking by more than half a million people per year eases some of the pressure on rent and land value... When I lived in New York City (before COVID), I saw many local businesses get pri
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Show HN: Altstack.jp, like European-alternatives.eu, for Japan(altstack.jp)
4 points by Xixi 1y ago|0 comments
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by Xixi 1y ago
I don't disagree with what you are saying, and tactics also evolve a lot during conflicts. But my point is that the actual effectiveness of US forces against top-tier Russian or Chinese integrated air defense systems is unknown. And
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by Xixi 1y ago
Just two days ago: "F-35 Had To Maneuver To Evade Houthi Surface-To-Air Missile", "Several American F-16s and an F-35 fighter jet were nearly struck by Houthi air defenses" [1] They also shot down seven MQ-9 drones [2].
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by Xixi 2y ago
Commas and dots being swapped is fairly common on continental Europe: I think it's the case at least in Germany, France, Spain and Italy. Probably other countries as well. Since we're talking about numbers, in France we used to co
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by Xixi 2y ago
Very good point regarding international flights. Of course, I'm making the assumption that the pilots somehow had to attempt a "a very fast landing, with no gear or flaps, spoilers". The core of the issue is probably there, h
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by Xixi 2y ago
Indeed I'm making tons of assumptions, but you have not yet convinced me that they are wrong. A brick wall is no reinforced concrete, and how is a road at plane level fundamentally different from the runway the plane was "gliding&

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