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(Part 1) US China Trade War: Micron, Microchips and the IP War(linkedin.com)
6 points by dig6x 6y ago|0 comments
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by dig6x 6y ago
Think there’s more nuance to this. Article actually talks about the concept of form and function as appealing to different subsets of mobile consumers. Motivation for surface duo is productivity - the design revolves around this I.e. form d
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Why Microsoft wants to take on burden of social media and user generated content(4thquadrant.io)
2 points by dig6x 6y ago|0 comments
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TikTok’s potential $588 per user valuation in Microsoft deal(4thquadrant.io)
34 points by dig6x 6y ago|46 comments
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Apple's “Careful Delays” in AR/VR – first mover isn't always the best strategy(4thquadrant.io)
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by dig6x 6y ago
Interesting article on social capital as currency and why social platforms delay monetisation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708585
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by dig6x 6y ago
Yeh 100%. The entire premise is that the social offering of FB is free (for the most part, of course users pay in data). I read an interesting article yday on why the 'free' offering of tech companies like FB allows them to thrive
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by dig6x 6y ago
I believe this was a response to people interacting less with the feed and posting less about their own life.. its almost morphed into a reddit cross social feed now. And they're only expanding the bounds more and more, Facebook news i
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by dig6x 6y ago
It does seem very convenient timing, the article talks about Starbucks spending less than half of its ad spend compared to same time last year. When push comes to shove they are bound to return to one of the biggest advertising platforms. F
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Facebook’s newest proof-of-concept VR headset looks like a pair of sunglasses(theverge.com)
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by dig6x 6y ago
Yeh the CLoud market was at a stage where the niche with some convenience add could thrive. Now we're seeing all these multi cloud platforms emerge because enterprises are managing multiple server providers at once etc. so you can imag
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by dig6x 6y ago
Launched in 2014, its basically a purpose-built SQL cloud data warehouse solution. Its success pivoted among other factors, on its ability to abstract compute power and data storage to create a modular solution that could be made efficient
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by dig6x 6y ago
"...600 billion parameters using automatic sharding. We demonstrate that such a giant model can efficiently be trained on 2048 TPU v3 accelerators in 4 days to achieve far superior quality for translation from 100 languages to English
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by dig6x 6y ago
Quibi claimed to be competing with free and i think thats where they made their mistake. People on Youtube can leave a 10 minute vlog half way and still feel satisfied that they got their fill of quick stimulation. Quibi forces high effort
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Microsoft’s new Windows File Recovery tool lets you retrieve deleted documents(theverge.com)
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$60m seed ext: Pipe helps SaaS firms turn subscriptions into upfront cash flow(news.crunchbase.com)
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Apple will let you port Google Chrome extensions to Safari(techcrunch.com)
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Brazilian authorities suspend WhatsApp payments(bloomberg.com)
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by dig6x 6y ago
The article says "In preventative healthcare this model is flipped on its head, the entire population becomes a potential customer base. While there is no ceiling to the number of available customers – this model faces the challenge of
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by dig6x 6y ago
I suppose rather than shaping the nature of party politics itself it would change how the narrative of either party is shaped. The party can't rely on pandering to extreme realities and perhaps a more complex voter will compel more tho
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by dig6x 6y ago
This is such a fundamental, but grossly overlooked fact. The spectrum implies that a tether to one ideology (and therefore party) means a tether to all others that fall under the umbrella of that party's stance. The other side is eithe
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by dig6x 6y ago
Read on a business insider article "$130 for access to a game store – a game store largely filled with games that are already available on other platforms, sometimes for less money – is a hard sell." Seems like Google just chuckin
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by dig6x 6y ago
Think this is contingent on what “bad” means, how extensive are the negative externalities of something like meat farming versus the creation of butter or margarine. In that sense, they’re not comparable examples.