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by high_derivative 3y ago
Just stopping by to say that this type of post is absolutely obnoxious and embarrassing for you.
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by high_derivative 3y ago
I don't think you are entirely wrong, but it's also not as simple that every tech company can do everything well. Apple has not been able to make Siri work well and has completely fallen behind on AI/LLMs. Apple has been tryi
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by high_derivative 3y ago
I am avoiding flying Boeing ... as if my life depended on it
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by high_derivative 3y ago
You cannot have it both ways. Universities get billions in public funding and then turn around using that money to fund political activists masquerading as academics. Disciplines like sociology are now very open about the fact that academic
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by high_derivative 3y ago
It's quite apparent from everything that has come to light that she got tenured for the same reason she got to be Harvard president. Merit was not one of the reasons.
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by high_derivative 3y ago
Unfortunately, nothing will change until the system that produced this changes too. No doubt she will retain her tenured position.
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by high_derivative 3y ago
There is a certain type of ex-software founder who likes the pose of philosopher king. They like to describe themselves as 'first principles thinker' but have never engaged in serious thinking since nobody challenges them on anyth
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by high_derivative 3y ago
Apple loves to bully competitors and suppliers with both patents and app store. I doubt being on the other end of this will make them change their behaviour.
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by high_derivative 3y ago
A cynic might say the Biden administration precisely achieved its goal. Appoint someone progressive with the right optics who has zero experience getting things done or governing in a larger organization. Gets nothing done. Corporate donors
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by high_derivative 3y ago
Could be a good bet, very asymmetric. The question to me is if the execs are leaving because they know Cruise doesn't have it technically and the jig is up, or if it's really more temporary. Hard to know from the outside. It&#x2
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by high_derivative 3y ago
For one, Cruise has essentially disintegrated over the past few months? All key execs left https://fortune.com/2023/12/13/general-motors-cruise-executi... , massive layoffs, founders left. Cruise is done.
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by high_derivative 3y ago
It is absolutely True that most larger tech companies could run much leaner. Almost all projects that are done by many cross functional teams with lots of coordination overhead could be done by a small team of effective senior engineers. Mi
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by high_derivative 3y ago
Are you thinking of Robert Jordan / The Wheel of Time? Robert Harris is alive and writing
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by high_derivative 3y ago
"We recognize that biological sex can be defined using multiple characteristics, including chromosomes, genitalia and hormones, each of which exists on a spectrum." Is this the new land acknowledgement statement for biology? &#x27
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by high_derivative 3y ago
We are not the audience. The VCs they are trying to raise the next megaround from are
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by high_derivative 3y ago
n=1 (as a mid-profile AI researcher), but for me it's working in terms of Meta gaining my respect by open sourcing (despite the licensing disasters). They clearly seem to be more committed to open source and getting things done now in
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by high_derivative 4y ago
But...that was exactly the purpose? To be able to more freely select amongst racial and gender lines as desired
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by high_derivative 4y ago
Let's just be honest about CloudFlare. They write these hand-wringing posts occasionally to try to justify their 'policies', but their policy is quite literally 'block someone if enough people demand it on twitter'.
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by high_derivative 4y ago
>I understand the importance of diversity, inclusivity and equal-opportunities etc. 'Hail to the king / our glorious leader / the church / - with that out of the way, ...'
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by high_derivative 5y ago
How is your team organized? Is it US only or are there international/remote roles?
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by high_derivative 5y ago
I am far from left leaning (in the sense of American progressive left, I am an immigrant and not in the US), and I find this actually to be wrong. I think hn is far more balanced politically than reddit or twitter.
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Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results(abc.xyz)
122 points by high_derivative 5y ago|126 comments
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by high_derivative 5y ago
And these alt-right flags, are they in the room with us right now?
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by high_derivative 5y ago
Stealing seems an almost libellous term for using a software with a revenue model the author did not bother checking out.
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by high_derivative 5y ago
I don't understand how this is different in any way from bands which employees are placed in based on performance? Im not trying to be combative, I genuinely do not see how this would realize any different outcomes. It just seems to sh
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by high_derivative 5y ago
We are not doing adults any favours by infantilising them at university. It's a big part of the problem related to contemporary college culture.
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by high_derivative 5y ago
Thank you for this. The NYT is just hopeless now. They cannot even write an obituary without weaving in all their culture war angles.
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by high_derivative 5y ago
Frankly, a problem at Google is that they have a lot of VPs with very long tenures (15+ years) who are simply in these positions because they have been along for the ride. In other places they would long have been fired for underperforming,
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by high_derivative 5y ago
You want to seriously get access to people's plain text gmails? Is this a joke?
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by high_derivative 5y ago
Can someone give context on this?

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