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by iabacu 4y ago
One thing that you overlook is something that even Xi points out as an issue: right now, China needs more quality than quantity. For example, in semiconductors, Taiwan, with a much smaller population (and arriving late in the game) beat the
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by iabacu 5y ago
An animal sample from the wet market that was shut down. (I spooned they were all bagged). If they were all destroyed, then go get a sample from their natural reservoir (wherever those animals came from)
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by iabacu 5y ago
This is not about children, though, it's about investors. If Nike makes a material claim to investors (e.g. that children labor is not used), but the claim is revealed to be knowingly false, then that's securities fraud.
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by iabacu 5y ago
Even if the guess is reasonable and is eventually true, like "we'll need to scale, so might as well prepare for 100x capacity now", it's still frequently a mistake to over engineer. The architecture to support something
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by iabacu 5y ago
If the over-engineering is in the wrong dimension (one that the project doesn't need), then the cost will be double: adding the over-engineering and then detangling from it. The problem is there are too many dimensions a given project
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by iabacu 5y ago
Why stop at scanning photos in your phone? With lower power sensors, head-mounted devices with always-on-sensors, and whatnot, why not sample real-time hashes that can tip LEO about potential crimes happening? Then why sacrifice recall in o
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by iabacu 5y ago
The argument about POW energy is overblown. There's an exponential decay of rewards of mining BTC (50% every 4 years). Do you think the price of BTC will increase exponentially, faster than the decay over the long term? I don't th
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by iabacu 5y ago
This is bizarre. If the intern did steal code, the CEO only wants the project to be taken down? Any IP agreement worth their salt would require Replit to send a formal/legal request asking the intern to destroy and return any stolen
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by iabacu 5y ago
The difference between what Amjad tweets publicly and what Amjad threatens the ex-intern privately is jarring. That makes me think that either the tweets are empty virtue signaling; or Amjad is legit worried that an intern open-source proje
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by iabacu 5y ago
That was not a direct quote on anyone here or elsewhere, more like a sentiment that was around last year. https://twitter.com/shortthebanks/status/1133735039596994560 https://twitter.com/Joe_wants_
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by iabacu 5y ago
Last year people would jokingly say that the headline this year would be "bitcoin crashes to 30k", and that was dismissed as stupidly bullish.
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by iabacu 5y ago
It's amazing to me that the real answer on how to make renewable energy economical (while avoiding the ecological toxicity of building utility-scale batteries) are getting downvoted.
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by iabacu 5y ago
By the way. If one thinks about tracking the carbon cost of a mined BTC (based on the energy source used to mine it) such that a carbon tax can be accurately exacted, the usage of blockchain to track carbon offsets and cost is a pretty obvi
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by iabacu 5y ago
> This may be a radical take, but I think nations should introduce some unprecedented legislation: ban trade of proof of work cryptocurrencies. That's not only radical, but a grotesque knee jerk reaction. If you think about renewabl
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by iabacu 6y ago
I think you’re making cash a bigger deal than it is. If you have collateral that can also be transferred in real-time, can’t that back a cash loan immediately with extremely low interest costs?
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by iabacu 6y ago
Not quite. Users who complained about things being slower were hinted that perhaps the new models would be faster. It was not a communication issue that damaged Apple; but the contrary, it helped sell more units. The only "bad" th
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by iabacu 6y ago
Sure, then freeze the software of older devices and only release security fixes. No revamp of look-and-feel and other random software features that only makes sense for the new models.
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by iabacu 6y ago
To clarify, since I think this is not obvious to the other commenters here. (1) The company ships software updates that happens to be near the launch of a new model. It's not by accident, there are often major software changes to take
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by iabacu 6y ago
I think it's clear Apple intentionally* degrades software quality on older iphone/mac models in order to drive purchase of newer hardware. I've been considering switching away from Apple hardware, not because of hardware qual
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by iabacu 6y ago
It’s not a that discriminative in terms of reproductive rights if you consider the one child policy that applied for a long time to a lot of people (mostly of Han ethnicity). While the policy doesn’t exist anymore, it’s not about the polic
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by iabacu 6y ago
Xi Jinping and the CCP’s official goal is for the Chinese people and everyone else to have a common destiny. Interpret these how you wish, because they are interpreting these how they wish.
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by iabacu 6y ago
Sometimes the source of the problem is political: one trying to make a more general framework to deprecate another team, or to avoid being deprecated by generalizing in a slightly different direction. How do people “defend” that in big Corp
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by iabacu 6y ago
400K to 600K is still qualitatively significant. For example, it can mean whether your spouse has the option to stay home to spend more quality time with the children, without having to sacrifice expenses due to income reduction; or it can
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by iabacu 6y ago
Your current company will promote (and compensate) you based on your performance in the past cycles. Your new company will offer you a level (and compensation) based on your expected performance in future cycles. If you're on a growth
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by iabacu 6y ago
For store of value, that's fine. You don't need fast transactions. It's way more convenient than gold and real-state.
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by iabacu 7y ago
You should market this to insurance companies, not individual doctors. At their scale, they can use the data to drive their costs down, and can build a business case for paying you something.
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by iabacu 7y ago
Go try something more risky, with a big (but uncertain) upside. You choose what the upside is, it does not have to be financial.
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by iabacu 7y ago
Just use means of communicating outside of the Corp network already. Personal email list, slack, discord, blind, etc.
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by iabacu 7y ago
> If the next generation is rebellious - and they end up being like the last rebellious generation - we are looking at 22 years of deep technological developments that will lead to the next big things in two generations from now. Or quit
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by iabacu 7y ago
delete the whole code (or just throw away the keys) and all the debt is paid.

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