lvnfg

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Nvidia Enters Windows Laptop Market, Taking on Intel and AMD(bloomberg.com)
4 points by lvnfg 4mo ago|0 comments
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Occupations with the Highest Divorce Rates(flowingdata.com)
3 points by lvnfg 4mo ago|0 comments
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by lvnfg 1y ago
Yes, work will expand to fill all your available hours due to unaligned incentives between who does the work (the SWE in this example) and who decide the quantity, timeline, and cost of work. If the SWE can finish his work faster, 8x faster
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by lvnfg 1y ago
The most interesting parts of this paper (in my opinion) from Microsoft Research are found on page 12 and 13, where they list the jobs and occupations most and least likely to be impacted by AI, respectively. The top most impacted job is In
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"Upgrade" has become the most frightening word in the English language (2016)(nytimes.com)
32 points by lvnfg 1y ago|25 comments
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Testimony on [Apple's] External Purchase Fee and Scare Screens(mjtsai.com)
5 points by lvnfg 2y ago|0 comments
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by lvnfg 2y ago
Sure. I'm not claiming that everyone must find the ad disturbing, just that the ones who do tend to feel much more strongly than those who don't, and their feelings tend to not to be dismissed as hyperbole by the general public. I
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by lvnfg 2y ago
Imagine an ad for a virtual puppy game using hydraulic press to crush real dogs, showing closeup of twisted broken head and blood splashing on camera and all. Surely you can understand why most people can get very upset seeing that, and dog
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A woman who can smell Parkinson's is inspiring research into diagnosis (2020)(npr.org)
244 points by lvnfg 3y ago|75 comments
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by lvnfg 4y ago
Gitcoin probably would work for developers, who are highly paid already and their code have high potential of being used in profitable projects. Not so well for artists who earn a fraction of developers' salary and their arts are alrea
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by lvnfg 4y ago
The differences I can see are these: With websites you can set a robot.txt file to opt out of indexing, and if they keep indexing anyway there are mechanisms to block it, both technical (i.e. ip restrictions) and legal (you can sue the inde
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Ask HN: Should AI trained on publicly available data be banned?
3 points by lvnfg 4y ago|9 comments
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by lvnfg 4y ago
Changes take time, and there are massive opportunity costs to moving your supply chain base elsewhere. If other countries can do manufacturing equally well (same quality, cost, legal environment, etc), but you already have your base fully e
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by lvnfg 4y ago
It's a bit messy. Legally the board has to act in the best interest of all shareholders. In actual trials the judges tend to defer to the board's business judgment since they are intimately involved with the company's strateg
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by lvnfg 4y ago
The board cannot, by itself, decide the value per share. The board can present its opinion that the deal is fair by approving it, and suggest that all shareholders take this course of action by subjecting the deal for shareholder vote. If t
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by lvnfg 6y ago
Revenue share and price parity are standard clauses in most department store lease contracts and not at all unprecedented, at least in my experience. My company is routinely told that if we want the lease, we must pay a fixed percentage on
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by lvnfg 6y ago
Designing cities around cars is a great mistake of urban planning imo. Ideally there should be no motorized vehicles above ground within a city's boundary. The improvements to safety, air quality, and quality of life in general would b