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by nabla9 8mo ago
Just remember that Tyler Cowen sings the song of funders of Cowen's Emergent Ventures: Peter Thiel, Schmidt Futures, Fast Grants (The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative)
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Cos goes FOSS The sorry state of scientific publishing and how we could(jekelylab.github.io)
1 points by nabla9 8mo ago|0 comments
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by nabla9 8mo ago
Their revenue is flat for last 4 years. They have established their status outside top 10 manufacturers and losing EV market share to Chinese and Europeans. Car revenue: -11% operating margin: 3.86% Free cash flow -30% Tesla PE
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I've reported on UFO sightings for decades – and come to this conclusion(washingtonpost.com)
9 points by nabla9 8mo ago|4 comments
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by nabla9 8mo ago
The specific cited anti-competitive behaviors (from DOJ and EU Commission is) are related to violating anti-steering provisions (companies forbidden for directing towards other payments methods), tying and bundling (in-app purchase require
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by nabla9 8mo ago
No. This is a result of a market failure caused by monopoly power. Regulators must make sure market capitalism works. I'm not sure what is the basis for your question but using market definition where Google Play and Apple Store are in
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by nabla9 8mo ago
There is no ideological argument for voluntary action here. The entire goal is to force regulators to step in. The debate over 'good vs. bad companies' is just online noise and rhetorical trik, no one on either side of the politic
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by nabla9 8mo ago
The operating cost is the maximum Apple can come up with when their accountants attribute everything they possibly can to digital sales for the sake of legal argument. R&D shouldn't really be included, and Apple uses those same too
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by nabla9 8mo ago
Apple’s App Store profits on commissions from digital sales Revenue $32 B Operating Costs $7 B [1] Estimated Profit $25 B Operating Margin ~78% [1] R&D, security, hosting, human review, and including bui
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by nabla9 8mo ago
This is not improving anything. Overly complex and starting from scratch. They should have picked dome existing package manager instead and contributed to it. Yet another package manager is not justifiable anymore. Always starting new pac
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by nabla9 8mo ago
This is a waste of Sovereign Tech Fund money. That money is supposed to fund the digital sovereignty of Germany and Europe. Yet, they put €500,000 into this. It seems open-source developers have their own way of performing their own version
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Creatine is the one supplement repeatedly shown to better your brain and body(sciencefocus.com)
2 points by nabla9 8mo ago|0 comments
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Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11(eteknix.com)
346 points by nabla9 8mo ago|378 comments
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by nabla9 8mo ago
Technical details only verify Wasm's potential. Wide adoption is not a technical matter. Just like with JVM and other better options before and after it, it's politics, interests and momentum. JVM in the browser was not killed by
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by nabla9 8mo ago
As it was retrospective study, I really hope they made sure that test images were not in a training set of the algorithm. If they were, the whole study is meaningless.
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by nabla9 8mo ago
The US attack had no intent to control territory. It was to nab one guy. Second paragraph establishes that after intent, there must be de facto control of the territory. 1. Attack intent to control did not happen. 2. De facto control of V
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by nabla9 8mo ago
That's not what it says.
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by nabla9 8mo ago
The bet uses it's own definition. It's written there. I'm looking at it right now but not copy pasting it here.
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by nabla9 8mo ago
US did not invade Venezuela by the definition of the bet. >This market will resolve to "Yes" if the United States commences a military offensive intended to establish control over any portion of Venezuela between November 3, 20
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German Secret Service allegedly wire-tapped US President Obama for five years(brusselssignal.eu)
2 points by nabla9 8mo ago|0 comments
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Germany eavesdropped on some Obama calls from Air Force One, book says(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by nabla9 8mo ago|0 comments
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by nabla9 9mo ago
The demonetized video 37 min: The Epstein Files are Worse Than You Think! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAJf2F1BbRA
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by nabla9 9mo ago
Do Chinese have closed weight models? Baidu has https://ernie.baidu.com/ open weight model but do they use closed model in some of their projects or internally?
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by nabla9 9mo ago
Just like in previous incidents they: 1. asked the ship raise its anchor, and move to a safe anchorage in Finnish territorial waters. 2. It was boarded inside Finnish territorial waters and seized there. The police was in contact with ship&
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by nabla9 9mo ago
>The legislation merely establishes the fund but does not allocate any money to it - setting up the framework for any future contributions, whether they be through the city or privately donated. Feel good legislation and symbolic gesture
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by nabla9 9mo ago
Oh. It was not you, and not the original. It was Waldemar Horwat and js2 https://web.archive.org/web/20111217124744/https://mxr.mozil...
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How Buttondown uses your content to power generative AI(buttondown.com)
4 points by nabla9 9mo ago|0 comments
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by nabla9 9mo ago
Yes. But that prototype was in CL.
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by nabla9 9mo ago
Brendan Eich wanted the language be some dialect of Lisp language but his superiors insisted on a language similar to Java. So he wrote that prototype in Common Lisp. It's basically Java like syntax over Common Lisp structs and vector
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Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"(simonwillison.net)
312 points by nabla9 9mo ago|249 comments

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