nostrademons

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by nostrademons 6d ago
It works great if your goal is to pump up your install & conversion numbers so you can raise the next round of VC at 3x valuation. After a couple rounds of this, your VCs, in turn, can then use the valuation increase to tell their GPs
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by nostrademons 6d ago
I usually see full-stack and DevOps roles as being a creation of the startup and early growth phases of a company. In those phases, the market and product definition is changing rapidly. Whatever you lose in reduced technical depth of
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by nostrademons 6d ago
It's a civil offense, but that's different from it being legal. It just means that it's up to the company itself to sue you to collect any damages, and government enforcement bodies aren't going to touch it. The issue m
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by nostrademons 7d ago
Nurses do actually end up spending more time with patients, it's just that they spend more time with rich patients. The actual, tangible form this is taking right now is concierge medicine, home health aids, private practice, etc. M
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by nostrademons 8d ago
No. ToU is a part of contract law. Basically the website is providing a service for you. In exchange for your use of that service, you agree to be bound by the terms. This implicitly creates a contract between you and the website, with
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by nostrademons 8d ago
If you want your mind-blown, read up on feto-maternal microchimerism: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8762399/ tl;dr: All boy moms will have some proportion of XY cells lodged in their bodies until they
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by nostrademons 8d ago
I think the issue is the ToU violation, not copyright.
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by nostrademons 8d ago
Latinx is terrible, though, because it is something no native Spanish speaker would ever say. It's an example of the exact same sort of cultural imperialism that most of the people who like to say latinx rail against. The term that Hi
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by nostrademons 9d ago
It used to be (late 00's) that wikis had a big advantage in search results because backlinks were weighted heavily by the ranking algorithm and the dense connectivity of wikis meant that there were always a zillion backlinks to pages o
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by nostrademons 9d ago
It's on the list. #34 out of 72, middle of the pack. Within the U.S. Chicago, NYC, Philadelphia, LA, and DC are above it. Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Phoenix are below it. They seem to weight heat-stress pretty highly in thei
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by nostrademons 9d ago
Explaining the intellectual position without saying that I accept it (my actual views on this are "it's complicated"): Arguments against KYC usually go hand-in-hand with the belief that AML statutes are a constitutional overr
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by nostrademons 9d ago
Most Americans are unaware of both how many people live outside of the United States and how bad things can get there.
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by nostrademons 11d ago
Waiting for Skynet to break out of its sandbox and kill us all...
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by nostrademons 13d ago
It said it was AT&T, which probably implies AT&T Fiber. Gigabit fiber.
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by nostrademons 13d ago
Are you confusing Tor with a VPN? With a VPN the IP is a commercial server run by the VPN provider, and there's usually just one hop (you run an encrypted connection between yourself and the VPN provider that all your traffic is route
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by nostrademons 20d ago
Everybody is saying that the Great Lakes region is a climate haven, but it's intensely vulnerable to both polar vortex events coming down from Canada and wet-bulb heat waves coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. The middle of America is
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by nostrademons 21d ago
It's beneficial for the largest firms, the ones that can forge personal relationships with the administration, because it's detrimental to all other businesses. Competitive advantage and all that.
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by nostrademons 22d ago
Note that Google stopped using it in IIRC 2006. It wasn't because of the adversarial link farms, though, which are usually handled by trying to identify fake links and take them out of the computation in a preprocessing step. (There a
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by nostrademons 22d ago
The first time it happened (2023) it was a non-issue; he did exactly as you said, appointment happened as planned, and then he was back on his scheduled plane trip a week later. Everything post-2025 has been a shit-show. There's no pr
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by nostrademons 22d ago
I've had a couple of reports that this applied to. It's incredibly disruptive. "I've got to fly back to India to renew my visa." "Okay, when will you be back?" "I have no idea, it depends when I c
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by nostrademons 22d ago
There are two purposes to jobs: One is the obvious one, to produce things. AI can somewhat help with that, although less than you might think because it's largely producing knowledge output rather than physical things. If AI lets one
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by nostrademons 23d ago
Yann LeCun's response is interesting. I've heard that the transformer architecture underlying LLMs is actually really effective for robotics, but progress is a lot slower here because instead of just scraping the web and Anna&#x2
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by nostrademons 24d ago
They can't, really. Putin's domestic power base will not let him suffer a defeat. His power is predicated on seeming all-powerful; once he doesn't, then other internal threats within Russia which have been kept at bay by
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by nostrademons 26d ago
His strategy was to give Ukraine just enough weapons to prevent annihilation without giving them so many weapons that would allow them to win. Hence, quagmire. The weapon sales also came with conditions like not allowing them to strike de
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by nostrademons 26d ago
Biden gets Russia and Ukraine stuck in a quagmire in Ukraine, so Putin retaliates by getting the U.S. and Iran stuck in a quagmire in the Middle East. Wars are won by the countries that stay out of them. The Russia-Afghanistan war played
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by nostrademons 27d ago
Not honest-to-god Tesla tiles, but a friend of mine put up Chinese knock-offs that he's pretty happy with. I think the problem here is "Tesla" rather than "solar roofs"; friend has a non-Tesla solar roof and it loo
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by nostrademons 27d ago
I think it makes sense as soon as students have the fundamentals down. You have to be able to read, listen, make connections, think critically, devote sustained attention to a task, and manage your time effectively. Some students develop
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by nostrademons 27d ago
Also - 90s tech generally didn't try to charge you rent for existing. Either you paid them a price for some fairly tangible benefit to your life, or they gave you the service for free fueled by VC dollars (which we now recognize as nu
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by nostrademons 27d ago
AI is now more powerful than the people doing the prosecution. After all, those folks are using AI to make their legal briefs, and also for burning peoples' houses down with drones for that matter. Welcome to our 21st century dystopia
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by nostrademons 27d ago
This is typical at the college/university level - when I attended 20-25 years ago, we were expected to learn the material through readings outside of class, and then class time was spent on discussion, application, questions, and worki

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