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by ponker 9mo ago
This is one thing I definitely find with AI coding. I'm building all kinds of software not that I couldn't have built before, but I couldn't justify the effort before.
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by ponker 9mo ago
What does Mozilla do these days?
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by ponker 9mo ago
For an alternate perspective on these drones, see this interview with rapper "DreamLife Rizzy" where he talks about how these technologies have made it impossible for him and his associates to do crimes in San Francisco https:&#x
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by ponker 5y ago
Oh, like these corrective consequences/accountability? https://www.peoplesworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/pjim... "The system is working as it should."
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by ponker 6y ago
I searched for “cubeb” to find recipes which use this spice. It was changed to “cubed” with no way to revert.
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by ponker 6y ago
Why are these famous guys only betting $400?
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by ponker 6y ago
There was a company that did this called Munchery.
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by ponker 6y ago
So they are available when you have a project to ramp up quickly, and so they don’t work at a competitor.
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by ponker 6y ago
Couldn’t the waves originate elsewhere where it’s BF8? What’s going to stop a wave in the open ocean?
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by ponker 6y ago
But given the “General Average” concept you could have received a bill for many times the value of what you shipped.
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by ponker 6y ago
Sounds like a horrible idea since the insurance pool is limited to the size of the ship. Hopefully at least it’s averaged by value rather than number of containers so that if someone is shipping corn and a container of iPhones gets jettison
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by ponker 6y ago
Going “obsolete” isn’t uniform. A product can go obsolete for your use case without going obsolete for mine. An audiophile might consider a platform that doesn’t support the latest surround sound protocol as “obsolete” while I would not eve
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by ponker 6y ago
The second device can be as cheap as $17 known as a “Streaming Stick” and treated as a throwaway component.
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by ponker 6y ago
“easy deployment” makes bug fixes fast, and the subscription business model gives the developer a financial incentive to make those fixes. I’d say the average Web app is more robust than the average desktop app... even small one-person web
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by ponker 6y ago
I mean, they’re the most recognized name because they’re the best at it.
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by ponker 6y ago
The only thing stopping the US from turning Saudi Arabia to glass is that we need their oil. If we don’t it’s game over.
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by ponker 6y ago
As a category, American companies are the most profitable in the world, so they’re doing something right.
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by ponker 6y ago
That’s like saying “learn to drive a Formula One car if you want to feel safe driving at 65 miles an hour.” Sure, it works, but it’s impractical and unnecessary for everyone to do this.
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by ponker 6y ago
Maybe that's why you don't have $30K.
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by ponker 6y ago
This is why we need an actual competent politician who takes China seriously and is willing to use a lot of American resources to fight things like abuse of IP law, etc.
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by ponker 6y ago
If a guy is selling sandwiches on the street for $1 million and a hungry Jeff Bezos happens to wander by and purchase one, the sandwiches still aren't worth $1 million.
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by ponker 6y ago
I knew NKLA wasn't worth $20 billion, but had no idea, and still have no idea, whether it will be priced at $20 billion.
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by ponker 6y ago
Of course there isn't data about the long-term societal effects of a global lockdown in a modern society. But there are huge numbers of kids being denied education and social interaction right now. There are people who have lost money
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by ponker 6y ago
I wish I had the balls to short this on IPO but I saw what was happening with Tesla and I chickened out.
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by ponker 6y ago
absolutely. One thing that does temper this is that companies want to disproportionately reward the strategic businesses, so Microsoft will likely give higher commissions for selling Microsoft Teams than SQL Server. They have controls to pr
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by ponker 6y ago
Well it depends why it costs a few million per person. If the production of the vaccine takes thousands of tons of coal and hundreds of pounds of bark of a slow-growing tree then yes, we don't have that per person. But if the current m
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by ponker 6y ago
The cost of sales for Slack will be very low for Salesforce, because they’re already selling a ton of stuff to large customers. Their guys are already flying out to the customer, taking them out to dinner, getting their commission checks, e
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by ponker 6y ago
New York is absolutely not as "weird" as Japan. I've traveled a lot to the major business cities of the world and outside of Japan, all first world countries have a shared culture that gets stronger over time. The sights&#x2F
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by ponker 6y ago
You can still respond. Even if just to say "that's not a supported scenario and may void your warranty."
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by ponker 6y ago
If Stephen Hawking’s dream was to become an Olympic gymnast no amount of work would have made it happen. This is the example I use when people make this claim.

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