ralph84

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by ralph84 5d ago
I see how it can be devastating to their ego, but no, I don't see a particular difference in a company spending money for clout vs. a person spending time for clout. The underlying motivation is the same.
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by ralph84 5d ago
> primarily as a marketing exercise Like the mathematicians working on famous problems in private until they could claim full credit for something interesting wasn't also a marketing exercise for their own careers. The commercial va
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by ralph84 7d ago
It could be as simple as Apple committed to a certain volume with Qualcomm before they were certain they could get mmWave working so they have to keep using Qualcomm modems somewhere while they burn down the commitment.
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by ralph84 8d ago
Nobody owns math and it is ridiculous to suggest someone should.
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by ralph84 14d ago
Not sure about that. Labor costs are lower in China and the CCP is strongly incentivized to keep enough jobs around for humans to maintain their own hold on power.
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by ralph84 19d ago
5% of traffic. OpenAI models are a much higher percentage of revenue.
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by ralph84 19d ago
What frontier model did GitHub train? All of the frontier labs scraped GitHub like they scraped everything else. While GitHub has certainly tried to profit from AI, directing ire at GitHub for frontier labs training on public code seems mis
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by ralph84 1mo ago
This does not align at all with what is happening in public California high schools and colleges, which is what TFA is about.
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by ralph84 1mo ago
Or API rates are their way of doing price discrimination and it's all profitable. Make sure Enterprises(tm) pay the Enterprise(tm) rate, but mop up the rest of the demand too at lower price points. This has been part of the software pl
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by ralph84 1mo ago
No one? Mutual funds have managed to attract $33 trillion trading once a day. The demand for millisecond-level trading is almost entirely from a very small group of firms profiting from it.
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by ralph84 1mo ago
Or you could just hold auctions a few times per day and eliminate the billions of dollars spent trying to win a pointless race.
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by ralph84 1mo ago
Yeah, the stock market may be positive sum over the long-term, but it's certainly zero sum over the millisecond-term. Whether it's "retail" or "institutional" that is paying for HFT profits, it's all retai
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by ralph84 1mo ago
How does per-seat pricing work against bots? If anything it's a great deal because SaaS providers set per-seat pricing with the expectation that on average most seats are idle. Bots working 24x7 can get a lot more value out of a seat t
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by ralph84 1mo ago
Presidents club is a standard way to reward top performing sales reps across many industries. It doesn't indicate anything other than the company is trying to reward and retain their top sales reps. Engineers who find it distasteful sh
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by ralph84 1mo ago
Google was offering researchers the Bell Labs/Xerox PARC model of comfortable budgets and pay but capped upside. And just like with Bell Labs and Xerox PARC the inventions at Google got productized elsewhere by people chasing the uncap
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by ralph84 1mo ago
There is no reason pay has to be flat with a union. The highest paid members of MLBPA or SAG-AFTRA are paid 1,000x what the lowest paid members are.
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by ralph84 2mo ago
You wanna get paid for your work become a sat diver or roughneck.
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by ralph84 2mo ago
That's the beauty of the internet, everyone can find their space. Even the buggy whip makers.
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by ralph84 2mo ago
The problem is NAT solved the same problem more easily and cheaply. It was at the cost of making it difficult for every host to talk directly to every other host, but it turned out most of the people building networks didn't want that
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by ralph84 2mo ago
Washington state was key to blocking Kroger-Albertsons.
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by ralph84 2mo ago
And sugar
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by ralph84 2mo ago
Or they stay private and raise more capital. Until they have a failed round people predicting bankruptcy are getting way ahead of how this would actually play out. Some of us are old enough to remember the "Amazon can never make a prof
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by ralph84 2mo ago
Some people are net consumers and other people are net producers over their lifetime. If you abort the net consumers and invest in the net producers it's an economic gain. What's controversial is identifying who will be the net pr
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by ralph84 3mo ago
Marketing BS
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by ralph84 3mo ago
The GEnx which powers the 787 is a 20 year-old engine design. There are thousands of jets flying around with 40+ year-old engine designs, especially in operations like charter and cargo where the aircraft spends more time on the ground than
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by ralph84 3mo ago
Terminating a PSTN call requires a lot of control plane infrastructure beyond just raw bandwidth. Especially mobile where you need to keep track of devices physically in motion. Could a system to support 4 billion simultaneous calls be buil
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by ralph84 3mo ago
Almost all consumer services have a built-in level of breakage that make them profitable. Mobile providers certainly wouldn't be able to offer unlimited calling if everyone was actually on the phone 24x7.
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by ralph84 3mo ago
What is "autopilot mode"? Tesla doesn't use that term.
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by ralph84 3mo ago
Except everyone who has tried to argue that in court has lost.
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by ralph84 3mo ago
Good thing the author didn't complain about living or doing business in China.

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