slivym

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by slivym 1y ago
> The real question is: Will Elizabeth serve the purpose of your fund — or by investing in her, will you simply be serving her purpose of writing her rise-from-the-ashes narrative? I think pretty clearly there are VCs who are quite cogni
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by slivym 1y ago
People talk about this being a replacement for busses, but I think that misunderstands what a bus service is. A bus service generally is a utility provided by the local government to meet the needs of constituents. The routes are determined
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by slivym 1y ago
They're not a charity. What do you want them to do? Hire $100Bn worth of engineers until their net income is 0? The possibly difficult truth at Google is that there's probably <1% of the company that is really essential to thei
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by slivym 8y ago
I've got to say - I found it REALLY difficult to find an authoritative or trustworthy source on what the link tax is. From my understanding here's the rub: there are two definitions. One definition is you'd have to pay a publ
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by slivym 8y ago
I think it's a bit of a stretch to be saying that Sci-fi writers were making accurate predictions of what would happen in the future and when. Heinlein doesn't write about space because he thought it would happen at a particular t
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by slivym 8y ago
It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from pe
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by slivym 8y ago
I think there's a serious point to what you're saying. I was bought up in the UK so I have metres for short distances and miles for long distances. If you say to me 5 miles I instantly know what you mean. If you say 8km, I have an
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by slivym 8y ago
The business model appears to be to get established and then use a combination of network effects and monopolistic pricing techniques to be profitable. The problem is though, you need to establish yourself as the dominant player, and jack u
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by slivym 8y ago
I would've thought it's self-evident that if the problem isn't real then you're never going to fix it. If the reason this problem exists is a political tool for the right wing then the way to stop it won't be to pan
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by slivym 8y ago
Sorry but you're going to have cite some real sources, not right wing propaganda. I mean, I read the entire article and I still for the life of me can't actually understand on what basis the academic paper was 'erased'.
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by slivym 8y ago
What does this have to do with being an academic? Does this change if you're a notable employee of a company? I don't think so. If you are in a situation where your personal reputation effects the reputation of your employer then
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by slivym 8y ago
I've got to say, I can't actually call to mind any instances of controversial peer-reviewed papers. I can point to the Bell Curve- that was controversial, but it was a also a book written by a conservative political operative that
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by slivym 8y ago
Despite the routes terminating at China's firewall I don't think it's a good guess to say this was necessarily a Chinese attack. It seems like the interference of the Chinese firewall was simply a side-effect of the new path
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by slivym 8y ago
I hate this debate. Firstly, this headline is terrible - the BBC basically states that Universities do not censor speech and the facts back them up. They make the perfectly valid point that practically all 'censorship', 'no p
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by slivym 8y ago
But it's not the precision that's arbitrary it's the range. If your number format represents 0-100 and you want to represent 200 then your number format isn't imprecise, it's limited range.
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by slivym 8y ago
It's a good question: the answer is that they have done this. (or atleast they are doing this) https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/24/a-peek-inside-that-i... What's proving to be a problem though i
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by slivym 8y ago
What you're describing is OpenCL, yes it exists, both Xilinx and Intel produce toolsets. No they aren't sane by software standards, but they're fantastic compared to hardware engineering. A card will cost you ~$10k for someth
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by slivym 8y ago
Yeah I really think this is the most important point. In an enterprise environment it's almost more important to be able to point at who is responsible for supporting a product as it is for the product to actually work. The due diligen
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by slivym 8y ago
Can you imagine running a company with a product where 100 people feel empowered to make small tweaks to the UI without going through a prioritization and design process?
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by slivym 8y ago
Well yeah, specifically the gaming sector seems to be driven by huge margins for tiny gains. The volume production will go to industry.
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by slivym 8y ago
It's 'let alone'
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by slivym 8y ago
The second you go after anyone using the communication channel it's fairly likely the entire channel will shut down or change so you're much better off moving quickly on everyone you identify than leaving them out where they might
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by slivym 8y ago
I don't think that it's fair to say that Apple's release schedule has been similar between now and the previous year. Last year the iPhone X was announced in September and released in November/December (by region) and it
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by slivym 8y ago
I think we should attach an important health warning. Samsung release their S9 in March 2018, whereas Apple released the iPhone X in November. So this quarter is the drop from Samsung's first full quarter of their new flagship sales to
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by slivym 8y ago
I think you're being too rigid. There are situations where one employee forces themselves on another at the christmas party. In that situation obviously the right call is to report it to the police and to have a disciplinary process in
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by slivym 8y ago
The reason it doesn't make sense to me is that there are clearly engineers in the UK who are as talented as the average engineer in silicon valley and are unwilling to move to the other side of the world. There are also many many many
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by slivym 8y ago
It's worth noting that one of their demands is dropping the binding arbitration that essentially forces employees to forgo their right to legal recourse for civil matters. Not every instance of unacceptable behaviour is a criminal matt
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by slivym 8y ago
All of their demands seem pretty reasonable. It looks like the big gripe is that basically there's no real process in place for situations of misconduct in the office. To draw an analogy, this would be like Google not having a process
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by slivym 8y ago
Right, I get the salary is 2-3x, but does that translate to a much bigger house? Better schools for your kids? Holidays to St Moritz? Or is it more like, 2-3x most of which goes into rent, health insurance and local taxes?
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by slivym 8y ago
Here's a slightly related open question: Are Engineers in the US just much richer than in the UK? For perspective, I started my career with an MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering as a Hardware Design Engineer at £35k (I out-e

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