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by stg22 8mo ago
It wasn't a parlor trick and could have evolved into a useful product doing a small, basic subset of what LLMs do today. The problem was IBM's leadership didn't have the slightest understanding of the technology, thought they
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by stg22 8mo ago
There is a great deal of death in a language.
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by stg22 2y ago
Gawker flouted the law. They were publicly sharing an intimate video of Hogan without his consent, he got a court order telling them to stop and they just refused to obey it, stating that they had a first amendment right to do it. Except, G
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by stg22 2y ago
Historically, the UK was run for the benefit of an elite and the regions they lived in, but they discovered that that ran counter to their own interests. They reversed the economic parts of that in Ireland in the 1890s ("Killing Home R
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by stg22 2y ago
Viewed in isolation, the number of redundancies might not be unusual, but how it's being presented to the employees is. Before, Zuckerberg rhetorically accepted responsibility for lay-offs, but now he's making clear that the peopl
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by stg22 2y ago
He was a Communist until his death in the 1970s, but Communism is a pretty broad spectrum and his beliefs moved about it during his life. His public and financial support for Stalinism in France until the mid-1950s was a bad error of judgem
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by stg22 2y ago
Enshittification - they switched to artificial sweetener.
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by stg22 2y ago
The two companies are not the same; their dominant positions are in different markets which means the anti-trust implications of them extending into a specific market have to be judged separately. As an extreme example, Oracle had a dominan
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by stg22 3y ago
In general, the more direct the impact of your role on short-term revenue, the safer you are when your company starts sacrificing people to the gods of quarterly accounts. Ancillary service workers always get hit badly, but good salesperson
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by stg22 3y ago
The role of McDonnell-Douglas is exaggerated. Boeing had achieved pretty close to a monopoly in the mid-1970s, but things had changed by the mid-1990s. 1. Domestic airlines protected by regulation had been effective monopolies and Boeing&#x
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by stg22 3y ago
Social media sites have so many users/viewings that fixed costs for serving all their content don't really matter to them, but since ads don't pay much per viewing, they have to cut the marginal costs of hosting and serving c
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by stg22 3y ago
The CCP really don't want another Tienanmen Square and bend to public opinion when necessary, e.g. the ending of lockdown. Given that a lot of Chinese women feel strongly about this, their government can still prod them a bit, but too
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by stg22 3y ago
Also, Pascal is a direct descendant of a very, very old language (ALGOL-58 from 1958). In the 1950s, HLL compilation was at the extreme edge of what computers were capable of doing and a key goal of language design was (or should have been
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by stg22 3y ago
No British crime report ever: "Well, the thief lets more people watch my television for free than I did, so it rightfully belongs to him."
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by stg22 3y ago
Cameron denied that and the two people who made the claim admit their only source was a single anonymous member of parliament. But, because it's so funny and they knew Cameron wouldn't sue, it didn't matter to them whether or
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by stg22 3y ago
OS/2 would have beaten NT in the consumer and SMB markets. 95 dealt with every weakness of NT in those markets and provided developers, consumers and SMBs with a smooth migration path towards it. It had very good backwards (DOS and 3.1
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by stg22 3y ago
"he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board" = "He lied to us about something important" Murati's selection as interim CEO is a surprise and might be an attempt to distance the company from
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by stg22 3y ago
mIRC is very powerful, but most '90s, Windows power-users needed some explanation of how to use it, whereas Slack's design language makes it install-and-play for even basic users. Mobile design isn't just a response to the li
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by stg22 3y ago
Yup. The crew and achievements of 11 are far more famous, but most people couldn't tell you which number their Apollo mission was.
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by stg22 3y ago
Depending on the political situation in your country, your parents probably got the same knowledge of American life from TV series and films. America's monopoly of popular culture is weaker today than it was when they were growing up.
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by stg22 3y ago
I don't think that's a common interpretation of the move. Heaney spent a year as a guest lecturer in UC Berkeley in 1970-'71 and realised there that his daily life in Northern Ireland had become dominated by the Troubles to a
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by stg22 3y ago
If it does, there's zero chance that Microsoft know about it. When your company is worth $2,427,000,000,000 , you'd have to be insane to risk it all like that.
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by stg22 3y ago
It's one of those tricky irregular verbs in English: We dug our own grave. You are fired. He/She is fired. You are fired. You are fired. They are fired.
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by stg22 3y ago
So, that link answers "Why do you think Paul Graham compares it to communism?" Communism seems to be his favorite example of something that can work initially from a good starting point, but fails over time, and he also believes t
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by stg22 3y ago
In 2006, Toshiba bought Westinghouse Electric Company in one of the worst deals in history. Westinghouse negotiated fixed price contracts to construct nuclear reactors and Toshiba provided financial guarantees, so they ended up on the hook
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by stg22 3y ago
Indian firms are importing Russian crude oil at a discount, mixing it with crude from unsanctioned places, refining the mix and selling it for full price on the open market as unsanctioned oil. New Delhi is confident the US is so desperate
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by stg22 3y ago
China and Europe had been sending diplomatic and trade missions to each other for well over a millennium before there was any direct contact between the West and Japan (and also since long before England came into existence). It seems likel
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by stg22 3y ago
It's more complicated than that, because the DPC has to give the information to the specific person before it can instruct them not to leak it, though that doesn't completely eliminate the potential for abuse. The US FTC has the s
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by stg22 3y ago
Read the amendment itself. The proposal is that where the Irish DPC gives confidential information to somebody as part of an investigation, it can instruct that person not to leak the information it gave. https://www.oireachtas.i
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by stg22 4y ago
Microsoft's OS business is a classic "cash cow". It's very big and very profitable, but has limited growth prospects and its revenue is currently growing at only single digit percentage points per year. Every MBA course

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