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That is my reaction too. It looks like great work! Valuable not only for inference, but for training too (think proprietary datasets). I would add, a single individual did this. On…

The OP talks about the drought extensively. Quoting: > there is quite a lot of compelling evidence that period of LBAC [late bronze age collapse], especially the 1190s, was unusual…

It's not hard to imagine that will be able to do as good a job as a human accountant in the not too distant future. It's also not hard to imagine tax authorities using AI to audit …

Arguably, they're a better choice for customers than a shutdown. I mean, they're at least keeping the service alive for as long as possible.

Yes, agree.

Think of it as a perpetual bond with declining coupon payments. Customer "inertia" or "lock-in" might be better terms to describe what the company is looking for in an acquisition.…

Also, in case you didn't already know, I saw a headline announcing that the sky is usually blue.

Bending Spoons is a company that acquires SaaS companies/products that are not growing or losing users but have a well-known brand and customers who stick around. The execs at Bend…

The little photo of the guy with a top hat, dancing, with high-wire towers behind him, cracked me up. It's a literal "high-wire act!"

> the economy is filled with bullshit jobs, bullshit corporations, and bullshit products. Yeah, it sure feels true. There's even a book about it, you know, to help people cope with…

Yeah, that's true. Sigh.

Sure, touchscreens are cheap, but high-quality touchscreen software is most def NOT CHEAP! Apple and Google have spent untold amounts of money developing iOS and Android. CarPlay a…

Love the title. I think it's a great idea to associate pervasive surveillance with the all-seeing eye of evil incarnate from The Lord of the Rings. General audiences reading only t…

Reminds me of caveman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647455

Very interesting. The author claims to have proved that markets can be informationally efficient or competitive, but not both. The implications for policy and regulation are signif…

... and funny too. A great book!

Interesting, these really old menus would not look too out of place at a restaurant today.

> The problem is millions of people have been raised in a bubble built on the assumption that this is a good thing. Please don't attack a straw-man. I've never met anyone who belie…

Hi, I shared the OP. I don't agree with all the points it expresses, but I found them thought-provoking.

> If anyone has an outline of to whom the other hundreds of billions are owed, I’d be curious to see it. Me too. That's one of my questions. The other questions I have are about th…