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johntarter

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    Comment #49127183

    That's hilarious that Anthropic and OpenAI can't even secure their products from Chinese resellers, how are they supposed to secure their models from being distilled?

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    Comment #47464480

    Comments like these make me think, wow this place is no better than Reddit

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    Comment #47051999

    Just look at the testimonials at the bottom of introduction page, there are at least a dozen companies such as Replit, Cursor, and Github that have early access. Perhaps the GP is …

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    Comment #46798586

    Bartenders, starving artists, musicians, and athletes?

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    Comment #45244504

    People like Elon suggest 120 hrs or 996 for the employees that work under him implementing his ideas-- the people rolling up their sleeves and putting hammers to nails. Most of the…

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    Comment #44974442

    > Capex vs opex That's part of the problem, but I also notice the new hiring managers are incentivized to hire (or replace) employees to make their mark on the company. They then a…

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    Comment #44974367

    Interesting I had the same problem and suffered in grades back in school simply because I couldn't memorize much without understanding. However, I seemed to be the only one because…

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    Comment #44868222

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    Comment #44677188

    Bring on the Bureau of Sabotage from Frank Herbert's ConSentiency universe books!

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    Comment #44563210

    Is there any way to move the chat window to the primary side bar? Having two side bars open takes up a lot of space. Not sure why this pattern persists in these VScode forks.

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    Comment #43912630

    Satya's talked about how some acquired companies such as LinkedIn and Github are allowed to operate independently for the most part and keep their culture. Or else we'd all be usin…

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    Comment #43912603

    I'm going back and forth between Windsurf and Github Copilot right now. Windsurf's development iteration speed is much fast and features are added faster. For example, Github only …

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    Comment #43912551

    If that's so, then why is Codex such an inferior product to Claude Code? And why haven't they already built an code editor or at least VS Code extension yet?

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    Comment #43912537

    Venture capitalists aren't ignorant, their business revolves around knowing exactly what churn is. Cursor has raised $1 billion with a $9 billion valuation. VC's willing to put in …

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    Comment #43912506

    Companies are acquired for customer base, ARPU, and growth. Same criteria as when when raising funding.

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    Comment #43882077

    Warren Buffet has warned about the trade deficit problem since 2003 and has proposed an alternate solution called "import certificates" where exporters could earn them and sell the…

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    Comment #43881943

    It was a problem to Warren Buffet and he used a parable in the past to explain the issue: A perpetuation of this transfer will lead to major trouble. To understand why, take a wild…

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    Comment #43881844

    I also completely forgot that Qmodem isn't the protocol but the software. My first PC was an IBM XT 8088 with 20MB HD and 2400 baud modem. Twice as fast as a 1200 baud and the numb…