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> because it is not innovative itself. And what are you basing that claim on? What are your sources? Your arguments?

"1) it is highly scalable and you can easily send out thousands of emails per day, 2) it’s a fairly “democratic” form of outreach where you can achieve great outcomes with good off…

> Venezuela, US couldn't take its oil, so it was heavily sanctioned for so many years, then it still couldn't resist the urge to steal it, and just took the head of the state. Coul…

The comparison with calculators overlooks several key developments. LLMs are becoming increasingly efficient. Through techniques such as distillation, quantization, and optimized a…

Awesome product!

Natural selection

Can't wait they also get rid of these "destination fees" billed by nearly all hotels in NYC.

No, chat is not asynchronous. It's a dialoge, it is synchronous. If you want people to write "Hello, my problem is xxx" just close your chat box and ask for emails. Moreover there …

Why are you developping? Is it a hobby for passing time? For pleasure? For the beauty of the code? Could be. But most of the time, you develop in order for the software to perfom a…

It's probably more carbon-efficient to eat at restaurants since they are cooking in larger quantities.

But... why? WHY?? Why would I run a docker container, a webserver, start a browser, navigate webpages... just to do some operations on a pdf locally? A few KiloBytes native program…

Do you realize that, we are used to hear Quebec french only through singers and comedians you send us to France? Send us serious people instead, and it will stop sounding funny.

I'm also very surprised by what the overall thread is saying. Scrum and the agile movement in general have been a revolution for the better in management and organization, in my po…

"The Phoebus cartel was an international cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs in much of Europe and North America between 1925–1939. The cart…

I use Microsoft PowerCalc on Windows

Exactly. You don't have to redo all the mistakes the others did, otherwise they would never be any progress from generation to generation.

Exactly. Many people seems to mistake "free market" with "anarchy". Free market only works because there are anti-trust laws, anti-corruption laws, regulated lobbying. Otherwise, i…

I don't know in which country you live, but here in France, privatization and opening markets has been salutary. - The phone lines state monopoly was broken, it cut the cost by a f…

I don't understand. If it's a monopoly, it's not a free market, by definition. Seems like you are the one trolling here.

"And you don't extract profits from a rail line by offering the best service." So how do you extract profits then?

As a superhost who use the Airbnb mobile app and website everyday, the experience is quite awful. Basic functions are not there, while the app already seems to be bloated. I'm wond…

That's a individual vs. group question. For a society to function well, there should always be a balance between indivual interests and group interests.

I think the use case is a family using the same electric toothbrush with a different head for each member. They used to provide color rings to attach to the head, in order to diffe…

The toothbrush doesn't force you to change the head. You can brush your teeth with an old head as much as you want.