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mulligan

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    Comment #45316992

    companies are contacting employees who are out of the US, for whatever reason

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    Comment #43839465

    Do we draw a distinction between building a DB for ICE deportations and providing AI services to governments that use it to target and kill civilians? Google and Microsoft do the l…

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    Comment #38930549

    Useful to consider how many accounts that are not high profile were deleted and if these high profile accounts were a casualty ofa much more aggressive attempt to silence a segment…

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    Comment #36866751

    there's a difference between rate limiting the amount of posts you make (to avoid spam) and rate limiting the amount of posts you read

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    Comment #35459595

    potatoes have that in spuds

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    Comment #35459583

    > 8 cups of solid food but intestines can comfortably only process 2-3 cups of food at a time this is really interesting, do you have any additional references on this?

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    Comment #35348969

    the cool thing is that written Arabic, for the most part, does not suffer from that. A speaker can pick up a book written in the 11th century and find that the grammar, words, stru…

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    Comment #35076738

    this is just a sorting of the most popular apps

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    Comment #35031613

    "is at hand"

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    Comment #34745095

    removing some layers of management is not the same as removing all managers. this google writeup discusses removing all managers

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    Comment #34700173

    no, he's referring to the total size of the team, not directly

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    Comment #34670952

    R&D is an investment not a loss. It might be the case Meta is wasting money and isn't finding a viable path to a product, but that is yet to be determined. do we see headlines desc…

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    Comment #34660628

    this would be the headline: "callous tech company lays off tech company then trials unvetted chat bots on them" along with all the examples of it giving awful advice

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    Comment #34645709

    has anyone ever used the term "code request" in this context before?

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    Comment #34458063

    isn't this exactly why it is more expensive? less supply because of the formula, the formula is more expensive to make --> so higher prices

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    Comment #34391708

    at this scale, the ml models are usually compiled into a format that runs independent of python. so the answer isn't "python"

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    Comment #34340928

    Meta has sold a single bond, in August of 2022. That isn't a pattern and it isn't enough for them to be "known to sell bonds to buy back stock"

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    Comment #33860053

    FB MAUs in US/CA are most of the population: https://www.statista.com/statistics/247614/number-of-monthly... and still growing. it is isn't unreasonable for that growth to be slowe…

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    Comment #33859633

    this guy might want to include data about facebook user number, dau / mau, instead of stock numbers. facebook itself, not even counting insta or whatsapp, continues to grow. it is …

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    Comment #33811135

    You overestimate the size of the app store. It is big, but that doesn't mean the remaining 37% of app economy is small. > iOS was responsible for 63% of total app revenue in 2021

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    Comment #33756098

    I think these folks fail to connect the pixel with its purpose. The sites and apps who advertise want to understand who is converting, they provide this information to the advertis…

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    Comment #33755127

    someone scraping numbers is enough to drive you off of whatsapp?

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    Comment #32793445

    you can literally pay for the product (e.g., an ISP services) and still have meta data you generate bundled and sold. the saying is overused and mostly misleading, unfortunately.

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    Comment #32130963

    so just to rephrase: "google should stop collecting data because it might be compelled by law to provide it to the government. the government should compel google to stop collectin…

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    Comment #31904889

    more importantly, why didn't he use the 50 caliber Desert Eagle?