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5 days a work is diabolical. I was laid off earlier this year, received an Amazon offer and turned them down when I got another offer that was 3 days a week in the Bay. Now I would…

It's a pretty non trivial problem to build and maintain infrastructure and customer relationships at that scale, yes, including the myriad of services they provide other than just …

The starlink terminal literally has GPS - so Starlink already knows the location - whether it needs to get more accurate coordinates using beamforming is a question.

Streams -> optimized for latency Batches -> optimized for efficiency

You could also say "I made the billing a winged cow sailing a boat" and it would be a figure of speech.

Yes, but it is not a priority. GTM is the priority. Make money machine go brrr.

Where do you get your information from?

Floodlight companies don't appear overnight. I suspect they won't appear at all, given the instability of the tariffs and the fact that the next President (or even the current one)…

The interesting thing is that India already has high tariffs for goods coming from China, however this might be different for finished vs non-finished goods and for consumption vs …

Of course it does, it is just much less effective than the injectable versions.

The thing is, GLP-1 isn't that hard to make, and these compounding pharmacies make effectively the real thing.

Few people actually pay 1000/month. Most get it through insurance (I pay 25/month), and most of the remaining get it through compounding pharmacies like HenryMeds which comes out t…

There's a TV show called parks and recreation which has that exact premise.

Even if true, so what? These are increasingly looking like a competition between nation-states with their trade embargoes and export controls. All's fair in AI wars.

That's not entirely true - the Tesla has a few hundred watts of overhead when charging - so a 240 W charger would probably not get over that hill. You could maybe keep the screen o…

I'd imagine with LLMs today, discovery work is probably done on the cloud by bots.

Judging by the locations (New York and LA) I wonder if this is to cater to folks from production houses who want to upload large video files for processing or backup.

This. You'll need studies to prove that semaglutide causes muscle mass -so you need to have a group that loses weight using semaglutide and another group that loses weight without …

I must admit I'm not a very medically literate person - someone please break this down - is this good news or bad news? Were we expecting more people or lesser people to develop bl…

I mostly use Zoom for work calls, you can select microphones and speakers individually. I found that if you select your Airpods as your speakers and your laptop as your microphone,…

The insurance exists mainly to discourage customers from making an informal deal with the driver so Uber loses its cut.

What's the use case for millisecond-latency streaming? HFT? Remotely driving heavy machinery? Anything else?

You usually need to return relocation costs if you quit within a year, and they'd lose out on the severance as well.. But yes, it does make sense for some people especially ones on…

Unfortunately for you, the vast majority of people who riot are between 18 to 30. And they'd be right to riot.

"The average American man's waist is 40.5 inches, which means most American men would be excluded from the ride. The average American woman's waist is 38.7 inches." I am in disbeli…