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    Comment #44329751

    i think it's the opposite right? people that didn't mind spending an hour in traffic are now unwilling to pay $9.

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    Comment #44325227

    > At smoothbrains.net, we hold as self-evident the right to put whatever one likes inside one’s body appreciate seeing this. I've long identified as someone that's much more muscul…

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    Comment #44325217

    trading one drug for another?

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    Comment #38191627

    #10 should be near the top. hugely important

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    Comment #38191551

    I don't think it's so dire. I've gone through this at multiple companies and a startup that's selling B2B only needs one or two of these big outages and then enterprises start dema…

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    Comment #38185348

    I've heard alot of great reviews of this book but personally found it pretty disappointing.

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    Comment #38170586

    https://archive.ph/sgHix

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    Comment #38170334

    Any examples?

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    Comment #38170266

    It seems like the "Turbo" models are more about being faster/cheaper, not so much about being better. Kinda similar to the iPhone "S" models or Intel's "tick-tock"

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    Comment #38170244

    Was there an assertion that it doesn't?

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    Comment #38170220

    I don't know if I'd say "miles ahead." AWS had 7 years of basically no other competition -- all of the other big clouds of today had their heads in the sand. OpenAI has a bunch of …

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    Comment #38170171

    How do you square this with OpenAI's assertion that they never use data from enterprise customers for their own training? Are you suggesting they're lying?

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    Comment #38170152

    piece of feedback: it's weird to have a drop-down on "OpenAPI Links" when there are no other options.

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    Comment #38139219

    Mind me asking how many hours that is? Does it include meetings?

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    Comment #38139211

    source for this? what I've seen suggests that this trend isn't growing more than it historically has been.

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    Comment #38139204

    You used a single personal data point and then pulled numbers completely out of nowhere and are comfortable making general statements about housing affordability on that basis? Bol…

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    Comment #38139195

    > why won't I just hire good English-speaking talent in Costa Rica (more likely Brazil) at a tenth of your expected comp? you can try! but you'll find that this is basically imposs…

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    Comment #38094698

    >I recognise this is an incredibly privileged thing to do, not working is something that many people can only dream of. It's crazy how often you see this kind of statement these da…

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    Comment #38092967

    Very interesting how a company run by irrational humans can be counted on to make "economically rational" decisions!

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    Comment #38092831

    It's interesting how most don't consider programmers artists, even though coding requires quite a bit of creativity.

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    Comment #38092815

    What music? There is none.

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    Comment #38081250

    covid a great recent example of this

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    Comment #38081239

    human-driven cars kill people all the time too. and the stock thing from 2010 isn't AI, just algorithmic trading. not the most convincing of arguments

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    Comment #38065660

    Right, and the reason "everyone" has confidence in just waiting a bit for it to go back up without panicking and having to try to find an alternative is precisely because GitHub an…