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Why wouldn't it? The Philippines has a large talent pool of English-speaking workers who can do tons of different IT-related functions that AI can't remotely replace. If you have a…

Hyper scalers have a decent margin from a small number of their services and a much more normal if not a loss from many others. Additionally a massive part of their profit is suppo…

Regardless of anything else, absolutely no one is calling shin bet the best in the world at what they do. The FBI is much more effective. It's the israeli agencies that focus on tr…

If you really think this you simply have no theory of mind for this stuff. There are tons of immensely successful products in the ad space that both of those companies have launche…

I'm talking specifically their AWS service for ROS applications, all of my concerns are AWS specific for that matter, not the robotics they build in house.

I'm also an AWS alumni from many years back now, and truthfully, the organizational problems really took off when Jassy moved to being CEO of amazon as a whole and major leaders le…

I think back to my past jobs how there were people who'd work weekends on random (not to technically difficult to implement) efforts that probably got them promoted, but we would n…

Except here's the thing, that's the sort of code that was extremely expensive before, in large part because of our day jobs (which still to this day require mindfulness and can't j…

This is in many ways a smart way to understand the problem, but it doesn't mean that microsoft contracts mean you're stuck with bad software. There are several verticals where Micr…

If there's a single section of the entire world where daylight savings makes the most, it's above and below the 45th parallel. This means the earliest sunrise is 9am in the winter …

I mean, it's objectively true that they can do this, especially when even mildly filtered down by incoming external data. It's why you no longer need to speak with a person when re…

There's no need to counter it, the whole point is to hit the social aspect of being on these platforms. If even half the kids can't figure out how to make it work, then a massive p…

I can't speak about this being a current law, but there were laws in multiple US states at various times that prevented you from storing facial data on the server. In turn features…

Isn't this essentially just trying to reinvent ERP (i.e. what SAP has built a 207 billion dollar company at time of writing on and 90% of fortune 500 companies along with endless o…

The iOS version of most social media apps is better. IOS simply has better API integration to it's hardware, where with android, many OEMs (hell this was even the case to a certain…

I'm originally from the US, but where I live now, whatsapp functionally replaced email for a lot of different types of communication (that would be an email in the US). Recruiters …

One thing that is repeatedly underdiscussed about open source is that every time you have a major open source project become successful, be that anything from Linux to Apache Spark…

It depends on what you were trying to with the data. Hadoop would never win, but Spark can allow you to hold all that data in memory across multiple machines and perform various op…

I'm saying that a smaller amount of data means more compute is required for a join. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

It's not about how much data you have, but also the sorts of things you are running on your data. Joins and group by's scale much faster than any aggregation. Additionally, you hav…

What an amazing set of articles, one thing that I think he's missed is the clear multi year trends. Over the past 5 years there's been significant changes and several clear winners…

Montana likely passed such a law because they have a governor and a senator who both came from the tech sector in big ways (sold the same company to oracle). That said, there are a…

AWS (along with the vast majority of B2B services in the software development industry) is good because it allows you to focus on building your product or business without needing …

I couldn't agree more, there was clearly a big shift when Jassy became CEO of amazon as a whole and Charlie Bell left (which is also interesting because it's not like azure is magi…

“Avinatan has come home”: Jensen Huang hails release of Nvidia engineer after two years in Hamas captivity Nvidia’s CEO shared the emotional news with employees after Avinatan Or, …