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Wow, American AI labs are now quite close in ethical competition to their Chinese counterparts heh. It seems we're truly in a power war rn.

the whole database is an AI slop tbh

This sounds like one of the companies most disrupted by AI. I have zero affiliation with the company, but I’m genuinely curious what the team is shipping today for AI-assistance pr…

What these models are doing - migrations, new feature releases, etc? What does your setup look like?

Curious to hear from anyone actively working with COBOL/mainframes. Do you see LLMs as a threat to your job security, or the opposite? I feel that the mass of code that actually ru…

I was bad in being on meeting discipline. The only thing that consistently works: start on time, end on time, and don’t wait for late arrivals. If someone joins late, they catch up…

I think the assumption that political parties represent two completely distinct sets of values is overly simplistic. In reality, there's a significant amount of overlap between the…

the playbook works relatively well outside west hemisphere. grab, gojek, gozem, yassir scaled well beyond services to fintech.

cool! happy to connect with you folks! my twitter: kidrulit

love it. but that makes me think that development is no longer the bottleneck —distribution and positioning are. and my bet that the ASim fucntionality will find it place in the cu…

folks mess "cookie banner" with "consent banner". many people do conflate them, but in some jurisdictions (e.g., the EU under GDPR), a "cookie banner" typically includes a consent …

Unfortunately, data on Cypriot companies is quite limited. There are far more products built on the island than what is officially listed. Speaking as a founder of a CY-based compa…

Good question, Portuguese traded not through Fujian but Macao, where chá is used. The term cha (茶) is “Sinitic,” meaning it is common to many varieties of Chinese dialects. Meanwhi…

my favorite example of trade routes influenced the spread of a word is "tea". the word for “tea” comes from either a variation of “cha” or a variation of “te,” reflecting distinct …

i doubt you can ever effectively scrutinise the logistics. just look how creatively people can transfer drugs across the borders.

I’m investing in EM startups. Talked to the founder of the leading food delivery company there. Will try to visit the country in March and share some notes in public web

I’m not arguing that it’s an unnecessary element. Rather, I don’t agree with the original statement that the government should shut down the services.

I recently learned that a courier in Panama can earn around $1,400 a month. Yes, you likely have to work six days a week, but that's well above the average salary in the country. I…

I wonder who you are referring to when you say "we"

Great job! It seems you have around 200k companies to list. How do you handle scraping at that scale – all websites are different. What if the schema and markup change? interested …

that's the reality of the post-LLM Customer Support business.