hackererror404

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Comment · 2 years ago
Some things cost way more than 10 or 15 million in terms of investment.

Why shouldn't a billionaire be capable of starting a genetics lab to fund cancer research and pay for it in cash, if they are so inclined?

Also almost all of super wealthy people's "wealth" is tied up in assets that are funding entire economies. This money is creating jobs, allowing for affordable loans, the money is working for many other people... It's not as if the money wealthy people have is just in physical gold coins in their swimming pools.

Comment · 2 years ago
Isn't this like anything else? No one size solution typically works for everything. If you are a photographer/artist and true close to perfect rendering is for you... don't use WebP as the format to present your images.
Comment · 3 years ago
Just make large pockets fashionably popular for women and women will have larger pockets... Don't think that this is rocket science or anything.
Comment · 3 years ago
They should also do the reverse to give praise to companies who do the opposite.
Comment · 3 years ago
Isn't PBS/NPR sort of close to the BBC?
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
It's impressive on the surface... But give me Google and I too can pass some extremely challenging tests that I actually know nothing about.

If someone told you I passed the "bar" exam, you would be impressed. If they then said, he had google and lots of time. You wouldn't be that impressed anymore.

The impressive thing here is that AI can read and answer questions... it's not overly impressive that it can use information found online and reconstruct that a bit.

Comment · 3 years ago
We are sooooooooo screwed!

VC money is completely frozen. It's an insane tragedy. There needs to be a bank where we can put our funds above 250k that is insured but also heavily regulated.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's far too easy to sell the common person on "bad people bad". Explaining to the common person why they should care about encryption and how bad people can and will exploit any hole in that encryption is far more nuanced.
Comment · 3 years ago
It says a lot that they pay based on things like "where do you live" VS the value of the work that you do.
Comment · 4 years ago
But blocking political speech equally from one subreddit, is different then say blocking an article about a presidential son's laptop from multiple entire platforms.
Comment · 4 years ago
moderation also exists for 4. political purposes and biases
Comment · 4 years ago
Concussions are still very much a thing.
Comment · 4 years ago
Pretty sure whoever is willing to pay a ton will win the war for Top Talent.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes that's it!!!! Holy cow that takes me back.

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