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Comment · 1 month ago
France corporate taxes are not that bad, but the corporate paid social charges are massive (40-45% of employees gross salary)
Comment · 2 months ago
A better one: When Jeff Dean leaves Google, Google’s value drops by $200 billion (the actual market cap drop right after the news).
Comment · 5 months ago
But that park was probably created as a result of a vote or other political process.
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Roughly how much per day do these multi-week run end up costing?
Comment · 11 months ago
Why would they not define what adoption rate mean? And why is “Ramp AI adoption rates” 3-4x just “AI adoption rates”?
Comment · 1 year ago
Mosquito-heavy regions of northern Canada are actually warmer than Iceland in summer. Iceland averages 10-15°C (50-59°F) in July, but Canada’s boreal forest regions where mosquitoes thrive regularly see temperatures of 20-25°C (68-77°F) in the summer.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Meta keeps making more and more bafflingly horrible product decisions. Tens of billions into the Metaverse and now “let’s put gen AI into everything” even if it goes against the one thing that is arguably the most responsible for FB’s success - real identity. “Let’s put fake bots everywhere, because GenAI, need I say more?”
Comment · 1 year ago
One of the bullets had “deny” engraved in it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Most consultants with more than 3 years of experience are billed at $150/hr or more
Comment · 2 years ago
Ok true but that boat was much much heavier and bigger. So the ratio of mast height to weight/size on the Bayesian was extreme
Comment · 2 years ago
People have not been making vessels with 237ft masts for thousands of years. That boat literally had one of the tallest mast ever to exist on a boat. You combine the “extreme” nature of this boat with an extreme weather event and you get an extremely outlier outcome
Comment · 2 years ago
Right but what if you enjoy your job and don’t want to retire?
Comment · 2 years ago
GPT-4 is way more powerful than GPT-4o for programming tasks.

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