pvarangot

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I'm Pedro Varangot. I live in San Francisco and work on embedded software, worked on an earth imaging space startup, information security research, phones, self driving car ECUs and ebikes.

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Comment · 1 year ago
That's also not how pricing works, it's about perceived incremental increases in how useful it is (marginal utility), not about the actual more money you make.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's because it's probably trained with "professional audio", ads, movies, audiobooks, and not "normal people talking". Like the effect when diffusion was mostly trained with stock photos.
Comment · 2 years ago
The Chinese supermarkets all had it, I moved out on 2018 and I think they had it in the Jumbo in Palermo in the section where they had some Peruvian stuff on the back of the store. I can't find it on the online Jumbo store, but Mercadolibre has it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Cocaine in the U.S. is at least 5/10% anfetamines tho, so it's probably worse.
Comment · 2 years ago
I used to drink coca tea a lot when I lived in Argentina where you get it in the supermarket. It's around on par of nicotine as an appetite suppressant for me, as a stimulant I feel caffeine and mate are better for the "stay awake" but coca tea is better for "zoning in", with less of anxiety driving but it's a more single tasked high where interruptions are harder to deal with than with caffeine. Like if I have a lot of meetings I prefer coffee and if I have to code for four hours I prefer coca tea. I used to rotate coffee, mate, and coca tea as a daily driver and having something else on the rotation may have been helping more than that something else being coca tea.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think what they mean (not OP here so just chiming in to to try interpret and answer your question) is that you don't know what you are talking about.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's good for privacy so media companies probably don't want you to know it exists.
Comment · 2 years ago
I mean, not with that attitude
Comment · 2 years ago
I mean, those are the best parties
Comment · 2 years ago
Same, I got a pack of cigarettes ready to read the apologist comments.
Comment · 2 years ago
Reddit is a problem only on the popular frontpage subs for people with just-reading or no accounts. If you make an account and read certain subs their algorithm will recommend you the alternate subs that are less astroturfed and the discussion is free from people telling you that there's evidence and reports that don't exist and insult you if you ask for links, or people that say that something says something and post you a link and then you go and it says something else (usually less favorable to Israel). The main subs have been pretty bad with Israel-related news since forever, it's not a new thing, it's that there's more of those news now.
Comment · 2 years ago
Also I think the "we are all Google" borg/hivemind thing plays a part, other companies like Amazon or Apple are organized more like a lot of smaller companies so when people join they have different expectations towards corporate and feedback up and down and internal dissent work different.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah I thought it was a scam. To be fair some of the most ridiculous things they announced when they put up the website, like the IMAX camera with a sensor that would basically take a wafer end to end to cut, didn't come out.
Comment · 2 years ago
Besides what everyone else told you make sure you are making at least 250k/y

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