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Google learned that it's exactly not in in their best interest when they lost their court case against Epic a few years ago which is why they are shifting focus away from open source and moving towards Apple's walled garden approach. If they had locked down their platform similarly as Apple did, Epic would probably have lost it's case for similar reasons.

Granted, we know Android would not be where it is today without open source contributions.

It does not help. This is friction imposed to reduce and eliminate sideloading in the name of safety.

I own my device, I choose the software running on it. Create friction points and I will chose another platform to execute my software.

Well it's part of the hiring strategy with tech companies. You hire based on your competitors hiring. The company that can raise to hire more talent is able to get to market on the next big thing before the competition and see stock value rise. But when a down cycle hits, they all drop hiring to match because you're overspending and will see stock prices drop to the competition.

Worked with Malaysian counterparts for a number of years. You have decent talent there but one of the key constraints I've heard from higherups is that the market doesn't have enough workers and a large multinational can saturate the skilled workers you need. So some companies are skipping to go to India instead.

They say that but in my experience, automation leads to more work. If AI does lead to cost savings and improved business, they will have additional demand and need more people though the type of workers they have may change.

And if everyone is dumping employees then we'll have a recession and everyone will blame it on AI and start hiring new talent to pivot for shareholders.

I think eventually the hardware will be so cheap it'll make more sense to use them as solar fences. Reduce the cost to install and maintain by 3-4x easily. Or DIY for practically nothing.

I'd say the simpler answer is likely the right one. Rates being higher means it's more expensive for the business to maintain it's cash flow. Shouldn't be an issue for a company like Google but here's the rub, an exec at one public company sees a peer at another (that's probably doing worse financially) drop headcount and a rise in stock, if that exec doesn't do the same they get perceived as not doing enough and see a dip in stock. So they drop headcount too.

While it sucks for those who get the boot, this has the benefit of raising salaries overall. Because the company that does this usually cuts too much and has to later rehire at market rates which rise over time.

Flow batteries biggest issue has been density. If they have solved it at better cost effectiveness than current EV batteries then it may take off. I doubt the complexity of the electrolyte water solution, pumps, and membranes would really win out against an equivalent electrolyte in a rechargeable battery for car sized volumes.

Where this could be a major use case is large scale grid batteries. That would allow for an effective baseline power store for solar and wind power.

The closet idea was a good one but you need intake and exhaust fans to circulate the air for CO2 and good temperature control. Something like the airframe system would work fine.

I think the easiest explanation is people rightly figured back during the pandemic lockdowns and wfh policies that people had more money than they usually did even in spite of some people losing their jobs. Gov spending was very high to be honest and people suddenly had somewhere between 1k to 2k extra cashflow. That kind of increase leads to every business trying to extract that as fast as they can.

If your business didn't increase their costs during the last three years it's a dying business.

Stack ranking biggest flaw is that it results in managers gaming the system by over hiring to create strategic buffer ftes they can drop if they need to. Which leads to a reoccurring need to use stack ranking and more over hiring.

Nothing, that's why VCs will invest an enormous sum to grow faster than the competition to become the dominate player. Once established and people are used to the product other companies will struggle to compete against it without doing so purely on a cost cutting model that they can't sustain against bigger players.

Problem for many companies is that they are in the middle of a constantly changing tech landscape and become obsoleted fairly quickly or try and use their size to artificially increase margins too much and allow for competitors to eat their market.

The reality is there are very few other types of businesses where you can scale your product so cheaply and still save or increase productivity to justify high prices. Sure music and entertainment can scale but at the end of the day, it's regular people buying the product and there's only so much money there.

It's a temporary issue, rates being what they are means money goes to easier profits. Just like the dotcom bust, it'll eventually make a comeback but good luck figuring out if your company will survive it.

Discord? Pass.

From the article, once the tumor is broken up the immune system begins to clean up the area and is able to learn antigens against the tumor. So your immune system would attack cells that are spreading around the body.

I think the cat is out of the bag, didn't suffer in productivity from WFH and in fact many companies posted some of their best quarters. They got giddy on the returns and overhired and overspent, now credit is expensive and they are tightening back. Enforcing RTO is an easy way for most companies to cut 10% or more of the workforce.

Realistically these companies are going to lose out to companies that have embraced remote work. The benefits of not having that expensive downtown real estate and being able to hire talent from anywhere are too good.

If you have to justify the price with inflation adjusted prices for a consumer electronic device you're already messing up somewhere.

We have all this innovation for 3d printers but 2d printers get the suck. Really, I wish someone would come out with an open source 2d printer, hell even just a pen plotter type.

Best advice I can give someone is never do security research for a company without expressed written consent to do so and document everything as agreed to.

Payouts for finding bugs when there isn't an already established process are either not going to be worth your time or will be seen as malicious activity.

A common trend with vendors is they can provide you all the data in the world that you want, but few condense it into actions to be done. The better ones do and even they only do surface level actions like one action for each detected issue. A smart person worth their salary takes in the data and turns it into a plan, these 500 issues get fixed with this action. If you want to lead in the automation state, do that. Go beyond simple detections and turn it into actions. Use data to infer states about systems you haven't scanned. Feed that into a tracking tool to showcase progress to make your customers look like they are moving goalposts.

Facebook is the brand that's not gamer nerd culture. You have groups there, lots of normies you may not regularly interact with use that platform quite a bit.

I think it's too difficult to speculate what the next big social platform is/will be though. It goes through cycles from what I've observed. Generally the platform changes in a direction that the community at large doesn't like which causes a fragmentation to occur and other sites pick up the loss to start the process again.

One thing to keep in mind is even with a fixed-rate mortgage you're still facing increasing costs throughout the loan in the form of property taxes, insurance, and maintenance costs. Based on the housing market appreciation, I believe my future property taxes will be about the same as my initial mortgage payment by the time I finish paying off the loan. Then factor in the increased costs to fix and update things? I think I was better at saving money back in the apartment days.

Not a good trend, IKEA is like the Toyota of furniture. It's inexpensive but functional. With these changes they will be no different than cheap trash furniture. So why pay any premium for Ikea when I can just Amazon the cheapest equivalent furniture knowing both will equally break sooner than later?

I think that Toyota won't really go heavy into EVs until batteries are more available. EV batteries are heavily dependent on lithium availability which is limited by world wide exploration limits. We are only able to mine enough to make about 2 million Tesla equivalent cars per year, and that's if none of it goes to phones other electronic devices. Toyota sells that many vehicles alone each year. Until there is something that can scale and still allow them to sell an economical model, they won't go heavy into EVs.

My bet would be the amount of preservatives in food is a contributing factor. Sure, it prevents bacterial contamination of our food, but once introduced to your body how is it impacting your gut biome? It's filled with bacteria that are just as susceptible to those preservatives. And we now know that affecting your gut biome means that your digestive tract is more susceptible to illness.

Had the same idea a few years back. You don't need blockchain though, good old fashioned CAs will work. Use standard digital signatures on the keyframe data but that does necessitate a new video format standard. Good luck with that. You could probably DIY by overlaying a QR code signature on the video keyframe as a stopgap until an official format exists.

I get their argument on the basis of the idea. But I think it's not valid when you apply the scale of the stable diffusion model. They show a case of a simple spiral and that the technology can create a similar looking spiral calling it a copy. But when you factor in the billions of trained images, the amount of specific information from all of these sources is like 1 byte.

They are going to have to show that the model copies ALL source images with perfect retention, and they are 100 percent full of shit if they think they can demonstrate that. What you may find is that some models out there are heavily biased on source images and can produce some outputs that are too similar to original works, in that case, there may be an issue.

From where the web started to now, the complexity makes sense. There were tons of browsers all implementing html, css, and javascript with their own quirks not to mention their own additions. For example, the father to all modern live websites, XMLHttpRequest is a Microsoft invention that was originally intended for Outlook web mail.

Honestly, it's more of the speed of design that drove the complexity. Everyone had some specific niche that they picked up and due to the volume of demand for web development there was bound to be many different approaches tried.

Eventually, that's going to mature down to a few different standards. That's already happening with web browsers, for practical purposes we have three current browser engines today, down from who knows how many.

I don't think it's the work, it's a lack of purpose or connection to people that you're lacking. Ever consider doing some volunteer activities?

All those systems were built and designed during a time where free money via cheap credit was available to fund growth at all costs to become the dominant market player. That money is fading with the Fed rate increases and is looking like it may stay that way for a long time. What this means for tech is more paid everything. Expect most of the free services to disappear. Twitter, Elon or not was going to have to make major cuts to stay afloat.