The big customers are the only ones who matter. They are all like this. The DMCA would have been the pearl clutching lawyers. I used to think it was short sighted but I'm not so sure anymore, I think they could all be better to their customers and their firmware examples etc could be multiple orders of magnitude better and it wouldn't hurt the bottom line.
It made me basically give up on reddit, I spoke to some marketing guy who does it and he was so oblivious to the damage ppl like him have done to the internet.
The whole thing annoys me, but this is what really grinds my gears:
Frank again disagreed and so I made him an offer: If his client promised that it would charge no more than $15K in attorneys’ fees, then we would agree to use the NVCA forms. Frank agreed, but on the condition that we draft the forms.
Although we had secured a legally enforceable right that no more than $15K in attorneys’ fees would be charged to my client, it didn’t matter. True to form, the IPO deal team ran a heavy due diligence over the next six weeks and amassed a six-figure legal fee. To get the deal done, my client was told it had to cover at least half the deal team’s fee, at which this point was well over six figures. They said the “$15K was a mistake” and the “spirit of the deal was always to cover half of our legal fees.” What’s ironic was that we had only one enforceable term in the term sheet and it was the $15K fee cap.
In Australia, Uber became too on the nose for even EY. And perennial tax entrepreneurs Macquarie Bank won't let their staff use Uber because they are uncomfortable with the tax treatment (I think they think the receipts aren't legit but this I am guessing).
I think it happens to the dumb and the smart ones, maybe not at Chicago and some of the big US unis, but my economics instruction included a large amount of statistics that were never even explained, sometimes it was just memorize this formula - I could not develop an intuitive understanding of anything being dropped on these islands. Being decent at maths I expected to be able to follow along, but couldn't. I brought a much more capable friend to class and he confirmed that while there was real maths underneath it wasn't being presented and bits were missing from what they were showing us. It goes on, they are forever talking about IS LM curves "shifting", it doesn't shift, but the point at which it is rotating is not on your chart. To that particular professor's credit, he at least knew (kinda) what they were not teaching us and could answer my ring in's questions.
I was pretty disappointed overall by the courses at the University of Sydney, it was already a degree mill and this was over a decade ago.
Oh man I really loved Laos, I'd be interested in knowing about some other beautiful there. I went to Vang Vieng, did the tubing, left the food area half a hour before the cops rolled ~80 euros for $200usd. I could go on, that was a very strange first 24hrs. Best bit was riding out to some hill, having lunch and looking at a cave.
I met some sketchy characters there though and I can't blame them for shutting it down, free local booze+ cheap booze+ river+ high rope jumps definitely led to some injuries.
I listened to this podcast, it didn't really add that much and one of the hosts seems to think the middle east was a peaceful place until the Americans showed up, as in she says there was no ISIS before America destabilized the region.
There is too much duplication, some of those people are now free to create something of more value and those who have been held back from creating content are now are to make it more easily and with less friction.
No, someone (Google I think) admitted that they collect more than the audio around recognised keywords because in order to use ML to improve their voice recognition they need the data. More than just false positives. But guess what, they have to have humans to determine that, so they have people sitting around listening to very concerning things (the article said suspected domestic violence) and then having PTSD from it.
And if one of them is doing it, they all are, they all think the same and have the same incentives. This entire play is about the data.
Way less severe than most of the world. Restrictions were never that tough and most have been relaxed now, pubs are open again. Unemployment is high and being propped up by temporary measures. Many business closures but govt is spending alot to keep the doors open.
You are probably still right but MIT license means that you just won't see what industry uses. Industry has used free BSDs and not contributed in code or money nearly to the extent that it has for some Linux flavors.
"People from different backgrounds approach problems from different angles—that much should be blindingly obvious."
It's not obvious and in my experience is nonsense when it comes to the workplace, it doesn't matter what color your skin is or where you grew up, if you're at company x it's because you fit through the same sieve and have the social awareness to shut up and conform. I have both observed and learned the hard way again and again that even a good solution to a long term problem will be ignored or treated with hostility.
You are more likely to be fired for your suggestion box submission than your idea implemented.
Open a DVD player then open a VHS player, the dvd does more complicated things on a tech level but VHS player is harder and more expensive to make.
Early gen drives are cheap on the second hand market, you can pick up a crummy one for under $100, tape usually included.
I pay $60 aud for 8-9mbps. I'm in Sydney, 3km from the city and I cannot connect to our 100mpbs if you're super lucky NBN which has been "running" for 8+years - $90aud from a cheaper ISP. Malcom Turnbull messed up our internet infra, became Prime Minister, didn't do anything to fix it and walked out on the job last year.
I can't connect to the NBN because it hasn't rolled out in my area, I've lived in or near the city cbd the whole time the NBN has been going on and I have never lived on a street that was connected.
x86 ISA means you don't have to rely on community support. It really needs 8gb of onboard memory though, sbc+memory upgrade+sd card+power supply = more expensive than a dual cpu server from 9 years ago
I disagree that WeWork has a lack of competition, they are getting crushed in China and many local businesses are undercutting them.
I'm shocked landlords sign leases with an entity they cannot sue.
From my experience, the people making these decisions are incapable of examining their behavior. When many news websites tried to go paywall a few years ago I spoke to someone who worked at one of them and I tried to be diplomatic but eventually said, why do you need 26 pieces of malware to display less than a thousand words and why is the the size of any given page bigger than a Windows 3.1 install?
I didn't even get a coherent response, it was basically, oh these guys in a meeting said we need to and we wanted the money so we happily signed up.
They totally have relationships with multiple tier 1 manufacturers and have teams pouring over data to pick products to undercut. I hate it when people say this, but I don't know why you've been downvoted.