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The miscalculation on the biological capabilities of Iraq was a decade after the discovery of such capabilities of the Soviets. The Reagan "trust but verify" wasn't sufficient to uncover these unknown unknowns.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_biological_weapons_pr...

> It leverages an architecture called Ampere, however, which is now being used in consumer cards such as the GeForce RTX 3080. So while you can’t have an 80GB GPU in your gaming PC, it is possible to leverage some of the same technologies.

When there is no real differenced between gaming and ML GPU's enterprise customers just use gaming GPU's.

> Nvidia has banned the use of its consumer-grade GPUs in data centers, the Register reported. This decision forces organizations to pay for the more expensive chips such as the Tesla V100. The GPU company updated the license agreements of its Titan and GeForce software to reflect this change.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-bans-consumer...

> Mac prices are the gatekeeper for the Apple dev ecosystem in the developing world or students from low income background

Isn't the yearly $199 developers fee a greater gatekeeper by design for people with a low income from participating in Apples ecosystem?

Could excess deaths in other countries be explained by the residual life expectancy of the baby boomer generation?

You reverse causality, you shouldn't use a downvote when you disagree with someones opinion to begin with.

I took a karma hit of -4 on the comment above just because people disagree with an idea I proposed.

I would love some policy experimentation with downvoting because downvotes are demotivating and reduce engagement and discussion bandwidth. I think downvoting amplifies herding behavior.

I propose only giving the right to downvote after a comment reply is posted because as commenter a -3 value doesn't contain any information about the comment itself.

CA gave Trump an upgrade from a no clue operator to a very efficient marketing operation with hypertarget personalized ads. Trump ran/runs several paid conversion funnels on social media. He build a community of followers that he leverages as an army. He gamified the engagement with his community and monetizes their attention. Marketing innovation is like technology innovation, companies spend similar amount s on innovation but the ROI is very different.

If Mr. Pichai would say he is currently begging Mr. Breton to leave Google as is he would give Alphabet stockholders sufficient reason to annul him.

What's next? AI = Evil?

Such an under appreciated fact. Without Cambridge Analytics Trump wouldn't have won in 2016, I'm glad a bunch of smart people decided to make a significant difference in this election and Trump didn't have a trump card this time.

On a side note has anyone tried the Devialet Phantom speaker system?

https://www.devialet.com/en-eu/phantom-speaker/phantom-premi...

> I've known companies that physically removed all USB ports from laptops.

Second order effect of Stuxnet .

Only Nike and Red bull are really progressing marketing by innovating culture. Nike is creating trillion dollar economies by introducing the hijab for women which leads to more equality and stronger women with more money to spend on Nike gear.

https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Public%...

The hats are as authentic as Mexican sombreros with maracas and a trompet. It is just show for their customers.

But an ARR of 2 million is an order of magnitude more than the thousands you charged for saving your client 10s. This is about building a value driver instead of preventing a cost driver.

> third world, the second one was the soviet block (it was an alignment thing, not a poverty thing).

> Yeltsin, then 58, "roamed the aisles of Randall's nodding his head in amazement," wrote Asin. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, "there would be a revolution."[0]

The difference between the first and second world was a objective distinction in prosperity experienced by inhabitants in the different systems.[0] The first world capital allocation was several orders of magnitude more efficient than the Soviet block.

[0] https://www.nhregister.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article...

That differs between people, I personally would not mind the NSA running ExpressVPN as a covert outlet because than I at least know for certain my is kept secret by a secure state operator that has incentives aligned with my personal interests.

Any other operator runs the risk of becoming high jacked by other state operators. If you can hack Sony, break DNC email servers, hospitals for records, manipulate windows server functionality or create Stuxnet than a VPN is a cake walk.

A VPN was until this offering from Google a trolley problem. I gladly pay for Google products because they work for me. I even upload my porn to Google Photos because of the superiority of their streaming capabilities coming from the youtube backend.

Like the Truman Show?

Because the financial institutions are so bad in creating value for anybody else than themselves foreign state operators cannot do a better smear campaign. Google on "Deutsche Bank scandals" or visit:

https://m.dw.com/en/deutsche-banks-biggest-scandals/a-549795...

I wouldn't classify Netflix as a bean culture. Because Netflix is still run by Reed Hastings the founder & CEO. Netflix hired Cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken. From his research came the insight of binge watching series not from Netflix data.

Netflix invests in series by pioneering new narratives for niche markets. When a niche market is smaller or the serie is received not as expected Netflix pulls the plug as every rational agent would do.

The publishing industry in the 90ties was optimizing their business model for maximizing ROI of limited amount of shelve space by producing hits for popularity what 80% people like.

https://wistia.com/learn/marketing/science-behind-why-we-bin...

Generalizing people in to a category of money people and expecting to draw a profound conclusion from your arbitrary box is underwhelming.

Capitalism is the most efficient way to allocate capital and produces much more culture than systems driven by altruistic motives.

Why isn't the focus on their concealment of Youtube?

No they do not and actually in the G7 already 70% of product search starts on Amazon. Australia had a very fast adoption and most people installed the Amazon app within a year. Their app is the number one e-commerce app in all countries amazon operates on a country specific TLD . In other countries Ali express is the most popular app on App store.

But Dick Cheney stripped president Bush to a mere symbolic endeavor while upgraded his span of control as Vice with the executive power Cheney took from W. Bush before they went in office.

I highly recommend watching the movie Vice which gives a very telling report on these developments.

Some people say Bush behavior after his time in office is very typical for people that experienced severe gaslighting which manifests as a condition similar to Stockholm syndrome.

Bush was installed as President and kept in the dark because Dick Cheney had all foreign policies in his power portfolio.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6266538/

Just tell them your name is Big Dick. They always bring your order immediately by foot without name calling.

They get this big by buying up that many successful startups. I don't know about microsoft because it was for my time but Amazon bought Kiva Systems and now it is called Amazon Robotics. This ensures Amazon is the only company able to extract value from Kiva's robotics. Their robots drive the inventory around in fulfillment centers where order get picked on a rate of 300 per hour. Because they had a double frog leap on the competition Kivy would probably have IPOed by now.

All of the technology companies have a specialized VC arm which rake up extraordinary talent before they become a competitor. Whatsapp was build with 12 engineers when they hit 1 billion users. FANG have a talent kartel.

I hope F1 removes the driver completely and changes the rules that it is allowed to fire of rocket launchers, drop land mines and all the other ridiculous military toys Oil money can buy and put it to use. I would like to watch a full on war battle between teams every weekend.

Although we also know that Amazon wouldn't be such a big success without all the NDA's. There is no knowledge dilution because of this legal setup and this secrecy of real innovation in Bezos company has given him a three year advantage with AWS on Azure around the corner and Google cloud in Silicon Valley not to speak of Apple.

While you could rent GPU's in 2015 from AWS the competition could not deliver a GPU without calling it Alpha until the end of 2018.

But the food industry has a way to extract basically fructose from fruit and still calling it a 100% Juice instead of 61% fructose on the ingredient list. They even spike baby food with it kicking an early sugar addiction in children.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089990071...

https://analyteguru.com/what-does-it-really-mean-when-the-la...

Enzymes don't eat they accelerate. Enzymes lower the amount of energy that must be put in for a specific reaction to begin.

We should all switch to English in Europe.