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Such a price comparison service needs a large team manually curating categories and most of all: the product metadatas. So much manual work. Yet it all made sense, even in a country of just 10M people. (The company is called Prisjakt and is now starting to go to shit for unrelated reasons.)
will require new single-aisle airplanes to be designed with handicapped-accessible bathrooms
The 23andMe founder (and current CEO) Anne Wojcicki is the sister of Susan Wojcicki, until recently a long time Youtube CEO.
Anne is also the ex-wife of Google/Alphabet founder Sergey Brin. Google/Alphabet is also an investor in 23andMe. Youtube is an Alphabet company.
Is there a neat way of turning a scan/1-bit bitmap of a PCB design (from e.g. an old magazine or book) into a set of Gerber files that you can have manufactured cheaply?
Having some kind of centralized travel booking service that "took care of everything" would likely have caused me to find another job. For one company I did a monthly 6h travel + a few days of hotel + 6h travel thing for a decade. Not being in total control over that would simply not have been feasible.
I have no idea how people doing a large amount of travel for stereotypical low-margin large companies manage to get by.
They still would have died when Linux/open source took off though. They didn't own a platform.
https://twitter.com/lantisfjantis/status/1709146065985777767
This year's Nobel laureate in physics lectures us after (!!) being notified of her win!!
There was an interesting dynamic for a while in the 80s between text mode and bitmapped personal computers. Bitmapped computers were generally for companies in design etc, well-todo individuals and academics. To the rest they seemed very nice but frivolous due to the very high cost. That 512k Mac in Sep 1984: US$2,795 (equivalent to $7,870 in 2022).
At the time of the introduction of that first feasible mac you could get a PC 5150 clone with the same amount of RAM and much crappier CGA graphics for half of the price. And then the gap just started getting wider over the next few years.
https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1
I tried it out in that inline free preview - it didn't impress.
Judging from the latest cover it's at a ~00s technical level (on a PCW Magazine scale) - and they are diversifing, now including things like heat pumps and smart thermostats, heh:
https://heise.cloudimg.io/v7/_shop-heise-de_/assets/a/6/0/e/...
It's pretty obvious that PCW was modelled after Byte.
(There's a partial scanned collection here: https://archive.org/details/personalcomputerworld?sort=date)
Congrats on the improvements!
Obesity drugmaker’s expansion raises dominance worries for Denmark
Soaring sales for Novo Nordisk’s products mean market capitalisation now exceeds country’s GDP
“The way that we look at it is that in Denmark we have a two-speed economy: the pharmaceutical industry — and the rest,” said Thomas Harr, chief economist at Denmark’s central bank. “The risk is that you think the economy is performing better than it is.”
“Novo is so fantastically successful, and that is great for it and its shareholders. But for Denmark, I worry about what happens if it goes wrong,” said a leading business executive. “Finland ended up with a lost decade when Nokia had its problems.”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22002062 (Jan 9, 2020, 420 comments)
(Found it while writing a comment that was voided by that thread...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI#Resignations_of_editors
In August 2018, 10 senior editors (including the editor-in-chief) of the journal Nutrients resigned, alleging that MDPI forced the replacement of the editor-in-chief because of his high editorial standards and for resisting pressure to "accept manuscripts of mediocre quality and importance.