… kuid nende silmad seirasid naisi, nagu jälgivad hüäänid vigastatud gnuud.
Daphne polnud mingi gnuu. Ja kindlasti mitte haavatud. Kui ta oleks olnud eelmises elus gnuu, oleks ta olnud oma karja Kris Jenner.
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… kuid nende silmad seirasid naisi, nagu jälgivad hüäänid vigastatud gnuud.
Daphne polnud mingi gnuu. Ja kindlasti mitte haavatud. Kui ta oleks olnud eelmises elus gnuu, oleks ta olnud oma karja Kris Jenner.
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Monopolies are good, Thiel said, because “they are much more stable, longer-term businesses, you have more capital, and … it’s symptomatic of having created something really valuable.”
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Lapsemeelsus on hüva nähtus, see tähendab, et hingel on sinu sees olemiseks vabalt ruumi.
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“The first piece of startup wisdom I heard was ‘increasing your sale will fix all problems’,” Altman wrote in a 2013 blog post titled “Growth and Government” that thanked Graham and Thiel for shaping his ideas.
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He [Paul Graham] defended YC for not having many female founders by saying that most women had not prepared from an early age to succeed as tech entrepreneurs.
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Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.
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… staff writers Parmy Olson and Carolyn Silverman summarized it succinctly – the data “raises an uncomfortable prospect: that this supposedly revolutionary technology might never deliver on its promise of broad economic transformation, but instead just concentrate more wealth at the top.”
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The staffers should be given too much to do because it’s best if no one has spare time. That’s where the trouble and territoriality start. The fewer employees, the harder they work. The answer to work is more work.
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The Upwork Research Institute of 2,500 workers globally found that while 96 percent of C-suite leaders expected generative AI to boost productivity, 77 percent of the employees actually using the tools reported them instead adding to the workload; this was in part due to the amount of time spent reviewing AI-generated content, in part due to the growing demands from superiors to do more work.
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Over the years, I’ve found only one metaphor that encapsulates the nature of what these AI power players are: empires. /…/
They justified their quest for power by the need to compete with other empires. In an arms race, all bets are off. All this ultimately served to entrench each empire’s power and to drive its expansion and progress. In the simplest terms, empires amassed extraordinary riches across space and time through imposing a colonial world order, at great expense to everyone else.
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