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> Why ruin my health and sanity when I can directly join that other company? Well, that’s just the idea. Some people can only get their start by joining Amazon and not the other company. Also, I wouldn’t call Amazon’s environment “bad.”
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>But that has nothing to do with the reality that the best response is to stop doing heroin. This is inaccurate. The best response is medically supervised detoxification. Stopping heroin without medical supervision can cause severe dehyd
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This kind of work is important because it's an attempt to make computers understand the real world. LLM/GenAI do not understand the real world, and the more we run up against their limitations, the more the people and systems who
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Because if you can make it at Amazon, you can make it anywhere. It has a brutal work culture, and if you can survive it long enough to claw your way into the FAANG inner circle, you might, might get breathing room at some point to live yo
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Good catch, you're right. I found this open letter that mentions that Cerence owns Eloquence [0]. That also seems to be confirmed by the update to the letter. [0] https://openletter.earth/to-cerence-inc-hims-inc-hims-int
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Microsoft. A new version hasn’t been released because Microsoft, like most companies, don’t take accessibility seriously. The original Eloquence TTS was developed as ETI-Eloquence. ScanSoft acquired speech recognition company SpeechWorks in
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Nondeterministic systems are by definition incompatible with requirements for fixed and universal standards. One can either accept this, and wade into the murky waters of the humans, or sit on the sidelines while the technology develops wit
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And yet Boston is doing it. https://www.boston.gov/news/officials-celebrate-first-100-un...
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Fascinated that you found Magical Thinking a bore, it has come back to me in my grief and proved immensely valuable.
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Are there any particular points you want to refute?
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Isn’t this just rubrics?
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There’s an entire generation (Gen Z) that can’t navigate a file system, so I doubt piracy is a true threat in the long term.
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How can an advertiser tell the difference? Which is a stronger signal of having money: paying for something, or not paying for something? Furthermore, with all those reasons, why would advertisers prefer those people in ChatGPT? Advertisers
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>only appear for free users Why would advertisers prefer people without money to people with money?
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"advertising, regardless of scale, is the art of turning data into revenue." This is disingenuous. Putting up a billboard over a highway to make people aware of a certain brand of beer is not the same as building detailed profiles
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You’ve equated selling ads, like a newspaper does, with tracking user behavior, collating it with other information purchased on the market, and targeting people to change their behavior. Disingenuous.
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“Conversation privacy: We keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers, and we never sell your data to advertisers.” The same sleight of hand that’s been used by surveillance capitalists for years. It’s not about “selling y
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Sure. If you want to pay the 247% tarriff, there’s nothing stopping you from doing this. US import duty applies when you cross the border, calculated on the vehicle’s origin (China), not purchase location.
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Tajikistan is used by the US for CIA training against Iran. This is why Iran will often deny visas to Americans who have Tajikistan passport stamps.
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Scott had prostate cancer, probably for a few years since by the time he publicly announced having it (May 2025) there were signs of the cancer spread to his hip and lower vertebrae. Rather than treating it immediately with surgery, drugs,
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>Try to think about food less, it starts in the mind. It starts in the gut. That’s what we are learning with GLP1s.
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That willpower is an illusion doesn’t absolve anyone of personal responsibility. After all, we still take a car off the road if it has faulty brakes, and cars certainly don’t have a will of their own.
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> There isn't currently a forcing function. Investors are the forcing function
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>Nobody is going to not buy an iPhone because they’re using a third-party model. You're right, and this is proven. Apple has fumbled a whole release cycle on AI and severely curbed expectations, and they still sell 200m iPhones a ye
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It’s absolutely insane that you can’t say “Siri, play my audiobook” and it play the last audiobook you listened to. Like, come on.
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>“Private investors making a little bit of money while expanding access is not a bad thing, per se,” Singh said. “But we need to understand how much of a bad thing this is and how much of a good thing this is. This is a first step in tha
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> Motivation is fleeting but routine persists. This is tautological: if the action doesnt persist, it isn’t routine.
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I’m not sure where the goalposts are in this discussion. My doctor assigned me a dietitian. My insurance company assigned me 12 weekly modules that cover diet, exercise, mental health and cooking before they would pay for it. The ads I see
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> They are not a magic bean that will cure over eating but they are being marketed and discussed as that. Where and by whom? I keep seeing this claim but every ad I see mentions diet and exercise. The subreddits for these drugs are all f
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>To make sure history doesn't only remember the good things like their accomplishments. This horse has been beat to death. Every reddit post that has Jobs name in it covers this. Same with John Lennon.

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