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by 93po 6d ago
Even before AI I strongly believed the internet was eventually going to have to move to a web of trust model. I think World ID (formerly Worldcoin) can be a really cool part of the solution to this, though people widely criticize it without
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by 93po 6d ago
Yes, and right now it seems we get around this problem by spawning 10k agents (that's what OpenAI did for the stokes problem) and hoping that at least one of the 10k catches this and does it right - which it very likely will.
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by 93po 7d ago
There was news like 10-15ish years ago that the US government was making massive data storage facilities across the country. Like spending over a billion dollars on them. When I read that I knew that basically every email and text and call
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by 93po 7d ago
Mildly interesting anecdote: when the Cyphral Distich solution popped up a few days ago, I spent about an hour with ChatGPT trying to solve it myself without looking at the proposed solution. ChatGPT opened by saying “the solution is disput
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by 93po 7d ago
to be discontinued in 2027
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by 93po 8d ago
But only to other approved apps
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by 93po 8d ago
I would argue artists imitating, for example, the artists who revolutionize a genre of music are also in fact massively reducing the demand for the originals by 99%. Imagine if no one ever made a song after the Beetles that sounded any newe
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by 93po 8d ago
skipping 4 minutes of talking first: https://youtu.be/sApyrDEXGAI?t=249
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by 93po 9d ago
When chrome was literally first released it was in fact faster than IE and Firefox, by quite a lot, and had some nice features that neither had, too. But that gap didn't last for long.
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by 93po 12d ago
but you agree he's personally responsible for at least like a million though right?
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by 93po 14d ago
There was a reason - it was anti-nuclear hysteria fueled (hah) in large part by fossil-fuel interests and environmental groups that treated nuclear power as an existential threat rather than one of the safest, lowest-carbon energy sources a
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by 93po 14d ago
Proving pharmaceutical drugs work on mental health issues has tremendous value even though we don't always (or often) understand the exact mechanisms in brain chemistry as to why it works
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by 93po 15d ago
It'd actually be about 36% shorter :)
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by 93po 20d ago
The HL2 web port got DMCA'd pretty fast and the group behind it hasn't tried to rehost it
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by 93po 23d ago
Material wealth is only a single type of wealth. Who's better off - the rich guy who's always yearning to be richer and never satisfied, or the lower income guy that mostly just cares about time with his family and is really happy
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by 93po 25d ago
By the time FF isn't a thing we'll have AI distilling site content for us and removing all the bullshit and there won't be anything site operators can do about it. And it'll use sandboxed browser instances that are immed
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by 93po 29d ago
i'd avoid imo, i'm an intern that got fired from htmx and the ceo was a jerk
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by 93po 29d ago
A recent ubuntu update made my boot fail - the splash screen for disk decryption has a known bug in the latest update for my exact video card. Being able to get into terminal-only recovery mode and launch Codex CLI and ask it to diagnose th
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by 93po 29d ago
Thank God because Paypal has routinely been one of the shittiest internet companies to ever exist
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by 93po 1mo ago
I strongly dislike this comment because it's the type of thing some anonynmous person can post online with no credibility or accountability and massively mischaracterize a situation to downplay the very awful things that people did to
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by 93po 1mo ago
This is immediately what came to mind to me. You can be extremely profitable but paying out tens of billions in dividends, or a million other things.
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by 93po 2mo ago
prison time please
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by 93po 2mo ago
I mean, there's a time in history when the population successfully brought out the guillotines and made real change against centralized power.
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by 93po 2mo ago
Or more likely, put regulations in place so the hardware can only run allowed models/allows surveillance of what's run. They're already doing stuff like this for 3D printers.
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by 93po 2mo ago
Exactly same. I've listened to basically every episode since 2008, and 95% of the time while falling asleep, one earbud in. As recently as literally last night. Not really paying attention, just listening to their voices.
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by 93po 2mo ago
Same as me and very close to same age. Started with TWiT podcasts plus Buzz Out Loud with Molly Wood and Tom Merrit. On my iPod nano second gen. Got exposed to John through TWiT and startd listening to No Agenda, and still do. I massively d
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by 93po 2mo ago
And stops solitary confinement as a routine thing in prisons, which is literal torture. And stops death penalty. And provides basic healthcare instead of letting millions die.
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by 93po 2mo ago
It's horrible that there are 14 million children now in graves because of Elon Musk. He's literally worse than Hitler. I also don't understand how he spends all his time. SpaceX and Tesla are successful but Elon doesn't
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by 93po 3mo ago
Rent-seeking can be explained in a few different ways, but one of them is "extracting value without creating much new value" which is exactly what a lot of landlords do. Buy a house, rent it for more than the mortgage, and do as l
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by 93po 3mo ago
I'd settle for corporate jail time. No more profiting off illegal activity when the fine is less than profit. Nope, corporate jail. All operations have to stop for your sentence. No sales, no product development, no operations. Maybe a

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