AJ007

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by AJ007 2y ago
Imagine if that area had to be strip mined, factories set up, and coal power plants built. There's nothing clean or green about renewable energy. Californians and Westerners in general should be thankful they just have to deal with thi
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The startups that are using API credits seem like the most likely to be able to achieve a good return on capital. There is a pretty clear cost structure and it's much more straightforward whether you are making money or not. The infras
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Inference costs will keep dropping. The stuff the average consumer does will be trivially cheap. More stuff will move on device. The edge capabilities of these models are already far beyond what the average person can use or comprehend. The
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by AJ007 2y ago
The economics of a game engine engine business are grossly inferior to an app store. Steam charges 30% of gross (25% at high volume), Unity charges by seats and not fees after (huge backlash when they tried to go the other way and indies ba
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by AJ007 2y ago
They missed two epochal changes in the semiconductor industry - mobile and AI/GPU. They don't have a contract foundry business that could compete with TSMC. They appear to be failing with the thing the originally should have been
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You can also collect a few thousand dollars for the TCPA violation, which seems more productive.
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It seems like everyone missed the analogy of TikTok being like a Soviet newspaper, but the better analogy was like Tiktok being a tracking device, which transmitted your exact location, along with a microphone and video camera provided by t
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Any sort of warranty or security representation is basically snake oil except in a very narrow set of circumstances and conditions, yet still not 100%. If Apple can't keep iPhones 100% locked down, with billions of security spend, no f
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The trademark application should/will not be approved. This would be like naming yourself "DisneyGPT"
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Who made up this word? Before 2022 it more or less doesn't exist (per Google Trends.)
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The subtle "errors" are all low hanging fruit. It reminds me of going to SIGGRAPH years back and realizing most of the presentations were covering things which were almost imperceptible when looking at the slides in front. The mat
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Between the convoluted EU rules and whatever the multiple US antitrust cases outcomes are, it could be a lot simpler: Chrome, Android, Youtube, and Gmail all must be divested. The ad & search business don't really appear separable,
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That's a shakedown amount. You can't even build 1 nuclear power plant with $1 billion.
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I wonder if conservative/progressive and right/left were false dichotomies. At the extremes there are remarkably similar outcomes. Corruption is present at the extremes and the more moderate center. Some of the corruption is more
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This is probably just a preemptive move in case of a New York state financial transaction tax and has less to do with any other political issues. This isn't "Texas" setting up their exchange, it's Blackrock and Citadel.
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Yes, synthetic should be more durable than natural rubber. Once the petrochemical supply is exhausted, or what is left is extremely expensive to extract, they won't be able to afford new tires either. (Tires, and personal passenger veh
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by AJ007 2y ago
The Apple hardware also does nothing to protect against tech support scams. One of the most important, and basic, things to do is make sure ad blockers are installed on devices and/or on a firewall. This matters before a broader declin
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by AJ007 3y ago
Well it's more like, we want free traffic and also pay us for the privilege of sending it to us. That isn't happening and it isn't the way traffic works. Pay news organizations for the rights to republish the articles on Goog
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by AJ007 3y ago
Nothing, don't use it.
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by AJ007 3y ago
Unlike computers, the economy isn't deterministic (among other differences.) In order to understand the Japanese economy today, one really needs to read books about Japan's bubble in the 1980s. The interest rates Japan experiences
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by AJ007 3y ago
I was thinking about this when I saw this post earlier today. Why shouldn't the default be: does this website work in Lynx? I think that's a damn good baseline. And in response to the other parent post, on a (almost) new iPhone, b
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by AJ007 3y ago
Massive win for Google, Apple, Facebook. Really hard to see a future for third party ad networks.
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by AJ007 3y ago
Focus on not slaughtering their golden goose. Public companies absolutely do not need to grow revenue and many industries remain in states of decline for decades. However, lack of growth means the stock option party is over for employees.
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And ads is the one line of business that is growing. All of the privacy and app tracking restrictions conveniently relate to them having all of the tracking data and third parties not having it. Your data is "private", to everyone
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Apple has the data on how many iPhones are being used by drivers, while moving, and how many are involved in accidents. It's almost like if you had a handgun that had a camera on it that knew children where on the other end of the barr
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by AJ007 3y ago
The complete opposite of Raspberry Pi, but I predict that one result of generative AI models is we will end up with over 1 million concurrent players on MUDs. #1 Dramatic simplification of navigation and actions, making them accessible for
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by AJ007 3y ago
I think you are right. My usage of RSS was nearly non-existent for many years. Now it is daily. I was shocked to find even local news sites publishing full articles in their RSS feed. Most sites still have feeds. There is now infinite conte
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You just manually go through a long list of sites daily/monthly/yearly?
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Google has sucked for years, and the level of sucking has been covered extensively on hn. The one thing that was a real shock was how much more gas was left in the ad model engine. They've managed to grow substantially over the past co
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One of the big lessons from Twitter and Reddit was third party apps are tolerated or even encouraged until they are not. Unlike, for example Discord, I haven't see any indication that third party clients are causing account bans, yet.

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