AJ007

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by AJ007 3y ago
Put this in to perspective. Alphabet had $282 BILLION in revenue in 2022. I don't know exactly what they will pay in 2023, but in previous years it was somewhere around $10 billion a year. Google incentivizes it's employees in a c
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by AJ007 3y ago
Upwork contractors reside in many different jurisdictions around the world so I won't even trying guessing the legalities. Certainly they are breaking the law somewhere. However, one thing is certain: there is a very strong incentive t
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by AJ007 4y ago
The users who pay attention to search quality aren't impacted by the default search option. They will just go back to Google or whatever alternative they wish. The users who the default engine really locks in are the ones who just most
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by AJ007 4y ago
Preventing customers from canceling unwanted services does not mean they owe you money for that service.
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by AJ007 4y ago
I've been using perplexity.ai for anything that's not a site/company/person name look up.
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by AJ007 4y ago
I have multiple communities I follow on Twitter and the ones that don't care about the elon stuff, they do now.
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by AJ007 4y ago
It isn't about productivity by itself. It is about aligning production with consumption. It is wildly naive of Westerners to believe there is so much excess production in the world that we can just pay people to not work. The US got th
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by AJ007 4y ago
If we can steal all human work (images) and compress it down to 2gb, then we should be questioning what artists have really been creating.
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by AJ007 4y ago
Google is basically a digital Yellow Pages at this point. Sure they have been producing a lot of high quality research and concepts but so did Xerox PARC. Much of the profit margin Google makes now is from people clicking on ads that they d
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by AJ007 4y ago
In the US, M2 increased 70% in 2 years. Of course prices are going up. Anything less than a 70% increase means companies have a ways to go to catch up.
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by AJ007 4y ago
It's still an open question if any of these models, trained on copyright work, will themselves be eligible for copyright protection.
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by AJ007 4y ago
I propose that it is impossible to prove that any content created after 2022 did or did not utilize ML/AI during the process of its creation (art, code, music, audio, text.) Thus, anything produced after 2022 should not be eligible for
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by AJ007 4y ago
This is definitely just the tip of the iceberg given the proliferation of covenant lite loans.
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by AJ007 4y ago
Most no-EU sites should have been blocking EU users one day 1 of GDPR. Instead we had Google and adtech firms lying to their customers about legality and loopholes while GDPR supporters told smaller webmasters they didn't have to stric
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by AJ007 4y ago
I finally signed up for Mastodon after years of reading it just wasn't good enough, when Twitter had their "ban all Mastodon addresses" phase. I follow people I follow on Twitter and there is substantially less noise. Overall
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by AJ007 4y ago
So quickly the masses are eager to vote away their freedoms.
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by AJ007 4y ago
The people who have the capability and motivation to build a business can #1 download pirated versions of these get rich quick courses for free and #2 figure out how money is actually being made and move on to the hard stuff. The problem is
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by AJ007 4y ago
And if it isn't intentional it's a demonstration of ignorance about history, government, and how technology works. The supporters should be kicked out of office or lose their jobs if unelected. They can get jobs managing restauran
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by AJ007 4y ago
What happens if the redistribution of power no longer reflects liberal values?
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by AJ007 4y ago
Usually I do a search, looking for specific facts, like what is the pricing for X? On Google you get to click through links and read a lot of filter, ads, promotions, etc. Why not just get the answer? A huge percentage of searches are for e
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by AJ007 4y ago
As far as I've read, DuckDuckGo doesn't have 100,000 engineers.
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by AJ007 4y ago
Public schools need state money and will get less of it, not more, with declining student population. The drugs and crime thing is a done deal, at least for the next generation or two. There were too many civil rights issues that artificial
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by AJ007 4y ago
That's a joke/fake
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by AJ007 4y ago
Email isn't ideal for content creators either. It costs money to deliver the content and delivery is not guaranteed. If has the knowledge and resources, or they have a heavily engaged audience, great, but that's not a pretty small
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by AJ007 4y ago
Sizing is all over the place, even the same brand, same year. If the clothes are garment dyed, it's even worse. My biggest recommendation is buy 100% cotton and avoid synthetic blends at all costs. Some of that crap looks old after a s
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by AJ007 4y ago
The message over the past week has been pretty clear -- the rules change without notice and will be changed based on what pisses elon off. That make Twitter now a niche message board. All of the elaborate justifications and explanations for
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by AJ007 4y ago
Finally signed up, seems fine. I think the big problem is if the servers will be able to handle the volume.
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by AJ007 4y ago
Does it? Back in 2021 TikTok was averaging more hours of viewing per month than Youtube (in the US.)
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by AJ007 4y ago
If the money is being sent elsewhere, it means they are receiving more than they can manage. That changes the fundraising message. If a friend said please help me with my medical bills, then you later find out a portion of the money was spe
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by AJ007 4y ago
Down votes make me think a lot of HNers are in for a brutal shock.

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