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by SllX 3y ago
They should probably try asking a Magic Eight Ball for a second opinion at this point. If you feed GPT-4 the reporting around this situation since Friday (literally just copy and paste in whatever reports you want) and ask a pointed questio
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by SllX 3y ago
It’s only been the weekend, it just feels like a week. The announcement that OpenAI’s board had fired Sam Altman came shortly before markets closed on Friday and as of this writing we’re about 5.5 hours away from when they open again.
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by SllX 3y ago
Except that is literally not true and the Government loses in court to private citizens and corporations all the time because surprise: people in America have rights and that extends to their businesses. In wartime, pandemics, and in matter
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by SllX 3y ago
Sure, it's important in some ways, but most corporations aren't direct subordinates of the US Government. The companies you listed in contrast to OpenAI also have some key differences: they're all long-standing and mature com
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by SllX 3y ago
I've been liking Arc. Even comes with uBlock Origin.
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by SllX 3y ago
Probably the angle is to find some way to tell the EU to get stuffed as far as opening iMessage up goes. Apple only has to comply with the law. The issue is that the EC is on a high right now trying to see how far they can enforce control o
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by SllX 3y ago
> but I really wish they would have kept focus on Windows and taken the high road and made it better, more secure, more private and then thrown Bing in Googles face without the ads and tracking I too wish more companies existed that didn
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by SllX 3y ago
Agreed. Apple has the resources to go into a lot of businesses they don’t necessarily want to be in and they seem happy enough with the Google arrangement. They like to own and control the technologies core to their products, but even they
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by SllX 3y ago
No, my argument is that it’s a weak case, full stop, that hinges on Google growing from a 400 pound gorilla to an 800 pound gorilla by outcompeting their direct competitors in their core business that the company was founded on, making deal
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by SllX 3y ago
Generally something is legal until there’s a law saying it isn’t. That’s kind of how it just works in America, and it not just here either. When that Google-AOl deal Google wasn’t even close to as popular as it is now. It was a simple distr
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by SllX 3y ago
Yeah well I don’t get the comparison either, I mean I agree that it is a bit of hyperbole. Gotham City at least has Batman and we don’t have the Joker or The Riddler, but you’re making an intellectual argument against a mood when the city
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by SllX 3y ago
I hear that IRL too, not just on here (actually never seen that here myself), even from people who work for the City government. Like I used to be the one complaining about the downturn the City was taking and now most of the people I know
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by SllX 3y ago
Sure, but not essential or nearly not essential for you does not mean it isn’t essential.
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by SllX 3y ago
Not saying there isn't collusion in the Valley but a negotiated deal with a signed contract complete with paper trail and with both companies, employees and former employees admitting that such a deal exists even if they can't dis
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by SllX 3y ago
A fairer characterization might be that it’s a more marginal but no less essential use. We don’t rely on voice calls to communicate at a distance as much as we used to because there are other mediums the modern smartphone can access for
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by SllX 3y ago
That is the presentation I was looking for. I didn’t realize SteveJobsArchive was dead though. Dammit all.
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by SllX 3y ago
Apple's memory and SSD prices are too damn high for what they're giving. Basically ~$200 per 8GB of RAM and ~$200 per half terabyte of SSD. This is well out of line what you pay for both in any other product or standalone, and the
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by SllX 3y ago
Well, I hated talking to Siri in public because about 70% of the time it did what I want and 30% of the time it made me feel like a fool for even trying. That 30% was what killed it for me after giving it a serious go around the time Apple
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by SllX 3y ago
Ah, yeah, they’re not really relevant here, not unless a hypothetical extradition were actually filed anyway but I was just answering OP.
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by SllX 3y ago
Yes, but context: >>> but my layperson understanding is that the US, for example, has some laws and precedents that might apply >> as far as US jurisdiction applies
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by SllX 3y ago
Well defamation isn’t a criminal offense so at most they could file a civil suit in a US court as far as US jurisdiction applies and maybe they would be able to make a case, but US jurisdiction doesn’t extend to Thailand. That said we’re no
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by SllX 3y ago
It doesn’t. Right now we’re having an anti-PRC moment. There are good and intelligent ways to have that moment, and there bad and stupid ways to have that moment. This is one of the latter, but Congress is a deliberative body within a free
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by SllX 3y ago
Kinda missing the forest for the trees here. What I’m driving at is that New Zealand and the United States are not easily comparable and just because New Zealand is doing a thing it does not follow that the United States also shall successf
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by SllX 3y ago
I wouldn’t necessarily expect us to follow New Zealand’s example. We’ve accumulated a lot of methods for exchanging money without really discarding any in particular. New Zealand is a small country way out in the middle of the South Pacific
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by SllX 3y ago
If they issue you a check you can take it to the banking institution listed on the check and they will honor it. The downside is, now you’re dealing with cash (and some companies went DD only a long time ago).
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by SllX 3y ago
It's not just desktops: https://browser.geekbench.com/mobile-benchmarks
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by SllX 3y ago
I mean at this point I’m pretty sure it is a personal blog but with an archive of OS-centric news from back when there was more variety in the field. But yeah, quit reading for the same reason. It’s one thing to be biased against a company,
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by SllX 3y ago
Chile isn't playing host to ESO owned and operated telescopes without their knowledge and consent, but ESO still owns the telescopes.
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by SllX 3y ago
There’s a lot of reception desks in the world. I mean that’s not the only market for iMacs but Apple could probably build a pretty good multi-billion dollar business going after just the reception desk market if they were dedicated to the c
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by SllX 3y ago
And in this thread we have AI Arms Race Janken.

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