WarmWash

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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Can you explain to all of us what a national security letter is, and what it allows? I'll provide some helper information to get the ball rolling (see page 42)[1] [1] https://www.intelligence.gov/assets/documents&#x
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
>It is likely that the US will get a live feed from each AI provider that they are inspecting in real time to identity things of interest, terrorist attacks or foreign government planning or even foreign companies competitive to key US c
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
I don't know why people are so sure that Mythos level+ models will be made freely available. Obviously money is not freely distributed, so how could we possibly make the case that power will be? All that needs to happen is Xi Jinpeng
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Software is the cheapest of all engineering disciplines by far. Literally the only cost is time and a $20 computer. Compare to open source hardware, where you need a lab with thousands of dollars in equipment, need to consume supplies to bu
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
In tech/engineering/video game categories, ad-blocking is still around 40% of viewers. Basically things that people who still use desktops/laptops are into.
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Software has such a vibrant open source scene because software has probably the biggest impact-per-unit-time out of anything ever created and it has close to zero development cost and distribution cost. It's basically, skill+laptop+t
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
>Conversion rates across the board are around 1%. And then of those donations, most are the lowest tier/lowest increment.
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Seems ripe for civil litigation at least. Even if criminal charges are a slap on the wrist, civil damages could easily get into the billions. And good luck finding a jury that doesn't remember the national outcry about egg prices back
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
No one donates money. It doesn't happen. Conversion rates across the board are around 1%. And then of those donations, most are the lowest tier/lowest increment. It's the most annoying and persistent counterpoint brought up i
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Then start loading ads. Youtube's biggest threat ever died in the cradle because they foolishly thought users would volunteer money to them. No one with capital and capability looks at youtube, looks at youtube's audience, and say
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Creators get 60% of youtube's ad revenue from youtube. What does Peertube pay? There is your answer. If people want good stuff, there needs to be money flowing to the source of it. The internet desperately needs to shed this "ever
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Foobar2000 has an extension that allows you to blindly test whether you can tell the difference between two tracks.[1] The prime use is to compare different encodings of the same song from the same lossless master. It kind of changed me a b
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Then tell the courts to stop fining them and start fining all the closed platforms. There is a clear legal asymmetry where allowing competitors on your platform makes you liable if they complain, but blocking out everyone except for yoursel
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Google had an open (but maybe not perfectly open) platform and is paying out billions in anti-competitive fines because of it. None of the other platform vendors with totally closed platforms are paying out anything. So with even a room tem
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
When they saw everyone with a closed platform (apple, nintendo, sony, microsoft) not deal with any of this anti-competitive mess.
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Epic games sued both Apple and Google for anti-competitive behavior. Apple was found not guilty. Google was found anti-competitive. In the appeal, Google asked the judge why Apple wasn't anti-comptitive and the judge told them that App
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
They should have stuck with the charging money model instead of giving away services for the cost of attention. There is a deep irony in Google becoming one of the greatest corporations ever on the back of an ostensibly socialist utopia bus
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
China is an authoritarian ethnostate with mock capitalism experiments. If you want to climb into Xi Jinpeng's garden where he has absolute uncontested unilateral control for life, well, be warned.
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Epic games sued both Apple and Google for anti-competitive behavior on the respective platforms. Google was ruled a monopoly, Apple was not. Every took notes.
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
How many of those cattle have been slaughtered in the past 20 years? Unless seeing a Coca-Cola ad counts as slaughter. I suppose some could feel that way It's also great that European startups have privacy services, I pay for proton my
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
You can't really break the laws of thermodynamics because they are statistical laws, not absolute ones. When you have 10 atoms bouncing around you can pretty easily "break" the laws because you don't have the statistical
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
If google gives you full access to all their services for the $0.001 annually they get from you being part of an aggregate dataset of trillions of points, that's...a cause for outrage? Ain't nobody buying user data on users who bl
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Japan gets an economic pass because they have such a strict monoculture. In the same way you can "break" the laws of thermodynamics by getting every atom to move in the same direction at the same time, you can "break" th
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
You load google's ads and trackers?
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Do you know that feeling you feel when you are correct? Well, it's the exact same feeling as when you are wrong. This is something that has always stuck with me, and handy to keep in mind when arguing.
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
Raise your hand if you have ever intentionally clicked on a Google ad. Raise your hand if you use an ad blocker. I rest my case.
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
People aren't going to like this, but taking a page from Apple, Microsoft, Sony (iPhone, Xbox, Playstation), the solution to constant antitrust charges stemming from competitors on your platform....is to kick them off the platform. You
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
The consumer, who have never paid google a cent despite using their services daily for the last 20 years, likley spending a solid portion of their waking life on one of google's platforms, has never benefited? And you think local pla
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
But if you have the skill to turn $250k into much more money, anyone with $250k and that knowledge will give it to you. There are far far more stories of investors giving nascent broke startups money than families.
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by WarmWash 4mo ago
I think it is pretty clear that knowledge workers are internalizing the gains that newer and newer tools (and higher and higher rungs on the global economic ladder) have provided them, while at the same time capturing less of the overall ga

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