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by ajam1507 8mo ago
You're right that modern video games and Netflix are a good examples of things that are non-ad-based, but are insidiously addictive. I used "insidiously addictive" to mean something which is engineered specifically to maximiz
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
Surely you're just being pedantic by pointing out that platforms can advertise themselves without paying money to themselves. If those same advertisements were on another platform they would be compensated ads.
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
Do you have a specific example of a subscription based platform that is as insidiously addicting as the ad supported ones?
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
> But we know reddit and HN are definitely not mainstream. Reddit is one of the most visited websites on the planet, not sure how you can say it isn't mainstream. > Is this hurting Amazon? No, it is not. Depends on your definitio
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
Who would possibly hold them to this exact mission statement? What possible benefit could there be to remove the word except if they wanted this exact headline for some reason?
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
Even without the rounded corners it was more difficult than it needed to be. The corner resize should take up way more of the sides of the window. If my mouse is 90% of the way to the corner, what are the odds that I want to resize the wind
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
The same could be said for humans. We treat humans as if they have choices, a consistent self, a persistent form. It's really just the emergent behavior of matter functioning in a way that generates an illusion of all of those things.
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
Don't be surprised when this bleeds over into how you treat people if you decide to do this. Not to mention that you're reifying its humanity by speaking to it not as a robot, but disrespectfully as a human.
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
The surprise revelation is that the footage is still recoverable after 3 hours.
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
Grow a spine, you don't get a pass to do unethical things because your job depends on it.
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
The crowd elected Donald Trump -- twice.
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
> Porn seems to be sustainably self funding; no need for government stimulus. Only because you haven't seen the plans for the Large Hardon Collider
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
You could say the same thing about the world wars or porn. Any human pursuit taken to an extreme can produce knock-on effects, that isn't an argument in a vacuum to continue to fund any one area.
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
> I would argue its completely futile to even work on guardrails Maybe if humans were the only ones prompting AI models
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
This seems much more terse than Gemini usually is, are you prompting it to do that?
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
> If it was a house next door allowing a homeless encampment the owner would be paying fines I don't see why this is to be expected, but a business shouldn't expect to pay a fine >not to mention he would be living in a homel
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
SF is not the only place where housing is expensive. There are plenty of cities where they could build more housing and they don't because it isn't profitable or because they don't have the workers to build more, not because
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
The probability is exactly 0% if the city doesn't allow it. This has nothing to do with zoning. If it was a house next door allowing a homeless encampment would you conclude that having houses next to other houses should be disallowed?
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
Is it engagement-bait to say that they suddenly stopped publishing and removed the archives if they suddenly stopped publishing and removed the archives?
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
Seems quite obvious that they do, within reason.
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
> Tests (as usually written, in unit-test form) only tell you that it's not completely broken, they're not a good indicator of it working well otherwise "vibecoded slop" wouldn't be a thing You can certainly end
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
> As long the tactics are legal ( i.e. not corporate espionage, bribes etc), the no holds barred full free market competition is the best thing for the market and the consumers. The implicit assumption here is that we have constructed ou
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
Surely other countries manage it without having a QI doctrine.
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Evolved Virtual Creatures (1994)(karlsims.com)
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
We're not at the point where we are replacing all software developers entirely (and will never be without real AGI), but we are definitely at the point where scaling back headcount is possible. Also, creating software is much more test
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
Will we see growing unemployment in software development? Maybe in the short term, but the appetite for software is not finite just as the appetite for any other kind of economic tool is not finite. What percentage of software just ceases d
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by ajam1507 8mo ago
There is practically infinite land in which to build a datacenter.
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by ajam1507 9mo ago
Bribery is illegal. What hope do you have for due process and the rule of law when it is being carried out as it is now? You can't use an extraordinary case to justify your belief about the ordinary case. Also, we don't live in a
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by ajam1507 9mo ago
Clearly there needs to be room for both things to occur. You should absolutely begin with passing laws, but to think that the laws on the books can cover every situation is naive. When companies skirt the law and cause harm, there needs to
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by ajam1507 9mo ago
> If a place wants this kind of land use and not that kind, then they need to write that down in a statute so everyone knows the rules. Ironically this is a recipe for how you get nothing built. Zoning laws are much more potent than peop

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