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by arbuge 3y ago
> any cookie specifying non-consent is in itself anonymous If you really make it anonymous, the downside then is that you have to keep asking the same visitor over and over again, each time they visit.
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by arbuge 3y ago
"Companies could easily avoid any cookie banner. Just don’t track." It seems like a point dear to the author's heart, given the way he highlights this and puts it in bold at the top of the article. But while it sounds good on
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by arbuge 3y ago
> If you’re already set for life it’s less risky to play the odds by investing in hundreds of startups rather than starting one. Risky is not the word I would use to phrase that, at least not in the financial sense. There's little s
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by arbuge 3y ago
Moral of the story: Fire bad clients.
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by arbuge 3y ago
Getting into definitions here, but I would personally consider that image generator to be a nerfed tool, incapable of generating many kinds of images.
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by arbuge 3y ago
It will be impossible to stop this kind of behavior without completely nerfing these tools.
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Airport Concessions in the USA(twitter.com)
36 points by arbuge 3y ago|16 comments
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by arbuge 3y ago
We’re here.
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by arbuge 3y ago
How is sound handled? All I see in the Gemini docs is a terse sentence that says it isn’t included, which doesn’t sound like an optimal solution.
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by arbuge 3y ago
Looks like a really useful library - thanks for the tip.
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The Mutant Wolves of Chernobyl Have Evolved to Survive Cancer(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by arbuge 3y ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 3y ago
That's not the same Magic...
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by arbuge 3y ago
It’s not a bad idea to keep stuff running on a shoestring budget to keep an eye on things, in case things change again.
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by arbuge 3y ago
Looks quite human. Usual mix of user agents and visit durations. It’s not hard to fake that though, I guess.
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by arbuge 3y ago
Reddit has always been like that, but X formerly converted quite well for us.
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by arbuge 3y ago
We advertise on X and have done so for many years now (well, it was Twitter for most of that period). Indeed we can confirm that we saw a big change happen around a couple of months ago or so - sometime towards the end of last year. Our ads
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by arbuge 3y ago
It does sound strange to me. Other countries have much lower healthcare costs per capita than the US. They achieved that without any need for groundbreaking VC-funded startups. Perhaps there are some lower-hanging fruits here.
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by arbuge 3y ago
Genuinely curious to ask HN this: what are you using local models for?
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Confessions of an AI Clickbait Kingpin(wired.com)
5 points by arbuge 3y ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 3y ago
Arlington as in Arlington County, Virgina, to be clear... quite a few Arlingtons in the US.
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by arbuge 3y ago
And those are just the known unknowns. Besides those, to borrow from Rumsfeld, there are the unknown unknowns.
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by arbuge 3y ago
I built https://QexAI.com . I also use LLMs in some other web apps, but mainly as incidental writing aids, rather than the central feature of the app.
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by arbuge 3y ago
Eh, YMMV. There are innumerable stories of SaaS companies succeeding with referrals and free trials. And coupons + referrals have been the lifeblood of retail ecommerce for ages. All of these are a function of what you put into them though.
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by arbuge 3y ago
Everybody has their Far Side favorite... here's mine: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/54184001740077889/
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by arbuge 3y ago
One thing which caught my eye in this is that he says this is largely a US problem: > “The office market has an existential crisis right now,” which is largely a US phenomenon because workers haven’t gone back to their desks, Sternlicht
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Billionaire Sternlicht Sees $1T Loss in Office Values(bloomberg.com)
5 points by arbuge 3y ago|1 comments
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by arbuge 3y ago
> A replacement car is out of the question, because she barely has enough money for rent. But even if Luna had the funds to go shopping, it’s unlikely she’d find anything remotely reasonable. The average new car today sells for nearly $4
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Why Did Car Insurance Get So Expensive?(bloomberg.com)
3 points by arbuge 3y ago|6 comments
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by arbuge 3y ago
I tried something along those lines a few years ago… https://publicemails.com
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by arbuge 3y ago
For a long time we were pretty sure that we had the oldest free-standing structures (i.e. buildings) in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalithic_Temples_of_Malta Apparently there's an even older contend

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