axlee

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by axlee 3y ago
No one outside of select circles cares.
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by axlee 3y ago
Pegasus is notoriously sold to more than 40 countries worldwide, among them a fair share of dictatorships: Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, (Hungary?), Bahrain, Russia...
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by axlee 3y ago
> The NSO is only supplying a product for which there is insatiable demand from every government. There is also insatiable demand for nuclear weapons, but if a private company from the US started selling them to random dictatorships, yes
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by axlee 3y ago
Why would you trust anything a spyware company says? This is not a tongue-in-cheek question.
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by axlee 3y ago
Youtube is somewhere between number 2 and 5 in traffic ranking in Japan. What are you on about?
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by axlee 3y ago
I think Apple will be a lot more hurt by not having Youtube on their devices than the other way around. Youtube is ubiquitous and has no alternative. If I was Alphabet, the price would be 0.
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by axlee 3y ago
A clear sign that good anti-monopoly regulations result in a better world. Less rent-seeking from Apple at the expense of smaller software developers, more agency for users when it comes to choosing their browser engine. I am sorry for non-
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by axlee 3y ago
Where is the face enhancing feature?
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by axlee 3y ago
Can't any random international bank propose the same service for cheaper? Or are they already making more money than Wise ever would by taking larger fees?
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by axlee 3y ago
I think one of the biggest barriers is that the human brain isn't running on binary code, and attempting to replicate it on our current technology model is doomed to encounter emulation issues.
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by axlee 3y ago
The gotcha is that these stores aren't theirs. Rolex is very happy to use retailers to sell their watches, they're just not happy with retailers having the freedom to sell their watches as they deem appropriate. It's basicall
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by axlee 3y ago
Unless the OP is using a 8K monitor with professional color grading, I don't understand how he can say that some of these pictures are "looking like shit". They all look exactly the same to me on my regular 27" 1080p, on
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by axlee 3y ago
It's so weird that an oligopolistic industry with the largest barriers to entry (your average CPU factory will cost $5/10+ billions, and that's just the factory) have the lowest margin, by far. Why is that so?
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by axlee 3y ago
The big difference is that Apple isn't the largest advertising company in the world, and makes money through other ways.
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by axlee 3y ago
What exactly is the issue with proprietary drivers? They ship the hardware, they ship the driver(s). That's their problem. They probably want people to be able to use their cards. Why fight this battle? If Nvidia wants to lose Linux us
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by axlee 3y ago
In Java, BigDecimal ( https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/api/java.base... ) is the standard. It's used widely in every bank around the world. In Python, you have Decimal. In C#,
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by axlee 3y ago
Haven't most of these codebases moved to C#/Java over the past 20 years? I feel like Cobol is truly a thing of the past, even for your average old-school bank/insurance behemoth, but then I might live in a bubble.
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by axlee 3y ago
VTV (to name the biggest one) has been consistently either tracking below or severely underperforming the S&P. If there is value to be found, that's not there.
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by axlee 3y ago
He's simply trying to dismantle the Swedish social contract right now, but he's a good boy you see? Let's make him richer and gain more influence!
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by axlee 3y ago
"Not voting for [xxx] because you hate [xxx] is just as silly as voting for [xxx] because you hate [xxx]"
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by axlee 3y ago
Value investing has very little to do with investing in ETFs/indexes. By definition, investing in an ETF can't be value investing, because value investing is about picking (yes, picking) stocks that are undervalued. And that impli
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by axlee 3y ago
Isn't it very easy to "dump" electricity? Why even sell it?
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by axlee 3y ago
On which planet is nuclear more expensive than the ones you mentioned?
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by axlee 3y ago
Obviously. The surface for such an enterprise is tiny, while a worldwide multinational with hundred of thousands of employees and contractors can't afford that luxury.
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by axlee 3y ago
"Why should I be the one to take out the trash?"
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by axlee 3y ago
It's just a bunch of privileged armchair humanitarians who never left the confines of their fancy circles, let alone been confronted to the things they're trying to fix. They think they can fix issues better than NGOs which have h
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by axlee 3y ago
Scraping is about hundred of millions/billions of pages, not thousands.
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by axlee 3y ago
I don't see how that contradicts my point. With your provider, we're talking about a 100% price increase, for what can't be more than a few points of accuracy in return (and a huuuuge slowdown, because LLMs are slow). At scal
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by axlee 3y ago
No large-scale email scraper has the budget necessary to run the content it scrapes through a LLM. So as far as real-world goes, nothing changes: the .2 cents it would cost to run ChatGPT on a page to extract potentially obfuscated emails w
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by axlee 3y ago
How could the system even guess that you'd be departing from home? That you'll need transport to and from the court? That you want to play for one hour? I don't see these statements as "assembly language", they are

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