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by barnabee 3y ago
Maybe you're an aspiring entrepreneur for the wrong reason, then. Start a business to solve a problem. If you really build something users like, with a decent market, you will do fine (as will/have the founders of Figma). If you h
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by barnabee 3y ago
There is no way a company Adobe's size should ever be allowed to grow by acquisition. At a certain point that route needs to be cut off forever.
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by barnabee 3y ago
If RCS goes live on all Apple devices in all jurisdictions and that solves the problem then great!
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by barnabee 3y ago
No. Apple given their scale and position in the market should be forced to operate and interoperate with an open standard for messaging. iMessage should no longer allowed to be proprietary and stay part of Apple.
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by barnabee 3y ago
I’d block ads out side of my computer if it was possible, so absolutely need to block all ads in any app.
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by barnabee 3y ago
Mastodon is a different product than what I use Twitter for, but for some use cases and communities seems pretty great. Zero chance of replacing Twitter. Threads is terrible. Not infeasible that it makes it eventually but it’s just so bad I
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by barnabee 3y ago
I assume Pornhub is doing ok (you say it has lots of users). Are you suggesting it would somehow be better with Disney ads?
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by barnabee 3y ago
This all seems so backwards to me. I had cut my use of Twitter by probably >90% and uninstalled the app after they killed 3rd party clients, in a large part because that meant I was now seeing any ads at all. I started paying for Premium
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by barnabee 3y ago
Yes, to a large extent they are.
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by barnabee 3y ago
This reads like a combination of pessimism and nostalgia has allowed you to cherry pick the worst of now and the best of the past and conince yourself it is net bad. I see all of these negatives, and agree it is clear there is much that is
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by barnabee 3y ago
I haven’t used Google as more than an occasional backup for years, and even less since I switched from DuckDuckGo to Kagi a few months back. The more I eliminate anything to do with ads from my life, the better things get,
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by barnabee 3y ago
Not surprising to me at all, in approximate order of real, practical importance (and power, if they all band together): employees founder/CEO customers investors board stuff written on pieces of paper Yes, there are certainly exception
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by barnabee 3y ago
I agree with that. Government officials and politicians should have effectively no conflicts of interest because they have no real way to seek valid approval from the electorate for them. For companies, if you have investors, employees, and
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by barnabee 3y ago
Can you explain why it would be unethical , if the contracts with those investors do not explicitly state there will be exclusivity? Investors buy shares (or similar), and maybe some other rights or benefits with money. They do this with a
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by barnabee 3y ago
I disagree that the “rationalist” and EA movements would make good decisions “for the benefit of humanity”, not that an open (and open source) AI development organisation working for the benefit of the people rather than capital/corpor
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by barnabee 3y ago
If "AI ethics" means being run by so-called rationalists and Effective Altruists then it has nothing to do with ethics or doing anything for the benefit of all humanity. It would be great to see a truly open and truly human benefi
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by barnabee 3y ago
FT reporting investors pushing to get him back at OpenAI https://www.ft.com/content/466bf00a-1e76-4255-be2b-3c1d37508... unpaywalled- https://archive.ph/zZWUy
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by barnabee 3y ago
I’m still furious that this is considered patentable.
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by barnabee 3y ago
In London there are plenty of both smaller more independent individual and small chains like Second Home [1] of co-working spaces as well as larger players like The Office Group [2]. I've not found the environment at most WeWorks to be
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by barnabee 3y ago
Can you explain why this looks like the "worst combined with the awful" to you? To me, on the surface, particularly assuming you are building a distributed system to be run and deployed by many users, some of which are not profess
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by barnabee 3y ago
It’s unethical to stand by and allow a manufacturer this kind of control over their customers either by legal or technological means. It should be illegal to impose such terms on anyone who purchases anything from you. Freeing those phones
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by barnabee 3y ago
Less monetisation. The web was just fine when it didn't directly make anybody any money.
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by barnabee 3y ago
I’d still take it over almost every web “UI”.
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by barnabee 3y ago
That's a fair point, but in terms of the right to use and modify free software there's no difference between an end user and a distro creator. What if a user themes their apps a bit and publishes their configs? What if that turns
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by barnabee 3y ago
Sure, and if they just said "we'll close tickets for anything to do with theming" or similar, it'd be fine, but instead we get: > We understand the need for distributions to stand out. However, we urge you to find way
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by barnabee 3y ago
Completely antithetical to free software. If I want to modify your code or the environment it runs in, I will. Gnome is not an OS or a "platform", it is free (as in freedom!) software to be used and tied together however the users
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by barnabee 3y ago
Vanity metric. The only thing you need to know is how many people paid for your product.
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by barnabee 3y ago
> improve your product significantly without as much subjectivity It's fake objectivity that often leads to a race to the boottom. Between "engagement" as a terrible proxy for user happiness/success and the idea that
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by barnabee 3y ago
From where I’m sitting it doesn’t appear to be localised.
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by barnabee 3y ago
They are also building in pretty serious Python interop. You should be able to at least somewhat mix the two or migrate gradually, and still use Python libs for less performance critical code (or if the libs do their performance critical

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