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by bko 5mo ago
Why? They started the whole chatbot paradigm. They took the leap and are very generous with free tiers. I know people are upset about the non-profit thing but the fact is that was pretty much the only way forward if they wanted to have LLMs
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by bko 5mo ago
What you do says a lot more about you than what you answer in a survey. The obvious difference between LLM adoption and social media, if you think about it for longer than 10 seconds, is that there is social pressure to use social media. Yo
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by bko 5mo ago
In reality they like LLMs because they're the highest user of them. Pew reported 64% of U.S. teens used AI chatbots, while a Harvard study found 51% of ages 14–22 had used generative AI at some point. What you answer on a survey is mea
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by bko 5mo ago
Yes, I read about it. It doesn't really ring true to me. Some places don't pay overtime, true, but usually local mom and pop shops or jobs that are under the table. It's inconceivable to me that a large multi-national corpora
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by bko 5mo ago
I dont see your point. Because wage theft is a thing a small minority can steal and drive up costs for everyone. Also I never understood what wage theft really is. My experience has been the opposite. People paid to work and doing shit like
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by bko 5mo ago
Let me introduce you to Ring security cameras... Police cameras are actually very popular, as is private security. I've even heard rich people voluntarily pay private security with guns (!) to protect them. You're living in fantas
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by bko 5mo ago
> If you ask an average person whether they think crime has gone up or down they're likely to say "up by a lot." Which is basically uniformly untrue. If direct experience and official stats conflict, it's usually the
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by bko 5mo ago
The weird thing about surveillance is it's targets. If you want an orderly society and to enforce the law, there are easy ways to do so w/ no additional resources or powers. You can just start by enforcing the law. Open air illega
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by bko 5mo ago
I don't think there is "widespread concern". I'd be willing to bet >99% of people don't know what Flock is. But if you go ask people, in a non-duplicitous way, whether you want less of a police presence or curtai
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by bko 5mo ago
I think it's cool that they're actively trying to innovate in this space and relatively in the open. My favorite is when someone complains about their view count or something and head of product replies with screenshots or stats s
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by bko 5mo ago
Isn't it obvious? Because governments aren't good at management. There's no incentive or feedback loop. A company goes out of business if it's operationally a mess or doesn't deliver value. Not always but it's
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by bko 5mo ago
How are they "obviously evil"?
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by bko 5mo ago
> We need deterministic open systems where kids’ privacy is protected I don't think we need any computers really. They'll be inundated with computers and technology their whole lives. They'll figure it out. Just keep this
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by bko 5mo ago
What I don't understand about these specialized social networks, that obviously won't exist in a few months as they won't get traction, is why not just use the existing social networks? Instead of some LinkedIn / TikTok
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by bko 5mo ago
... and then everyone stood up and applauded.
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by bko 5mo ago
Men have to deal w/ violence or threat of violence. For all of history this has been the norm. Women are protected from violence. Let me give you an example. If a man called the police and told them his wife is hitting him, the police
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by bko 5mo ago
What mental gymnastics? Women that are abused often marry an abuser because it's just the way things are in relationships. For boys, fighting or threat of violence is just a fact of life. They are taught at a young age not to use that
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by bko 5mo ago
Because it may be effective for boys but not girls. Men have to deal with some form of violence in their lives, or at least the threat of it. Most male encounters has an undercurrent of violence. Offend another male and you might get assaul
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by bko 5mo ago
> From its deregulation in 1978 to the end of 2025, the airline industry has cumulatively lost money: its net profit over those 47 years sits at negative $37 billion. That was surprising. Goes against the idea that deregulation allows co
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Why airlines are always going bankrupt(davidoks.blog)
73 points by bko 5mo ago|72 comments
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by bko 5mo ago
Of course rules are circumvented. Maybe even frequently. But that doesn't mean on the margin none of this stuff has an impact and is not worth the effort. It's the whole "kids are going to drink anyway so I may as well buy th
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by bko 5mo ago
You can sell the stock. This isn't complicated.
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by bko 5mo ago
> other than the should-be-illegal process of putting debt on the acquired company's balance sheet. This is silly. No different than buying a house w/ borrowed money based on using that house as collateral. Banks aren't st
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by bko 5mo ago
Why can companies access and share information more easily than consumers? I get about a dozen fliers in the mail every week advertising deals that are surely loss leaders for the grocer. Then there's extreme couponing forums. Have you
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by bko 5mo ago
There is no monopoly. Grocers are incredibly competitive and have low single digit margins (~1-3%) There are things you can do to lower prices like prosecuting theft. In this case technology is part of the solution. Adding red tape and rest
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by bko 5mo ago
I think McDonalds dynamic pricing is great. Every time I checkout the app there is some crazy deal. Sure its not always something I want but I'm not necessarily competing w/ the other items on the menu. If there's no deal on
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by bko 5mo ago
Am I right to conclude all these AI platforms that do things like code review are just increasingly irrelevant wrappers around the top models? No one is actually training or even fine tuning models at this point, right? I remember when you
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by bko 5mo ago
I guess we're giving up on the idea that you're free to do whatever you want with software you own? Sure some project can tell you not to contribute AI generated code. But I see this as no different from DRM and user hostile
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by bko 5mo ago
Again, here is where I say a country broadly defined is land a group of people with a history and a shared set of values. Politicians or rich people can't control values. They can try to impact them. But it's out of their control
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by bko 5mo ago
> Those of us born and raised in a country are mostly blind to our own propaganda until we leave for a few years, live immersed within another culture, and realize how bizarre it is. I would not expect to go to a foreign country and not

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