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by bko 2mo ago
Google measures latency at microseconds.100 ms ≈ 0.2% fewer searches. Google tracks this very closely and invests a lot as that's the operational life blood of the company. You can make more money by simply making search easier. To sav
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by bko 3mo ago
I'd rather companies just provide me a service at a reasonable price. I don't need a corporation imposing it's ethics on me.
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by bko 3mo ago
Saying capital is a moat is not convincing. From the vast amount of VC money going around, nearly half a trillion expected in 2026, not including other forms of funding, it's safe to say that there is a lot of capital for people that c
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by bko 3mo ago
> AI may save us time, but if we simply reinvest that time into working harder and competing more, what have we actually gained? I think you may be in a bit of a bubble. Sure the Anthropic engineer is trying to token max. But "we&qu
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by bko 3mo ago
Investors aren't dumb. What does Ivy gain in this trade by just raising a lot of money and running it poorly? You think he can raise a huge round and just decide to pay himself $20m a year? Capital is not a moat. There are entire indus
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by bko 3mo ago
Am I just out of the loop but is $200+ for a children's bike absolutely insane?
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by bko 3mo ago
Very productive comment. Here is my reply: R&D spend does correlate with innovation and creativity. It’s surprising what it takes to consider something as R&D in a big company.
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by bko 3mo ago
Why do you ask questions you can easily ask to an LLM? You probably don't care, your world view is "Meta bad". Meta created and support React which runs much of the internet. Pytorch, which runs most AI models. GraphQL, Jest,
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by bko 3mo ago
> 2) Isn't it great that we can burn a bunch of dinosaur blood to convince ourselves that we don't need other humans? God I hate this cynical take. Yes human beings use energy. We should look to generate more energy as that&#x2
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by bko 3mo ago
You don't need a citation for everything. It's common sense. But sure, look at big tech with a money printing machine, insane margins and revenue. Amazon spends 90b a year on r&d (~14% of revenue). Meta is about 26% of revenue
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by bko 3mo ago
Birdsong and Golden Peanut together have controlled roughly 80% of U.S. peanut shelling, with Olam holding another 10% or more. Warner Bros. releases roughly 20-30 wide theatrical films per year, or about 8-12% of all U.S. theatrical releas
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by bko 3mo ago
Netflix completely changed the game. They paid huge amounts to produce original content. Direct to TV used to be an insult now you have triple A content direct to steaming. You forget what the market looked like pre Netflix. Sure you don&#x
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by bko 3mo ago
Do you think a company w less diversified source of income would be willing to take more risk, knowing that room for error is very small?
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by bko 3mo ago
What's your mental model for bigger company = worse movies? Here are a few positives: Larger movie catalog all under one place, better value bundle due to fewer transaction costs in negotiation. Imagine the extreme where every movie wa
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by bko 3mo ago
> Are you really comparing youtube with theatre movies? Yes I'm comparing youtube to movies. They're direct competitors. My decision on Friday night is often do I go to the movies or do I watch something on YouTube. > Do you
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by bko 3mo ago
> Can anyone rationally explain why a police agency that is interested in Flock would like to see one third-party camera integration that is in a children’s gymnastics room? I could think of one reason https://en.wikipedia.org
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by bko 3mo ago
How to make an apple pie from scratch with no copying: Step 1: invent the universe
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by bko 3mo ago
If you think Codex is some neutral harness designed to work equally as well for all LLMs, I got a bridge to sell you...
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by bko 3mo ago
Thats great, but the market will always be driven by rich developed countries. I don't think Anthropic and OpenAI is banking on third world adoption in their growth estimates.
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by bko 3mo ago
> Claude and OAI are not valued at $1T because of their harnesses They're valued at that because they add a lot of value and people pay for the product. The product is more than the LLM. If you want argue the value of the harness vs
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by bko 3mo ago
I think the risk is overstated. For one, on the margin people are willing to pay a lot for slightly better models. I know personally the value the LLM adds to my workflow is considerably more than the $200/m I pay the frontier labs. I
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by bko 3mo ago
The Fairphone 6 is about double the price of a comparable phone like Motorola Edge 60 Fusion. All these branded "fair" or "open" products are just not competitive and 99% of people aren't willing to pay such a big p
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by bko 3mo ago
Right, and people don't want to pay a high enough premium to justify the cost and design tradeoffs. That's how markets work. Mandating a more expensive product w features consumers aren't willing to pay for normally makes eve
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by bko 3mo ago
Why wouldn't one of the hundreds and probably thousands of companies that can make phones at scale not jump in? These are all pretty much off the shelf parts. Why did Google even attempt Project Ara? Why did Fairphone or Teracube never
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by bko 3mo ago
Why would a company choose to produce an inferior product? My guess is there is a trade of that's worth it on the product side. That's why you can't buy a compelling phone w a replaceable battery anywhere. Its an incredibly c
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by bko 3mo ago
this post has been flagged. Ironic
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by bko 3mo ago
Additional context: > NetzDG (2017/2018): Germany passed the NetzDG legislation in June 2017, which officially took effect in January 2018. Designed to combat hate speech online, it mandated that major social media platforms remove
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In Germany if you say a restaurant is just ok they send the gestapo after you(twitter.com)
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by bko 3mo ago
Not sure what "average corporate person" means, but if you're just a random dude and you trade on your golf buddies tips, no one is going to throw you in jail. Very few people get charged a year, like dozens. I'm sure &g
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by bko 3mo ago
What college kid would do that for $100? Seems like a lot of work. They might do it for free if they enjoy it or for a class, but purely for the money, not even close to being worth their time.

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