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by blagie 1y ago
It's double-return-fraud. Amazon shouldn't sell returned products as "new," but as "open box." The other way it happens is co-mingling. Some vendor sends an "open box" product to Amazon as new, or a f
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by blagie 1y ago
Bad DRM led to Napster led to Netflix lead to a fragmentation of services led to a resurgence of piracy. Similar thing happened with music, only rather than piracy, it landed on legal / free (e.g. Youtube). Youtube is just starting to
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by blagie 1y ago
The cycle has been: Piracy -> Friendly ways to buy -> Unfriendly ways to buy -> Piracy -> ... Unfortunately, giving money back to writers involves hopping through piracy. At that point, a new, consumer-friendly service will spro
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by blagie 1y ago
I don't know the full set of differentiators. For me (not quite at the A1000 level, but just above -- still in the prosumer price range), a major one is ECC. Thermals and size are a bit better too, but I don't see that as $500 bet
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by blagie 1y ago
Four of these together should, in the abstract, let you run 200GB models, which is where things get very, very interesting. The biggest Deepseek V2 models would just fit, as would some of the giant Meta open source models. Those have rather
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by blagie 1y ago
Well, no. It doesn't. The comparison is to the A1000. Toss in a 5060 Ti into the compare table, and we're in an entirely different playing field. There are reasons to buy the workstation NVidia cards over the consumer ones, but th
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by blagie 1y ago
The whole design was based on things to make pages not discoverable except to sketchy AI companies who violate web norms.
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by blagie 1y ago
"want to exploit"????
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by blagie 1y ago
It's competition. Poison increases in toxicity over time. I could generate subtly wrong information on the internet LLMs would continue to swallow up.
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by blagie 1y ago
I'd be totally down with "content belongs to everyone." The problem is when you steal my content, repackage it, and resell it. At that point, my content doesn't belong to everyone, or even to me, but to you. * I'd h
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by blagie 1y ago
The curve is getting steeper, yes. That's not a contrast to the "AI will replace programmers" rhetoric. Steeper means: higher at the top. Lower on the bottom. Right now, AI can do the job of the bottom large percentage of pro
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by blagie 1y ago
> If entire commit is generated by AI then it is obvious what created it - it’s AI. This is not the case. The output of a compiler is 100% created by a compiler too. Copyright is based on where the creative aspect comes from. I have had
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by blagie 1y ago
Because such cases don't really exist. Your text used an unusual double ellipsis (" .. " instead of "... "), uncommon (not rare) generative vocabulary ("panacea"), etc. Statistics on those allows for prett
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by blagie 1y ago
The entire mess isn't with data in databases, but on laptops for offline analysis, in log files, backups, etc. It's easy enough to have a SQL query to delete a users' data from the production database for real. It's all
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by blagie 1y ago
This data cannot be anonymized. This is trivial provable, both mathematically, but given the type of data, it should also be intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer. If you're talking to ChatGPT about being hunted by a Mex
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by blagie 1y ago
I will mention. Ocean Cleanup has a 55 million Euro budget. Precious Plastic is being criticized for having squandered a 100k donation. That 550 times less. Ocean Cleanup claims to have removed 21,000 metric tons of plastic in its existence
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by blagie 1y ago
I agree with almost everything, except that it's a problem if someone donates. Some of the donation game is a competition (for example, applying for grants, or foundation funding), where the dynamic you described dominates. Much of it
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by blagie 1y ago
"Con" is a strong word, and I'm not sure appropriate. If someone was taking a $500k salary from donated funds, I'd feel it's a con. I see nothing to that effect. People without a clue sometimes pick up a clue after
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by blagie 1y ago
I'd pay money for one of these, if it had the keys which I want, which this one doesn't. I think the trick would be to somehow make it customizable, but I'm not sure the best way to do that. Parametrized PCB design? 3d printi
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by blagie 1y ago
I'm holding out for "Ultra Max Pro." (Comment is on the horrible naming; good naming schemes plan ahead for next month's offerings)
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by blagie 1y ago
Drop a Google Streetview in the middle on downtown classical Gothenberg, and try to find a wood construction building. Sweden is about as northern Europe as it gets. Head over to Amsterdam, and it will look pretty similar. It will be relati
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by blagie 1y ago
Why? That seems dumb. We have concrete buildings going back to Greek and Roman times, mostly standing. Wooden buildings have a very finite lifespan, and, aside from earthquakes, much less so in a disaster. A wooden city and a steel/bri
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by blagie 1y ago
It's going to become acute well before. It's more like the tragedy of the commons. You need a tax / working base of some size to produce enough stuff. That simply won't be in place when the current kids are adults, and a
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by blagie 1y ago
No, the population has not "levelled out" in Korea. These dynamics have a pretty long timeline. To give an extreme example, if you, for example, have a city with 10M old people who can't have kids anymore, you can reliably pr
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by blagie 1y ago
I'll give another lens for why lifetime subscriptions often make sense. Places to consider them: * Non-profits * Clubs * Academic organizations * Educational / semi-educational companies * ... The key thing to remember is that the
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by blagie 1y ago
> You argue that housing has a finite supply, but that's true of cars and steel and everything: there is always a finite supply Land is a finite supply. With zoning (and with exponentially rising costs for skyscrapers over one-story
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by blagie 1y ago
You misunderstand both my premise and basic economics. I would recommend reading the original Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, which forms the basis of modern capitalism. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300 It's
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by blagie 1y ago
I'm not so sure. I can describe some of the paradoxes in our social systems in-depth, but it's often the poorest people saying we can't afford social improvements.
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by blagie 1y ago
A major goal of policy is to set incentives to which people optimize. The "capitalist soul sucking robber barons" are doing exactly what the incentives we set up push for. If they didn't, boards of directors / shareholde
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by blagie 1y ago
It's a little bit different. "The projects" were only available to the very poor, and often by lottery. They often turned into a ghetto. I'd like a baseline option open to everyone. If you just finished Stanford, and wan

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