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by boplicity 7mo ago
If someone pays for a product, and then gets support for it, that's not FREE support. That's paid support. It's not their fault if the company they're a customer of loses money when they support those they've sold a
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by boplicity 7mo ago
40 years from now we won't be able to boot our device until an LLM codes the software on the fly for it. (Each time it boots, of course.)
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by boplicity 7mo ago
Remember, the reason the iPad doesn't do Steam is because Apple won't let it. It is perfectly capable otherwise.
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by boplicity 7mo ago
I wonder if there is an enterprise market for a fully audited, fully customizable phone that can be deployed across an entire organization, giving the institution full control of the software, apps, security, usage, etc.
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by boplicity 7mo ago
Companies like Burger King spend significant amounts of money on quality control, including customer service interaction. (Hence, mystery shopping being a thing.) I wouldn't be surprised if they find more ways to add AI into the loop,
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by boplicity 7mo ago
Give buses signal priority and their own lanes. This would dramatically speed up bus service. However, nobody wants to slow down cars, hence buses will always be a worse option.
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by boplicity 8mo ago
Programmers have always been in search of an additional layer of abstraction. LLM coding feeds exactly into this impulse.
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by boplicity 8mo ago
Money laundering has always been a core feature of cryptocurrency, not an edge case.
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by boplicity 8mo ago
Redistributing copyrighted content is the literal definition of copyright infringement. Using it for your own purposes, without distribution, is another story. This link was posted with intent to facilitate the distribution of copyrighted m
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by boplicity 8mo ago
And by making it easy for them to circumvent copyright, they have even less incentive to support the journalists who did the reporting.
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by boplicity 8mo ago
> So I guess the key takeaway is basically that the better Claude gets at producing polished output, the less users bother questioning it. This is exactly what I worry about when I use AI tools to generate code. Even if I check it, and i
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by boplicity 8mo ago
Please understand that circumventing copyright makes it more difficult for journalists to make a living.
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Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran(nytimes.com)
552 points by boplicity 8mo ago|265 comments
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by boplicity 8mo ago
I don't know -- but I'm a paid subscriber to 4 newspapers.
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by boplicity 8mo ago
You can't pay $.001 to $0.05 to get someone to do actual reporting.
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by boplicity 8mo ago
News companies already have syndication, and revenue sharing based on it. A subscription to a newspaper often includes many articles written by other newspapers, distributed via syndication agreements.
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by boplicity 8mo ago
You know who isn't arguing for micropayments for news articles? Pretty much every damn publisher. Nobody who wants to build a stable business would want to depend on micropayments. Such a system would be a race to the bottom, just lik
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by boplicity 8mo ago
Benchmark maxing could be interpreted as benchmarks actually being a design framework? I'm sure there are pitfalls to this, but it's not necessarily bad either.
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by boplicity 8mo ago
Google Ads, especially Google Maps, has tons of paid ads for local restaurants. So does Uber Eats and similar ilk. I particularly despise these ads in Maps because the ad often obscures the search result I'm looking for -- and I end up
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by boplicity 8mo ago
People almost never admit it when they respond to an ad. Even when they very clearly do. Don't underestimate the effectiveness of advertising, or its ability to influence you.
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by boplicity 8mo ago
> the products they are pumping out don't serve anyone's need or solve anyone's problem. This isn't true though. Yes, there are too many products being build that don't serve anyone's needs or solve anyone&#
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by boplicity 8mo ago
I can't help but think this is a reflection of the unwillingness of most people to actually pay for journalism online — and worse, the active and intentional effort to subvert copyright, making it more difficult for journlists to actua
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by boplicity 8mo ago
Can you clarify why it is absurd to add density to an area with huge 5 acre lots?
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by boplicity 8mo ago
Yeah -- I know I could probably get a better deal. I pay more for premium support ($200), as well as a North American location. Plus, probably an addition premium for not wanting to go through the effort of switching servers.
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by boplicity 8mo ago
It's a server with: - 2x Intel Xeon 5218 - 128gb Ram - 2x960GB SSD - 30TB monthly bandwidth I pay around an extra $200/month for "premium" support and Acronis backups, both of which have come in handy, but are probably n
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by boplicity 8mo ago
I don't know. I rent a bare metal server for $500 a month, which is way overkill. It takes almost no time to manage -- maybe a few hours a year -- and can handle almost anything I throw at it. Maybe my needs are too simple though?
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by boplicity 8mo ago
The cost is a factor -- and something that I think policy makers should very much push to change. For our family of four, two of us pay for public transport as of now. That adds up to $12 round trip; which is often more expensive than parki
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by boplicity 8mo ago
Is it at all possible to have a policy that bans the submission of any AI written text, or text that was written with the assistance of AI tools? I understand that this would, by necessity, be under an "honor system" but maybe it
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by boplicity 8mo ago
> In numerous incidents, DHS’s narrative of what led up to a shooting has later been proven to be inaccurate. Not only are they lying about what happens when they shoot people, they vindictively charge their victims with a crime, turning
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Trump aides declared 16 DHS shootings justified before probes completed(washingtonpost.com)
46 points by boplicity 8mo ago|7 comments

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