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by braiamp 2mo ago
> The problem is that any age verification system effectively becomes an identity verification system. And such tools rarely remain "just for kids"—they quickly become used for other purposes. The only secure way is to verify n
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by braiamp 2mo ago
Because that's structured data and structured data is usually hidden away from users _and_ machines. Product rarely want to be honest, unless it's B2B in a very competitive market (and even then!). So, yeah, it's not that the
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by braiamp 2mo ago
I clicked flag, then clicked to unflag. Nothing changed
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by braiamp 2mo ago
So you agree that consumers mostly see the sticker price and don't think much about the quality of the product, therefore there must be protections ensuring that the product is at least fit for purpose.
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by braiamp 2mo ago
What the heck are you talking about? Both Apple and Google were hit by the EU anti-gatekeeping law. I am not going to engage with the rest since it's based on a supposition that is plainly wrong.
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by braiamp 2mo ago
Nobody is questioning consumer behavior, consumers would buy bread with sawdust if it was cheaper, they don't because we have standards to protect consumers that makes it illegal to sell it. This is the same principle but with a more s
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by braiamp 2mo ago
I don't know how the specifics would work, but if they reversed course immediately, they would have still caused some harm to some consumers during a specific amount of time.
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by braiamp 2mo ago
If McDonalds were the only restaurant allowed to sell food within a particular market, and you couldn't buy food there from anyone else, then yes, your analogy would work. Otherwise it doesn't. A closer analogy would be Apple or t
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by braiamp 2mo ago
The PS5 was breaking even less than 6 months after its release. They don't subsidize anything. BTW, Nintendo also don't subsidize it. The BOM of the Switch 1 and 2 is lower than the total price including the margins for retailers!
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by braiamp 2mo ago
I don't think that potential reputational damage should be used as an excuse for monopolizing software distribution. Sony can have a tightly curated PlayStation Store and build its reputation around it without that necessarily implying
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by braiamp 2mo ago
If people actually read the claims... it's about fair business practices, this is why they are suing Sony: > ... In the EU, it is forbidden for large companies to abuse their position to make more profit at the expense of consumers.
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by braiamp 2mo ago
Anyone can access the letter PDF? I've been trying this link and it only timeout https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/oai_abbot-texas-letter_8-7-26.pdf
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by braiamp 2mo ago
Voting with your wallet only works when there is a enough meaningful alternatives and switching between them isn't prohibitively costly. You can vote with your wallet for which bottle of water you are going to drink, but you can't
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by braiamp 2mo ago
I would say that some systems are not designed to be discriminatory against a group, but since the designer blind spot for the problem might still play a part. Systems designed to be "neutral" has to be evaluated against a ideal n
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by braiamp 2mo ago
Which wouldn't matter where the data is located, so I don't think that this is the reason Fastmail is doing it, because a savvy enough company would know that the problem is that the company is US based.
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by braiamp 2mo ago
If by teams you mean the manager of the team, then no. If by teams you mean each individual can evaluate their role and say "I do not need to come to the office at all", then yes.
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by braiamp 2mo ago
When I talk about capital owners I meant their home, savings, etc. So yes, the invested capital is vulnerable, that's the point. Their personal exposure is limited instead. And "otherwise there would be no capitalism" is basi
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by braiamp 2mo ago
I can't find it anymore, but I'm pretty sure that the only reason they don't say it support TB5 is because they would need a license to say so.
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by braiamp 2mo ago
> the problem with unions is that they tend to enjoy legal protections not afforded to anyone else Capital has higher protections than unions, what are you on about? You have the corporate veil whereas the liability stops at the organiza
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by braiamp 2mo ago
Part of what made the "no union" deal work out for early tech employees was that supply was scarce and demand was exploding. Good pay and equity weren't really a function of not having a union, they were a function of being e
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by braiamp 2mo ago
The same way every other union works... I don't get your question? The unions that do work, are not the ones you see on tv. When something explodes, specially a union, it gets massive coverage. When a union works, any achivement gets b
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by braiamp 2mo ago
Salary isn't even be all end all. In fact, higher salary might be worse, because in total you have to pay out of pocket for things your europeans counterparts. Therefore they should have more discretionary income compared to a US worke
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by braiamp 2mo ago
What would you have done Instagram from instead of Django?
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by braiamp 2mo ago
Can confirm in non-European country. In Dominican Republic they don't count either
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by braiamp 2mo ago
That naming only works if you commit to the bit even when it doesn't make sense. That builds branding.
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by braiamp 2mo ago
Doing business is doing business, money isn't necessary to "do business". If you hold any interest and that person has any relationship with you in a way that can be inferred that a contract is implied, then that's busin
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by braiamp 2mo ago
I don't know why the framing. This is easy: review the cases. If it has his hand it's tainted one way or the other. That's it.
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by braiamp 2mo ago
At least it is self describing, unlike some other projects that are like "An alternative to faomz with deliric integration"
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by braiamp 3mo ago
It's mostly that we have too many false findings pre-clinical trials, most drug targets validated in models that don't actually hold up in humans, so a huge share of the 90% failure is money and years spent testing candidates that
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by braiamp 3mo ago
I had to look what "clinical failure rate" means and I think I got the answer in this paper [1] and... I'm not going to say that it is worrisome. Unlike other industries, we can't accurately model in the pre-prototype ph

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