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901.
by brookst 7mo ago
Usage will be roughly a bell curve. Losing money on the extreme upper end is NOT a reason to raise prices for everyone, because that will decrease overall revenue (see: price elasticity). ToS is the right knob here. When 0.05% of your custo
902.
by brookst 7mo ago
Accuracy matters. Pizzas and tires are both round, but you do different things with them.
903.
by brookst 7mo ago
This whole argument can be made for why every programmer needs to deeply understand assembly language and computer hardware. At a certain point, higher level languages stop working. Performance, low level control of clocks and interrupts, e
904.
by brookst 7mo ago
Reductionism is so cringe. Intel sold chips to anyone. Anyone could make Intel computers. Apple does not sell chips to anyone. Nobody else can make m-series computers. Your argument is basically that Ford has a monopoly on selling mustangs
905.
by brookst 7mo ago
It’s what you say to establish it’s a professional action taken for business reasons.
906.
by brookst 7mo ago
If I give you a dollar and you say it’s being spent wisely, Beyonce loves the product, you’re about to land Taylor Swift as pro bono public ambassador… yeah that’s fraud.
907.
by brookst 7mo ago
Exactly this. At this point I read markdown as if it were rendered, with the exception of tables which are a mess visually in plain text. But everything else, headings and bold and italics and lists, I’m honestly not sure I can tell the dif
908.
by brookst 7mo ago
No, it is priced correctly. Just because outliers can be money-losing doesn’t mean you should raise the price for everyone.
909.
by brookst 7mo ago
> The agent consuming those tokens is irrelevant. This is so wrong. The subscription is to Claude (the app, Claude code, etc) not the API. Anthropic subsidizes Claude code because they collect a ton of super useful telemetry and logs so
910.
by brookst 7mo ago
Yep. Part of the reason is the ethical problems with experimenting on children. And part of the problem is that there is a ton of money to be made in education, so there is a lot of incentive to create or cherry pick data promoting one’s pr
911.
by brookst 7mo ago
You think Jobs had insider data in the childhood development impact of iPads right when they were released?
912.
by brookst 7mo ago
No, but I believe that science and quantifying the specific danger leads to better policies than going on vibes. For instance, laws to require safe storage are based on data quantifying reductions in harm to children [1] Data beats vibes, e
913.
by brookst 7mo ago
No, I am making no such argument. I am saying that tech execs have no special knowledge, and their actions should not be used to inform one’s own opinions or social policy on the topic. There IS tons of data in this area. Please, do yoursel
914.
by brookst 7mo ago
So, if parents can rely on a a century of more of science showing the negative impacts of guns, tobacco, and alcohol on children… they can rely on vibes and politicians for evidence of harm from screens? I’m not even arguing with you. I’m j
915.
by brookst 7mo ago
So it’s kind of an appeal to authority, without any evidence of authority? I’d be super interested in the panels of experts that Jobs, Zuckerberg, and Altman (assuming GGP’s “asssumption” is correct) convened when making these decisions. Ab
916.
by brookst 7mo ago
Are Jobs, Zuckerberg, and Altman generally seen as experts in childhood development and education?
917.
by brookst 7mo ago
It’s sad to see HN take this at face value and parrot the “screens bad” view without understanding it. I dug deep into this a while ago, starting with the “how legit is the science” question because I wondered if the studies had looked at a
918.
by brookst 7mo ago
I fought with polymorphic code quite a bit back when I was removing copy protection (many decades ago). There may be other cases where making debugging hard is desirable.
919.
by brookst 7mo ago
Is all polymorphic code virii?
920.
by brookst 7mo ago
All custom built. The hook capability comes from Claude code of course, but the specifics of what they do is all built for Prawduct.
921.
by brookst 7mo ago
The link is pretty clear that it is only about copilot.com, not every product that has copilot in the name: > These Terms apply to your use of “Copilot,” which includes: > The standalone Copilot apps on your computer or mobile device
922.
by brookst 7mo ago
I'm old enough to remember when everything was "Active". Active Directory, ActiveX, etc.
923.
by brookst 7mo ago
The funny thing about ethics is there is no absolute, which makes some people uncomfortable. Is it ethical to slice someone with a knife? Does it depend if you're a surgeon or not? Absolutism + reductionism leads to this kind of nonsen
924.
Show HN: Prawduct, a product development framework for Claude Code(github.com)
6 points by brookst 7mo ago|6 comments
925.
by brookst 7mo ago
Where can I see an example of any other kind of capitalism?
926.
by brookst 7mo ago
Wait, are you saying that it's not hypocritical for my chess opponent to try to protect their king while trying to kill mine? :mind-blown: Tech people are funny, with these takes that businesses do/should adhere to absolute plat
927.
by brookst 7mo ago
It's really just tech culture like HN that obsesses over solving problems perfectly. From seat belts to DRM to deodorant, most of the world is satisfied with mitigating problems.
928.
by brookst 7mo ago
Rent has always been a business strategy. The word (and its roots) are thousands of years old. Rent is just arbitraging capital to offer fractional ownership of goods/services that are too expensive for some purchasers. I rent living
929.
by brookst 7mo ago
Nice. Now do the same thing with "as someone who lost a loved one to a drunk driver, I think harsh penalties and license revocations are a good policy." You can probably find a similar straw man to apply?
930.
by brookst 7mo ago
Thank you for the Swish recommendation! Just installed, looks great.

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