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by chii 1y ago
> Rightsholders seem like a bigger problem than licensees to me. completely agree - i think the gov't regulatory body should change the landscape to what film and cinema have; such that distributor of media cannot own and monopolize
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by chii 1y ago
i think you've counted it in a way that makes it sound cheap, but in reality isnt. $100k per month is extra revenue, if they do a half-assed job. A customer actually has no competitor to move to - crunchyroll has a defacto monopoly (ba
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by chii 1y ago
> The level of customer delight (and hate) in the anime industry is like no other. except that it doesn't show up as revenue. That's where the problem is - people would obviously prefer to have elite tier subs, but not be willi
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by chii 1y ago
even with dual vendors, you'd have to still put in place a backup/restore procedures (with the associated software, which may need to be custom). Then you'd need regular testing. These operational concerns will basically doub
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by chii 1y ago
to be fair, the percentage of their revenue derived from ai-related sales is much higher now than before. Why is that not accurate?
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by chii 1y ago
It's a pretty biased sample. Not to mention that people who are neutral and is just using AI won't be bothered to comment. So you only ever see one extreme or another.
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by chii 1y ago
yep. What makes it good is that it's an easy concept to imagine the use cases, but contains subtle details that covers the breadth and depth to gain the experience you need/want. Getting it wrong is not a death sentence (as long a
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by chii 1y ago
when people started referring to searching the internet as googling, they know their brand has made it. It is the same with chatGPT.
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by chii 1y ago
> a private entity enforcing rules for what they're willing to host and distribute on the platform what becomes of the public square under this doctrine tho? There cannot be more than one public square, as it's a natural monopo
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by chii 1y ago
> If a platform lies or spread malicious content but if the platform didnt go verify all content placed by users on it, does it count as "spreading" it? I mean, there's nothing stopping anyone from publishing a book which
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by chii 1y ago
that's why the AI capabilities should be as decentralized and "localized" as possible - aka, i want to own the hardware and software for LLM, image generation, etc etc. Until these ai capabilities are as neutral and un-discri
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by chii 1y ago
> you are unlikely to correctly predict in what way your solution will be inadequate but you can choose a current solution that does not block nor inhibit a future solution. As they say, always keep your options open, and don't vend
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by chii 1y ago
tho i would say that a diff has to define the set of operations allowed to be done to the thing being diff'ed. E.g., in the example scenario of the diff in json objects, if a possible operation is a change in a property value (such as
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by chii 1y ago
> they are now vulnerable to scams and you are not. if the scam is not going to hurt the agent (in this case, the CEO responsible for the buy out), and the success is going to reward the agent, then the incentives are not completely ali
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by chii 1y ago
So who has the good taste when two different people distinguish the same code base differently?
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by chii 1y ago
> everyone else says "pshaw, anyone could have written that!" it really depends on the problem domain tho, doesnt it? Would you call the fast inverse square root[0] code good taste? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by chii 1y ago
> it's just that the $/token may not be able to pay back the capital investment. the loss is private, so that's OK. A similar thing happened to the internet bandwidth capacity when the dot-com bust happened - overinvestmen
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by chii 1y ago
> no sense in buying up that company. if the new buyers think the old owners have a lower expectation of future earnings than them, then the buy makes sense.
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by chii 1y ago
> lose any potential gains in value after the transaction. the premium paid over the market price takes that into account.
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by chii 1y ago
i dont know what aspect of "improve" you meant, but dell's private equity take over is very profitable : https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2021/04/18/how-wall...
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by chii 1y ago
exactly. Bailouts needs to have an equivalent equity loss for the investors (aka, gov't takes the equity equivalent to the bailout amount, in addition to any loan conditions like interest etc).
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by chii 1y ago
drafting specific, targeted policies in the hopes of achieving a targeted outcome (without any unintended consequences) is very difficult - it's almost as if human minds are not smart enough to consider all possible outcomes, and all p
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by chii 1y ago
in other words, i was trying to imply that the only way to prevent gov't overreach is to continue developing technical solutions which are distributed and decentralized, so that there's no single button for which the gov't co
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by chii 1y ago
> Who’s going to train the future physician the skills needed to develop the procedure? i would presume that AI taking over won't erase the physical work, which would mean existing training regimes will continue to exist. Until one
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by chii 1y ago
that's why the gov't has somehow shut down torrenting and piracy. Oh wait...
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by chii 1y ago
those pirated anime (esp. speed subs) mostly also just steal the crunchyroll subtitles as well, so if it was awful there, it will be also awful in the pirated version!
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by chii 1y ago
my comment was in relation to the grandparent post's: > cost the government $65k to imprison someone, but that money isn’t disappearing which is wrong, because it _is_ disappearing. Your argument is unrelated - it sure would be good
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by chii 1y ago
Money spent on a prison is unproductive for society, so it might as well have just disappeared as far as tax payers are concerned. It's the same as paying someone to dig a hole, then paying someone to fill it back up. The money might a
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by chii 1y ago
"get paid to ask claude to do the work of course!"

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