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by claw-el 4mo ago
I think this is part of the reason why TSMC is doing so well compared to the others, they seem to play this game(invest or not) much better than others.
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by claw-el 4mo ago
Fundamentally, Anthropic is a token merchant (it is higher quality than other models, but still token merchant), so it will find any excuse to make you spend more tokens, and not even try too hard to help you save on tokens. The whole ‘inli
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by claw-el 4mo ago
Will Le Chat try to eat Sakana? There is Le Chaton Fat and then there is Sakana Fugu too..
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by claw-el 4mo ago
Honestly, if this means a more certain payment confirmation up front and not a surprise bill, I see this as a good thing for patients.
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by claw-el 4mo ago
I would watch out for insurance as an industry having to increase rates because successful claims rate are increasing much faster than the industry can handle. Not supporting nor opposing the insurance industry, just something I think the p
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by claw-el 4mo ago
If patients and doctors start using LLMs to strategize how to maximize claim approval rate, I wonder how would the insurance companies react to it. Would it start getting more strict and start requesting for more evidence?
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by claw-el 4mo ago
If we can show that the hour of productivity saved is worth more, would the individual dev still want to build it because they like tinkering with it. The individual dev would value the time of playing with the code more than the time of p
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by claw-el 4mo ago
Also, a general purpose robot vs a custom purpose robot represent very different capital investment profile for the factories?
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by claw-el 4mo ago
> Sheryl was fine with that compromise. We shipped the feature. Not trying to be a fan of any individual. But this, to me, is the difference between a fast moving team and a slow moving one. Teams being able to decide on the ‘right compr
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by claw-el 4mo ago
People generally classify the opportunity cost as zero, and if you want to say no to the reasonably good ideas, others will put pressure on you to just do it.
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by claw-el 4mo ago
If the authorities see that you publicly and widely shout out that pitbulls are dangerous, but quietly tell me that you’ve spent a lot of effort training it not to be dangerous without sharing how in public, I think it is warranted for the
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by claw-el 4mo ago
For publicly listed company, isn’t marketing expense in the ‘Selling & Marketing Expense’ part under ‘Operating Expense’ and not part of ‘Cost of Revenue’ as well?
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by claw-el 4mo ago
Or do it when the prices are starting to show weakness
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by claw-el 4mo ago
This lack of rigour feels a lot like “did you try restarting the computer? Most of the time, others tried restarting the computer and it works”
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by claw-el 4mo ago
For SMS, the access to a specific consumer is often gated by a monopoly (that user’s telco provider) so they get to charge whatever they like. Therefore you see the variance (the greediness of individual telco). When WhatsApp join in the bu
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by claw-el 4mo ago
>”Oh, what's the unit? Do I care? I'm no fscking physics major!" lol
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by claw-el 4mo ago
Is “having values” just “stubborn” then?
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by claw-el 4mo ago
>The truth is that Singapore has been lucky that Lee Kuan Yew and most of his successors have been good bureaucrats and politicians. That makes the ruling party also somewhat popular. I don’t think this is only by luck. Singapore made th
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by claw-el 4mo ago
The election happening once in a while helps ensure if the long term planning is still aligned with the population, because, new people will be born and some others will ‘age out’, the original long term planning might no longer represent t
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by claw-el 4mo ago
In comparison, another country considered to be a ‘flawed democracy’ also have governments exerting a heavy hand in redrawing the election map (even getting to Supreme Court) to ensure they keep their majority.
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by claw-el 4mo ago
What if it is not the terrorists naming them? What if it is a good samaritan trying to warn the pilot but this is the only way they can get a message out?
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by claw-el 5mo ago
A hypothesis I had on why some countries have more conglomerates than US is that access to capital and funds are much harder in those countries in comparison to US. When access to capital is comparatively more limited, more innovations fall
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by claw-el 5mo ago
While I understand the risk of sharing sensitive information (e.g. bank login) with a 3rd party. But the current situation is such that your bank currently monopolize your bank information to improve your loan offer, to give you better serv
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by claw-el 5mo ago
What happens (in Australia and in California) if rooftop solar and battery technology really have a huge breakthrough and the capacity of the major power generators were never utilized in the lifetime of those generators? Do consumers just
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by claw-el 5mo ago
Hmmm, if you take a brick and mortar store, they have fixed costs to renovate and decorate the store, and they likely have capacity of the store that is not used during non-peak period as well. They charge for item sold, to cover for all co
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by claw-el 5mo ago
Thank you for sharing this. I get that the company making the capital investment wants to get a return of 10% from their investment. The part I don’t understand is, why aren’t the return on investment being covered by the increased usage fr
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by claw-el 5mo ago
Only allowed to charge “reasonable” usage fee means no other non-usage fee allowed or it is purposely designed to allow other kinds of fees?
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by claw-el 5mo ago
I am curious how electricity is priced. Why are more and more utility providers charge based on ‘infrastructure cost’ or ‘fixed platform fee’ instead of usage fee?
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by claw-el 5mo ago
Sometimes, large corporation values consistency above one-off excellence. It’s how they build their brand (the promise of consistency). I won’t be surprised if the people in rooms tasting coffee is also looking for coffee that is too good f
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by claw-el 5mo ago
Is the reason they reached 2B/mo partially contributed by the fact that their users feel like they get unlimited use of it? If ‘feeling like it is unlimited use’ is a huge part that creates the 2B/mo, this change of limit might je

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