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4mo ago
No but they can train a model to know everything about you and sell it. They actually have precedence in that as it’s their legacy ad business. I could absolutely see them getting more proactive with their ad business. Something like mortga
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4mo ago
I’ll pile on this one. I’ve never quite figured out some of the common formatting icons they use. Text color and text background fill color I guess wrong every single time and think “why is that icon used for that”. I can never find how to
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4mo ago
Some human in the loop is to be expected, that’s a win on my AI engagement kpis /s
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4mo ago
It’s relative, I’d say about 10% as annoying as Windows
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4mo ago
It seems to me like adoption of AI in the workplace has become mostly 1) authorship of verbose emails and 2) summarizing verbose emails for non-tech industries
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4mo ago
Not a fan of AI writing but I find sentences like that to be fluff and would prefer a more concise article overall. That would also have been my critique prior to AI and is the reason I only made it about half way through.
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4mo ago
This seems like the better explanation of my laybrain reading this and thinking; why would you start with soil? If it were a true geological phenomenon then shouldn’t they use a sterile jar of granite dust or something that only existed on
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4mo ago
> This announcement is being published under Rule 135 of the Securities Act of 1933 It's a required public disclosure following a format traditionally used in mandatory public disclosures.
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5mo ago
For the impact to be felt as a generational shift that is observable IRL, the social media had to reach a certain point of critical mass. The apps/algo needed to be tweaked for addiction. It also become a firehose of content that was p
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5mo ago
Sure there’s always a lag between city and rural on most things, even fashion trends and whatnot. That being said, I think the lag is gone and has fully saturated most places and demographics by now. The tiktokification is a huge factor tha
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5mo ago
Also of note, if you can’t pay the fee or give the bondsman some collateral for his service, your court date may be many months or even years in the future and the date can be postponed many times along the way. So you will be in jail that
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5mo ago
I just refuse to grant permission as my default. If I ever feel like I’m missing out, I can turn it on later. Usually I don’t and if I do I quickly regret it.
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5mo ago
I don’t buy that as the or even a reason. I’m older and we had raves before any legit venue would touch them. I remember once a venue was forced to cancel due to local law enforcement pressure. It happened the day before. Word spread real q
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5mo ago
Have worked in C levels of many PE portfolio companies across industries and this all tracks for me. I make a good amount every time the company changes hands so I’m kind of complicit but I also try very hard to run each company the best it
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5mo ago
The bigger issue I feel is knowing the medium for the question/help you need. If you need their experience and knowledge then talk to them. Email as a medium is already a wrong choice most of the time in these situations. Expecting the
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5mo ago
TBF if you're 60 then you were in your 20s when the genesis game out, which also means 12 year old you was maybe playing the newly released Atari VCS, which also means this game would have absolutely blown your mind at 12. All to say,
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5mo ago
The older I get, the more I feel it’s becoming in shorter supply. Even when I don’t like associating with those that seem to lack it, they seem to find me everywhere I go. This is professionally, as a consumer and even just socially. I’m pr
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5mo ago
Should be a “cut and dry” decision just like how he described the arrest
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5mo ago
I don’t think you understand the psychology of a teenage boys. If you do all this, all you accomplish is informing the entire nation of kids that making deepfake nudes of their classmates is possible. From there, it will proliferate much mo
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5mo ago
> There’s clearly enough of a text message trail between these boys to give them a significant reprimand for misogyny I skimmed but the worst I saw was one of them referencing her as “that hoe”. Not nice but also punishing kid’s private
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5mo ago
I’d say it differently though. The company who hired all these people are finding they don’t have enough value added projects to keep them employed. Most of the FAANG and larger VC backed companies have something in common. They typically h
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5mo ago
This leverage all has to do with the product, how close you are to it and how valuable it is. FAANG product is valuable, but the programmers are still just creating it and usually a small part of it at that. Pilots are the product when the
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5mo ago
> would rather futz around with a mid range cars worth of hardware and be happy than spend a moment longer prostituting my soul for their money. So only 2 options in this profession are 1) sell your soul to 1 of 5 evil corporations that
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5mo ago
Unfortunately I tend to agree with you. But, at least we're actually talking about the real problem instead of pointing the finger at Inuit and their lobbyists.
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5mo ago
Not sure if the picture I painted originally was unclear but these kids are already living a very comfortable lifestyle by most standards. Most outsiders looking in would say they are all spoiled brats which is basically what I feel like yo
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5mo ago
It's a lot. Us parents joke how insane it all is but realistically it will taper off soon as kids start having smaller birthday celebrations. At this age it's kind of a "invite everyone in your class/grade" and has
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5mo ago
Maybe you can clarify because I don't understand your fear or what you think it means for these kid's future adulthood? The kids just see it as a fun 2 hour playdate with lots of friends in an interesting setting with dessert. It&
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5mo ago
Idk if this turns into revenue or some financial metric but even if it does and it was a good outcome for author, it still says nothing of risk. What if he loses his timing opportunity / gets beat to market because he's unnecessar
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5mo ago
I have a 7 year old and for the past 3-4 years we make a weekly pilgrimage to a local boutique toy store specifically for birthday party gifts. It’s usually packed with others just like us doing exactly the same thing. They do provide the f
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5mo ago
Funny that I feel this same way around articles published on The New Yorker but have never once seen the same criticism about their articles. Usually it’s praised as great writing in the comment sections wherever it’s discussed. This observ
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