cowpig

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by cowpig 11mo ago
Ok but does this take into account which industries are monopolistic or oligarchic? In an industry with real competition you have tight margins and can't afford to spend money lobbying. In an industry with a monopoly, you have huge mar
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by cowpig 11mo ago
You are right. It is a classic tactic of fascism, called [accusation in a mirror]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror )
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by cowpig 11mo ago
More and more people I talk to care about privacy, but not in SF
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by cowpig 11mo ago
Ben Thompson is a sharp guy who can't see the forest for the trees. Nor most of the trees. He can only see the three biggest trees that are fighting over the same bit of sunlight.
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by cowpig 11mo ago
I think you are making some risky assumptions about this system behaving the way you expect
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by cowpig 11mo ago
> No, local models won't help you here, unless you block them from the internet or setup a firewall for outbound traffic. This is the only way. There has to be a firewall between a model and the internet. Tools which hit both langua
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by cowpig 11mo ago
No matter what shady thing a company does you can rest assured there will be a bit of "well, let's think about it from another angle" at the top of the comments section. The company offers cancellable reservations for a fee.
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by cowpig 11mo ago
A great tragedy of the past 50 years is how successful the `regulation==bad` propaganda has been at convincing engineer-entrepreneurs to shut off their brains when it comes to the government. So many of these SV entrepreneurs are great at d
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by cowpig 11mo ago
well it looks grey on my screen
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by cowpig 11mo ago
The idea that copyright holders are at the better end of a legal asymmetry here is kind of a baffling one. I guess if the copyright holder's name is Disney that might be true. But the vast, vast majority of the time it is way too expen
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by cowpig 11mo ago
Even if you just assume guilt it doesn't make sense. You send the coast guard to capture the boat and then you have a person with knowledge and drugs and a boat which can be traced & used as evidence...
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by cowpig 11mo ago
What should they have done instead? I have a lot of opinions on this but curious about yours :)
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by cowpig 11mo ago
Things that are pretty much out of those peoples' control can include health problems, dependents such as kids or needy older relatives, accidents, a long tail of other kinds of bad luck (fires, victim of fraud, etc)
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by cowpig 11mo ago
Many immigrants who arrive with nothing are poor. And they work insanely hard in a desperate attempt to get their children out of it. Some succeed.
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by cowpig 11mo ago
> Today, we are announcing a $50 billion investment in American computing infrastructure > The project will create approximately 800 permanent jobs Approximately $62.5 million per permanent job created!
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by cowpig 11mo ago
Do you have reason to believe they are not doing this already?
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by cowpig 11mo ago
1. Anthropic pushed a change to their terms where now I have to opt out or my data will be retained for 5 years and trained on. They have shown that they will change their terms, so I cannot trust them. 2. OpenAI is run by someone who alrea
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by cowpig 11mo ago
I think they get way more "engagement" from people who use it as their friend, and the end goal of subverting social media and creating the most powerful (read: profitable) influence engine on earth makes a lot of sense if you are
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by cowpig 11mo ago
Since Claude and OpenAI made it clear they will be retaining all of my prompts, I have mostly stopped using them. I should probably cancel my MAX subscriptions. Instead I'm running big open source models and they are good enough for ~9
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by cowpig 11mo ago
If there's one thing I've learned about Sam Altman it's that he's a shrewd political manipulator and every public move is in service of a hidden agenda[1]. What is it here? - Is it part of a slow process of eroding publ
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by cowpig 11mo ago
I use Firefox because it is better than Chrome, which is the only alternative I see. Do you use something else?
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by cowpig 1y ago
Or maybe breaking up YouTube allows for a syndication standard to take its place and we'd get an explosion of value for consumers like we got in podcasting
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by cowpig 1y ago
Thanks! With these sources in hand I think I am convinced of Tim's original point; I first looked at that ftc document and didn't see anything about user responsiveness in it. The fact that it's not mentioned and that the mai
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by cowpig 1y ago
If you're going to go through the trouble of checking, you might as well link to the things you checked.
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by cowpig 1y ago
That's dated July 19, 2010
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by cowpig 1y ago
I can't find any evidence supporting the claim in the article, and the study it links to for me is a dead link. Are you able to find the source?
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by cowpig 1y ago
The study linked at the beginning of this article, and the two listed under "More information" at the bottom all take me to a page with the error "DOI Not Found" Given that the main (only significant) fact cited in the a
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by cowpig 1y ago
Since we're all here to complain about Firefox, I want to add that at this point I'm a firefox user out of principle, but I swear I get so many weird performance issues with firefox on ubuntu that it feels like self-flagellation i
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by cowpig 1y ago
I'm not sure I would necessarily draw that conclusion. If the author intentionally deactivated their Bluesky account, does the fact that he can successfully do that on Bluesky lead to the conclusion that it's less resilient?
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by cowpig 1y ago
Bummer that all three bluesky links in the intro are dead links now, and the author's bluesky account appears to be deactivated: https://bsky.app/profile/shreyanjain.net

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