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by cush 2y ago
So true. Users deleted so much of their data off reddit during the last big exodous... so much value lost. And the irony is that LLMs have all that data and will continue to realize the value from it that Reddit never could, even when they
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by cush 2y ago
It's probably important that consumers vote with their wallet here
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by cush 3y ago
This is both their biggest strength and weakness
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by cush 3y ago
Nobody would be complaining if google was just linking…
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by cush 3y ago
Oh please, what? There’s nothing wrong or malicious or un-open with running a business by selling content online. You’re deeply confusing open and free. A marketplace built on open standards is still open. Google has been at the helm of the
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by cush 3y ago
If there any kind of liability for Amazon, they’d be able to stop this practice in a heartbeat
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by cush 3y ago
Not sure. I don’t see ads.
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by cush 3y ago
Seriously though. This is trivial to fact check…
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by cush 3y ago
> You may be operating on a model of the New York Times from ten or more years ago What the heck does that even mean? A decade ago, NYT wasn’t behind an paywall. But even then, are you implying that my version of NYT is a decade old, or
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by cush 3y ago
> news publishers have spent the last couple decades making their websites absolutely unusable To appease Google… Conversely, NYTs site is stellar. It’s fast and gorgeous and the articles are well-written and not full of clickbait and SE
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by cush 3y ago
Google has single-handely ruined the internet, and absolutely warped our expectations around what the economics of content creation looks like online. Google earns money from that content. Why wouldn’t the content creators be entitled to a
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by cush 3y ago
Good. Hopefully other states follow. The headline might as well be, “After Decades of Freebooting Their Content, Google Threatens to Kill News Rather Than Pay Journalists for Their Work” Google is now the modern, lazy business equivalent of
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by cush 3y ago
I can die happy if I never have to work with libgnipgnop again
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by cush 3y ago
So rad!
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by cush 3y ago
Does it use a male voice by default? Just clicking on random songs, it took me 20+ tries to find a female voice
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by cush 3y ago
There's a lot of negative comments here, but these are the earliest days and generating entire songs is kind of the hello world of this tech. There's always going to be a balance between creating high level tools like this with no
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by cush 3y ago
Or turn him white-hat and have SBF work for the SEC, using his skills to find other fraudsters
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by cush 3y ago
You didn’t ask “what was the price of the original iPhone”. Your questions were… > So what influence are they exerting exactly? Why is it so pernicious? Which are both answered in the document. Almost the entire document is defining the
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by cush 3y ago
As if Apple would allow that…
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by cush 3y ago
While that may be true for nfc payments, a lot of the accusations in the document are excused by Apple using bad-faith arguments in the name of security. Then there’s the 30% tax, which is just anticompetitive extortion.
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by cush 3y ago
> the world's music catalog to a mobile phone reliably with all-day battery life would be unthinkable 17 years ago The reliability of the streaming is more dependent on the internet connection and the quality of Spotify's servi
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by cush 3y ago
This entire comment is wildly misinformed. Are you forgetting Apple charges like $1200 for a phone these days? They’re the most profitable company on the planet. Are you suggesting that in order to cover the extensive research and developme
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by cush 3y ago
The article and linked 90 page document outline precise answers to your questions
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by cush 3y ago
Now convince a billion people to do the same… While we’re waiting for that to happen, hopefully this might help explain to you what the lawsuit is actually about. Because it has nothing to do with what you’re arguing https://m.yo
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by cush 3y ago
We're not talking about a fart app. We're talking about multi-billion dollar businesses that have been entrenched in App Store for a decade. Exiting that market isn't an option. If it was an option they would have done it.
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by cush 3y ago
> We should agree to disagree Agree. But lastly... > Apple along with others are the one who curated such users willing to pay to begin with. In what world is Apple responsible for curating the users of _music_? The Beatles, Led Zeppe
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by cush 3y ago
> Why does the percent taken matter? These are legitimate businesses taking aim at Apple's predatory anti-competitive behavior. If the percent taken was 0, there would be no case. Why does it matter? Because profit margins > How
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by cush 3y ago
It's a moot point... We're saying the same thing. Sure they could, if they wanted to immediately tank their business. You could set your house on fire. What's your point?
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by cush 3y ago
No they can’t because consumers have already made that choice. It’s done. We are talking about this moment in time, not some fantasy world where everyone ditched their iPhones.
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by cush 3y ago
Apple and Tesla aren’t competing in the same market > It’s like complaining that Teslas don’t support CarPlay It would be like that if the Tesla dash App Store somehow generated $1.1T annual revenue while taking 30% off the top of third

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