digitaltrees

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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
This is totally false. It moved from pure military to university grants. Go ask professors how the government funding environment is now. It’s a five alarm fire of collapse.
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
America was the factory of the world before and England before that. The temptation of “moving upstream” is irresistible.
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
I am more concerned about what happens to the file if I give permission. Opensource and local are seeming like the only way.
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
Except none of those were autonomous actors. And most of society was not as freaked out by any of those cycles. Each of them did have some fairly serious downsides that required social policy to correct. I don't want to go back to the
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
A monopoly in a domestic market is sufficiently harmful to be avoided. It doesn’t have to be totally global.
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
I owned a recording studio and small label before Napster and lime wire. I know a ton of musicians that lost the joy of making music due to piracy. I am glad you had fun. But also take a little joy in the loss of that joy but some how it se
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
Omg. I needed this in my life.
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
I thought it was reasonably helpful. And much better written than a lot of Claude slop.
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
Except the general trend has not been equal degrees of snap back but rather a general trend towards market consolidation, deregulation, lowering taxes and eliminating anti trust enforcement. If we went back to the regulation immediately pos
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
That's fair but it does end up flowing through the US right?
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
I agree with this for in-person payments. But surely stripe has a monopoly on development api payments and PayPal on e-commerce. What i would expect is that visa Master card try to buy the stripe/PayPal.
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
The contracts with merchants prohibited them from accepting other forms of payment. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
Most people missed my point. I am most concerned about a single person having a monopoly on satellite networks. Vertical integration of launch capabilities and use of the satellites is an old monopolistic strategy. Doubling prices over nigh
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
I have 4 different types of smart glasses. I feel visceral aversion about the meta glasses because of passed abuses of data.
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
What is the regulatory capture? Visa and master card have contract terms that ensure retail capture. That’s a private moat not regulation.
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
Trying to create a monopoly before the lack of antitrust enforcement window closes.
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
Nice to see people wanting to strike a balance between automated AI and staying involved. I have been frustrated by push to fully autonomous long horizon agents because the lack of course correction seems to burn tokens with worse results
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
If we are talking about a meritocracy and access to opportuity this doesn't even have to be about fairness the reality is if there are talented people that dont do as well on tests simply because they cant afford private tutors and pre
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
I didn’t say it to be a gotcha. But let’s admit that legacy admissions and athletes represent a non meritocratic social goal, and then ask why those are legitimate social goals but racial diversity is not one?
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
You didn't think the 50% admit rate for athletes, 40% admit rate for deans interest ie large cash donors, and 35% legacy admit rate were "the whole think"?
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
Compounding interest means assets are accumulated and concentrated. At a certain point a tipping point is reached a it’s no longer possible to buy assets. No Russian serf was ever going to have upwards mobility.
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
Yes. But by allowing a monopoly to exist each of those customers has the risk of being forced off the service by a terms of service change, price gouging, or other predictable monopolistic behavior with no alternative. And this is avoidable
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
No. I used a rhetorical device to highlight a theoretical monopoly we assume would never exist. But imagine I launch a space sail that can cast a shadow on any part of earth I chose. I could block or unblock sunlight at will and grant acces
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
A public company with weak corporate governance where the board rubber stamps whatever the CEO wants and that CEO happens to own 40% of the stock and 80% of the voting control doesn’t respond to any public concerns. That is a strength. It d
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
No. A utility like power and water can be private but regulated so that it can’t extract monopoly rent. Or you can create an ecosystem of providers on top of the public infrastructure.
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
What percentage of market share do they have in launches? In awarded contracts? In satellites in the sky? Also pointing to blue origin which is substantially related to the Amazon monopoly isn’t the best refutation of my argument. When all
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
Dude. Stop worshipping private companies. At the end of the day human organizations creating things whether it’s a government, a partnership, a corporation. The US government created GPS, the stealth bomber, all kinds of basic tech. Thomas
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
He had a product with the most product market fit ever. He thinks everything he does will have the same user tolerance for his brutalist disrespect for humanity. Thats why everything else he tries to build fails so he has to buy the competi
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
I built something similar: www.propelcode.app want to collab?
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by digitaltrees 3mo ago
I think I am your target customer. I own a national health care franchise and want private AI. What is unclear to me from your site that I view as a gating item is do you source, install and configure the hardware or deploy your platform on

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