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841.
by eru 4mo ago
GoG deliberately comes without DRM, so that's still good.
842.
by eru 4mo ago
Steam has been (mostly) a good citizen. But there's not much in the way of legal or technical hurdles to them going down the same path. It's all goodwill and reputation. I hope it's enough.
843.
by eru 4mo ago
Interesting! Canned drinks use fewer resources than drinks in single-use bottles; and aluminum is so widely recycled, people give you money for aluminum scrap. So they are better in that sense.
844.
by eru 4mo ago
Yes. And as the saying goes: the scandal is not that you can buy politicians, the scandal is that they are so cheap.
845.
by eru 4mo ago
Yes, but I was willing to grant (even if only for the sake of argument) that ad revenue is probably a lot smaller than the other two in the list.
846.
by eru 4mo ago
Do you have any sources for hardware sales vs app store revenue?
847.
by eru 4mo ago
I guess you don't like paying with a credit card?
848.
by eru 4mo ago
Sorry, how does being in a car help here? Electricity in cars is pretty expensive, at least while you are driving. (You either generate it from your internal combustion engine, or you get it from your battery which pays for extra conversio
849.
by eru 4mo ago
Also they don't need to, as long as someone else is releasing good open-weight models.
850.
by eru 4mo ago
The capacity of government is positive but finite. The government can't stop all murders, but committing murders ain't exactly without consequences either.
851.
by eru 4mo ago
They make tea bags from paper, too.
852.
by eru 4mo ago
> Tokyo is not known for being a tea growing spot Keep in mind that mugicha is made purely from barley. No Camellia sinensis involved at all.
853.
by eru 4mo ago
I'm not sure I agree with the policy, but I'm glad we are seeing different project experimenting with different policies. So after a while we can probably see how things shake out in the end.
854.
by eru 4mo ago
That also shows why the confusion in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY2YeM5fNDw comes from.
855.
by eru 4mo ago
Different businesses have different biases.
856.
by eru 4mo ago
It's interesting that the fate of billions or even trillions of dollar hinges on millions of dollars of donations.
857.
by eru 4mo ago
> People compare themselves to their parents and grandparents, you can only hustle so far in the face of lived experience. Different people in different parts of the globe had different experiences. People in rich parts of the globe had
858.
by eru 4mo ago
As far as I can tell, our modern nanny states haven't been 'pretty brutal at enforce health policies during covid'. I agree that there were pretty strong restrictions, many of them unnecessary. But in most places the populat
859.
by eru 4mo ago
> 1) criminal practices of forced sterilisations, ethnic cleansing and mass assassinations to phase out undesired genes Whether it's criminal or not depends on the jurisdiction in question. Even abhorrent things can be perfectly leg
860.
by eru 4mo ago
> So far, the gathering of great deals of data on people has not been used for purposes that benefit such people. Do you know how they make shoes or clothing off-the-rack that fit most people?
861.
by eru 4mo ago
You say it like applying that label automatically makes it a bad thing. See https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/galton-ehrlich-buck for an elaboration.
862.
by eru 4mo ago
These assumptions are sufficient to make the statement a proven theorem. They are not necessary to work in practice.
863.
by eru 4mo ago
And your intuition is actually right! As a Gedankenexperiment: If you are on a train that moves 10 mph and you toss a ball to give it another 10 mph of velocity (relative to the train), your arms need to perform the same amount of work on t
864.
by eru 4mo ago
You can reset your password, if you forget it.
865.
by eru 4mo ago
> But there was a lot of pain. Living conditions got worse [...] No, living conditions did not get worse. Yes, livings conditions were pretty bad during the early industrial revolution. But they hadn't exactly been rosy before. &g
866.
by eru 4mo ago
The exchange rate is a nominal phenomenon. Inflation adjusted interest rates and inflation adjusted asset values are a real phenomenon. They don't necessarily have much to do with each other. Germany and Singapore are two prominent h
867.
by eru 4mo ago
I've read eg https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf It still doesn't tell me how to run or access LLMs.
868.
by eru 4mo ago
Incentives are pretty easy to align, if you have repeat customers and repetition. McDonald's sells me burgers I expect at a reasonable price, because they want me to come back tomorrow and not go across the street to Burger King.
869.
by eru 4mo ago
For the sake of argument, let's grant that there's some conspiracy that makes them all have the same rules. And conspiracy in a loose sense: perhaps it's the government dictating the rules. I still don't understand how
870.
by eru 4mo ago
> A current account deficit is a capital account surplus, That's true. > assets and exports compete in the balance of payments, an asset windfall kills exports by increasing the currency hurdle and embedded asset price. They don&

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