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by ethbr1 11mo ago
I think you're underestimating (1) how bad most B2B is (from a bug and security vulnerability perspective) & (2) how little B2B companies' engineers understand about how their customers are using their products. The frequency
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This. The lack of a Shield hardware refresh seems insane. I get Nvidia (the company) has other priorities with higher revenue. But they have a product, with proven product-market fit, that gives them a last mile connection with end users, i
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I'll take a crack. > what do LLMs disrupt? If your answer is "cost of developing code" (what TFA argues), please explain how previous waves of reducing cost of code (JVM, IDEs, post-Y2K Outsourcing) disrupted the ERP&#x2F
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Additional hot take: deep domain expertise is only value-add while actively adding new features There's a huge subset of SaaS that's feature-frozen and being milked for ARR.
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I don't think history opines favorably on companies that lose the last-mile connection with their customers. For purposes of this thread, if chat AI becomes the primary business interface, then every service behind that becomes much
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
> "how can they do that?" License future important libraries only for use via their cloud toolchain? Stop contributing support to non-cloud toolchain and/or intentionally break it? Slip more restrictive licensing into ne
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The root issue/risk is from cascading service dependencies, and I'm 99% sure this is done unintentionally at Apple et al. Team builds service. Service depends on first party identity/authentication because it's easier. .
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So there's no collusion or misbehavior, and the market ends up as a duopoly: one participant has 70% and another has 25%. You don't think that alone distorts the market enough to merit intervention to encourage more competitors? I
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1. Man creates apps 2. Browser destroys apps 3. Browser creates apps 4. AI destroys browser apps ... 5. AI eats all memory 6. Forth inherits the Earth
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That's part of my preference though: I'd rather government regulation of larger market share companies be a gradient rather than a binary. If a few actors control the bulk of a market... wouldn't the same redresses be appropr
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> Let's do [an 1880s-1910s level push for antitrust enforcement] then. The last time that happened was a pre-globalized world, multiple decades of building pressure (including the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act), and the you
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Also, for anything with a 3-5 year implementation period, a longer contract aligns incentives. The vendor isn't incentivized to fuck you over on renewal pricing as soon as the implementation is complete. And because of the size of the
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> If anyone has to deal with this, I highly recommend Palisade Compliance for consulting. Ex-Oracle people who do not sell licenses, only consult on compliance and represent you during an audit. Oof. That's a new standard for shit
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
> Meanwhile unions in a consolidated market have the perverse incentive to sustain the monopoly because then the union is extracting a portion of the monopoly rents the corporation is squeezing out of consumers at the expense of the 99%
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A tax system takes the amount required to fund society to the equality level desired. In anything less than a fully-equalizing society, philanthropy still has a place. (Said as someone who thinks higher wealth brackets, including my own, sh
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The nice thing about regulatory bucketing by market share is that it's harder to evade. We've seen the legal gymnastics around market definition for monopoly purposes. But it's harder for Google to make the case that it doesn
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It's entirely possible to have utility-importance non-monopoly gatekeepers, which is part of the legal issue. The US regulates monopolies. The US regulates utilities, defined by ~1910 industries. It doesn't generally regulate non-
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Not foreign Americans
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> So in the end, no value a corporation espouses is genuine, unless it's making money. This is the ultimate rub. There are constructions that corporations can implement in order to enforce values, but they fundamentally mean givin
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If someone becomes successful, it's common to pay it back by helping out the steps that might have led to that success. Brin didn't go to every high school: he went to the one he did. And maybe he had a terrible experience and tho
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It’s sad how we’re pining for a 1960s usability solution in 2025. The industry really does forget all the lessons it learned...
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Apple’s settings are an absolute dumpster fire from a discoverability perspective.
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> I think small scale entrepreneurship might be a solution to the current corp craziness. That would mean breaking up big tech and prohibiting firms above a certain size from buying competitors. Otherwise, there're huge swaths of
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As someone who switches between platforms somewhat frequently, iOS perpetually feels like people have Stockholm syndrome. 'Oh, that super annoying issue? Yeah, it's been there for years. We just don't do that.' Fundament
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
I'm not sure what country you live in, but in the US at least, mortgages (and their property-collateral loan relatives) are incredibly easy to get, relatively cheap, and come in a (perhaps overly so) incredible range of flavors.
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Folks spend so much time talking about second+ order effects of immigration, but it's the economy that's primarily important. I don't know too many nativists / nationalists who agree with the statement 'I am fine wi
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You missed the part where those workers power large sectors of the US economy. You think produce gets picked, meat processed, and/or construction completed without immigrant labor? If the plan is to clamp down on illegal immigration, t
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> influx of low skilled migrants that are not incentivized to work Aka a low wage labor pool to plug the youth demographic gap. If European countries had sustainable fertility rate, then they could be choosy about immigration. At 1.3-1
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
> There are also practical problems with taxing wealth. [...] With a wealth tax, you might not have the money. For example, if you own an investment apartment or some other illiquid asset you can't just sell a piece of it every yea
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
The relevant question is 'What is a custom Meta AI datacenter valuable for, after a hypothetical AI crash?' Crypto -> LLM -> Repurpose Crypto Power Contracts to Feed LLM Datacenters -> AI crash -> Repurpose LLM Hardwar

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