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by gmd63 9mo ago
People switched from BlackBerry to iPhone for far more than just iPhones being "shiny and new." Visual voicemail, Safari, touchscreen, etc. The recent UI redesign effort is not remotely comparable to the investment and strategy th
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by gmd63 9mo ago
If it's coming down from the C suite, that just makes it worse. That's cheap marketing tricks winning priority over lasting intent. It's not just the design folks trying to justify their job at that point, it's the execu
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by gmd63 9mo ago
Yep. Also an issue: the high profit industries are abused by pump and dump scammers like Vivek Ramaswamy who had his doctor mother run a phase 2 clinical trial on a struggling Alzheimer's drug he bought from GlaxoSmithKline before he c
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by gmd63 9mo ago
Mainly I wanted to suggest that the folks you're diagnosing might have valid reason to complain. I could have done it more tactfully, but that's what came out. Your post reads to me as a complaint that people who complain too much
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by gmd63 9mo ago
I don't think I misinterpreted the condescension you dished out by blanket labeling a trend of mostly valid critique as psychological compulsion and performative misanthropy.
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by gmd63 9mo ago
You've convinced me, I'm going to stop complaining about corporate slop and the connection between big tech / VCs and the awful political situation in the most advanced country in the world. I will try to glaze Liquid Glass f
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by gmd63 9mo ago
In a free and unregulated market, you will see cronyism by the wealthiest players who have captured it. The payoff of capture is enormous and therefore investors have incentive to offer up capital to accelerate the capture. Tyrants emerge f
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by gmd63 9mo ago
Money is power. High concentrations of money controlled by few people serve the whims of those people, who use that power to influence politics, in 2024 through one of the most dishonest campaign trails and propaganda operations in my livin
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by gmd63 9mo ago
Democracy is not the problem, it's a deliberately misinformed populace shaped by undeserved money that's the core issue. Folks who pollute the information in the market or the political field steer the market away from a symmetric
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by gmd63 9mo ago
Money is power. Trump's and the Republican party's whole shtick is deregulation. The financial tumors in the economy love it when the white blood cells look the other way. That's why folks like Ellison and Elon bought this el
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by gmd63 9mo ago
Larry Ellison is using his bags to purchase lies and silence. No economy can be in true equilibrium when the consumers send profits to be spent in unforeseen and unrelated ways like this. Every purchase carries potentially immense future co
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by gmd63 9mo ago
The greatest challenge facing humanity is building a culture where we are liberated to cooperate toward the greatest goals without fear of another selfish individual or group taking advantage to our detriment. Yes, the mathematicians will t
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by gmd63 10mo ago
The folks who succeed most in business are the type who have an intuition for what's best. They're not some automaton reading too far into and amplifying the imperfect and shallow signals of "demand" in a marketplace.
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by gmd63 10mo ago
I'm not excusing elected officials. I would go further and blame Vivek Ramaswamy for playing a huge part in pitching the failed DOGE. I'm just pointing out that the Trump admin deliberately lied about its connection to Project 202
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by gmd63 10mo ago
No, it wasn't clear. I know several Trump voters who either didn't know Project 2025 existed or believed the lies that it was a liberal hoax. To anyone paying an ounce of attention, yeah it might have been clear.
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by gmd63 10mo ago
That was not the clear purpose of DOGE. The Trump campaign deliberately distanced itself from Project 2025. If they had been honest about their intent to enact Project 2025 to voters, they would have lost.
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by gmd63 11mo ago
Shame. Only the wealthiest scammers should be able to manipulate these numbers via businesses that generate GDP like phone farms or buying the entire social media platform.
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by gmd63 11mo ago
Why stop there? Whichever shareholders flood the datacenter with the most electrical signals get the most profits.
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by gmd63 1y ago
The sad irony is that blockchain will do more to promote dictatorship as a superior form of government around the world than any other technology. Blockchain's primary usefulness has been to evade regulations, and due to the rapidly ch
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by gmd63 1y ago
Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuckerberg: Just ask Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuckerberg: People ju
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by gmd63 1y ago
I wouldn't want them to have selective memory in favor of juicing Elon's marketing scams either.
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by gmd63 1y ago
None of this should be surprising to anyone who has given an ounce of effort to examining Elon's character. Lies about capabilities, timelines, even things as frivolous as being rank one in a video game. He bought Twitter to scale his
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by gmd63 1y ago
I don't think it's that nonsensical to realize that in order to have AI, you need generations of artists, journalists, scientists, and librarians to produce materials to learn from. And when you're using an actual AI model to
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by gmd63 1y ago
DeepSeek was trained with distillation. Any accurate estimate of training costs should include the training costs of the model that it was distilling.
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by gmd63 1y ago
Market riggers using the GOP to make ridiculously stupid bets and then cashing in for outsized gains when they bend the world toward stupidity with expensive disinformation campaigns that make them actually come true. The darkest form of ca
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by gmd63 1y ago
Just in case you aren't joking, they did not fire the person responsible for the bad numbers. They fired the person responsible for observing and reporting them.
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by gmd63 1y ago
You would think the US government would be interested in the US government's success, but the past eight months have proven starkly otherwise. What makes one think they will be looking out for Intel's interests any better?
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by gmd63 1y ago
Few people have the balls to do the right thing when the risks pass a certain limit. And yet it's most important to do the right thing at the largest scale.
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by gmd63 1y ago
Some of them have certainly flagged themselves as opportunistic and myopic.
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by gmd63 1y ago
Smartest people will be working against that. You're thinking of opportunistic people with myopia.

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