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6mo ago
I really dislike these AI middleman plans. The value-add that Microsoft brings to Github Copilot is near zero compared to directly buying from Anthropic or OpenAI, where 99% of the value is being delivered from. I don't understand wh
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6mo ago
There is also the classic network effect of someone saying "Wow you look great, did you lose any weight?" "I lost a lot of weight using this gray market drug that is way cheaper and more effective than the FDA approved stuff
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6mo ago
I think you just want to make a comparison of copyright to slavery. Property classes are born and die everyday. You can own the rights to publish an arcade video game, but that class of rights would have been way more valuable 45 years ago
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6mo ago
The more we treat it like a democracy, the more democratic it is. The more we treat it like an oligarchy, the less democratic it is.
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7mo ago
> Safe apply with automatic revert This alone is worth the price of admission. I've had to recover outside of hyprland because of bad monitors= values before.
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7mo ago
I've had a buyout clause used while consulting before. The company was ending their relationship with the contracting company and wanted to keep a handful of individuals.
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7mo ago
Ah yes, the timeless hallmark of web blogs: a draft so messy even a language model would ask for a second pass.
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7mo ago
I'm writing this in Safari now, I'm a huge fan. There are several "features" that I actively dislike and disable in other browsers. I wonder if not being implemented in mobile safari is preventing them from being requir
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7mo ago
> The real driver of white lab coats was the hygienist movement. This is a really compelling read with several historical sources, with a title that can be answered in a single sentence buried deep in the article. I'm a little sad
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7mo ago
You're missing a bit, like there is an entire top secert division of people that fight against mind erasing aliens, and there are a large variety of mind erasing aliens.
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7mo ago
I agree that accessibility is a big aspect that makes these digital games of chance different than the physical counterparts.
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7mo ago
I think it's very interesting many people treat physical games of chance as different than purely digital ones, and wanted to explore this topic. To me, that's a more interesting topic of conversation than calling for legislation
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7mo ago
The critique is "Taboos probably have a use." I think it's a good faith point. It's not as strong of a critique as "Taboos have purpose {x}" [Maintain ethical standards, promote public safety] or to say "
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7mo ago
It's interesting that your list skews entirely digital, and that more physical games of chance like lotteries and blackjack are not on the list. Do you see them as fundamentally different?
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7mo ago
I'm sure the margin was great for the ones it sold.
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8mo ago
The requirements to be US President isn't to be born in the US, but to be a "natural born citizen." While the rules of being a natural born citizen is more complicated if born outside of the US, you can generally become one i
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8mo ago
You're too far down the rabbit hole. Anytime they can make M1 incompatible with the latest version of macOS which would most people to upgrade.
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8mo ago
> It didn’t seem like 3D-printing ever showed sings of displacing existing ways of manufacturing at scale, did it? There was a point of time where some people looked at 3d printers and said "Wow, imagine how great this technology wi
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8mo ago
In the attention economy, you rarely become obsolete overnight. It's a more gradual shift of user focused being spent other places.
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8mo ago
What successful mass market service is self hosted[0]? We're in an endless cycle of cool new service suffers enshittification and abandoned. I'd love to break the cycle, but self hosted hasn't had a lot of success. [0] Self
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8mo ago
I think automatic moderation is one of those golden use cases for LLMs. You can use cheaper inference models, and maybe some clever sampling techniques to limit the token expense. Thinking out loud, I'd be surprised if this isn't
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8mo ago
Mostly Transportation, Technology, and Healthcare [0]. [0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/layoffs-unemployment-jobs-econo...
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10mo ago
> I can't control the speed that I read. For me, moving my lips while reading is a surefire way to significantly slow down the pace. I do this all the time when giving a document a final proofread before publishing.
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10mo ago
> Wouldn't you only need around 4 cups to get a full dose? That seems not unreasonable to me. This depends entirely on how bitter it is. There are certainly root bark teas you can brew that will induce vomiting before completing 4
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10mo ago
This is dumb, not because the idea is particularly bad, but because the idea is not something that benefits from Firefox's current market position.
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11mo ago
I'd say Bell is the OG, which was founded about 40 years before IBM.
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11mo ago
For some scale, Final Fantasy XIV makes about $65 million in annual revenue (and decreasing).
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11mo ago
I think this signals to data center builders that Montana wants their business, and this is really just a publicity stunt.
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11mo ago
It's one experiment because both systems are competing at the same time for global resources both in cooperation and competition with each other and other actors. Additional both systems exist in such widely different contexts that an
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1y ago
I share the same skepticism, but I have more patience to watch an emerging technology advance and forgiving as experts come to a consensus while communicating openly.
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