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by jasmer 4y ago
I think 'lying' is perfectly appropriate if there's a structured orientation towards the mistruth. 'Broken' or 'wrong' would be fine if that were simply just making an error. But if there's something
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It will be a tool for fraudsters, like computers or anything else are tools, but the space itself is not inherently oriented towards MLM.
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Crypto had the disadvantage of being a natural conduit for MLM-ish pyramid schemes and a lot of nefarious activities. That gave it some wind, but it was bad wind. Notably, it turned out to be not very useful. AI will be useful, and it'
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by jasmer 4y ago
This is the economic value of refactoring, right on paper. 'Complexity is the mind-killer' - Linus Atreides
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I don't think that banning ads would make much difference. TikTok doesn't even have that many ads. And weirdly - TikTok ads are generally decent - they are short, to the point, kind of authentic, not creepy. It's actually som
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I'll go further - you cannot even put a photo of someone else without their permission, unless it constitutes 'public good' and to be a journalist you have to 'register' - it'd be free and open to do that, but
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"Why everyone isn't leaving Adobe, Meta, and Google to found their own " Yeah, risk. Disruption is considerably harder than you might imagine, it's not about 'products' it's about market power.
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AI is not an abstraction. It's rational to be hand wavy about future value, it's already materialized. AI is basically an applied reseaarch project, he should be more like a Dean herding researchers and we should take him as that.
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by jasmer 4y ago
Loopt was a failure. Political skills. It's a stream of PR, not anything operationally applied, or performant.
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How is the current system 'a mess'? It powers the whole world. Almost every kind of transaction you can think of. If people would follow the regs most things would work. I think the biggest issue is transactional drag aka somethin
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by jasmer 4y ago
Guns among the general populace are far more likely to end up being used for crime, suicde and in accidents than anything legit. But - I think guns in the hands of responsible people who have 'credible threat' may actually be net
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by jasmer 4y ago
Musk had destroyed Twitter and made it simply a means to amplify his voice and those of his buddies, and those he likes most.
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I have no understanding of that world, but maybe that's the thing they use to draw him into scrutiny, which will justify further investigation. I have no sympathy. I mean, I hope Justice prevails and don't want anyone to lose thei
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Any business that needs to hide it's operations under layers of obfuscation, offshoring, break rules, avoid oversight and literally admits to 'Being About the Crime' is a de facto criminal operation. Or rather 'infrastru
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by jasmer 4y ago
Random ladies on the train are not using ChatGPT. They will be using Siri, which already exists, it will just be better. "But literally nobody “intuitively gets” metaverse" ? The first time you put on a 3D headset you are visceral
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by jasmer 4y ago
They both take orders from their respective governments, but the nature of those orders, the nature of the business, the relative power, the domain over which the information is valid, transparency, proportionality etc are all very differen
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by jasmer 4y ago
The Congressional Hearing was a clown show, but there are hugely material issues of National Security and trade parity to contend with. China is putting itself on a direct 'war footing' path with respect to Taiwan and the likeliho
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More people were hyped by it that ChatGPT, which is mostly a nerdom thing. People intuitively 'get' the Metaverse, and if it was good, everyone would be doing it. I remember that crap from like 25 years ago, this is kind of the 3r
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by jasmer 4y ago
It's a shame those allegations don't amount to criminal prosecution. We need to have criminal liability for some of these things, I believe it would change how banking works. It might be a bit harder to get a good interest rate, s
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Decreasing marginal returns though. We were a bit blown away with 'Siri' - I mean, it could understand what you said, and 'get the weather'. I think we're going to start feeling the limits of this soon. It will be p
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People will be copying this spice recipe pretty quickly.
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I'm sorry but I think you missed something a bit relevant aka 'Global Pandemic' which literally shut down massive swaths of the global economy, and was materially the biggest extant shock to the US economy probaby ever. And I
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"far beyond FDIC insurance levels" ? FDIC insurance is not there to insure most commerical banking. There's absolutely nothing wrong with banks or any other business giving better deals to more valuable customers.
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In what way is VC's getting deals for referring customers even remotely nefarious? It's the way the entire world works and there's nothing wrong with it in general. SVB did not collapse because of this, the collapsed because
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by jasmer 4y ago
If we're going to be cynical, then #4, the most common, which is 'post-secondary perfunctory education' basically 'advanced high school' which society 'expects' people to perform. Someone pointed out the l
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by jasmer 4y ago
UIs are inherently about state, and a lot of state is hard in Rust. The big 'tree of state' is just awkward. UIs are inherently async and event drive, it's callbacks over callbacks, again, harder in rust. UIs have a lot of de
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ChatGPT will eventually help with debugging, suggestions, idioms, finding security flaws, recommending libraries, boilerplate, finding stuff etc.. Or maybe not ChatGPT but something like it.
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by jasmer 4y ago
So why can't I just use an OS regular thread to use a non-blocking API? What is the advantage of a virtual thread in that case? You are saying that it's painful? How exactly? If you use an Executor that's setup with a proper
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by jasmer 4y ago
These are great, but Loom discussions almost always mix details with issues of the API. It's hard to fathom what that means for end developers. Will anything at all change but performance? What are the practical implications beyond tha
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I don't agree at all. The only 'suffering' going on here is issues with employee liquidity. As long as the company can raise the money it needs on good terms, there's absolutely no reason otherwise to be a public company

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