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by jcfrei 8mo ago
It's one of those super easy things that 90% of the users just never do - like changing their default search engine, export their social graph, install ad blockers, etc.
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by jcfrei 8mo ago
Kind of a bad look - but I can't precisely say why. Maybe he thinks he can raise more capital this way than he could for each company separately? Especially raising more money for X might be quite hard - they seem to be quite a bit beh
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by jcfrei 8mo ago
Not sure why you are getting downvoted - I'm wondering the same thing. Catching up is inherently more expensive than just maintaining a lead. And on top of that the EU pensioners will oppose any reallocation of resources outside of the
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by jcfrei 8mo ago
BTC failed to live up to it's own prophecy by not doubling from the last height of ca. 69420 to at least 140k in 2025. There was a last chance in October of last year, where it seemed to get close but ultimately it just didn't fin
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by jcfrei 8mo ago
Yup, they pivoted to making robots and subsidizing X/Grok.
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by jcfrei 9mo ago
This is exactly how its going to go. But the reason is not lazy bureaucrats but that a lot of countries fear they will lose out on taxes from corporations currently domiciled in their country. Of course another big source of friction is dif
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OpenAI will start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers(twitter.com)
21 points by jcfrei 9mo ago|13 comments
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by jcfrei 9mo ago
UK is famous for having extremely tough zoning laws, with many, many buildings being listed / landmarked. Something that does run very well in the UK are stores like Greggs which are usually classified as small shops (cat. E) without a
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by jcfrei 9mo ago
Surely a smart implementation would just find the chromium source on github, do some cosmetic rewrites and strip out all none-essential features?
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Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)(developers.google.com)
2 points by jcfrei 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 9mo ago
transaction fees are not increasing though, so they can't offset miner rewards. they have been in the $100k-$200k per day range for a long time, with only occasional breakouts: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/c
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by jcfrei 9mo ago
Take a look at the recently mined blocks. there are some miners that very frequently mine two blocks within quick succession, like just now for example: Block 930256: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc&
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by jcfrei 10mo ago
Not downvoting you but such a broad statement is pretty meaningless if you don't segment by age group. Also Tiktok captures almost the same percentage of US ad video spending - that wouldn't be the case if youtube had so many more
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by jcfrei 10mo ago
The farming lobby will try to ban it as soon as it becomes a viable alternative to poultry. I hope consumers will have the awareness to fight back.
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by jcfrei 11mo ago
"Using chatgpt" is now synonymous with talking to an AI. I wouldnt underestimate their brand recognition and moat.
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by jcfrei 11mo ago
Microsoft is financially backstopping OpenAI - they are not a competitor.
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by jcfrei 11mo ago
There's also a possible scenario where the online ads market around search engines gets completely disrupted and the only remaining avenues for ad spending are around content delivery systems (social media, youtube, streaming, webpages
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The BMW iX3 just smashed 1k km on a single charge(electrek.co)
6 points by jcfrei 11mo ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 11mo ago
This is unrelated to the cloudflare incident but thanks a lot for making that page. I keep checking it from time to time and it's basically the main data source for my long term investing.
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by jcfrei 11mo ago
Browse TikTok and you already see AI generated videos popping up. Could well be that the platforms with the most captivating content will not be a "social" network but one consisting of some tailor made feed for you. That could un
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by jcfrei 11mo ago
Not gonna happen. They'll just threaten to move to another country. It's a prisoners dilemma for all countries. You can either give in to demands for lower taxation and hope that re-domiciling will over compensate for the tax redu
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Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before(nytimes.com)
7 points by jcfrei 11mo ago|2 comments
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Apple Nears $1B-A Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jcfrei 11mo ago|0 comments
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Senescence-resistant human mesenchymal progenitor cells counter aging in primate(cell.com)
2 points by jcfrei 1y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 1y ago
glad some people trying to make this. I've had the same idea in 2015 back when bitcoin was the only widely used cryptocurrency: https://www.jcfrei.com/the-ai-economy-bitcoin/ now with stablecoins and much faster c
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by jcfrei 1y ago
Two sides of the same coin. The yen appreciation didn't change the trade deficit the US had with Japan substantially. Japan's own actions after the plaza accord (very loose monetary policy) lead to the asset bubble I described. Th
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by jcfrei 1y ago
Japan wasn't "destroyed" - they fell into the same trap that most emerging countries fall into eventually. Massive economic growth -> people become more wealthy -> they put it all into real estate -> real estate mark
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by jcfrei 1y ago
Having access to USD is still a lot better than whatever local currency most of these countries have. All those without any real central bank independence (though FED independence has become more questionable in the US as well).
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by jcfrei 1y ago
Blockchains (due to constantly changing validators, nodes, etc.) are much harder to shut down than some dedicated service. I think the current administration understands that loose stablecoin regulation further cements US dollar hegemony, c
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by jcfrei 1y ago
- Adversarial attacks on grant review AI - Arms race between writing and reviewing AI As if there weren't numerous grant requests for dead end research before LLMs. Not saying this to discredit past research but when AI is used on both

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