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by jcfrei 2y ago
Swiss here: Pretty certain this is part of a pressure campaign by the SRF ("Swiss Radio and Television"). They are facing budget cuts nationally through an initiative that will be voted on probably later this year ( https:/&#
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EU's Restrictive Stablecoin Rules Take Effect Soon(coindesk.com)
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Not quite true: The other huge group of customers is simply gamers.
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DAX (as most other indices) just captures the top 40 public companies of an economy. It doesn't tell you much about the thousands of smaller businesses. And small to mid-size companies are a huge part of the German economy.
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So, is Apple running a proprietary LLM or are they licensing one from OpenAI, Google, etc?
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Is Apple running a proprietary LLM or are they licensing one from OpenAI, Google, etc?
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Could one point explain the other? A basically frozen real estate market prevented a lot of people from buying real estate - as a result they spent more money on consumer goods, which boosted salaries of low-income groups? If that's th
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The Easy Button(blog.bitmex.com)
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"Linux"? You mean the thousands of different operating systems, each with their own GUI, package manager and often incompatible software? Never running out of the box - because of some weird bug or lack of support for the specific
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Andre Onana uses Vaseline on his gloves – our goalkeeping expert finds out why(theathletic.com)
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by jcfrei 3y ago
Raising prices while everyone is might avoid any negative press. Plus you get to test how inelastic your demand / how price sensitive your consumers really are. Since most people buy coffee out of a habit to get their daily caffeine (a
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Google's core business model and that of the new AI companies (ie. ChatGPT) are diametrically opposed to each other: Google's most valuable business is having corporations bid on keywords such that their products/services wil
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by jcfrei 3y ago
I'm not convinced that the US approach with heavy protectionism is a good idea in the specific case of solar panels. It's a pretty standardized product and if another country is willing to subsidize the European consumer with chea
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U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly(nytimes.com)
2546 points by jcfrei 3y ago|2569 comments
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On your phone the GPS is just one input to determine its position. It's most likely also triangulating cell phone towers. Get an app that only shows GPS data and check if you see coordinates jumping around.
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very interesting, thanks! haven't heard of this feature before.
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My guess is that if you want to use any of the common apps you will need the play store services app that does all the data collection.
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Yup, this is the choice: Either a walled garden run by Apple that has a price premium. Or a discounted device by Android that allows Google to snoop on all your data if you want to use a single one of their services (App Store, Gmail, Googl
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by jcfrei 3y ago
Don't have a source ready but if I remember correctly they never planned to build the car themselves. There are plenty of contract manufacturers out there that build for a variety of brands (Magna Steyr in Austria is a typical example)
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I'm guessing that one reason why Apple is so reluctant to allow sideloading of apps is that iOS has some fundamental security deficits: It was probably built around the assumption that Apple can always fully scrutinize the binary of ea
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Not surprising given the inflation reduction act spends an additional $891 billion and the Chips act which adds another $280B to the governments debt - taken together about 19% of the usual yearly federal expenditure. It also contributed to
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by jcfrei 3y ago
Not really a thorough paper: For example it's missing the probably most lucrative attack vector: Buying put options on the two assets and then engineering a 51% or 34% attack. It also doesn't thoroughly dispel concerns regarding t
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Novo CEO says 'scared' food executives call him for advice on Ozempic(bloomberg.com)
3 points by jcfrei 3y ago|2 comments
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Very cool idea. Probably also needs an app to really gain traction (maybe just start with a webview and not a full native app?). I think lots of people are listening to podcasts on smartphones.
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A carbon tax will not be politically viable for two simple reasons: 1) Some people who would need to pay can't really afford it: It's people living in old houses or who have to drive very far to work or rely on cheap energy for he
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Microsoft Tops Apple to Become Most Valuable Public Company(nytimes.com)
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One thing that's very likely to happen is that major economies (US, EU, China, India, etc.) will start to isolate. Because AI will have such a profound effect on the competitiveness of companies and the regulatory environment between t
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There's some more you should do to increase privacy: Disable Firefox sending each keystroke into the address bar to all the numerous search engines (includes google). Best to just enable the separate bar for search and disable search s
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Tim Sweeney on Epic's victory royale over Google(msn.com)
1 points by jcfrei 3y ago|0 comments
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In the grand scheme of tax avoidance crypto must be nothing but a blip. Look at the size of the art market, car collections, yachts, villas, etc. There's a huge amount of work left to do if you want to get serious about tax avoidance b

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