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by kbenson 3y ago
I think you're making assumptions about people and their capability to judge consistency over large chunks of information, when that information is at least internally consistent and common in their experience. If I believe the Clinton
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by kbenson 3y ago
I open that chat at least once a month. Then I immediately close it when I realize I clicked the wrong thing. I wonder how much that inflates their stats for it and what the real compared to accidental usage rates are. It's probably ve
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by kbenson 3y ago
This isn't over one app. Many (most?) the app makers have noted the change is unsustainable for them. One way to look at it is that Apollo, the app you're referencing that was able to charge $10 a year, would have to charge 2.5 ti
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by kbenson 3y ago
You can't limit what people want, but you can make them choose other avenues of getting it. If you charge for transit on news server connections, people will naturally gravitate towards using it for lower size messages, which means the
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by kbenson 3y ago
I meant per user monthly or weekly byte limits by the people running servers and allowing access, not message byte limits. I'm well aware of how usenet worked, and the fact they can just split into an arbitrary number of payload messag
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by kbenson 3y ago
It's an almost irrelevant question because as soon as most nodes would stop carrying alt.binaries, posters would no longer respect the convention that binaries should go there, because users would want the data regardless of what their
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by kbenson 3y ago
There are lots of solutions to needing to create an account now. There's social logins, and the prevalence of password managers if you want to use an email and can't remember if you already have a login. Reddit is easier because y
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by kbenson 3y ago
To be fair on the second complaint, if the first thing your app does is display a web view of a page that requests an email address (even if just for a mailing list), I might also say a claim that it doesn't collect that information is
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by kbenson 3y ago
> There's a lot of toxicity to the comments and opinions within the userbase of reddit. I think there's something weird that goes on with having a sub be a part of a whole and subject to the norms of the whole to some degree.
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by kbenson 3y ago
Well, I'll definitely defer to your actual knowledge on the subject as others should rather than following my ramblings given I'm honestly (and obviously) just speaking from what it looks like on the outside. Thanks for putting a
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by kbenson 3y ago
I'll give you that. I'm just focusing less on the scam/not scam portion and more on the actions taken and outcomes expected. Money in, cycles of hype and growth, money out. The main indicator of whether it was intended to b
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by kbenson 3y ago
Many crypto coins haven't folded, they're just worth a lot less. Every investor wants to hype the company before an IPO, and many of they are likely looking to recoup some of that investment as soon as they can without too much a
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by kbenson 3y ago
In what way is that materially different than most VC funded IPOs other than scale? Maybe I'm being a bit facetious, but I think there's a lot more similarities than people might want to admit...
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by kbenson 3y ago
I would love to see someone pull that line out in response to "What is your greatest strength and what is your greatest weakness." just to see how the other side responds.
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by kbenson 3y ago
Thanks! > You will like some of the numbers on that site even less than the $19 million median cost for a trial. > good luck discrediting the numbers. I'm not sure why you would think I wouldn't like the numbers. I'm n
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by kbenson 3y ago
Is it the median cost for a trial or for all trials that a company does? A company might have many trials going on at once, of greater or lesser costs, but revenue is an aggregation of everything over a year. A company with $100 million
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by kbenson 3y ago
> Conclusion: I like my original reply better than GPT's re-write. It depends on the context and goal. Yours is great for a HN comment. The "more intelligently" version is great for playing up your vocabulary, and does a
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by kbenson 3y ago
Yes. I often feel like I'm being too pedantic when asking for clarification about who is doing what from people since I do it way more often than others, and honestly can't tell if I'm just not thinking hard enough about
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by kbenson 3y ago
Honestly, those seem like the guidelines that SAT/ACT question writers probably use to remove the most ambiguity when trying to reduce the ambiguity and provide clear and consistent directions, so my guess is that they've been bes
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by kbenson 3y ago
> I stand by the assertion that pharma gets undeserved sympathy for long patent terms. Sure. That's an assertion that's easy to stand by because it's so easy for it to be true because it's so open ended and unbounded
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by kbenson 3y ago
From what I can gather, that's RSA, PageRank, and the idea of neural networks and how to train them (or some specific subset or advancement of that I think?). I agree these are novel and not something immediately obvious. I think what
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by kbenson 3y ago
There are likely many points in a work environment where the local minima and maxima of work output and employee happiness meet. The important thing is to remember that those are balanced in the small, and that a wider perspective may yiel
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by kbenson 3y ago
You are both completely misinterpreting my point and the tone I was intending. I'm aware there's no warrant. You said it would be "secret", which I interpreted to mean that the parties in question may not know the infor
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by kbenson 3y ago
Does a warrant to a third party require your notification? Either it does, in which case this is different, or it doesn't, in which case this is no different at all, and it's purely up to the third parties in general as to whethe
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by kbenson 3y ago
You're looking at this wrong. This is free advertising here if you get your etsy site back, and if you don't it doesn't really matter, eh? If you have so little faith that paying you for the item is time better spent than c
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by kbenson 3y ago
I don't know exactly why, but for some reason this made me think of qAnon, and now I'm thinking of an AI trained on qAnon theories that people can form a community around like they did qAnon, and frankly that's one of the mos
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by kbenson 3y ago
I've also heard (here) that after you get 20-ish questions into an instance you start getting the really weird output. Some of the conjecture was because that's about how deep they trained. In any case, if that's true, that&
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by kbenson 3y ago
> Molson says right in one of his tweets that he’s been “served with a lawsuit.” Do you have a reference to that tweet? Was it removed, or am I just having a hard time finding it?
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by kbenson 3y ago
That's still putting a lot of trust into the AI that it's not going to overstep in some way that's problematic to you, and given the lawyers that have to sift through the content you create may not be very happy about it, the
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by kbenson 3y ago
Part of the complaint being made by Molsen is that even after two days of deposition, he's being asked to return for more, for is critique in a blog post. Is that considered normal in a case like this? If it is normal, are there some

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