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by maeil 2y ago
Many people here upset about this. Here's what recently happened in Romania, all through TikTok. Turns out China (or here, Russia) infiltrated the country, waged an enormous disinformation campaign and succeeded by getting their chosen
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It's literally only McDonalds though who goes to this degree and does so across different codebases in locales across the world. The departments you're talking about exist in many places, but no other big company has their apps be
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I'm about 90% sure that for some inane reason, McDonalds outsources and creates separate apps for each country/region with these disastrous security flaws, except that at HQ they universally demand horrifically counter-productiv
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by maeil 2y ago
https://blogs.transparent.com/dutch/untranslatable-dutch-wor... There's a large amount of peer pressure to idolize scraping by, and against actually doing your best and putting in effort. While this exists in cert
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by maeil 2y ago
This seemed to work for some time when it came out but IME no longer does.
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by maeil 2y ago
Let me ask you a question. What's the longest time you've spent on a single patient over the last month? What do you think that number is like for your fellow physicians? Of course this will massively depend on your specific workp
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by maeil 2y ago
> In South Korea it asks the user are you sure, here's the extra kJ, when it does an upsell. Really? I guess I've just never taken up such an upsell, but I'll try to remember it next time I go just to see the UI. Barely ev
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by maeil 2y ago
It does not have to be this way. This should not be claimed as some kind of law of gravity-like nature of the universe. Businesses have operated in an enormous variety of manners over the years and continue to do so. Businesses have agency
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by maeil 2y ago
Is there a solution? Obviously those companies are not going to change, so what can everyone else do about it - besides already being very rich, starting a competing ad-tech without funding, managing to get market share, and managing to rem
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>But, when I go to work, things change. Not only people around me don't care, they very much want everyone to not care, because that would show them in a bad light. In your country this starts way back in middle school, where this p
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by maeil 2y ago
Doesn't seem too different from the lootboxes example.
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> cause outages That's fine. The major LLM providers work like this. If you're out of credit, or hit your monthly recharge limit, it stops working, bringing down prod with it if your product relies on it. Not heard anyone compl
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by maeil 2y ago
> No major AI advancements for 7 months? For my caveat "at usable prices", no, there haven't been any. o1 (full) and now o3 have been advancements, but are hardly available for real-world use given limitations and pricing.
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by maeil 2y ago
It's depressing that this understanding hasn't been the status quo for years now. It's not like this is his first gig, it's been publicly verifiable what kind of person he is for ages, long before GPT became famous. You
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by maeil 2y ago
> Hard to say what motivates them, from the outside looking in. It isn't. > There have been signs of cultlike behavior before, such as the way the rank and file instantly lined up behind Altman when he was fired. This only reinfo
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by maeil 2y ago
> When has something like this ever happened? Anything that used to be freely available but no longer is. Once upon a time Laudanum (tincture of opium) used to be the OTC painkiller of choice. In slightly more recent times, there's
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by maeil 2y ago
While this is an oversimplification, my understanding is that it roughly goes like this; BMWs are decent. Other European brands' EVs are a bit of a joke. Korean ones are solid. US big manufacturers are somewhere inbetween. The Hyundai
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I think that's the point, no?
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It's hard to realize just how unrepresentative that is and how much of a minority that makes you. Just like it's easy for people into video games to think the latest Steam-chart topping indie hit is really popular. And then you lo
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by maeil 2y ago
In theory, that is true. In reality, there's a thousand reasons why it's not in the world of digital (and many non-digital) services in 2025.
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Booking is not listening through your microphone, if that's what you're implying. Else, what is it that you're implying?
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> Sure, they've gotten much cheaper on a per-token basis, but that cost reduction has come with a non-trivial accuracy/reliability cost. This only holds for OpenAI.
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> Keep in mind that this is the stupidest the LLM will ever be and we can expect major improvements every few months. We have seen no noticable improvements (at usable prices) for 7 months, when the original Sonnet 3.5 came out. Maybe sp
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This man's heart is clearly in the right place, so maybe this isn't fair. Nevertheless: > The book is trying to get at this question of the gap between what people say they care about and what they do in response to a threat to
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> Not to mention the latest wonder from Gaza…it didn’t go down that well, did it? How had it been going up until that point? Very poorly too. The idea that peaceful protests by Palestinians would've changed that would be so awfully
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> Neither has happened much and these owners just take the hit Then they're too low. It's impossible there exist no X and Y where at $X and Y% this would make them sell.
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Where I was at there surely were internal "Asian" community groups with a budget and so on, for one. Don't think proposing a "White" or even "American" or "European" one would've gone over e
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This only ever happens when protesting those with fairly little power, very lower middle management, and those in actual power don't care. It's also become less and less common over time, as the focus on next quarter shareholder r
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by maeil 2y ago
I'd very much count employee-owned businesses as corporations. In certain jurisdictions they may or may not meet the legal definition of a corporation but that feels like semantics.
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> An economically left wing corporation is sort of an impossibility There have been many, and still are, under the most common definitions of left-wing. Of course you'll find zero of them on the NASDAQ. That indeed is a modern-day i

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