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by marricks 3y ago
> societal decline as a direct result of inflation and overspending Really? Direct? Pretty sure the Roman’s had many other things happening upstream of overspending. Many things were going wrong.
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by marricks 3y ago
The pissing contests in terms of who is worse usually feels like a defense of our country. (I live in the US) Perhaps we should be most critical of our own country as presumably its where we have the most control and blame.
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by marricks 3y ago
Totally. And FF7 was new (to me at least) in what it aped so it's all fine and cool.
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by marricks 3y ago
I mean, they were always aping something though? Replaying FF7 I realized, at its core, it is just a mismash of 80s horror movies. Still love it, but its interesting to notice in retrospect.
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by marricks 3y ago
An emotional investor is still an investor, and I think people like you are specifically a lot of the reason MTG/Hasboro wants it to be collectible. It's the "oh this card is valuable because it's powerful, and has good
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by marricks 3y ago
> And, yes, some people have asked why Tim doesn’t have other backups around, but (again) the FBI took all of his shit. Let's not victim blame, especially when the victim wasn't stupid.
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by marricks 3y ago
> https://www.dailymetalprice.com/metalpricecharts.php?c=li&u=... It looks like it's returning to its pre-pandemic levels. Demand is increasing with EV's so it's still interesting, but possibly less in
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by marricks 3y ago
I think many deeply insecure tech bros relate to him so much because they don't realize they themselves are that same sort of insecure. Also, I never said he was only motivated by it, he is just obviously extremely insecure.
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by marricks 3y ago
> He really, really, wants to be internet liked Which is different than "liked by 100% of the global population"
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by marricks 3y ago
Not having a PR team is cool but it’s really just a doorway to seeing how most of these folks really are and it’s just desperately wanting to be seen as Tony Stark.
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by marricks 3y ago
No, he wouldn’t get into so many mudslinging fights if he just cared about being famous. He desperately wants to be liked and thought of as cool.
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by marricks 3y ago
MANY things he does are explicitly to be liked. That’s why he posts all the time, goes on interviews, shows up on SNL. Buys a social media company then burns company hours on figuring out why he isn’t the most viewed person on it. He really
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by marricks 3y ago
That would be my personal preference, laser focus on their browser, but Perhaps they didn't because it's already good and the reason they're falling is combating monopolies. Safari/Edge are defaults in their space and ha
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by marricks 3y ago
The article title is "most reliable new cars," so it's fair advertising of what it is. Most reliable old cars would certainly be a good read though.
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by marricks 3y ago
The only things from that era that didn’t get outright worse stayed the same (Craigslist). What was beautiful about the internet then was there were so many corners were monetization either wasn’t easy or wasn’t chased so things could just
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by marricks 3y ago
I mean, you probably didn't pay much attention to battery capacity before phones, laptops, and electric cars, right? Battery capacity has probably increased though at some rate before you paid attention. It's just when something a
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by marricks 3y ago
It seems like they had a lot of smart people doing smart things. I would hope it wanted to be open and non-profit so it didn't have to live by the "move fast and break things" mentality of all start ups.
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by marricks 3y ago
They don't publish papers now, they actually published papers and code before. No doubt OpenAI was never a glass house... but it seems extremely disingenuous to say their behavior hasn't changed.
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by marricks 3y ago
I mean, no matter what people say about what happened, or what actually did, one can paint this picture: ( - OpenAI exists, allegedly to be open) - Microsoft embraces OpenAI - Microsoft extends OpenAI - OpenAI gets extinguished, and Microso
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by marricks 3y ago
I was paraphrasing what I remember of the blurb of the article. I probably should have used fundraising, though.
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by marricks 3y ago
Or, rather, it’s odd that you haven’t heard what Sam did wrong. There was a front page Bloomberg article that alleges what Sam did and it was briefly in the top of this site then disappeared. It alleged that Sam funneled a lot of money to h
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by marricks 3y ago
What? Greed is the backbone of our startup landscape. As soon as you get VC backing all anyone cares about is a big payday. This is interesting because there is something going on beyond the typical pure greed shitshow. Perhaps it was just
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by marricks 3y ago
The government isn't a household and its finances don't need to be treated as one. I think everyone in government knows this they just don't want constituent's to realize it so they hem and haw about any spending they do
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by marricks 3y ago
Eisenhower warned this would be a thing and here we are, it's a thing. The best we will ever get is the illusion of spending being under control. It's wild, but whenever a big change occurs there's always smart folks who knew
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by marricks 3y ago
I think there's a pretty big difference between filing a ticket to open the building next door and having free workspaces around the world you don't have to do paperwork to use.
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by marricks 3y ago
To me, the title made it sound like Big Tech was underplaying the risk to humanity, when it's actually stating the reverse: > A leading AI expert and Google Brain cofounder said Big Tech companies were stoking fears about the techno
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by marricks 3y ago
Google has 280b (2022) in revenue mostly (entirely?) from ads. Apple's is 394b (2022), so you're talking about 1%... growing to, what? 1.1%? Everyone complains about overpriced Apple products and that's specifically because t
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by marricks 3y ago
It’s why you gotta burn ivory. When something is a luxury item for the wealthy rules don’t really matter you have to destroy the market.
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by marricks 3y ago
They are not an advertising company who doesn’t need to uniquely target you for a billion different ads. And no, their app store ads are not the same as Googles ads in search, gmail, maps, YouTube, and… Stop saying everyone is equally bad w
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by marricks 3y ago
Of course, Texas is notoriously pro conservation and definitely not full of people who would complain about any sort of environmental protection given the chance.

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