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by mavhc 3y ago
The Apple App Store led with an estimated revenue of $85.1 billion (roughly £70.5 billion) in 2021, responsible for 63% of total app revenue. In the same year, Google Play Store generated revenues of nearly $47.9 billion (roughly £39.7 bill
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by mavhc 3y ago
That's the point, if a lot of people use the platform you can't ignore it, so you're forced to either offer a bad experience or pay the extortion fee, EU will have to fix it I guess https://competition-cases.ec.eur
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by mavhc 3y ago
Use your dominance as a platform provider as leverage to extort extra fees for doing nothing. https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/cases/AT.40437
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The author of the article: In addition to being a professor with The Great Courses (How to Publish Your Book), she is the author of The Business of Being a Writer (University of Chicago Press), which received a starred review from Library J
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by mavhc 3y ago
The question is does the rapid progress in LLMs continue over the next few years, or do we reach another local maximum. Is "currently" going to improve rapidly?
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by mavhc 3y ago
It would be a shame if your digital goods were accidentally destroyed by my associates, a fee, of perhaps 30%, would ensure this terrible tragedy would be avoided. They provide no service, hopefully soon it will be illegal.
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by mavhc 3y ago
Amazon don't want to pay Apple's ransom, Apple has no part in the transaction, has no costs, yet is acting as the Mafia, demanding their cut if you operate on their territory. Giving in to Apple's crimes would be immoral.
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by mavhc 3y ago
Pre internet you would do the same thing with your computer every day for 15 years and then buy a new one, you could load the same version of MS Word 15 years later no problem. But when you're dealing with the rest of the world, a) you
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by mavhc 3y ago
My point about Drive Pilot is no one is using it, how can it be known to be safe if it's not actually used? There's plenty of videos of Mercedes demoing it to journalists, but who's actually bought one and used it, has it eve
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by mavhc 3y ago
That article is out of date now, FSD works on highways. Meanwhile I've found 0 evidence of any member of the public who owns a Mercedes using Drive Pilot 2 years after it was announced. I'm sure if FSD ever kills anyone it will be
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by mavhc 3y ago
Are there any reports on the results of NHTSA investigations instead of just saying they've been started? Doesn't seem that bad really, 2 FSD reports, first one FSD braked suddenly, maybe, no results from investigation it seems so
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by mavhc 3y ago
But in the end it works out. "During the second quarter of 2022, SpaceX delivered 158.7 metric tons to low Earth orbit which is four times more than second palace China’s space corporation CASC at 38.8 tons. Roscosmos at 17.2 tons was
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by mavhc 3y ago
"This geofenced Level 3 system works at up to 40 miles per hour on select highways" It's just worse cruise control, can't even go at highway speeds, there's about 1% chance you could use it. Meanwhile FSD Beta is dr
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by mavhc 3y ago
Now repeat what you did
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Everyone else's rockets don't land after putting things in orbit. You can't buy another car that can do even 10% of what FSD beta does
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by mavhc 3y ago
That seems to turn usenet into a forum
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by mavhc 3y ago
Makes the most EVs, makes the most profit per EV, has the best charging, self driving, efficiency, software. But if it's so easy, why hasn't anyone else bothered? All space programs run on government contracts, what's new? He
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by mavhc 3y ago
You had a CD? We had to flip switches to install the bootloader by hand. My security at school is: 1. Set bios password, 2. Set computer to only boot from FDE ssd, 3. Secure boot, 4. Filesystem ACL, 5. set to only run code from places users
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by mavhc 3y ago
Everyone should pay for the pollution costs of everything they buy. A tax that covers 100% of the cost of cleaning up the pollution the thing you bought has and will create. Right after this companies will invest in reducing the pollution m
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by mavhc 3y ago
And now all he has is the best space company and the best car company, poor bastard. It was so easy everyone else also did it
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by mavhc 3y ago
How do you add new features to a distributed system? Anti spam was the most needed tool, and it never arrived. Even if you just offer the ability to have 3rd party clients to your closed system you still have the problem of distributing new
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by mavhc 3y ago
Religious groups have been disappearing, and in their place is a rise in new age woo that's worse than the previous solution. The problem with Anti Vax is it's fine until a threshold is reached and then everyone gets diseases
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by mavhc 3y ago
Wait, aren't we against paying to use a social media site?
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by mavhc 3y ago
Who's paying for servers, moderation, etc?
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You had to patch the religion to avoid the suicide bug, telling people that it was bad. You only want really old religions that have been around long enough they're not doing anything mad, but most people aren't going around doing
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by mavhc 3y ago
Religious wars are rarely about religion. And hopefully mostly in the past. Usually about colonisation, control, who has political power, who's getting the best land. You can trick the true believers into fighting for you of course, bu
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by mavhc 3y ago
Organised Religion is good for people, because it keeps them from believing even crazier ideas, and still tells you to see a doctor when you're sick Most of the people who go to Organised Religion don't really believe in God, they
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by mavhc 3y ago
Microsoft: Pay us for Windows Microsoft: Pay us for online services Also Microsoft: Pay us more if you want those 2 things to be secure
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I read it was more the opposite, Jesus was more of a god who spoke to people through visions, and the early Christians edited the early writings to make him an actual person, because too many other Jesus's were popping up
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But how many security flaws will the killbots have? Who's programming them?

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