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by mbesto 4mo ago
What does that have to do with scalability?
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by mbesto 4mo ago
> Nextcloud is written in PHP, which doesn't sound scalable to me. Lol what? Facebook (pre Hack), Tumblr, Wordpress, Etsy...
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by mbesto 4mo ago
And they are planning (well "planning" if you believe Elon) to start building their LLM over from scratch, which means they need a HUGE ass training data center, i.e. not a data center for inference to do so.
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by mbesto 4mo ago
The first link is the FTC punishing Pornhub for something they did wrong. That is the parent commentator's main point (e.g. it can be regulated), which you keep ignoring. > You wouldn't say we should stop age verifying people f
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by mbesto 4mo ago
> trip also knows where I live and vice versa. Do those people also have access to your travel schedule? Mine don't. Maybe you're just not as globally social as me? I've lived in 5 different countries and have friends all
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by mbesto 4mo ago
There are legitimate benefits. I just think its very easy to argue (which I agree) that the benefits don't necessarily outweigh the harm for most people.
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by mbesto 4mo ago
I am very critical of social media but this is far too of a myopic take. There is a ton of real life social benefit to these platforms. Simplest example - someone posts a picture/video of them in a city that I also am in and now I know
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by mbesto 4mo ago
> It takes humans a really long time to accept the fact they are no longer as special We ARE special because we determined we are special. Name another animal that can determine it's also special or more special than us?
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by mbesto 4mo ago
Travis Kalanick had zero taxi experience and Brian Chesky had zero hospitality experience. Now they created new models to existing paradigms, because I do tend to agree that founders that have verticalized experience tend to be far more s
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by mbesto 4mo ago
(1) There is currently $1T in dry powder in private capital markets (2) Middle east oil money (Saudi Aramco's profit every year is $100B+) (3) Public traders have been and are looking to cycle out of other investments into higher gro
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by mbesto 4mo ago
Undercounts it by what barometer?
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by mbesto 4mo ago
> I’ve had sales people tell me to my face that they are the most important part of the business and the actual product or services is not that important. Same here. This happened when I was 22 years old I didn't want to believe it.
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by mbesto 4mo ago
Or https://speed.cloudflare.com/
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by mbesto 4mo ago
> but it took me 18 years to grow the user base , figure out entreprise sales strategy and exit. The audience here has never wanted to admit that the codebase doesn't really matter. Now that codebases can be created in a weekend, pe
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by mbesto 4mo ago
This is essentially what AlphaZero is doing: https://nof1.ai/
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by mbesto 5mo ago
> And I didn't even say "profitable", I said "credible business model". What's the difference? I would assume a business model that rewards profit (and therefore can sustain) would be considered credible...a
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by mbesto 5mo ago
> would people stop doing PE even though it's profitable? No but there would be a lot less PE dry powder available. To the parent's point - there is currently a trillion dollars in dry powder that is allocated to acquiring busi
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by mbesto 5mo ago
> As long as customers choose services based on quality. If the market doesn't reward this then maybe quality isn't important to the customer. Could be price, location, availability, etc. - PE can absolutely create that value e
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by mbesto 5mo ago
> My core point is more that April 2026 was the point when Anthropic and OpenAI finally appeared to have figured out a credible business model. How so? What's specifically changed? We still don't know what their unit economics
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by mbesto 5mo ago
> but I suspect there’s a more important factor here: I think they’ve finally found product-market fit Ahhh the classic startup term that's definition is nebulous. But also, since when does any definition of product/market fit
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by mbesto 5mo ago
Hi - homeowner here who is NOT in an fixer-upper. "every single weekend" is clearly hyperbole however here is regular maintenance for me: - once a quarter clean the pollen off the A/Cs - once a week clean the pool (okay I pay
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by mbesto 5mo ago
> is because the author claims Japan's success in precision parts is driven by 'horizontal' and 'collaborative' practices. That just isn't true. > In reality, this system is largely sustained by the ruthl
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by mbesto 5mo ago
> I could easily say that everyone who says its profitible is msking unsubstantiated claims lol. And people who don't understand the difference between capex and opex are making uneducated claims. It's not basic math. Running a
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by mbesto 5mo ago
Did the PR achieve it's stated goal or not? Thats what we should be focusing on. > because one of the main issues with AI content is the ability to generate an overwhelming amount of it. So then let's focus on that, and not whe
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by mbesto 5mo ago
I know, but if Google was replacing their search with AI today doesn't that mean this should already be happening? otherwise is google going to make zero revenue starting today?
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by mbesto 5mo ago
I think what he said is deplorable (hence " yes and no"). However I'm speaking specifically to the premise of what the parent said around "it destroys team morale". What I'm saying is that your team's mor
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by mbesto 5mo ago
Once again, I was not responding to the "dehumanizing language" aspect of it, yet here you are focusing on that...odd.
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by mbesto 5mo ago
"Even if AI can automate certain tasks, language like this completely destroys team morale and trust. " That's what the parent commented on and that was my response.
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by mbesto 5mo ago
Yes and no. The company is a bank - it's job is to take money and make money with that. I'm not surprised executive management is publicly saying they want to make investments in assets that will help their clients and they themse
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by mbesto 5mo ago
Huh? These are my results when I put that prompt in: The final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will air on Thursday, May 21, 2026, at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.Final Week Broadcast DetailsThe Finale Date: Thursday, May

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