mcmcmc

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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
aka Rent Seeking as a Service
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
I think you’re kidding yourself if you think the majority of software engineers are in it for anything other than the money.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Turns out AI is expensive… who knew? Giving it away for free was a predatory trap to create dependency. Now that they’ve captured enough market share they can try to cover their costs. The interesting question will be if it’s even even pos
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Ah yes, more corporate incest between direct competitors. Market consolidation is just what we need.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
If you check their profile you will see they are a VC. I’m sure they believe they are one of the masters of the universe, and by “you don’t matter” they mean other people, not themselves. They have money and power, so they get to matter.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Great question for google. 30 seconds of effort would indicate it’s within the last couple years
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
His utter failure at DOGE is irrelevant too, slashing aid programs that will result in the deaths of millions while not making any discernible impact on the budget. No one cares about that.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Sorry do you think data centers actually provide meaningful jobs? Oh boy, 10 whole openings for security guards
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Ah yes, the great evil of sugar… which our bodies require for energy. Seriously, your brain needs glucose. Ask a diabetic if sugar is evil
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Why do you need a commercial service to do that? Gambling isn’t bad inherently, but for-profit gambling companies have too many perverse incentives
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Yep. This would be like saying illegal dumping of hazardous waste is the same as protesting environmental protection laws. It’s just for-profit crime.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Same goes for every Meta employee then no? They built a defective product that led to kids killing themselves
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Not true, they lobbied very hard to be regulated under the CFTC because of its more relaxed rules
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Wouldn’t that make insider trading virtually corporate espionage?
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Maybe we just don’t want prediction markets.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
This isn’t actually the case. Congress members and their employees have been banned from insider trading since the 2012 STOCK Act. That’s why they do it through family members now
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
I think you misspelled “the White House”
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Ah yes, millions of people = “almost nobody”. Do you also believe trans people are irrelevant because they make up less than 1% of the population? Let’s also ignore that plenty of people live on homesteads and do small scale agriculture for
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
If it’s related to compliance? Yeah I think that’s a pretty dangerous culture to have. Compliance requirements need owners who will ensure standards are met. If they don’t do their jobs, then they should face the consequences for the harm t
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Why do you think it’s a nonstarter when so many of these new platforms do commit fraud all the time and get away with it? It’s only a problem if they get caught, and then only if people actually pay attention enough to care
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
> Penalties don't work for government agencies. Taxpayers would pay for it and it doesn't act as an incentive. This is the same as the rogue police problem in the US. What needs to happen is a shift to personal liability for th
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
You stated that you are blind without analytics, which heavily implies other forms of user research are useless and don’t provide meaningful signal. I don’t think an assumption that you’re not using other methods is that outrageous.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Farming is a way of life for a lot of people, not just a business. That’s what is missing from your picture. And by population, small time farmers significantly outnumber industrial outfits, regardless of how much they spend. Sure you can m
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
So the use case is just IP theft so you can get more Paw Patrol? AI aside, if you’ve truly exhausted all the simple readers, maybe she should move on to more advanced books instead of repeating more of the same and gamifying it, which seems
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Sorry for dropping the implied “wannabe” in autocrat, I figured HN commenters would be smart enough to infer that based on context. He is pushing and breaking boundaries on every front. No, he never accomplished any of the outlandish promis
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
A plan to gamble the brand’s reputation on whether people will remember their promises seems risky enough to be considered material. > representing they were going to make ads worse performing than they ended up making them. This is disi
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
What? I never said that. A DAW is not a musical instrument, it does not produce sound. You output an audio file, then it’s played through a speaker. It kills the joy of performing in my opinion. That doesn’t make it not music.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Have you tried Siri lately?
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
> Everyone in the United States is complicit to the horrible things done by the Trump administration by your logic. This is a ridiculous strawman. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume ignorance instead of malice. I wrote tha
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
> Giving a golden statue of Trump has no effect on you and me, and a very large effect on Trump. No effect on you, really. You aren’t affected by gas prices or tariffs? They are bowing down and participating in Trump’s patronage schemes.

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