minsc_and_boo

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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
I mean, EM set the expectation with his free flow of information and anti-draconian dream. I'm curious to see if anyone honestly believed it.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
I feel like this is the greatest demand for LLMs at the moment too. It's hard to believe we're only 8 months into this industry, so I imagine we'll start seeing smaller footprints soon.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879737
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Is there any way around this, like spoofing headers or OS specs?
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Tech competitiveness relies on network effects. Breaking up tech would just cede marketshare to companies like ByteDance and Baidu. Any successful US-based tech post-breakup would be acquired by larger international players, like Tiktok wa
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
You're right, but not because of politics. FTC is on a losing streak, with the latest fiasco being the Microsoft Activision acquisition fiasco.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Transition costs are prohibitive. Some SaaS platforms bill just enough to stay under the cost of transitioning to a competitor (or building first party) to maximize revenue.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Comparatively more than it is now. It's a no-true-scotsman to exclude it.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Even at hypothetical 100% effectiveness, you're still going to be spending the same budget to match variable ROI on CPCs and CPA.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Nit: Tesla has word of mouth advertising, which works for automobiles when you have brand loyalty.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Cloud really does make most computing power fungible.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
If Twitter's (or X?) performance is anything to go off of, that's probably not true.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Honest question: Why not subscribe? IIRC content creators get more revenue per user from YT premium than ads.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Expensive right now, but at the rate things are going, we'll probably see more efficient LLMs for things like mobile real soon. I remember when voice to text was expensive, now we have on-device neural networks working.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
It was possible in some of the SimCity's IIRC, where you build a network of subways instead of roads.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Yep, and what your CPA is. LTV for a 30 yr mortgage is hundreds of thousands - that pushes for some expensive clicks at auction.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
The pixel is just an image, so unless you disable email images loading by default, the server will still count you. Pre-caching will sometimes mess with the counters though, making the counts lower than the actual.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Email pixel tracking is an industry standard these days. Every time the email loads the pixel, it counts +1. Some platforms like Gmail partially obfuscate it.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
>If you choose to make your app eligible for auto install, Play can deliver your app to users’ devices automatically on launch day (if they’ve opted in). It's up to the users.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
I'd argue the internet has gotten worse over the years too. Search results are only as good as the links to content that others make.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
What was the prompt?
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Not GP, but the utility of a social app is linked to network effects - i.e. the more people who use it, the more utility it provides. Otherwise you're risking tooting to the wind.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Possibly the Slippery Slope fallacy. There's also an appeal to consequences where if the outcome of something is considered undesirable, then that something must be false.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Ethanol is technically an alcohol hydrocarbon, if we're getting into the weeds on semantics.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
I think it's a combined vector of the drawing action - i.e. a true circle stays in place.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
And that's what happened in this case, right? The author seems more upset that it tracked his visit to the coffee shop, which to GP's point, they opted into.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Post cloud boom, the expectation is cloud syncing, not the exception.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
We used to joke that a drone mesh network to a local Starbucks was the best opsec.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
There's absolutely nothing wrong with choosing products and services that don't align with your views either. Just look at conservatives trying to cancel budweiser & disney. I wasn't aware of Ein's outspoken and pro
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Nitpick: EPD is responsible for the cookie consents everywhere, not GDPR - https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ GDPR primarily concerns the user with information and takedown requests, the latter which could be considered deletion

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