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by mrtksn 11mo ago
I think they are trying to balance it between making as much as money possible, risking being sued for monopolistic practices and risking exodus. Microsoft once overplayed their hand and the anger and consumer dissatisfaction was so strong
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
People weren't happily paying, there was huge pirate business that was run on porn, gambling ads and spyware revenue. Then there were organizations with lots of lawyers paid by the "pay once use forever" companies to enforce
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
That's the time when VC's were making huge investments into the web tech, most companies were losing crazy money. The mentality of the age was portrayed like this in SV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
That was ine inception age when very few people were online, its not the stage of mass adoption. The mass adoption starts with the dot.com era with mass infrastructure build up. But sure, if you think that we should start counting from thes
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
The whole web ecosystem was first run by VC money and everything was great until every corner was taken, the land grab was complete and the time to recoup the investment has come. Once the users were trapped for exploitation, it doesn’t mak
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
Interestingly, places that used to be shit holes are becoming better or at least show a desire for becoming better. For example in eastern Europe, there are movements that demands democracy and destruction of the establishment. So if all th
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
When I read the title I hoped that EFF was going to do exactly that. There’s also a way to improve it: Sell “age verification cards” in physical stores. Just like they are verifying that minors aren’t buying alcohol or cigarettes, they can
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
The 15K application fee for background checks seems like a good idea. The Turkish program for citizenship by investment attracted many global crime syndicate members because apparently there were no proper background checks and you are allo
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
Apple could have avoid that by released it half arsed like all the AI stuff, claim that it does all those things and write somewhere "AI may make mistakes".
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
So far I found that AI is very good at writing the code as in translating english to computer code. Instead of dealing with intricacies of directly writing the code, I explain the AI what are we trying to achieve next and what approach I pr
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
Has Vitalik fallen of grace? Some time ago I stopped following the crypto culture and now I keep being shown tweets ridiculing him.
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
> AI hype fatigue I think your wording is the correct wording, not the "AI fatigue" because I don't want to go to pre-AI era and I can't stand another "OMG It's over" tweet at the same time.
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
EU should just force X to sell to EU owners or get blocked.
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
Since "truth" is more of a philosophical concept than anything else, IMHO the problem with "fact-checking" is largely rooted in the framing of it. Instead of acting like there's some objective truth that some people
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
Is the device you used for signing up previously used with another dev account? Is your payment method something that can be considered shady(i.e. single use or anonymous payment cards)? If you call them, they will reset your status so you
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
Yes, from the first principles perspective this AI thingy is just about running electricity through some wires printed on silicon by a Taiwanese company using a Dutch machine. Which means, up until the Taiwanese you have plenty of room to c
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
I like perplexity actually but haven’t been using it since some time. Maybe I should give it a go :)
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
my use case is Google replacement, things that I can do by myself so I can verify and things that are not important so I don’t have to verify. Sure, they produce different output so sometimes I will run the same thing on a few different mod
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
Yep, Gemini is my least favorite and I’m convinced that the hype around it isn’t organic because I don’t see the claimed “superiority”, quite the opposite.
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
Some time ago I canceled all my paid subscriptions to chatbots because they are interchangeable so I just rotate between Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, Deepseek and Mistral. On the API side of things my experience is that the model behaving as expe
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
[dupe] 135 comments : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062777
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
Of course but Trump is a really good cautionary tale
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
>At the beginning of the month, the Danish Presidency decided to change its approach with a new compromise text that makes the chat scanning voluntary, instead. Hmm, so this will probably make the life for those who don't scan quite
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
IIRC, when the cloud services were taking over the argument was that it’s much cheaper to pay for the AWS than paying engineers to handle the servers. This was also a popular argument for running an unoptimized code(i.e. it’s much cheaper t
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
I think it's called "diving reflex", not very sure about it all but AFAIK babies can learn to swim properly quite early which makes me think that humans too come with a lot of "ready to go" features but maybe need s
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
IIRC Andrej Karpathy in a recent talk made a point that reading a book isn't like memorizing the book, it's more like prompting the brain with the book. So maybe this concept of being ready to go at birth isn't about the anim
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
See, usually you don't have 11 developers coding 24/7. What you usually have is project managers, account managers etc and then a few people who code every now and then. Then you have licenses and support costs. You can't jus
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
Exactly. So instead of electing the people who will allocate the resources, the people who are successful in one thing are given the right to manage the resources for whatever they wish and they can keep being very wrong for very long time
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
That shouldn't matter, after all, even if the plate is legit, you can't just find a person's location from the database. They usually have some legal address or something, not live location. So unless there's an immediat
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by mrtksn 11mo ago
They should pair the solo drinkers by opening a joint tab instead of banning.

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