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by netcan 1y ago
Sure. I agree that usage/demand is likely to outgrow compute performance. But.. a lot of the other dynamics that make this game winnable still stand. Maybe they will need to go with a meter eventually or some other pricing structure...
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by netcan 1y ago
>The business modelling behind it must be quite intense, I hope this doesn't blow up in JetBrains' face Historically... this tends to work out. Reminds me of Gmail initially allowing massive inbox. YouTube doing free hosting. A
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by netcan 1y ago
Google search (and online direct marketing broadly) have pretty direct impact on sales. It's true that they held up well, relative to "traditional advertising" in recent downturn. However... there are a lot of money losing ca
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by netcan 1y ago
So generally speaking, advertising is not resilient to downturn. In 2008, there was an expectation of revenue loss. But because Google "direct advertising" directly affects sales... it was more like "sales" than traditio
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by netcan 1y ago
True. This is my point too. The actual business models and revenue sources are still unknown. Consumer subscriptions happens to be the first major model. Ads still aren't. Many other models could dwarf either of these. It's very e
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by netcan 1y ago
>Just swap the search box for a chat bot. Perhaps... but perhaps not. A chatbot instead of a search box may not be how the future looks. Also... a chatbot prompt may not (probably won't) translate from search query smoothly... in
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by netcan 1y ago
> there's a limit on how much you can charge people for subscription fees. I think soon people expect this service to be provided for free and ads would become the main option to make money out of chatbots. So... I don't think
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by netcan 2y ago
Pharisee here. Joshua and the other judges were chiefs. They lead armies, built alters, pronounced judgements and whatnot. Often advised by prophets. Mosaic Law, the scrolls of the torah, dod not exist at this point. Not even according to t
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by netcan 2y ago
People think their justice system sucks or is wonderful, because the king is from their tribe. Or... when media fashion is to venerate rather than critique. Or when religious attitudes preference one or the other position. It can (usually d
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by netcan 2y ago
> those with the capacity to make the system more fair are incentivized to maintain the status quo Often true... but networks of incentives are subtle in how they build up. It's rarely just macro, societal-level incentives. Anyway..
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by netcan 2y ago
Sure. I didn't mean to say that justice is 100% corrupt and unavailable to normies. I said that it is different.
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by netcan 2y ago
Where is this untrue currently?
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by netcan 2y ago
> Just like healthcare, US justice is only for people with money. In most times and places, this is true. Ancient times, recent history, autocracies, democracies... Justice is expensive. Justice, and the legal college as an ideal often s
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by netcan 2y ago
Woah! You have no idea how much "hole" you just filled in my lexicon. Have been articulating this all wrong for years.
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by netcan 2y ago
Creative, perhaps, in a purely artistic sense. Even here, I think it's arguable. But, it's still definitely an art form and art is creative. " Creative of modern culture " is what rock music was... a pretty defining qual
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by netcan 2y ago
There is no argument about small groups' potential impact. The question is "what kind of group is this." Where is the analogy of Lisp to indieweb?
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by netcan 2y ago
Sure. I don't disagree with that. I think the Beat Generation (and mid-century Mississippi blues) from my earlier comment are also examples. Niche in their time. Automobile enthusiasts were a niche group. Early web forum users, IRC, IC
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by netcan 2y ago
I think the problem is adding on to a clunky paradigm. It wasn't a good verbal command line. It was usable because even an imperfect command line UI is inherently usable if use cases are limited. Building on to that though... you alway
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by netcan 2y ago
Perfectly reasonable take. "Taking off" is, I agree, a misguided expectation within this frame. Desktop Linux (year of) is a great analogy. Had it happened, Linux would not have remained Linux as we know it. Differences would lik
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by netcan 2y ago
Kind of tangent, but it is often surprising what order the future arrives in. From the perspective of 1960, early "robots" were expected to be physically capable and mentally feeble. Good at logic. Capable of making a sandwich. We
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by netcan 2y ago
> The IndieWeb doesn't need to go mainstream to be meaningful. It's a celebration of a more personal, decentralised... There was a time when rock and roll was going to " change the world. " Like jazz and beat poetry
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by netcan 2y ago
Slight tangent: Listened to " the song that some claim made Dylan go electric and pushed rock music into a completely new direction ." I always liked it. It's profoundly odd that "The Brits," mostly working class yo
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by netcan 2y ago
Enormous number of edits needed to achieve what specifically? Hairiness? OOH... any hairy elephant they produce will be "mammoth enough" for most. Elephant + Hairy = Mammoth. It won't be the same species/subspecies as ex
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by netcan 2y ago
So... Mammoths are elephants. Asian elephants are more closely related to mammoths than African elephants. They were likely genetically compatible. You could probably achieve a passable mammoth phenotype with selective breeding. Also, Pro
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by netcan 2y ago
IDK... if a profitable market is up for grabs, $$$s are not a problem. The financial system is quite comfortable fronting cash for factories making in-demand products. Have people suddenly forgotten that markets and enterprises exist, and a
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by netcan 2y ago
> On the other hand, if TSMC rejects the proposals, the U.S. government could impose a 100% tariff on chips made in Taiwan. Seems like a bluff... at least taken literally. Is the US really going to put a 100% tax on the core component
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by netcan 2y ago
Well written comment... compliments the article well. I think you inserting the objections to the culture/country part yourself. I don't think they are present in the actual article. The central idea here is that children are shap
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by netcan 2y ago
So... to discuss this for real we should first admit how things look below the super-premium level. Software engineering at Stripe, R&D at Meta and such... these are one end of a spectrum. At the middle of the spectrum is a team spendin
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by netcan 2y ago
Our ability to predict technological "replacement" is pretty shoddy. Take banking for example. ATMs are literally called "teller machines." Internet banking is a way of "automating banking." Besides those, ever
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by netcan 2y ago
I disagree. Imo this is mostly true of running and bodybuilding... where the average person is most likely to encounter "programming." A "gotcha" with minimum dose is that you need to precisely define the goal. "Min

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