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by nostromo 3y ago
> “Because when you see the data they have on you, it might make you think twice about the trade-offs. I was able to see my geolocation data, all the interest groups that I had linked from my Facebook account, every picture I had uploade
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by nostromo 3y ago
I'm shocked by your comment. Everyone that doesn't enjoy cleaning, cooking, doing laundry, mowing the lawn, or taking out the trash would LOVE a home robot that really works. Of course, these are very hard problems to take on --
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by nostromo 3y ago
I like that Apple is taking on big hard futuristic problems, like AR/VR, AI, and home robotics. But from a business perspective it seems unlikely to be successful. Apple could "easily" sell a luxury car and TVs and print man
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by nostromo 3y ago
That exists today. Apple's Homekit is the only real solution for a smart home that doesn't send everything to/from the cloud.
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by nostromo 3y ago
The law has been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge though, and will likely be overturned entirely on appeal.
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by nostromo 3y ago
What abuses have occurred since 2020? The only violation I currently experience is that T-mobile gives me a free Netflix subscription and free wifi on flights. Both benefit me without hurting others. And both would be allowed under the pr
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by nostromo 3y ago
Do you have any examples post 2020, when net neutrality was revoked? The internet has changed dramatically in the 10+ years since most of your examples and removal of net neutrality regulation has not seemed to cause any of those issues to
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by nostromo 3y ago
Regulators shouldn’t waste time on non-existent problems that might come to pass (unless it’s a catastrophic outcome, like nuclear weapon proliferation). Instead we should keep the threat of neutrality on hand, but only use it if the mark
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by nostromo 3y ago
Because of Google and Facebook - not your ISP.
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by nostromo 3y ago
No, SBF did directly steal from FTX users. He used an intermediary (Alameda) to do so. The end result is the same: he stole from customers to enrich himself, his family and his friends. I'm sure both SBF and Madoff originally thought
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by nostromo 3y ago
> I notice the article doesn't state the source of the debt. If it's unpaid traffic tickets, then I do think it makes sense to suspend the license Yes, it's unpaid tickets and tolls. That's common in most states. If
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by nostromo 3y ago
They can't stay this high for long without a federal debt crisis, which is a key reason the Fed is hoping to get interest rates back down. If we weren't so indebted, interest rates could indeed stay high for a long time without mu
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by nostromo 3y ago
Room and Board sells great sofas that are made in the US. We've been very happy with ours. It's made from solid wood and stuffed with real feather down. It's several years old now and has shown no signs of aging.
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by nostromo 3y ago
> should a lot of other countries similarly be banning US tech companies China already does for reasons similar to those that are in this bill.
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by nostromo 3y ago
But there is real competition in the petroleum market. Yes, OPEC exists, but they are just one player of many. PG&E is a 100% monopoly for it's customer with no choice whatsoever.
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by nostromo 3y ago
Google was taken over by activists. Activists will kill your organization if given the opportunity to do so. Their goals aren't aligned with the company or the customers. These activists will happily drive Google into the ground if
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by nostromo 3y ago
I think the culture shifted out from under Google and expectations around DEI have changed -- Google's culture is stuck in 2020.
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by nostromo 3y ago
I'm glad Fergie is still being mercilessly mocked [1] -- because since that went viral I think people have toned the diva-ness way down. It's a good thing because a lot of people sing along in the stands if given the opportunity -
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by nostromo 3y ago
> It looks like the safety filter may have taken offense to the word “Cocktail”! I opened up the safety settings, dialled them down to “low” for every category and tried again. It appeared to refuse a second time. Google really is its ow
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by nostromo 3y ago
Yes, Google has been gaslighting the internet for at least a decade now. I think Gemini has just made it blatantly obvious.
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by nostromo 3y ago
It's super easy to run LLMs and Stable Diffusion locally -- and it'll do what you ask without lecturing you. If you have a beefy machine (like a Mac Studio) your local LLMs will likely run faster than OpenAI or Gemini. And you ge
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by nostromo 3y ago
This is related to high-trust and low-trust societies. In a high-trust society, norms prevail and in general you can expect a certain level of treatment from everyone: your government, your employer, your neighbor, and the person next to yo
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by nostromo 3y ago
Why is this so highly ranked? It’s just an ad for a conference.
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by nostromo 3y ago
Young people care and are very aware of what they share and don't share. That's why Facebook is only popular with boomers now. Young people are in private chat groups, using alts on Instagram, and then only sharing the most anody
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by nostromo 3y ago
Privacy preferences have shifted pretty dramatically. People now understand that sharing their personal information and personal opinions in an open platform is high risk low reward. So we now scratch our social itch with group chats and p
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by nostromo 3y ago
It is curious. They seem to repeatedly submit old stories over and over. Some other examples: 20 CDs curated by Steve Jobs & the iPod team - submitted 20 times over 7 years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&pa
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by nostromo 3y ago
Yes, exactly -- Google is the new Yahoo. It's no longer about training a great algorithm to find great results -- but hand-selecting the most anodyne, least interesting results for everything using a small army of human and AI reviewer
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by nostromo 3y ago
Thank you. You're more helpful than the last service tech we talked to. :)
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by nostromo 3y ago
Potentially, yes. But when we asked about this we were told that not all heat pumps and head units are compatible -- so we seem to be locked in based on brand, model, and refrigerant type.
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by nostromo 3y ago
> These states really need to get their electric rates down if they want to accelerate adoption of electrification technologies. I wish. Instead they'll just do what they're doing in my home city, Seattle: ban gas furnaces and

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