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by onesociety2022 9mo ago
This is such a weird take - why do you have to personally use something for that to be useful? I could be at AWS working on their metering/billing system. I’d never use a billing system of that scale in personal life but that doesn’t m
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by onesociety2022 9mo ago
Illegal just means there’s a black market. You pay some guy in cash and he gives you a smuggled Starlink terminal. Neither buyer or seller is likely to be anymore sophisticated here than someone trading in any other smuggled goods (cigarett
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by onesociety2022 10mo ago
If what you say is true, why would Apple ever force a switch to eSIM? I’m now less likely to buy a new iPhone because I don’t want to deal with this eSIM fiasco. It’s to their detriment. If their goal is to sell more phones, they would want
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by onesociety2022 10mo ago
I have used the AirAlo app to buy data-only eSIMs for so many international trips. It works well but I have only tried it on iPhones.
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by onesociety2022 10mo ago
First there’s absolutely no real reason for a spouse to change their name just because they got married. You can do hyphenated last names for a kid and let the kids decide what names they want to carry forward for the next generation. Or th
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by onesociety2022 10mo ago
Not really - this “tradition” as you call it obviously started back in the day when women did not have equal rights in society and only the husband’s lineage mattered.
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by onesociety2022 10mo ago
Not only is it strange, it’s obviously very sexist in practice. In majority of the cases, it’s always the woman who changes her last name. The husband gets to keep his. I still find it very strange and shocking that powerful women with succ
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by onesociety2022 11mo ago
Tax refund loans are offered in conjunction with the tax filing service like TurboTax or H&R Block because they already know what your refund amount is going to be and it’s relatively risk free (small refund amounts) and easy to automat
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by onesociety2022 11mo ago
Well in the USA, there is the 1031 exchange which lets you defer capital gains when you buy/sell primary home and finally at death you can use the step-up basis rule to avoid paying the deferred capital gains completely when your heirs
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by onesociety2022 11mo ago
Maybe if you are an ultra high net worth individual. I don’t see your avg Joe walking into their neighborhood Chase bank asking for a $500k loan using their potential tax refund as collateral is going to get it. That seems like an esoteric
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by onesociety2022 11mo ago
I have been ordering the same Crocs from Amazon for about 8 years now. I don’t think I have ever received counterfeit Crocs from Amazon. I basically go to “my orders” page in the app, search for the last order and then reorder. I do have to
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by onesociety2022 11mo ago
Favored placement is never going to work but I would use Alexa for repeat purchases: “hey Alexa I bought some Crocs shoes a year ago. Can you reorder it?”. Or purchases where I know exactly what I want but don’t want to search and add to ca
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by onesociety2022 11mo ago
Larry Ellison owns 40% of Oracle ($625B market cap) as of today. So even if Oracle tanks and becomes a $60B company (10% of what is worth today), Larry will still be a billionaire worth $25B. He will keep his private islands and yachts.
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by onesociety2022 11mo ago
Tiktok, Zoom and Uber use Oracle Cloud.
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by onesociety2022 11mo ago
People jump through those hoops because the difference in pay is massive. You can practice leetcode for 2 months and land a job at Meta for a 7-figure salary or give up and work somewhere else where the total compensation is low six-figures
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
To be fair, Youtube Premium subscription is very affordable and lets you have an ad-free experience. I reward services if they offer ad-free versions for a reasonable price.
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
How is that any different than someone installing an ad blocker in their browser? Arguably ad blocker is much simpler technology than running a local LLM and has been available for years now. And yet Google’s ad revenue seems to have remain
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
Maybe but people's spending also dramatically goes up as they start making more money. You buy that $5m vacation home at Tahoe, you buy fully-loaded Rivian SUVs, you send your kids to expensive private schools, you fly only first-class
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
Isn't most of OpenAI revenue from end users and not revenue from token sales? For Anthropic, it is the opposite where almost all of their revenue comes from API usage. So even if AGI/ASI don't pan out, OpenAI will have a grea
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
But that's assuming they actually have to transport power over long distances right? If they colocate these massive AI datacenters right next to the power generation plants, it should be cheap to transport the power. You don't nee
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
It does help with employee stock compensation. If your stock doubled in the past year, then you just need to dole out 50% of shares as last year in equity refreshers to retain talent.
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
That’s true in AI field. Even if you are an elite researcher in some other field like biosciences, physics you can’t demand those salaries. So people in those other fields are essentially screwed.
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
Yes I can see why some devs might prefer the safety of the boring and the familiar stuff. But the employers aren’t going to care about that. They’re going to hire and retain the devs who are more productive in the new era. On the flip side,
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
That only makes sense if Stripe issues their own stablecoins? If they let their customers hold USDC on the Tempo chain, then any revenue from holding short-term treasuries goes to Circle. Are you suggesting Stripe would force Circle to shar
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
Uber isn't just taxis - if a bunch of taxi companies just got together and developed a taxi ordering app that looks just like Uber, it still won't be Uber. Uber is a whole bunch of things combined: - very intuitive taxi ordering U
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
Starlink is a legitimate business (ISP) that wants to make money from customers in that country. They will comply with all of the regulations and bans imposed by the government in that country or risk getting banned completely.
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
If you don't give the agent access to any of your personal information, how useful is it really going to be? The agent can only help you with tasks that can be accomplished by browsing the web anonymously.
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
The primary risk with these browser agents is prompt injection attacks. Running it locally doesn't help you in that regard.
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
Even the websites whose primary source of revenue is not ad impressions might be resistant to let the agents be the primary interface through which users interact with their service. Instacart currently seems to be very happy to let ChatGPT
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
The question is why haven’t they already done this type of cost control with existing Medicare? People aged 65 and over are incredibly lucrative for Big Pharma and medical industry as a whole because by definition they will incur a lot of m

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