onesociety2022

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by onesociety2022 1y ago
I would support universal healthcare if I think the government is actually capable of reigning in the avg healthcare costs of an American. I’d bet the $800/mo eyedrops this poor lady is relying on don’t cost that much in any other coun
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
Even if AGI never happens, the existing models are already incredibly useful. I’ve switched to OpenAI Plus plan and almost never use Google search anymore. I pay $10/mo for GitHub Copilot for coding. So search and coding use cases are
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
But all he had to do in this case was dispute the fraudulent charge on his credit card? Credit cards in that sense are a lot safer than anything crypto - you have the opportunity to dispute and reverse the transaction. And it's easy to
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
Crypto is not going to save you there. If some country like India wants to ban content from some publishers, they can do so by just asking their ISPs to ban all traffic to said publishers. Whether the publisher accepts micropayments on cryp
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
I normally would subscribe to Apple Music, but I switched to Youtube Premium because I get Youtube Music with the added benefit of no ads on regular Youtube. It seems like their bundling trick worked on me as they expected.
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
Security measure - otherwise someone can intercept your MacBook during delivery, replace the original component with a fake one that has a backdoor and ship it to you and you start using it completely oblivious to the fact it has been hacke
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
You would find them the same way you find any good products today (word of mouth, product reviews, etc). But currently consumers don’t care so much about the longevity of any product or its repairability because throwing it away and getting
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
I'm not sure if it would pan out like how your half-brother wants it to be. Let's assume the manufacturing jobs return here and you are getting paid American wages. But if you try to turn around and spend it on anything, it will j
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by onesociety2022 1y ago
If your goal is to prevent cheap throw-away items from ending up in landfills, there's a straight-forward policy the Govt could adopt - just make it very expensive to send stuff to landfills (and stop the practice of sending our garbag
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
You think the other side is not capable of violent protests? Protests only work when majority of the population is ignorant of some injustice or corruption that is affecting a minority and your protest highlights the issue and brings it to
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
What country do you live in? In the USA, you can say “I think person X is an idiot”. That’s protected speech. No one can sue you for expressing your opinion online or IRL. If someone punches you in the face for calling them an idiot on the
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
They got eviscerated specifically because taxi companies were horrible to begin with in a lot of these places. In other countries like Japan or Singapore where taxi drivers are ethical and honest, I’d happily take a taxi any day.
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
Most people want to use privacy.com so you don’t have to cancel the subscription because websites like to put up artificial barriers like having to call a phone number and wait on hold to cancel a subscription. So what happens in that situa
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
> And I'd say that it's questionably legal. If a store charged you more money because you were using a gift card, I think we'd all agree that the store had unjustly taken value from you. Here, Uber is allegedly charging pe
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
It is not even just credit cards. There are other companies which also offer Uber credits. For instance, if you drop off your Tesla for service in the USA, they offer Uber credits instead of a loaner car since they don't have enough lo
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
MVNOs do not guarantee the same level of service as the main flagship carriers who actually own and build the infra. I'm a customer of a MVNO that uses Verizon network. If I go into a crowded area, I can definitely see some traffic dep
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
AI noob here. Is every single model in iOS really just a thin adapter on top of one base model? Can everything they announced today really be built on top of one base LLM model with a specific type of architecture? What about image generati
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
PCC exists because full E2E is not feasible for these use cases. The LLM has to take your personal data (context window and prompt) to process it.
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
But this is just inference. What did they use to train their foundation models?
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
Maybe that is actually good for iPhone buyers? Otherwise every 2 years, they will claim a bunch of new AI features will not work on your older device. But if they can delegate requests to a server, older devices can continue receiving newer
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
Agree - what the author claims doesn’t seem likely. I would be worried about my email address leaking. My email address has my full name. So they can easily find out where I live and work if they spend a bunch of time googling my name. Expo
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by onesociety2022 2y ago
The 7 year expiry time exists so IRS lets you give RSUs different tax treatment than regular stock. The idea is because they can expire, they could be worth nothing. And so the IRS cannot expect you to pay taxes on RSUs until the double-tri
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by onesociety2022 3y ago
Running a charger network is not the same thing as being an energy company like Shell or Exxon Mobil. Tesla has to pay peak electricity rates for their superchargers to the local utility provider. So it’s not a high margin business.
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by onesociety2022 3y ago
How long of a notice period is considered reasonable probably varies drastically between different countries, different industries, etc. So the advice should largely be just do what is the norm in your environment to avoid burning bridges.
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by onesociety2022 4y ago
I don’t get why people keep complaining about streaming subscriptions. The whole appeal of something like Netflix is the unbundling of cable packages and getting rid of annual contracts. I don’t need to subscribe to things I don’t want to w
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by onesociety2022 4y ago
You’d be shocked how many areas outside major metro areas don’t have any broadband options. When we were buying a home recently, we had to carefully search Comcast and Wave’s websites to make sure the home had broadband service. Lots of hom
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by onesociety2022 4y ago
Apple acquired FoundationDB but from what I have heard it’s not really used much. The FoundationDB founders have left Apple and are working on other things. Cassandra is the main datastore for iCloud data.
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by onesociety2022 4y ago
Doesn’t the AirTag start making beeping sounds to alert someone they’re being tracked because Apple doesn’t want it to be used by stalkers? Even if a third-party makes a tag which is silent, would the thief’s iPhone notify them there’s an u