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by pembrook 1y ago
No, this is not corporate lobbying responsible. Stop giving your beloved politicians an out and acknowledge they do not have your best interests at heart, only a thirst for power. The buck stops with the politicians signing this into law.
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by pembrook 1y ago
Huh? Claiming something is true because a government supports it, is quite possibly the most cut-and-dry definition of an appeal to authority I've ever seen.
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by pembrook 1y ago
You’re strengthening OP’s point instead of undermining it. The “some governments banned it for kids” argument is an appeal to authority, a logical fallacy. The actions of tech-reactionist leftist governments absolutely do not constitute sou
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by pembrook 1y ago
It's absolutely insane how safe we've managed to make plane travel considering all the variables involved. Statistically, taking a flight from NYC to London is safer than walking from 5th avenue to 4th avenue in Midtown Manhattan.
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by pembrook 1y ago
Yes the alternatives for the seasonal storage problem are...fossil fuels. So obviously if we can't solve the seasonal problem yet with batteries, current battery tech isn't capable enough to make clean energy a reality without Nuc
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by pembrook 1y ago
No. It’s as simple as: A) battery tech isn’t good enough or clean enough …and… B) renewables aren’t reliable enough (peak generation times don’t line up with peak demand times) You could learn this within 1 minute of asking chatgpt, so I’m
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by pembrook 1y ago
As someone who has worked at and run a company and dealt with lawyers regarding these regulations directly, I can tell you this is 100% not the case. I’m sorry, but it turns out regulation with punitively high fines attached to it creates m
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by pembrook 1y ago
GDPR has nothing to do with cookie banners first of all. Also, literally how the process works is, any citizen of an EU country files a complaint, and you’re suddenly at risk for millions in fines and have to prove compliance to an incompet
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by pembrook 1y ago
Ahh yes. HN’s favorite debate. Where people who’ve never started a company or spoken to a lawyer about GDPR, the ePrivacy directive, the schrems rulings, etc but just emotionally love idea of what they think it represents (but actually do
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by pembrook 1y ago
Doesn’t usually go over well with regulators. If they have to prove their site is fully compliant in court it would become mighty expensive to do so. So, cookie banner it is.
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by pembrook 1y ago
Many people working in government wish they were administering a totalitarian state, and would be the beneficiary actors. Government is a job that self-selects for people who either want safety (non elected jobs) or power (elected jobs) mor
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by pembrook 1y ago
But we’re not talking about someone advocating slavery, we’re talking about US politics, which is essentially a slow motion hysterical melodrama over whether to spend 30% or 40% of GDP on social welfare, and on which programs.
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by pembrook 1y ago
If people democratically decide to reduce democracy, is that not the will of the people and thus democratic? If you actually believe in democracy, nobody can ever be a “danger to democracy” for expressing their opinions… since that is the p
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by pembrook 1y ago
Agreed, "culture" is a symptom, not a cause. All humans are the same species, and in a vacuum, have no ideas or inherent behaviors beyond base instinct. Culture is simply a byproduct of the environment around a segment of humans.
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by pembrook 1y ago
All sounds like classic marketing/positioning angles for an indiehacker bootstrapped saas tool. Problem is Mistral needs more than $10K MRR, and isn't going to make it by carving off a small niche when each model costs 10s of Bill
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by pembrook 1y ago
It requires less expensive infrastructure than AI, and AI has tons of competitors. YouTube simply enjoys a classic network effects monopoly, and that’s why their margins are high compared to any other business in the S&P500.
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by pembrook 1y ago
It’s not 45% of revenue expensive. The fact that we’ve accepted such ridiculously high profit margins from tech companies is simply due to their network effects monopolies, and the impossibility of competing with them. Just look at any othe
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by pembrook 1y ago
YouTube has the highest monopoly tax in all of tech. They take 45% of YouTube premium subscription revenue. That’s higher than the App Store (30%), Spotify (30%), and any other content marketplace on the internet. I think they get a free pa
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by pembrook 1y ago
Monetizing your marketplace monopoly with 45% rents is even more egregious than the App Store which people complain about at 30%. In fact, it might be the highest monopoly tax in all of tech. Even Spotify only takes 30% from the same musici
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by pembrook 1y ago
I'm no fan of Chinese authoritarianism, but you could say exactly the same about the US government. This is not a good rebuttal. We're just 3 years from the US government shutting down all businesses during Covid? In WWII the US f
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by pembrook 1y ago
SOE % is definitely a great challenger for this. But I'd argue it misrepresents the picture by not including things like regulated monopolies in the US and poorly capturing taxation-driven redistribution. Chinese utilities are all coun
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by pembrook 1y ago
Most of the "europe-is-utopia" voices on this site are actually American euro-fetishists in SF/LA/NYC. So I felt it the American analogy is more fitting. If I'm wrong though, the irony that the European tech communi
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by pembrook 1y ago
Ahhh apparently Europe is more immoral than OP thought! Good job guys. Kidding aside, if Europe is this hidden powerhouse as you claim, then its even more odd to be begging the Americans for defense support/leadership from across the A
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by pembrook 1y ago
Yes on the single market being a huge issue, but the other "cultural" differences are total BS, and just modern media narratives. Western Europe and the US had essentially the same level of government safety nets (and government s
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by pembrook 1y ago
Of course, but it is literally the best proxy available in 1 metric. Definitionally, it's the percentage of economic activity that is dictated by decentralized private market actors vs. centralized government ones. All stats are imperf
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by pembrook 1y ago
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by pembrook 1y ago
China is communist in name only. In fact they are the most capitalist major country on earth right now. Government spending makes up a smaller % of Chinese GDP than in the US, so definitionally their economy is more privatized than the US e
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by pembrook 1y ago
It feels like the only path Mistral has to win is by targeting risk-averse European enterprises by waving the EU banner and having them force it on their employees. Even then, if they fall far enough behind they won't be able to do tha
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by pembrook 1y ago
AI isn't going to be much help unless the customer is comfortable vibe coding in cursor and isn't too intimidated by a git/serverless workflow...but firing up an IDE like cursor and dealing with git + serverless builds is sti
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by pembrook 1y ago
They got acquired by Figma so I would not build on payload anymore, I fully expect the product to wither away now given Figma has their own priorities and has a non-technical userbase.

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