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by pembrook 1y ago
It wasn’t just the content being pirated, but the early Spotify UI was actually a 1:1 copy of Limewire.
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by pembrook 1y ago
I’m sure the handicrafts laborers prior to the industrial revolution felt the same way. However, they also likely had little education, 1-2 of their children probably died of trivial illnesses before the age of 10, and they lived without el
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by pembrook 1y ago
This is just simple economics. Now that the whole “serendipity and living in domestic spaces like a local” thing is dead and most Airbnb providers have professionalized —- it’s now just about value. Logically, who is going to provide the be
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by pembrook 1y ago
The point is outliers in a dataset do not negate a trend line. They are already included in the trend line.
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by pembrook 1y ago
I also know a guy who drives drunk all the time and has never been in an accident. Does that invalidate the fact that drunk driving leads to more road deaths?
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by pembrook 1y ago
Russia is a poor country and definitely does not have a western standard of living for the majority of the population.
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by pembrook 1y ago
I don't like requiring phone numbers either, but saying OpenAI shouldn't do freemium model for hottest tech product of this century (AI) is a fundamental misunderstanding of how humans and the world works. Also, if they don't
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by pembrook 1y ago
I wish we could all agree on a better way of auth -- but unfortunately this is all we have. Asking normal people to do anything outside of phone number or email (or 'login with [other account based on phone number or email]' for
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by pembrook 1y ago
Source: have dealt with fraud at scale before. Phone number is the only way to reliably stop MOST abuse on a freemium product that doesn't require payment/identity verification upfront. You can easily block VOIP numbers and ensure
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by pembrook 1y ago
This meme that humans don’t use em dashes needs to die. It’s an extremely useful tool in writing and I’ve been using it for decades.
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by pembrook 1y ago
Not only is it far more expensive but Europe is already electricity constrained. Renewables in Europe simply can’t scale up to meet the need for fertilizers the way nat gas can.
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by pembrook 1y ago
I would love to engage a logical rebuttal of why my statements are incorrect. Apologies for including an ad-hominem insult that triggered you emotionally. I would edit that line if I could.
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by pembrook 1y ago
Except the US doesn't really care about Europe that much. Having a government bureaucracy try to rebuild the entire US cloud software ecosystem because of one four year presidential term (which is already dramatically losing popularity
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by pembrook 1y ago
Wind and solar have not been a 'massive' success. And renewables can only get you so far. Wind/Solar/etc cannot produce fertilizer - arguably the most important use of fossil fuels. And the EU's land does not produc
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by pembrook 1y ago
Unfortunately the time to think about digital sovereignty was back in the 1970s. We've stacked on so many layers of abstraction to computing and every step of the way Europe missed the boat due to its underlying structural issues for i
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by pembrook 1y ago
Totally agree, but that said, I just fired up Cursor on a paid account and after a few chats immediately hit the same issue I've been facing for weeks: 'Connection failed. If the problem persists, please check your internet connec
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by pembrook 1y ago
What's more wasteful, throwing away mass produced items that still have 50% of their life left that you won't actually use (but are rationalizing that you will because 'free')? Or heating a 4,000 sq foot home for 60 year
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by pembrook 1y ago
But it’s a “solution” to a nonexistent problem. The vast majority of stuff people own sits unused for decades but gets moved around to whatever home you’re living in out of irrational loss aversion. This is human, and fine. But I’m 100% cer
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by pembrook 1y ago
Just because you rebrand it as something else (communism) doesn’t mean you aren’t taxing labor at 100%.
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by pembrook 1y ago
The heydays of communism in those countries are long gone. Current tax-to-GDP stats are simply correctly reflecting those countries being poor and heavily black market driven. And it’s everything to do with religion and history, why do you
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by pembrook 1y ago
The USSR and Yugoslavia and Albania and Cuba and North Korea and Vietnam and China pre-2000s have all had far higher tax rates than Denmark during their worst times, so probably not a great correlation. Denmark is like all the other Nordic
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by pembrook 1y ago
China is the most economically capitalist major country on earth. In fact, they embrace capitalism more than the US if you compare percentages of GDP driven by government spending. 50% of European GDP is government spending. The USSR was 70
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by pembrook 1y ago
Great find, thank you for this!
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by pembrook 1y ago
The north is different due to the weather. I mean, sure, Canadian tundra and the Nordic Arctic and Sub-Arctic is technically land, but I'm not sure you're getting a good comparison of population density by including it in calculat
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by pembrook 1y ago
Your description of the European intellectual climate is admittedly accurate if somewhat hyperbolic. But I think your analysis of the root causes is lacking. European humans aren't different organisms than non-european humans. Culture
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by pembrook 1y ago
I agree if the point is to write code for human consumption, but the point of vibe coding tools like Windsurf is to let the LLMs handle everything with occasional direction. And the LLMs will create 2000+ line files when asking them to gene
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by pembrook 1y ago
Airbnb is a giant example of what happens when you go too far into thinking you can solve real world issues with software UI. Or run a hospitality business without doing any real hospitality. Yes, a marketplace is a dream business from a pr
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by pembrook 1y ago
For a time windsurf was way ahead of cursor in full agentic coding, but now I hear cursor has caught up. I have yet to switch back to try out cursor again but starting to get frustrated with Windsurf being restricted to gathering context on
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by pembrook 1y ago
I find this fascinating as my impression is usually the exact opposite (all I see is lots of open source fetishism and anti-VC, anti-big tech, anti-AI, anti-risk, anti-new stuff, anti-everything sentiment). However it could be certain headl
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by pembrook 1y ago
Yes, I am indeed trying to be dismissive of people glorifying murder. You caught me red handed.

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