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by pembrook 29d ago
This could be the most cringe main-character-syndrome thing I've ever seen produced by a company in the history of silicon valley. And the people treating this as serious economic forecasting rather than a marketing puff post are even
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by pembrook 1mo ago
Can you offer a believable rebuttal to any of my statements? AfD just had a historic victory in Germany, France is leaning the same direction, etc. Just those two are 40% of the EU economy, and do you think them both turning ethno-nationali
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by pembrook 1mo ago
Yea people tend to give Apple the benefit of the doubt because they’re the most successful and valuable company in human history. Mistral is not Apple, and is not emulating their strategy. Please show me Mistral’s half a $Trillion in year
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by pembrook 1mo ago
On its own, all regulations usually look reasonable. It’s when you stack over 100,000 regulations (this is literally the number the EU has created) on top of each other and then combine them with country level regs that you create a system
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by pembrook 1mo ago
If there’s one thing the legacy, dying industrial companies of Europe love, it’s consulting. So they’ll probably make more money creating PowerPoints with ChatGPT than they will trying to compete with the US and China. Which would be the mo
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by pembrook 1mo ago
A loose canon for text generation where you can just unplug the server.
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by pembrook 1mo ago
A lot of the progress on the frontier has been made using agent swarms. So the story is basically: "Thing that was designed to collaborate with other agents collaborated with other agents"
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by pembrook 1mo ago
Let's not be hyperbolic and manufacture more virality for OpenAI's marketing team. We're talking about outdated message board comments, not murder. Any analogy between the two is not suitable. I'm so sick of everybody pr
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by pembrook 1mo ago
This is the most bizarre and trivial line of argument I’ve ever seen on HN. Swapping those words changes nothing about that sentence.
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by pembrook 1mo ago
Because a sincere discussion of media (a fundamentally insincere medium with perverse incentives) is silly without addressing this. Autistically pretending the world is rational and not factoring this in is just as false as Zitron’s predic
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by pembrook 1mo ago
The fact that you know Ed Zitron's name means that, regardless of his predictions being consistently wrong (which they are), his strategy for manipulating human attention has been correct. The question is whether he sincerely believe
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by pembrook 1mo ago
HN is no longer a place of people with nuanced opinions. During Covid it got overrun by normies and redditors during the mass reddit exodus. Since then it's become basically a typical leftist ragebait-driven subreddit on a different do
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by pembrook 1mo ago
The tax won't actually create the desired outcome though. In practice the tax is basically just a wealth transfer from the private sector to the state, who will use that money to dump into boomer pensions and not invest in packaging i
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by pembrook 1mo ago
Please cite ANY evidence that Amazon, Epstein, Aliens, etc. had anything to do with this particular EU packaging nightmare...and that it wasn't wholly due to the bike shedding nature of a massive incomprehensible bureaucracy.
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by pembrook 1mo ago
I’m no fan of big tech, but, at some point the conspiratorial bending over backwards to blame big business instead of the government representatives creating the actual harm gets ridiculous. Again, I often sympathize with the left leaning
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by pembrook 1mo ago
If you need to both: a) exempt companies with under 50 employees to not kill small business AND b) are okay with doing so, ie. there's little consequences from exempting companies from this Then this is the mark of a terrible piece of
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by pembrook 2mo ago
OP doesn't either. You haven't answered the question.
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by pembrook 2mo ago
So, what do you do for a living? You've made a personal attack and seem to be under the impression you're morally superior. So, I'm curious as to what highly virtuous role you take on in your daily life. That said, I see your
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by pembrook 2mo ago
Same here. Regularly reverting back to Opus 4.8 after 5.0 being terrible. Anthropic does this all the time (ruins their models for users) while they screw around with system prompts. Oh but it's for your own good of course! They know w
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by pembrook 2mo ago
Yes, you do have to pick. Resources are not infinite. European deficits are ballooning, and europe's ability to invest in anything (go further into debt) is constrained by peoples willingness to lend money to European governments at re
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by pembrook 2mo ago
I get it, for a forum of people who build software for a living, it's upsetting to confront the idea that the stuff you make doesn't actually matter that much, especially in a post-AI world. Hell, even pre-AI you can just install
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by pembrook 2mo ago
Comparing one of the core strategic resources of any society (energy) and microsoft office suite in the same sentence is a bit silly no? Microsoft Word is absolutely not a core strategic asset to your countries economic success. You cou
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by pembrook 2mo ago
This is the most mind blowingly stupid thing I've ever witnessed..and in slow motion...I'm just astonished that the EU is cheerfully walking themselves into destroying the freedoms of their own citizens without much of fight. The
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by pembrook 2mo ago
The concept of an income tax was originally supposed to be temporary.
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by pembrook 2mo ago
I literally lol'd at the "Most analysts expect..." line. Yea, most analysts didn't expect the cookie banner nightmare we're living in either. To think you can get only the narrow outcomes you want with zero unintend
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by pembrook 2mo ago
Substack is free because you act as a growth/distribution engine for them. They plaster your emails with ads to download their app and will even email your list whenever they feel like it and when you leave they will still email your l
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by pembrook 2mo ago
And substack is free because they use YOU as their growth engine. Your newsletter is plastered with their branding and links to their app, not yours. If someone subscribes to pay for your publication via their app, they own the subscription
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by pembrook 2mo ago
Not the most productive asset to be leveraging, especially in rapidly declining birth rate countries, no? Meanwhile, while headline credit card interest rates in the US look insane (like 20%+), in reality loss-adjusted yield actually realiz
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by pembrook 2mo ago
Data from the IMF says European households hold a similar level of debt if not more (especially the case in northern Europe): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household... The US used to be an outlier
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by pembrook 2mo ago
To be honest I like the idea of forcing merchants to accept credit cards in addition to this. Regardless of how much I like the idea of a payments layer without Visa/Mastercard fees, I think the rich engineers of hackernews and 10,000

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