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by piva00 8mo ago
Realistically many can't. It's a nice illusion of choice to be maintained though, gives the system more power for self-exploitation if you are a true believer.
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by piva00 8mo ago
I highly doubt that Larry Page has $270B only invested in one egg (Google), even if a large part of his wealth comes from that.
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by piva00 8mo ago
300 million users in 2007 is mighty impressive, the internet was not absolutely ubiquitous like now, mobile access to it was in its infancy. Relatively speaking it is as impressive as 1 billion users in 2026.
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by piva00 8mo ago
> 1. The tax could cause him to sell equity he doesn't want to. It's not like he has $270B in a checking account. If there is $270B in equity invested, making those 5% back should be rather straightforward for someone with that
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by piva00 8mo ago
Just wanted to say: this is might impressive research. Really interesting breakdown, proper nerdsniped into this, thanks for the refreshing AI news outside of language models :)
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by piva00 8mo ago
If you are selling to EU residents you are doing business in the EU, no?
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by piva00 8mo ago
It's tens of billions of euros spent domestically, much better than being siphoned away to the USA to fund this shitshow. At least the money will keep flowing into our own economy, it will hurt but in the longer term it can only be ben
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by piva00 8mo ago
Not even that, if they aren't living in the EU the GDPR doesn't affect their lives in any way.
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by piva00 8mo ago
Not very dissimilar to Mussolini's tactics back in the 1920s/1930s, it's actually quite impressive how many similarities there are between Trump's and Mussolini's ways to find political power.
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by piva00 8mo ago
Microsoft has already publicly stated they plan to move away from OpenAI [0]. [0] https://www.ft.com/content/f1ec830c-2f08-4b1a-b70f-7330f2607...
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by piva00 8mo ago
They will open up to be undercut by players like Gemini that can provide a less-shitty free tier, and capture their market share. I seriously doubt, at this moment, that OpenAI can come up with a offering good enough to entice people to pay
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by piva00 8mo ago
Not only publishing, it has already disincentivised a huge part of what made Web 2.0: public APIs for data access to platforms. It was amazing to be able to create some toy projects using data from big platforms, now they're all afraid
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by piva00 8mo ago
> It’s CPC because the official name of the party is Communist Party I'm very aware of that but it's commonly referred to as CCP which is understandable for any reader, I don't need to change it to CPC to be understood at
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by piva00 8mo ago
CCP is the common one even though not the official, either use is fine and understandable (as you've understood it clearly). What do you mean? I'm talking about the CCP funding projects to increase yield for their fabs, not buying
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by piva00 8mo ago
That's where capitalism-with-Chinese-characteristics comes into play, since the CCP knows it's a capacity they want to get some independence from the government creates incentives to develop it until it becomes self-sustainable. T
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by piva00 8mo ago
Knock-down effects from the RAM shortage, starting to see CPUs shortage (lead times for Intel at 6 months for server-class CPUs, AMD also notified enterprise customers about a crunch), GPUs shortage, storage prices are increasing a lot as w
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by piva00 8mo ago
Instead of appealing to authority you could have given direct examples of how it's transformed your ways of working, that could've continued the conversation somewhere.
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by piva00 8mo ago
The bottleneck at larger orgs is mostly always decision-making. Getting code written and reviewed is the trivial part of the job in most cases, discovering the product needs, considering/uncovering edge-cases, defining business logic t
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by piva00 8mo ago
I think that yes, it's a lack of empathy stemming from the belief that everything can ultimately be distilled into personal responsibility. In reality we are not so much in control, our psyche is easily manipulated by nudges, design th
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by piva00 8mo ago
> The Nazi took members of ethnic minorities and put them into death camps and massacred them in horrible ways. It was a process over almost 10 years to get to that. Before they were rounding up people to be deported, when it became an i
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by piva00 8mo ago
Selective enforcement is a well-known tactic on the dive to authoritarianism. Sorry you aren't aware of that but I suggest you look into how it works.
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by piva00 8mo ago
A lot, the period from National Romanticism onward is the most relevant for any form of study of a "nation". Before that you could only think in terms of loosely connected realms/kingdoms, before more in terms of tribes and s
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by piva00 8mo ago
How is it inaccurate? Do you believe they would openly state "our mission is to protect Israel"? They have to use weasel words but in effect is the same: they will combat "ideological prejudice" which requires them to de
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by piva00 8mo ago
He wants to focus on community building (as stated in the letter), wouldn't you say that communities in developed countries have been hollowed out? It's also one of the most important aspects of humanity, we are community builders
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by piva00 8mo ago
I think it's a general misunderstanding of Americans about other law systems, the American way of codifying laws leaves a lot of loopholes (intentionally or unintentionally) due to it being a game to be played, the spirit of the law is
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by piva00 8mo ago
> About Us > ... Accordingly, the mission of HonestReporting is to ensure truth, integrity and fairness, and to combat ideological prejudice in journalism and the media, as it impacts Israel. The name seems to be a red herring, their
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by piva00 8mo ago
> My company tried this, then quickly stopped: $$$ How much were devs spending to become a sticking point? I'm asking because I thought it'd be extremely expensive when it rolled out at the company I work for, we have dashboard
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by piva00 8mo ago
Reflecting X-rays is exactly what's needed for EUV litography, Hiroo Kinoshita had to fight quite a bit to have his research taken seriously back in the days but it's the foundation to how EUV lithography works.
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by piva00 9mo ago
It's produced in the USA by... ASML San Diego, the knowledge is inside the main ASML Holdings, it doesn't need to only exist in San Diego if the need arises. It's been good politics (and of course very likely good business) t
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by piva00 9mo ago
Where though? It isn't the case here in Sweden, it's pretty great.

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