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by qcnguy 11mo ago
> I know it's easy to look at this stuff from the outside and say, oh, yeah, the EU is interfering in elections, but there's a lot of history here There being "history" is not a valid excuse for openly manipulating
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
> I genuinely can't fathom what is going on there. Seems so wrong, yet no one there seems to care. The reason nobody there seems to care is that they instantly ban and delete anyone who tries to express concern for their wellbeing
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
Agree that it's ridiculous to talk about banning AI because some people misuse it, but the word preventable is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that argument. Preventable how? Chopping down all the coconut trees? Re-establishing the pro
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
The people showing you those interviews have a massive agenda though. Was it BBC? C4? They search for such people until they find them. Some of them might even be fake, the BBC admitted recently to showing fake footage of a Trump speech and
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
They did say that!
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
Not well known but this was actually the second Brexit referendum. The original decision to join the EU wasn't decided by a referendum at all, a Labour government just did it, despite the profound constitutional implications. So there
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
Yeah and look at the response to that article ... NYT readers couldn't believe it had been published at all. But you know what I mean. You are perceiving emotion where there isn't any, just analysis. Maybe it makes it easier for y
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
We don't know what AI should cost but if you look at the numbers then 2x more expensive is much too low. Think about the pricing. OpenAI fixed everyone's prices to free and/or roughly the cost of a Netflix subscription, which
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
At the CEO level there is no "qualified for the job". It's not like you can get a PhD in being a successful CEO. There is only actual success. And it's not me twisted by dogma. I'm just predicting what would happen.
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
You should compare AMD vs its peers, not its even worse prior state. AMD should by all rights be a strong competitor to NVIDIA with a big chunk of the AI market. They have nearly nothing. The buck should stop at the top, but with AMD it doe
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
Your faith in the British establishment is touching but misplaced. Being given a long series of fake (sorry, "visiting") academic roles and board seats is exactly how you'd expect them to protect a former government official.
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
No they aren't. I don't buy the fastest internet available to me because it costs a lot more and none of my computers would be able to use it without special upgrades. If I did for some reason upgrade, nothing would get faster bec
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
> wouldn't the fibre just have become part of openreach anyway The issue was the subsidies. The fiber plan wasn't going to be profitable then or maybe ever, so it was dependent on tax funding that competitors wouldn't ha
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
Planning ahead wasn't the issue. The issue was rationality, or economics if you want to call it that. You don't want to build out infrastructure way in advance of demand, it's just bad engineering and would have imposed huge
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
No. The idea that more bandwidth to the home=generically futuristic economy and outperformance is exactly the kind of bad central planning that makes socialist countries poor! It's the kind of mistake privatization was intended to fix
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
Which is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself... UAE has higher median home bandwidth than the USA but nobody is claiming UAE has somehow uniquely benefited from that.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The privatization took years however, it wasn't an overnight thing. A lot of the process was just writing down and professionalising a lot of aspects that were previously ad-hoc, so the benefits started before the precise date drawn on
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The 90s were dominated by modems and around the turn of the millennium DSL connections. Fiber internet (to the home) didn't start until much later. The backbone was getting fiber deployed before then, but there was never some kind of u
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Ahead in what sense? More successful internet startups or tech economy? I don't think so, but that's how such buildouts were pitched as justified.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
It was that kind of delusional decision making that justified the privatization in the first place. Rolling out fiber nationwide in a world where the web had only just been invented and everywhere else in the world was connected via modems
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The growth didn't happen long before privatization in the UK though. It turned around almost exactly when the privatization process started (which wasn't an immediate overnight event).
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by qcnguy 1y ago
But you haven't made an argument, so you're in no position to criticize. You asserted that "train drivers became rarer due to shareholder reluctance to train and recruit them" and then didn't back this strange claim
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by qcnguy 1y ago
A lot of it is sandboxing and the multiprocess architecture that requires. There's lots of IPC. Custom Chrome builds can disable the IPC and run everything in one process, but Electron doesn't because they try to minimize the numb
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by qcnguy 1y ago
You're assuming the bugs/gaps can be fixed. The native frameworks on Windows suck so hard even Microsoft don't use them. If you build on them you're going to encounter lots of bugs and missing features that you can'
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Modern chat apps work better and have more functionality. The knowhow is specifically for Windows chat apps. And the reason the knowledge was lost is that Microsoft sucked at platform design so people stopped learning their platforms and th
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Java applets drove native widgets in their first iteration. It wasn't markup but that hardly matters, you could have easily slapped some XML over AWT and the difference between a .jar and a .js isn't big. They had to stop because
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by qcnguy 1y ago
They can't easily tell the difference between "good" custom clients and spambots.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
You can't get a competitive UX by using Win32, even basics like resizable windows and proper hidpi support is missing. And the number of people who know this API is probably sub-1% these days. There are dozens of us left, dozens!
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Genuinely curious, why do you need close dated ATM puts. If all you care about is protecting upside can't you just put in limit orders.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Depends if these numbers are counting the free Azure credits that Microsoft invested in them. There's a story here that's in some ways bigger than OpenAI or Anthropic's finances. Someone is leaking very sensitive and private

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