qwytw

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by qwytw 3mo ago
It's up to the congressman to weight all evidence and data available and come to well informed conclusion. If they are incapable or unwilling to do that that's a different issue. > Congress can and does ask companies for their
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by qwytw 3mo ago
Funding their reelection, industry "connections" making it easy for you or your relatives to get jobs or make profitable investments, opportunities to get speaking fees after you leave office and similar perfectly legal things are
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by qwytw 3mo ago
Well a funding a PAC that supports a specific candidate/party who gets elected because of that effectively accomplishes the same thing. Of course the salary the company "buys" for them isn't exactly in the same magnitude
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by qwytw 3mo ago
Money is relative, though. I guess the question is if it's acceptable to charge a tiny symbolic fee for that cup of water if the other person's pockets are visibly overflowing with cash. If yes then it's more than reasonably
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by qwytw 3mo ago
You can also buy a book produce a large number of copies after jumbling around some chapters sell it to other people. That's illegal to do if you are person but not if you an AI company. I suppose an argument might be made for fair use
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by qwytw 3mo ago
> the marginal value that the next buyer would buy Well the argument is that they should pay for the right to produce derivative works not for the physical copy.
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by qwytw 3mo ago
It was about piracy, though? Not fair use.
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by qwytw 3mo ago
For corporations sure. For individual authors that's certainly not fair. Especially since it makes it easier for corporations to exploit their work without paying them anything. > If it's good enough for patents, I don't s
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by qwytw 3mo ago
Well imagine you write a book in your 20s or 30s and it only becomes popular after a couple of decades. The publisher gets to pocket all the money. Somebody decides to make a movie based on your book? You get nothing at all from it... The
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by qwytw 3mo ago
> Arguably they should have just gone with Android, It's not obvious Nokia could have realistically competed with the East Asian phone manufacturers for more than a few years. It was/is a very low margin market with very cutthr
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by qwytw 3mo ago
Well it might be reasonably easy to get your non-GAAP earnings positive if you fiddle with the numbers enough.
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by qwytw 3mo ago
It's not like it's realistically possible they are directly losing money on their API inference (subscriptions are maybe less clear but I think it wouldn't be far fetched to think that depending on real usage if they are at l
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by qwytw 4mo ago
Will it be? It's so obscenely slow and expensive and its not obvious it could provide a lot of value for non highly specialized tasks.
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by qwytw 4mo ago
Well it would be a lot easier if those companies wanted to build them in uninhabited areas in the middle of nowhere with no infrastructure. Somehow they don't want to do that...
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by qwytw 4mo ago
Technically they couldn't be added to the S&P 500 etc. until they become profitable.
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by qwytw 4mo ago
Based on current rules they wouldn't included in the S&P 500 for at least several years even based on optimistic scenarios. Of course IIRC they looking into tweaking the rules to allow some handpicked extremely unprofitable compani
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by qwytw 5mo ago
How is is sustainable for Apple to maintain MacOS for free? I see not problem with monetizing Mac users by making them pay extra for OS and especially its upgrades.
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by qwytw 5mo ago
Maybe just a lottery instead? Would be approximately as useful just way simpler. Also don't all of the "enterprise" certificates already provide all that, anyway?
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by qwytw 7mo ago
Hopefully even if the worst comes to pass and the EU ends up enacting this law there are still the courts on the EU level and then the national governments and courts in countries where this type of surveillance is illegal can still decide
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by qwytw 7mo ago
You kind of can, but you get to only vote for the full package i.e. the party which wins the national elections will get to appoint its own commissioner. Most people obviously only care about the domestic issues and likely will not change t
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by qwytw 7mo ago
The Fed has a pretty strict and narrow mandate and an even narrower toolset. They can't start coming up and imposing random laws and regulations (outside the banking sector) just because they want to...
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by qwytw 7mo ago
Generally a lot of people do vote for the PM i.e. chose the party to vote for based on it's leader(s)
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by qwytw 7mo ago
> toward passing active legislation that protects these rights going forward? That's not something the "legislators" in the EU parliament can do. It's effectively a consultative body which can either approve or send b
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by qwytw 8mo ago
Some snippets from Kimi's 2.5 answer: "" [...] Since you need to get your car washed, you have to bring the car to the car wash—walking there without the vehicle won't accomplish your goal [...] If it's a self-servi
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by qwytw 9mo ago
> Having less of that garbage fiat short-termism Yet having more of endless boom and bust cycles with major economic depressions lasting for years (outcomes of the gold standard was a good idea). > You're forcing business to prod
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by qwytw 9mo ago
Germany did relatively fine though? Despite the German mark being the second largest reserve currency and their economy being heavily reliant on exports.
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by qwytw 9mo ago
Well there is a difference between people not buying anything at all and being significantly less than they are now. Consumer goods and services is only the tip of the iceberg. How much do you think debt would cost and how easy would it be
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by qwytw 9mo ago
> Today there are more options like the Euro that didn’t exist in the 90s Yet the Euro peaked back in 2009 and has been declining ever since. At this point its share is not that massively higher than that of the German mark back in the 9
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by qwytw 9mo ago
Regardless of anything else equating Maduro's Venezuela and Ukraine and the military side-effects of both invasions/"operations" isn't exactly fair. The Venezuelan government is/was both illegitimate and very o
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by qwytw 9mo ago
It's unclear if most if not all of those things you were actually crimes legally (regardless of how morally and ethically reprehensive they might have been). Regardless there was an established precedent for what Obama was doing. Not

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