r_lee

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   by r_lee 4mo ago

   ouch... I get that it's a simple concept but darn it really does seem like ctrl c ctrl v lmao
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   by r_lee 4mo ago

   thanks for the heads up
3. 243.▲
   by r_lee 4mo ago

   so you think if there were barriers then there would be no European companies or what?
4. 244.▲
   by r_lee 4mo ago

   my point still stands, the problem is, now instead of Google saying "we can't do anything about it" any lobbying/political group can go and say "well you could just ban it, does this mean you approve of this app?&qu
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   by r_lee 4mo ago

   that is most of the EU legislation making/operating companies, getting access to banking, hiring, etc.. all those things are catered towards multinationals by endless bureaucracy and requirements that need consultants/lawyers it&#
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   by r_lee 4mo ago

   same for CIA/NSA employees/contractors right?
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   by r_lee 4mo ago

   don't forget the renaming of Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform so you could have e.g. Claude Opus 4.8 on Google Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform makes sense, right?
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   by r_lee 4mo ago

   why on earth would anyone buy that shit if you can buy a macbook pro that literally looks and feels like art vs. a plastic windows laptop? it used to be that Apple was the pricier option but I guess not anymore
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   by r_lee 4mo ago

   this is something the EU would love, it's part of the whole Transparency thing where you dox yourself to everyone HNers (especially Americans) are super naive and think the EU is some bastion of freedom. no. it just wants to be a huge
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    hundred billion?
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    I'd usually say it'd be far fetched but I can totally see Google banning developers and removing their apps for political reasons, where some lobbying group bombs them with emails because with this they're explicitly saying t
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    well they can swat you, order pizza, send you packages (who knows with what inside), spread false info about you if you've given out more info etc... all it takes is one guy who gets too mad for some reason and it's gonna be a lot
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    I just don't see how with the whole open weight system this situation would happen or that it'd be likely enough to warrant this in terms of privacy, yes that's a real application, but someone taking it all away? I don't
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    if you need to ensure that, then just back up the model and buy hardware if the need arises
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    LLM?
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    "Should" is one thing, reality is another
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    I love the Freedom loving Free and democratic European Union!!!!!
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    from what I know this is very much possible, you can also use tax treaties to transfer taxation to Germany. e.g. Irish Ltd that is a resident in Germany you won't have to bother with the naming problems etc. either
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    nor those who are driving Uber or doordashing
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    if we are at 10x with AI and near AGI or ASI, then how is it possible that these products (Codex, Claude Code CLI) are still such garbage? shouldn't this "agentic AI revolution" have long solved this already? no way they&#x27
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    what...?
22. 262.▲
    by r_lee 4mo ago

    I'm assuming it means that someone used Fable 5 to implement Gemma 4 in WebGPU and it performs at 255 tok/s
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    yeah as if anyone is actually gonna do that...
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    by r_lee 4mo ago

    there's not much controversy that would pull media attention in green tech or medical research
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    by r_lee 5mo ago

    Amazon seemed to work just fine before this AI datacenter boom
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    by r_lee 5mo ago

    IGIN! (I get it now)
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    by r_lee 5mo ago

    yeah, I think this is one of the major reasons as to why we're maybe not doomed? I'm pretty sure we as a society have gone through periods before where we think oh what if we just get cheap laymen to do it!? but then in the end, i
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    by r_lee 5mo ago

    let's be real. this AI wave is nothing like "big data"
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    by r_lee 5mo ago

    elaborate please, how does it not work?
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    by r_lee 5mo ago

    it's all about cost at the end of the day. if you're allowed and encouraged to tokenmaxx, then of course this'll happen.