rchaud

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by rchaud 10mo ago
Absolutely not. From almost day 1 Reddit has been plagued with jokey meme-speak, which is partially why specialist forums are still thriving (audio/video stuff, XDA-developers, European soccer teams, SomethingAwful boards and up until
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Forums were still going strong a decade after the Internet went mainstream. They only started to fade after smartphones took off and many forums took years to introduce mobile themes. For sports teams however, forums never faded, there tens
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What centralized organization with a budget and a CEO is ever going to do that? They are all under pressure to not piss off the giant advertising octopus that has its tentacles in every part of the tech industry.
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I can spot those articles from a mile away and never click the link.
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As with all the comments about "I'd pay X dollars to not be the product", it's been shown over and over again that paying money is not going to void corporate desire to simply double dip by raising prices while also show
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How would it bring in $150m? Is that some tranche of funding Google is witholding from them until they disable extensions?
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Disabling ad blocking goes hand in hand with an "AI Browser" strategy. Ad blocking relies on the ability to use filters to block network requests at the browser level, and visual elements at the DOM level. "AI Browsers"
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NBC produces their own content, Facebook and Instagram meanwhile are the equivalent of public access TV with ads. There is no unique "brand" that Facebook has, anything posted on there is also posted everywhere else.
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India is divided by its caste system and religion to a much greater extent than it is by language. Successive governments have put far more effort into dominating its Muslim and Sikh minorities than implementing a high - quality universal e
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There is an unspoken alternative for dealing with being out-populated by rival states. That is to reduce their populations through sanctions, blockades, starvation and outright war. These methods have been used by the Soviet Union in Ukra
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This is a tribute system, way past lobbying. Lobbying is cheap, Senators can be bought off for 5-figure sums. CEOs pay lobbyists so they don't have to meet with them personally. What's happening now involves CEOs appearing at po
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The illegality of something and the enforcement of that illegality can be mutually exclusive. Iran had sanctions placed on them after the 1979 revolution, but the US funneled arms to them anyway to raise money to ovethrow the Nicaraguan gov
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Stratechery 2.0
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They will eliminate their web client if that occurs and make the desktop app the only option. Mobile is already taken care of in that regard.
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DAU/MAU stats of free users have already carved out multi-millionaire and billionaire fortunes for employees and executives, all paid out with VC money. Plenty of people are profiting, even if the corporation is deep in the red.
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The interests of the ads department will eventually override those of the product team. Google used to have ads clearly marked on the right-hand side of the search results, now you have to scroll past half a screen's worth of ads to se
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by rchaud 11mo ago
The public voted for Republicans in their highest-ever numbers in 2020 when the party did everything possible to denigrate public health efforts and scientific research at a time when hundreds of thousands were dying of Covid, with no Mexic
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Got anything vis-a-vis the message as opposed to the messenger? I'm not sure these examples are even the gotchas you're positing them as. Xerox is a dinosaur that was last relevant at the turn of the century, and IBM is a $300bn c
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by rchaud 11mo ago
NFTs followed the exact same path as crypto, which many predicted would happen. Crypto became a speculative asset traded on exchanges because it was too volatile and transaction-cost heavy to ever be used as a medium of exchange. NFTs being
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So have Russia, Israel, Egypt and several other nations. I don't see the US cutting military aid to the latter two because of a lack of diverse electoral outcomes.
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And all Google did was develop the world's most popular search engine, email host, web browser, ad network, video streaming site, mobile operating system and cloud office suite and deliver profits for 20 straight years.
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Capitalism makes more sense if it's thought about purely in terms of individual self interest as supposed to something that leads to an efficient market on aggregate. The CEOs making big calls across the economy have already negotiat
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It might take Microsoft's Bing share, but Google and Meta pioneered the application of slot machine variable-reward mechanics to Facebook, Instagram and Youtube, so it would take a lot more than competing on demand to challenge them.
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Stock prices going down is the reason AIG, GM and Chrysler received bailouts.
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So if something is declared "capitalist", it maintains that state in perpetuity, regardless of the actions it takes in reality?
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This is absolutely what techbro MBAs raised on case studies of Apple and Toyota are likely to think. Gamblers and porn users do not have any sort of brand loyalty and are likely to be hostile to the idea of "vertical integration"
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Why would OpenAI have any sort of advantage in these industries compared to the established players? it's pretty sobering to think that the so-called harbingers of SkyNet AGI have to fall back to mafia-era revenue streams like vice to
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Google, Meta and Microsoft have AI search as well, so OAI with no ad product or real time bidding platform isn't going to just walk in and take their market. 2% is optimistic in my opinion.
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how is not true? every TV channel has content and editorial standards to comply with FCC regulations and advertiser demands. Youtube is full of ads that would never be shown on cable TV.
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Well it's a good thing that the DOJ and FBI have highly qualified and totally non-partisan bosses that will see to it that justice will be done /s

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