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by rchaud 11mo ago
It might have gotten flagged as political content if the full title was used.
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by rchaud 11mo ago
If you can't afford childcare, getting half of the assets in a divorce doesn't amount to much. Divorce lawyers don't work for free either.
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by rchaud 11mo ago
Because the Return button didn't give me an option to print a mail label. I had to click through multiple screens and finally located the support chat link.
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by rchaud 11mo ago
Most bubbles occur due to excessive levels of credit offered too cheaply, resulting in a whole bunch of defaults happening at the same time. All the major AI players have borrowed money to buy GPUs and build data centers and have used Speci
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by rchaud 11mo ago
When did you last use their support? 15 years ago, I needed to click 1 button to chat with support instantly about a faulty iPod I bought. They issued a refund and return mail label instantly. 3 months ago, I had to navigate multiple froms
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by rchaud 11mo ago
Before Windows Defender, people were paying small fortunes for anti virus and malware scanner software.
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by rchaud 11mo ago
I use Gemini for Python coding questions and it provides straight to the point information, with no preamble or greeting.
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by rchaud 11mo ago
That the development of this technology is in the hands of a few people that don't use even a fraction of their staggering wealth to address these challenges now, tells me that they aren't interested in using AI to solve them late
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by rchaud 11mo ago
Wasn't long ago that opposition to fascism was the conservative position. Why is a sticker expressing the same considered "progressive"?
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by rchaud 11mo ago
Nvidia is investing $100bn in OpenAI: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/openai-and-nvidia-announc... By purchasing OAI shares now, Softbank will probably be able to sell them to Nvidia at inflated prices later.
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by rchaud 11mo ago
You're thinking like a lowly retail investor who can only spend his own money. Softbank spends other people's money. They have to show some profits now and then to make their financials look good and thereby attract more funding.
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by rchaud 11mo ago
How does one take a fraction of the world economy? Microsoft sells services pretty much everywhere on earth and has a near-monopoly on PC OSes, enterprise email, productivity suites plus a giant cloud computing service....and their annual r
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by rchaud 11mo ago
Were those also made mostly out of polyester?
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by rchaud 11mo ago
The fashion world's biggest sellers are handbags and shoes, which are practical purchases and tend to feature pretty intricate design details. This is a Speedo for a phone, and it makes Apple's already over-the-top descriptions of
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by rchaud 1y ago
Going public is a one-shot deal to pay off investors and bring in new capital. Companies will prefer to do that when there is less uncertainty in the markets currently due to the tariffs, government shutdown, impending expiry of healthcare
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by rchaud 1y ago
Federal loan guarantees, aka the equivalent of a Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac style backstop that fuelled the reckless lending and opaque securitization of mortgages that led to the 2008 crisis.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Should any enlisted personnel be looking for a new career, I understand there's a fully funded paramilitary group operating right here at home.
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by rchaud 1y ago
WW was able to fill those offices by charging well below market prices, because they were VC-funded so growth was more important than profitability. OpenAI is doing the same. 800m users, the vast majority of whom are free users who won&#x27
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by rchaud 1y ago
Because in credit ratings game, the customer is paying to get their bonds rated. Therefore the customer is always right.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Unlike medicine, AI isn't regulated, so lawyers won't have anything to go after.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Terrifying to think that some techbro is out there right now concocting plans for an "AI background check" startup.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Meta has $43 billion in cash and cash equivalents as of December 2024 [0]. What is the reason for not using part of those reserves, and issuing debt instead, costing them hundreds of millions in fees to investment banks and bondholders? Als
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by rchaud 1y ago
Access to the Play Store requires the proprietary Google Play Services code, so I doubt this has it. The alternative would be installing apps via APK files.
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by rchaud 1y ago
It's an open source project that nobody is getting rich off of, so voluntarily cutting ties with the Russian market doesn't present the sort of moral dilemma that TAM-obsessed, locked-down, for-profit OSes worry about.
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by rchaud 1y ago
OpenAI is raising funding based on its own forecasts for AI demand growth, and sending most of it to Oracle, MSFT, Nvidia as well as paying insiders enormous salaries. There are some interesting parallels here with the business model descri
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by rchaud 1y ago
That scenario assumes that history will work the same way it did in the aftermath of WWII. There is no guarantee of that. America could become another Russia, where the collapse of the Soviet Union led to secession of several republics. The
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by rchaud 1y ago
Chat logs from AOL Instant Messenger, which shut down in 2017, and was obsolete for almost a decade prior to that?
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by rchaud 1y ago
The next logical step after Ublock is to have a succession structure in place if Raymond Hill or the maintainers of the various blocklists it's based on, decide they don't want to work on it anymore.
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by rchaud 1y ago
I'd say the vast majority of Excel users in business are working off of a CSV sent from their database/ERP team or exported from a self-serve analytics tool and using pivot tables to do the heavy lifting, where it's nearly im
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by rchaud 1y ago
Did this screenshot also list everyone's citizenship?

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