rchaud

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by rchaud 8mo ago
How do you propose auditing an anonymous alphanumeric wallet address?
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by rchaud 9mo ago
MP3 players don't send me notifications, or show me the latest AI DJ playlists or advertise podcasts I have no interest in. The issue isn't self control, it's platform bloat and engagement optimization.
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by rchaud 9mo ago
I think we have a pretty good idea already. What I've seen online include: - standalone MP3 players, with younger Gen Z learning how to get off Spotify and download files through converters and P2P filesharing apps. - standalone gaming
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Requiring a valid payment method before posting will take out 99.9% of spammers and trolls. Newspapers discovered this when they went behind paywalls. SomethingAwful discovered this 20 years ago when they required $10 to create an account.
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Hey, at least Sora exists. They acquired Jony Ive's company for $6.5bn without even any vaporware to point to.
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Name recognition only gets you so far. "Just Google it" happened because Google was better than Hotbot/Altavista/Yahoo! etc by orders of magnitude. Nobody even bothered to launch a competing search engine in the 2000s be
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by rchaud 9mo ago
smaller file size, transparency support and circumventing autoplay restrictions on Safari.
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Google is doing this for their advertisers, not creators. They have already pulled the rug out for under them with AI search queries and timestamp links that circumventthe creator's own in-video ads.
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Before tech became the go-to big money job, there was a well-worn stereotype of electrical engineering grads going to Wall Street instead of an EE-centric job.
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Boards are not some sort of unelected shadow government that exists to depose leaders if they aren't squeezing enough blood from the stone. Appointing a new CEO is time consuming and carries enormous market ramifications that could ba
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Favors can always be offered in lieu of payment. Preferential access to powerful friends or political candidates, a stock tip here and there....
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Regular IPOs usually have commitments from pension funds, mutual funds, private equity firms and other institutional investors secured in advance of going public. How many of those parties would be interested considering that SpaceX really
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Automotive stocks are subject to the rules of gravity, aka "boring", while tech stocks are not. Automakers operate on low margins and high volume, and must compete on price, reliability or luxury brand status. Most automakers have
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by rchaud 9mo ago
It's not a back door to anything. It's competition for the US and Japanese automotive manufacturers who are protected by the existing tariffs.
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by rchaud 9mo ago
It should also go without saying that Canada already had a vertically integrated telecoms giant in RIM/Blackberry that handled end to end smartphone comms globally in the 3G era, right down to compressing emails through their servers s
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Tech's march towards vertical integration-powered cross-selling and turning everything into a digital-only product or perpetual subscription is sending a lot of people searching for alternatives. Just off the top of my head, I'm
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by rchaud 9mo ago
2A is a historical relic of the settler colonial era when communities had to create their own security forces. It's strongest proponents today are those who want to create their own laws and have private militias to enforce it, in obvi
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by rchaud 9mo ago
The web was an academic project funded by modest research grants, requiring nowhere near the level of capital and electricity AI requires. The output of that research emphasized open source and decentralized implementation, which is antithe
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by rchaud 9mo ago
I'd say it mostly has to do with limiting their own liability and reputational damage if an AI bot "hallucinates" and places hundreds of incorrect orders and sellers get hit with negative ratings and refund requests due to no
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Sanctions are the prelude to inevitable war, as WW2, Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine have shown.
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by rchaud 9mo ago
So what if it is? A Master's in Economics gets you diddly squat in the job market whereas an MBA opens doors everywhere. You could get a PhD in Economics and still only work at a university, your country's central bank or at a str
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by rchaud 9mo ago
You're talking about someone who effused about the healing effects of ivermectin at a time when half a million of his countrymen had died of Covid.
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by rchaud 9mo ago
If past history is anything to go by, the US will elect the current opposition, who won't be nearly strong enough to enact the reforms that would prevent an extremist party from returning to power in 4 years' time.
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Autocracy isn't a switch you can flick. To establish one, you first have to win a protracted civil war, likely between loyalist paramilitary groups like ICE, the standing US Army and regional defense paramilitaries that would spring up
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Not if they remain banned to prop up the domestic infant industry.
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Who's buying those Samsung and Walmart ONN tablets by the truckload then? Tablets for kids are the equivalent of portable DVD players in the 2000s - a commodified device to play Netflix and Youtube on. There is no point in paying an Ap
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by rchaud 9mo ago
Folding phones have been around for half a decade and sold tens of millions of units. Same with VR. Apple is in the value extraction business these days: their devices are conduits for advertising Apple services. The Vision Pro flopped beca
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by rchaud 9mo ago
> A domain represents an ongoing maintenance commitment and cost. There's no maintenance if you go with a hosted solution with custom domains like Squarespace, Wordpress.com and the like. Just as there is for everything digital, fro
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by rchaud 9mo ago
That's called a bookmark, which is native to all browsers, while RSS is not.
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by rchaud 9mo ago
which organizations were these? Title VII of the Civil Rights Act doesn't carve out any exceptions.

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