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by rhetocj23 1y ago
Hang on, it depends on the intent. Should an entity strive to be profitable? of course. How else will it be self sustaining? The problem arises when entities maximize for profit with no non-financial values that underpin their decision maki
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TBH I for one am glad about this. I have always believed there is a cost borne to get the best of something. This means a sacrifice is entailed. Theres something very important about this re. the culture - a culture in which everything is f
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"Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are designed to help you look up and stay present." Didnt that stupid AI pin have the same tagline?
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Indeed. There is an element of trust with an actual cookbook - it signals quality. The internet over time has been riddled with junk, especially since the cost of production of information is just your opportunity cost of time. Even that is
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by rhetocj23 1y ago
People dont realise how amazingly efficient touch interfaces already are. THere is no need for these stupid glasses. Some refuse to accept it - especially Zuckerberg who relies on folks like Apple to make his money. Thats really whats drivi
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Its not that they dont care at all. They just dont care until they feel the pain of it, because they are optimising for short term satisfaction.
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In this world even a self driving car doesnt help if an individual sporadically walks infront of a car at close range due to being distracted.
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And yet there isnt any large magnitude of buyers in the market, despite the fact that over a billion people use Meta products every month.
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Meta has no real internal product innovation since FB desktop. Every internal innovation after that has been a disaster. Hence the continuous acquisitions they have done.
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I always wonder what goes on in the minds of people who focus intensely on the technology and not the experience... The experience is what people want. Not the technology. The technology is this thing that delivers the experience but the co
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FB is practically dead, particularly from an innovation stand point. Theyre just pumping as much cashflow as they can out of it before its inevitable death.
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Newspapers have had a much longer history than social media. I get why youre making the comparison, but, regulatory bodies tend to be averse to acting quick because they want "all the data" to be more certain in decision making. S
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As the saying goes, dont hate the player, hate the game.
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What youre missing is that most people have self control issues, and your product is essentially a commitment device. As most addicts - they reject such devices. I like what youre doing but just saying - youre dealing with a very difficult
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Precisely.
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China and Russia collectively have a talent pool dense enough to build future products and services the rest of the world uses, if China can produce comparative hardware for AI. Simple example being TikTok. Its just a matter of time really.
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Youre missing something very important. Train infrastructure in the US sucks. Not the case in the developed areas of Europe. My personal use of a car has declined pretty dramatically the past few years. Trains are pretty good here in the UK
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This applies to information production in general. More and more people are producers of information nowadays. But I think everyone can agree, the quality has declined substantially. I personally find myself reverting back to textbooks more
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I agree but... I do want people to contribute incase folks who don't see what they are seeing, are missing something. The problem is, said people, are not coming to the table with stuff of substance. Its just bold claims with nothing t