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by shkkmo 10mo ago
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> A presumably short-term price spike in RAM of all things is a non-issue. It is a luxury good that only a very small number of people care about Um... What? Pretty much every adult owns one or more items with DRAM chips in them and depe
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> We have needed a "Jeep of Laptops" for a while, maybe someone needs to spec out a fully open source design that any manufacturer can target. I'm not sure if this counts in your book, but releasing all this stuff is close
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> They can ride their current street rep the same way Kleenex did. Kleenex was one product of many and launched by an already 50 year old company. I'm not sure in what sense they "rode" the Kleenex brand, but it would prob
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> How exactly that relates to GDP has no relevance, whatsoever. You are claiming that the increased spending on advertising is due to the internet. The relationship between GDP and ad spending pretty clearly indicates that the internet w
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> Obviously GDP growth does not magically make spending on something increase. Its not magic, but spending on certain types of things do increase with GDP. Insisting that they don't, despite the evidence that they do historically be
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> In the internet era you have high reach low cost options such that for less than $100, like $30 adjusted to 1980 dollars, you can hit tens of thousands of people. You could buy a classified with the same or better reach and same price
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> The study used ad spend as a proxy for ads viewed Yes, clearly that was the intent. That doesn't mean you can generalize from your proxy to the thing you have a hard time measuring. > So ad spend is going up at the same time th
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> 3% decline in satisfaction was indeed a lot That is 3% if you double ad spend. You've failed to demonstrate that the internet increased ad spend at all, let alone came anywhere near doubling it. > Or now if you learn that econ
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> And advertising spending is increasingly exponentially. Good numbers on ad spend are available here [1] I don't see a single place in that PDF that lists historical ad spend data. You do realize that is a "forecast" not
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
I didn't claim it would be easy. I do claim that it will be more effective than pretending that charging people to get on the bus will have any real impact.
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
In a clean room design, the person doing the implementation needs to have never seen the original. So the same would apply to the human or GenAI doing that in this case.
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
Homeless already often get access to free or cheap passes, often that allow unlimited rides. Insisting that we charge everyone a bus fare because we think otherwise it might make it eaier to homeless people to use the bus is not only uninfo
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> I'm somewhat unsurprised that my off the cuff hypothesis has been tested, and is indeed likely accurate. That study is a correlation with self reported satisfaction. The effect size is that a doubling of ad spend results in a 3% c
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
The positive benefits in education, science research and logistics are hard to understate. Mass advertising existed before the internet. Can you be more explicit about which downsides you thibk the additional mass advertising on the interne
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> but if it operates in a free market then it has to compete There is no such thing as an actual "free market", nor should there be. Markets need rules to operate otherwise you get fraud and "unhealthy" competition li
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
Let me introduce you the concept of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert Instead of blaming people, perhaps it is better to look at the systemic factors that we can change to help people who are already playing li
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
Your source lists wage growth during that period as 13.2% Meanwhile inflation over that period is significantly higher at 19.18%. So, no, low end wage growth has not kept up with inflation.
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> Moreover, I think the article author would call for those leaders to step down if he thought that would be effective. You are welcome to believe that. However putting words in other people's mouth doesn't lead to a productive
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> 1) It must suck for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to be subject to a rogue French judge. How is the french judge "rogue"? How is a ICC warrant "extra territorial"? It on
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> We're talking about investments that range well in the tens of million of dollars. It's an insignificant drop in the bucket. The design team's salaries alone eclipse that value. On top of that, a single engine alone sell
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
The person that was killed was the person who started the violence, the wife. I would posit that instead physically attacking someone who comes over to apologize, you should try listening first. Also, if your wife and her family are that cr
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> Those who use AI as tool today will replace those that aren't tomorrow. Unless they let their skills atrophy by offloading them to AI. The things they can do will be commodified and low value. I suspect there will be demand for th
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> I don't think my interpretation is a stretch. It isn't charitable and I don't think it adds to the discussion. > Also, from a comment by the article author: "I feel that part of the problem with WordPress and Rai
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
To me that memo is pretty clearly a sacarstic version of reductio ad absurdum.
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
This is explained if you click through the link to the Samsung post about this issue. > Australian mobile operators and Samsung have identified a number of older mobile devices that will not correctly connect to an alternative mobile net
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by shkkmo 10mo ago
> The author clearly wants those other leaders to step down I think you are putting words in their mouth. They could easily have explicitly called to those leaders to step down. > He stepped down because he wanted to step down, not fo

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