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by smcin 1y ago
Behind a paywall. Please post a non-paywall short explanation of what it's saying.
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by smcin 1y ago
The term "smart appliance" has changed radically since the 1960s [0]; it didn't necessarily mean "ubiquitous connectivity, data collection, building a profile on the occupants and monetizing it with advertisers/data
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Your writing is good, please keep at it. I think it would help a lot if you made it clearer when you're talking between root-cause-analysis for software, aviation, other things, or generically. Also, your train-of-thought is pretty dee
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by smcin 1y ago
Sure, but Congress invariably pretend to say the former but mean the latter. You're asking for single-payer instead of privatized health insurance, they will sooner bankrupt the country than switch to sanity. Congress and its funding s
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by smcin 1y ago
> Don't know how GoodRx works, but been around long enough to know you're probably the product. - GoodRx was penalized $1.5m by the FTC 2/2023 [0] for sharing sensitive personal health information with third-party advert
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by smcin 1y ago
That's going to skew towards blue states and metros.
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where "approved" means approved by the FSA plan administrator, not by your doctor, even with prescription? Which gym was this? a large chain? IME very few gyms are approved. (which is bad health policy, considering how good they a
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by smcin 1y ago
I said Polymarket doesn't give an objective neutral verdict-of-the-crowd at some moments, since their markets are still fairly small and can be moved short-term by whale trades. An example is how volatile their markets are on Fed rate
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by smcin 1y ago
You're reminding me of the old 'News of the Weird' (RIP) category " No Longer Weird: frequently recurring stories that have been retired from circulation: ... violence breaks out at peace conference ... ".
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by smcin 1y ago
Ok: "any forum where there isn't a direct motive for product/service recommendation or ideological bias (and absent the moderator having a bias or strong opinion on that topic)".
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by smcin 1y ago
No, incentives aim for whatever gives a return - not an objective neutral verdict-of-the-crowd. It requires a regulator to be active. Read about the whale trades and wash trades on Polymarket: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by smcin 1y ago
It depends on who's saying “authentic”; if it's a legit chef, food critic or expert in that type of cuisine, versus someone just trying to pump reviews and scores e.g. on Yelp. The term “authentic” can be misused, just like “homem
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by smcin 1y ago
Perhaps for as long as the base tier remains free, ad-free, and burn $8+billion/year, and for as long as they can continue funding that with circular trades with public stocks such as this week's nVidia and AMD deals. You're
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by smcin 1y ago
- for code-generation, OpenAI was overtaken by Anthropic - your comment about lock-in for existing users only applies historically to existing users. - Sora 2 is a major pivot that signals what segment OpenAI is/isn't targeting ne
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by smcin 1y ago
Why? It's just about an early music recommender system. Ok the title inflation to "AI" is dubious. But then much use of the term "AI" is dubious.
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The current US admin's threats to annex Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
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by smcin 1y ago
The "making us wait in the sun for an hour outside to board the plane" is to game the EU limitations on how long the airline can make you wait on the tarmac: - after 1hr delay, they must provide access to water/A/C/
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Obviously the context is after you and other people have asked; multiple times. You should interpret my comment with that reasonable preamble. And obviously as you say when people are being ambiguous or not communicating well, you memo what
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by smcin 1y ago
But how do you know what the management perception is of whiat is currently considered to be 'the right problem' vs 'side-quest'? To what extent is that subjective and manipulable? Or that everyone in the management chai
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by smcin 1y ago
"oprichnina" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprichnina
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by smcin 1y ago
Nokia's global market share was ~50% in smartphones back in 2007. Remember that? Comparing "brand moat" in real-world restaurant vs online services where there's no actual barrier to changing service is silly. Doubly sil
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by smcin 1y ago
OpenAI does not have 800m users. It has 20m paid users and ~ 780m free users. The free users are not at all sticky and can and will bounce to a competitor. (What % of free users converted to paid in 2025? vs bounced?) That is not a moat. Th
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by smcin 1y ago
It wasn't ever "Powell’s “Yellow Cake” fairytale". It was Bush-Cheney's. And the scandal is not merely that it was fake, but was publicly known to be fake in spring 2003 . The "Iraq tried to buy yellowcake in Niger
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"one-upping"
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"if he had effectively monetized it" is very loose language, esp. if it tells you if you had spent (say) $10m it could be worth $500m. But you don't monetize individual patents, you build software. https://patent
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Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) will be located in Dallas, Texas, where it is headquartered and plans to launch its operations in 2026. Also known as "Y'all Street" .
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So, perhaps 2020s China ~ 1950s US demographics. The bridges that recently collapsed in the US (2024 Baltimore/Francis Scott Key Bridge and 2007 Minneapolis I-35W Mississippi River Bridge) were built in 1964 and 1972-1977 respectively.
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by smcin 1y ago
Those FAA minimum altitudes apply to non-drone aviation. Not to drones. For drones, there's a different set of FAA (and possibly state) rules.
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Needs the quotes around 'Friend'. The $129 chatbot-enabled AI pendant necklace startup that eavesdrops on your life and harvests intimate data without any meaningful protections, in the name of mental health and "preventing l
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The obvious problem quadrant is if you work on something that has huge meaning to you personally, but no or negative use to most people. Meaning can have both intrinsic and extrinsic components. Inevitably you have to compromise on what is

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