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by smoldesu 3y ago
I've already shorted it. Bet all you want, it's your money not mine. Just don't piss and moan to me when you're caught in the mining difficulty death-spiral come a few years.
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> If there were only first party content on the phone today, there would still be a browser. And nothing to browse on. Not sure anyone would want an iPhone like that. > I don’t see how Apple is a monopoly with less than 30% of market
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I didn't say they'd exist forever, just that they'd continue being around. Apple could profit $0 for the next decade and have enough cash-on-hand to continue operations for several years. It's not realistic that Apple wo
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You should lobby your nearest EU politician to stop platform-holders from creating anti-competitive conditions. It damages the market, and requires regular scrutiny to prevent the corporate bean counters from deploying salami tactics. Bec
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The GTK library might not be a terrible choice if you end up targeting Linux. It's fast to prototype with (in my experience) and very well-optimized for touch/tablet interfaces. Well worth checking out IMO: https://www.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> I cannot think of a single example of any company or entity that has been lauded after experiencing hypergrowth Is it perhaps due to the fact that large-scale success is usually enabled by large-scale exploitation? America is a good ex
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I suggest that all nations everywhere blow up their roads, then. After all, they too are civilian infrastructure that is abused for the evil purposes of transporting tanks and ammunition. It must be stopped!
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by smoldesu 3y ago
There absolutely was third-party content and software on iPhone, at launch. The web browser was one of the biggest selling-points when it was announced, alongside the phone and music-player functionality. > On another note they managed
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Those who embrace this view fail, however, to explain how it aligns with the inherent right of self-defense That's quite a rich comment in light of the Dahiya doctrine. It's times like these that I'm glad HN won't l
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> asking everyone to take on that responsibility just because I'd like more freedom, isn't as good as you think it is. That's news to me. I haven't yet told my mom how to enable developer settings on her Android devic
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by smoldesu 3y ago
They can however design an instruction set integral to the development of the iPhone and garner Apple's continued investment in their success as a result. What, you didn't forget about ARM did you?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Are you suggesting that Apple aren't the people in charge of iPhones? Yes https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/1/22361762/iphone-russia-sta... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy&#x2
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You're basically describing what happened to GPT-2 when T5-flan came out. Not to mention, the incumbent model at the time (BERT) was extremely competitive for it's smaller size. Pretty much nobody was talking about OpenAI's m
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If Apple didn't provide an easy experience for developing software, nobody would want to buy an iPhone. That's why the web browser portion was essential from the start - Apple needs third-parties in order to sell their hardware.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Other than cultivating a base of iOS users spending 7x more than Android users on apps[1]. Those iOS users certainly aren't spending 7x more on AppleTV and iTunes albums. It's because of third-parties that Apple can convinc
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Working in this space (however you want to say it) costs a lot of money. Not necessarily? OpenAI deliberately chooses to scale their models vertically, which incumbents like Google and Meta had largely avoided. Their "big innovati
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I'll tell Napoleon to send his regards.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Unless the problem-in-question is Adjusted Gross Income, I don't think you're talking about a well-defined issue in the first place. That's kinda the problem; even half-definitions like "meets or exceeds human performanc
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> You can theorize all you want given a strike in 1892, but in the last 20 years demonstrate this is not the case. The last 20 years demonstrate that America will charge it's largest domestic tech business with a breakup over just
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Someone actually has to incentivize building things and getting shit done America will incentivize actual monopolies to massacre their employees before admitting they're wrong and need to stop: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It seems much more plausible to me that America is guilty of protectionism by neglecting to regulate their domestic tech businesses. Europe stands to lose nothing if Spotify goes bankrupt, but disrupting the mobile duopoly threatens America
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's definitely important, but the DMA isn't a response to the existence of music streaming services. It's a direct remediation for Apple's uniquely anticompetitive practices, which affects everyone , artists or not. Ar
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Which Epic Games account would you prefer they use, the American one? If you want to talk about cowardly behavior, we should discuss Apple's anti-steering policy. At the root of this brouhaha is an indefensible double-standard that App
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> There could have been a world where just Google builds that multipler and only uses it internally. Funny that you mention that, actually. Before OpenAI started generously... publicizing their models, Google was actually shipping their
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Mine's the 5800u model, but the 4800u one has gone as low as $450 new in the past. It supports Linux and Windows out-of-box, it's cheap as chips and it's fast enough to swap spit with whatever my Macbook Air would be runnin
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Those are good reasons to be mad. It's a shame Apple refused to submit Lightning to USB-IF, licensed the connector design, and then added additional DRM on top of the license fee. They did a good job with Thunderbolt in the past, hopef
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It seems more plausible that America is neglecting to regulate their duopoly because it benefits them. Europe has multiple examples of Apple ignoring municipal orders and is justified in targeting Apple with legislation. If you want to accu
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You're not entirely wrong, but the DMA isn't a response to the existence of music streaming apps. It's a direct and targeted remediation to Apple's uniquely oppressive behavior, and would apply to Spotify too should they
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Why doesn't it apply to Spotify? Their infographic explains it nicely: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/image/conten...
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> You might call it a scam if you lump it with other shitcoins. But that's similar to lumping NVDA with penny stocks. With the difference being that Nvidia has a living CEO that makes administrative decisions directing the company&#

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