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by smt88 1y ago
You're using anecdata to decide if a company with billions of users is viable? Literal nonsense. I hate Meta, but their ad business is still doing well and WhatsApp is the core of Indian society. AOL, Yahoo, and Tumblr still operate. M
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What math are you doing here? Robovacuums don't cost £150 an hour. If you buy one for £500 and run it every day for two years, you're paying ~70p per hour. Are there any cleaners who charge less than £1 per visit?
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> I do wonder how many people would buy non-spy versions of devices given the option. Depending on the discount for the spyware version, I'd guess close to zero. The general public has become completely numb to being spied on. It&
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Nope, I got it. You were arguing that (an attempt at) ending the US republic is objectively worse than abusing it to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians, to the point that Cheney can be viewed in retrospect as not that bad in comparis
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What are your favorite smart home brands nowadays?
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> The "checks notes" thing is a marker that you're about to argue with a straw man. Don't do that here, please. It's a marker that your argument is so unbelievable, I had to go back and read it again to make su
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Your argument seems to be that Cheney's culpability for hundreds of thousands of dead civilians, trillions of wasted dollars, and multiple regime changes in the Middle East were all kind of OK because they [checks notes] didn't
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His administration admitted to lying about weapons of mass destruction in order to invade Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died, thousands of Americans died, and trillions were wasted. He was a traitor to his country, not a patriot.
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Hiring for software eng is basically negative right now (tons of layoffs, not much hiring). Demand for juniors and interns is also a lot lower than it is for seniors. I'm sorry, but you may have graduated at the worst time in history f
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The other companies you mentioned are making more money from AI than OpenAI is. And Microsoft owns a huge chunk of OpenAI too.
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AirPods are certainly super popular, but I can't think of many places that are extreme outliers in almost every category like the Bay Area. A lot of startups have failed assuming their business that worked for Bay Area customers would
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They tried and made fools of themselves. They're trying again right now.
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They don't need the hiring spree if they don't train their own models. They rolled out search without building a search engine and could've done the same with AI.
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Apple is "taking it easy" because of embarrassing ineptitude, not because it's their strategy
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This is just a formatting/display issue. Excel isn't rounding the number internally. It sounds like the problem in this case is that you don't know how to use basic Excel features.
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Your friend should look at almost any other Western, developed nation for counterexamples
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Because OpenAI loses far, far more. It may be one of the least profitable companies in history.
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We heard this exact thing about blockchain and "Web3" from ~2015-2022. Has it revolutionized some use cases and some lives? Yes! Was it applicable to 95% of the things they promised it would be, like supply chain logistics, gaming
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The example photos all look like AI
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It's completely different in practice. A child can't buy $50,000 of cereal in an afternoon.
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They don't have to ask their parents first. The parents can link cards. One example, of many: https://www.techspot.com/news/98980-13-year-old-spent-64000-...
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Their parents link the cards. Kids can buy things without consulting a parent each time.
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Close to 0% of children do their own grocery shopping and buy their own boxes of cereal
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I mean that you can't learn how to manage, negotiate, change minds, make friends, etc. from reading books about those things. It takes practice. You need to meet and try to understand a lot of different people.
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There are tons of trade schools and certification programs you can join for these. It just depends on where you live. You take some classes and then often will get an apprenticeship.
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We inspired the French revolution and had a 7-million-person protest this past weekend.
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People are going to pile on you for not seeing this coming, but I really do appreciate your ability to change your mind and tell people about it. People need space to make a U-turn. I hope you get some grace because it's a lot easier t
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Electrical and carpentry seem to be pretty safe too
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Whether a hitpiece or not, it rhymes with my experience and provides receipts. Can you provide yours?
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The most reasonable answer is "people skills," and you can only learn them through practice, intellectual humility, and open-mindedness. I haven't yet found a book that substitutes for real relationships.

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