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by smt88 2y ago
Dropbox was torn to pieces because it was a feature (folder sync) raising money as a company. It was obvious why it was a useful feature, but it wasn't obvious how they'd build a moat. This product is unlike Dropbox in that it isn
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by smt88 2y ago
For every "you" avoiding subscriptions, there's an idiot like me who has had several $5-10/mo. subscriptions for years because I keep hitting the "call customer service to cancel" wall and procrastinating.
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by smt88 2y ago
There is absolutely no chance Trump's donors, which include the A16Z clowns, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and a lot of anti-regulation people in Silicon Valley, are going to allow Lina Khan to stick around. Vice presidents have no power,
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by smt88 2y ago
Fast internet increases the percentage of the country that's desirable to live in, which is an incentive for people to move there and demand new housing be built. The more desirable small towns and rural places are, the less of a housi
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by smt88 2y ago
My understanding is that the progressive party in Australia had a plan to bring fiber to a lot more of the country, and then the conservative regime that followed it basically demolished the plan to benefit a private corporation (Foxtel) ow
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by smt88 2y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. It is a little off-topic, but you're correct that drinking too-hot liquids increase the risk of multiple types of cancer. The same is true of alcohol-based mouthwash and alcohol itself
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Rust was invented to make it easier to write a secure, performant browser engine
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Hurricanes are not political. Democrats do not control them. The cause and intent of hurricanes is not a political position unless you are an unbelievable idiot. Election denial is also an issue of fact because people have lost hundreds of
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Which liberal elites had $40B to blow on buying a failing business? Even one that's failing a bit slower? Musk himself had to make deals with bad people (Saudi royals, Russian oligarchs) to afford it.
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> "Elon Musk’s tweets about the presidential election and spreading falsehoods about Hurricane Helene are endangering his ability to launch rockets off California’s central coast." I wouldn't describe these as "politi
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> Anecdotal evidence? I thought we were supposed to reject that. Not when it's thousands of people showing us photos and videos. It's not that it's impossible that [insert major event here] is a conspiracy, but you alway
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It is significantly worse in the PRC, where they don't believe that the Uyghur genocide is happening. At least (for now) the West has no similar level of denial about something within their own borders.
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This isn't just distrust of the government and other public institutions. It's also distrust of: - first-hand reports from other people - private news networks - the governments of other countries The scale and degree of this dist
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AI can't create good (meaning truthful) content. It's literally impossible for LLMs to be hallucination free. It's just not how they work. The problem is going to get worse as hallucinations are used as training data because
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by smt88 2y ago
> All AI image and video generators must be forced to add metadata and watermarks and all uploading technology This is already impossible because it's impossible to enforce. You can't stop something running on a random laptop
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AI slop (or convincing lies) is not distinguishable from genuine, human-generated content. Machines definitely can't do it, and humans often can't either. That problem with get worse.
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Monopolistic behavior helped these companies mint thousands of millionaires, including regular employees enjoying stock options. Some of those people are bound to be in this thread.
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I'm not up to date on the best auction sites. Check reddit.
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Put it on an auction site, set minimum price much higher than you expect to get for it, give it a long time-frame, and see what happens. It's definitely worth more than $1,000 to the right person.
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I suspect you mean "beneficiaries," and you're right to point this out. It is appalling that slave labor apparently wasn't enough of an immoral business advantage for them.
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Uber was a literally life-changing product with an obvious value for anyone. LLMs have neither benefit.
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The Nissan Leaf was far more affordable than a Tesla 10 years ago and very practical for anyone living in a city.
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It seems likely to me that both concrete and plastic are used in greater mass and greater volume than wood.
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For political texts in the US, it is illegal for iOS or Android to proactively treat them as spam. They're a form of political speech protected by the First Amendment. But in my experience, they do actually slow down if you reply STOP
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by smt88 2y ago
You didn't quote a random tweet. You quoted a racist, right-wing, anti-immigrant account. Even if you're just quoting someone else, there is a message in what you choose to quote. There are a million other ways to make this point,
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by smt88 2y ago
Based on OP's history, I doubt this was an accident, but both "inner city" and "thug" have become racist dog-whistle terms. To OP: have the courage to say what you really mean and accept the consequences. If you&#x2
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by smt88 2y ago
> This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but Meta is in the right direction and has to go on an Amazon type arc to align their employees with their vision. It's not just unpopular, it's just wrong. Even if Zuckerberg&#x2
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That's the joke. That's why the Army calls them birth-control glasses.
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Fresh CS grads are a net cost to startups for a while, probably months and maybe years. It doesn't matter how many tests they've passed. They don't have real-world skills, especially non-technical skills. They would've b
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Consumers are free to choose never to pay credit card interest rates (by only spending what they can pay off). No one is forced to borrow money. Merchants have to choose between being cash-only and paying Visa's high fees.

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