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by thephyber 3mo ago
There are many bank and bank-adjacent companies who contractually enforce morals standards. It doesn't matter if the underlying reason for the morality is profit maximization, the effect is the same. You seem to care more about the aes
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by thephyber 3mo ago
“Just link it” is like telling an intern to “use this program”. It will take a while (and each LLM user will burn tokens while learning). This is the perfect use case for a skill: one person takes the hit to create the skill and then anyone
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by thephyber 3mo ago
I commented because my father has an iPhone 8 and vision/cognitive issues. He could very much benefit from this accessibility feature, but he hasn’t been eligible for iOS upgrades for years.
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by thephyber 3mo ago
The underlying demand for massive RAM builds is coming from AI hyperscalers. There are lots of signals that the sector has been overinvested and that corporate customers are pulling back on spending as the cost of the APIs is revealed. Once
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by thephyber 3mo ago
Do you honestly think that’s families buying them? My money is on small companies or affluent programmers experimenting with some new hobby / business model.
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by thephyber 3mo ago
It’s an ocean-going row boat with 2 cabins. Most row boats you’ve seen are probably hyper-light and designed for still water. The model of this boat: https://www.rannochadventure.com/boats-2/r25
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by thephyber 3mo ago
I don’t think we should use current prices as landmarks for large scale demand. That Studio’s current prices is inflated because of a (presumably) short term supply crunch, not because the average user is willing to pay $24k for a home AI i
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by thephyber 3mo ago
Also, FWIW I couldn’t get delivery to my residence when I lived in a ski resort town. I was forced to use a PO Box, which put the burden of the last mile on the user and took that burden off of the postal service. I’m guessing lots of farme
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by thephyber 3mo ago
I agree to the extent that this is about tradeoffs, hence my last paragraph about “moving the slider”. USPS makes people who live too far off their normal routes (and presumably the homeless) use PO Boxes to receive their deliveries. That s
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by thephyber 3mo ago
This iOS feature isn’t only about locking out users from some features/apps. It turns a complicated phone into a much more simple one. Both kids and the elderly can benefit from it. My only issue is that the was only introduced in 2024
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by thephyber 3mo ago
This reply doesn’t apply to the article, at least not the way you think it does. (1) The article is talking about how dissatisfying 2% of your market is not a small issue. And the 2% of the market the website dissatisfies are unable to expr
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by thephyber 3mo ago
He has been politically active trying to roll back CDA Section 230 protections for social media companies because he conflates social media algorithms being “editorial” with what actions are actually protected by CDA 230. He made an pinned
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by thephyber 3mo ago
It’s much more complicated than that. In a society where everybody is already driving to school, work, food, shopping medical appointments, gas stations, kids sports, etc this is just a marginal additional trip for the consumer. Having redu
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by thephyber 3mo ago
Most likely the vendor will make a judgement call about whether they care to comply. If they do want to comply, they will likely exempt all Virginia data from the collected data set and contractually require and downstream user to indemnify
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by thephyber 3mo ago
It’s important to understand that in the USA, data is owned by the collector (eg. The app or SaaS who generated it), not the person who is described by it. Until this legal regime changes, we will constantly be playing whack-a-mole with law
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by thephyber 3mo ago
“As an excuse” is a weird way of saying “responding to national supply and demand”. 100% of the suppliers who didn’t have to cull all of their chickens raised their prices.
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by thephyber 3mo ago
Those contributed. But also, the news isn’t privy to an actual price fixing conspiracy while it’s happening. To the extent that a news org reports on it, it’s because someone within the system grows some ethics (very hard to burn a bridge w
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by thephyber 3mo ago
I think he’s saying that if the 10 people witnessed a murder via gunshot that it would be mighty suspicious if the state didn’t bother to bring any forensic evidence of the shooting to court and instead relied solely on those eyewitness tes
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by thephyber 3mo ago
USDS and Code For America were reasonable, level-headed, modest efforts at improving government for the people using tech experts. They tried to work within the existing orgs and within the existing authorities to improve services via tech
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by thephyber 3mo ago
It was a social panic. AI PR convinced tech execs that companies who didn’t adopt AI as a significant part of their workforce would fall behind (and in capitalism that means they lost market share and revenue). Investors likely put pressure
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by thephyber 3mo ago
We tried it. DOGE was a complete failure of tech startup idiots asking models questions as if they were oracles and blindly trusting them to make subjective decisions about which Congressionally-created programs we should kill. Some of the
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by thephyber 3mo ago
> The idea that being anonymous online will save a society from a dictator/repression is wishful thinking. Strawman. > Only good faith engagement with an existing democractic system will ensure the success of democracy This isn’t
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by thephyber 3mo ago
An individual phone… while targeting a specific crime and a specific suspect. The person could use a different phone and remain anonymous. The difference is that one is very granular and done in reaction to a crime. The other is a wide scal
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by thephyber 4mo ago
No, an airplane is a physical thing we interact with which has intrinsic value, physical transportation. This is a perfect example of what money is not . Money is not the token (the coin or paper bill), but the component of the ledger the
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by thephyber 4mo ago
All of those poor agents will be laid off from their support chat jobs and their roles will get outsourced to India and Philippines.
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by thephyber 4mo ago
I don’t understand this logic. The acquisition doesn’t guarantee the project dies and staying unacquired doesn’t guarantee the project continues. The state of OSS funding is precarious. The acquisitions at least guarantee some runway for th
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by thephyber 4mo ago
Perhaps. But if these are popular apps / APIs, then the number of affected households is significant. Authorities / investigators will have to treat IPs as likely proxies and not the geolocation of the human initiating the request
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by thephyber 4mo ago
Do you have any evidence of this? Also “and margins” seems like a stupid thing to add. Margins are high during peacetime and wartime alike. And it’s not parallel to bribes / kickbacks which are corrupt and illegal. Margins are the natu
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by thephyber 4mo ago
It seems your standards are pretty arbitrary. Personally I want to know that a provable crime was actually committed before calling for someone to be jailed.
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by thephyber 4mo ago
> to reduce driver fatigue Fatigue is not the only, or even the biggest, risk to driving safely. Being distracted is frequently one of the biggest risks.

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