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by this_user 11mo ago
> In most cases Therein lies the problem. When dealing with the law, you don't want to be relatively sure that you won't go to prison or won't get sued for $1M, you want to be completely sure. Something like the GPL is com
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by this_user 11mo ago
It won't, they'll just come up with a way to abstract it away by adding yet another layer to the DevOps stacks. Maybe something with AI.
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by this_user 11mo ago
Altman definitely has enough wealth of his own to survive no matter what. But if you look at how he operates, it is pretty clear that what he really wants is power, and he is usually extremely good at getting it. But OpenAI is rapidly losin
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by this_user 11mo ago
The real two camps seem to be: 1) People constantly chasing the latest technology with no regard for whether it's appropriate for the situation. 2) People constantly trying to shoehorn their favourite technology into everything with no
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by this_user 11mo ago
So that new AI models can then be trained on the AI-generated Wikipedia.
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by this_user 11mo ago
They still do in non-Anglo European countries where the main celebration is held on the evening of the 24th.
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by this_user 1y ago
What happened is the same thing that tends to happen to almost all successful organisation. The uber exceptional people who initially built it, defined the culture, and enforced it with an iron fist are gone. Now a bunch of people are in ch
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by this_user 1y ago
Sure, just handing out money to everyone is easy. The hard part is finding enough money to do it.
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by this_user 1y ago
That whole REE thing is more of a scare tactic than anything. REEs are really not all that rare, and the current imports of REEs into the US are worth around $200-250M annually. That is millions, not billions. It's actually a laughably
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by this_user 1y ago
The problem are leftist policies that have completely destroyed any economic dynamism and that have created such high tax burdens that working full-time and trying to advance in your career is basically not worth it for many professionals.
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by this_user 1y ago
There are currently about two dozen national securities exchanges plus a whole lot of alternative trading venues, broker internalisation, and whole market makers that match orders directly. It's a highly fragmented market where one add
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by this_user 1y ago
The problem with a lot of social media is that a lot of it allows you to either directly or indirectly monetise engagement. That creates an strong incentive to create outrage. This has also been discussed in the context of FB's feed wh
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by this_user 1y ago
I have had some very weird issues with Gemini 2.5 Pro where during a longer session it eventually becomes completely confused and starts giving me the response to the previous prompt instead of the current one. I absolutely would not trust
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by this_user 1y ago
All we need need now is "PaaS as Code" (PaC) services as the next iteration of DevOps stacks that increasingly border parody.
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by this_user 1y ago
It's more like carrying an overly complex Swiss Army knife that somewhere has a knife function, but that knife function doesn't intuitively work like a regular knife and has all kinds of weird failure modes and edge cases, when al
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by this_user 1y ago
The core technologies may be simple, but email really is an entire stack of protocols, mechanisms, and conventions. And therein lies the problem. It's not one well designed solution but one workaround layered on top of each other to ma
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by this_user 1y ago
The classic PE business model is buying underperforming businesses, cutting costs, optimising their operations, and then selling the company for a profit after a couple of years (or taking it public). PE are usually less focussed on growth
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by this_user 1y ago
It seems likely that they will consolidate their studios and streamline the headcoputn. Bioware may be dead for good, at least to the extent that it is still alive at this point. And there are probably other acquired studios like that.
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by this_user 1y ago
Interestingly, this mirrors the kind of thing that has been happening in finance, especially in private equity. Normally, you start out at an investment bank, do two years as an analyst there, learn the basics, then make a choice whether yo
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by this_user 1y ago
But are really this many users actively using ad blockers? Presumably, a lot of users are on mobile devices where they are using the native app that doesn't even support this. If we subtract them, then a significant share of users on b
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by this_user 1y ago
That's not how any of this works. You may not receive any interest on your stablecoin balance, but the issuer certainly does. Why would they offer to lend money to the US government at zero when they can get the market rate and pocket
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by this_user 1y ago
> This makes me think that the Chinese model where a company beyond certain size simply becomes a branch of the government actually does have decent upsides Have you seen recent US governments?
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by this_user 1y ago
They want to be Google, or at least what Google used to be. But the reality is that they have only ever built and launched one successful product on their own: Facebook. Everything else is either acquired or has been a huge failure. They pr
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by this_user 1y ago
How large is their headcount these days? And how many actually useful products have they launched in the last decade? You could probably go full Twitter and fire 90% of the people, and it would make no difference from a user perspective.
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by this_user 1y ago
Any species that is advanced enough for interstellar communication will almost certainly be a highly aggressive apex species. You don't get to the top of the food chain by being nice, you get there by murdering all of the competition a
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by this_user 1y ago
Who else would you hire? With a topic as complex as this, it seems most likely that the people who have been working at the bleeding edge for years will be able to continue to innovate. At the very least, they are a much safer bet than some
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by this_user 1y ago
It's Game Theory problem. If you are getting more value out of the system by maintaining it in the long-run, it would make no sense to attack it and destroy its value. However, once you can extract more value in the short-term through
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by this_user 1y ago
Betteridge's law. There have been suspicions about this for about 15 years. Yet, in that entire time, not a single road cyclist in a UCI competition has ever been found to be doing this. Even just from a practical POV, it makes little
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by this_user 1y ago
> Is this truly about macroeconomic forces that every business is responding to? Or is it just following the latest fad? Some of it is reacting to the general environment. Some of it also may be opportunism to do the thing you wanted to
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by this_user 1y ago
Tech people don't like to hear this, but you also need product people. And I don't necessarily mean those with a business background, but those who can see the larger picture from the user/customer perspective and who can ens

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