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by wand3r 3y ago
I think this is downvoted because (and I could be wrong) he could have paid a breakup fee instead of buying the business. So he wasn't compelled to actually own and operate the business.
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by wand3r 3y ago
Boom is taking a Tesla approach to aerospace focusing on high end first with a Concord replacement. I am sure there are others working their way up the value chain
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by wand3r 3y ago
Ad supported products are cancer. Also, other than the comments here, it only says "no ads" on the premium offering. No mention of ads in the "how Firsty works" section". Not only do I hate this model but who the he
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by wand3r 3y ago
I was going to make this point above as well but it felt to cynical. Ultimately, I think its just a case of normal people having to respond to an extremely rare and kinetic situation with no playbook as every decision you make is scrutinize
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by wand3r 3y ago
> A lot of guns drawn breaking down door situations could be made a lot less dangerous if police stop assuming they need to break in right now. Sure, but "right now" is a matter of perspective. There just is not a great answer
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by wand3r 3y ago
I agree with you BUT. If one time, somewhere in America, someone truly is a violent threat you'll see all over Twitter & Facebook: "Government agency ignores dozens of pleas for help! Numerous reports that child killer would k
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by wand3r 3y ago
This is an interesting idea: Voting on the norms of society even if not strictly enforceable. I would love a referendum on tipping in my American state. The proposed solution that at least 54% of this village have recognized is that the int
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by wand3r 3y ago
As someone that was dealing with my domain being squatted on, I can say I know more about DNS today than I did yesterday.
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by wand3r 3y ago
Tangential, but this spurred an interest in reading a few of their annual reports. It seems general purpose LLMs are bad at doing this, at least when I asked what annual revenue was it confidently said $466m for 2020 but the report said 496
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by wand3r 3y ago
Its virtue signaling. I know its over used, but seriously, who is intentionally harming minors BUT unwilling to break a ToS contract?
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by wand3r 3y ago
The government isn't a monolith. The Biden administration seems to have a particular disdain for him but presumably this sentiment isn't shared by all. Also, SpaceX can deliver payloads and operate missions that seemingly no other
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by wand3r 3y ago
I laughed when Fox news said Taylor Swift was a "psyop" because it was absurd. Then a few weeks later her deepfakes go all over twitter and the government is cracking down on AI. Sure its a conspiracy theory, but I do think the go
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by wand3r 3y ago
I am not sure why you had to take this to a straw man racial place? While this is obviously problematic its likely societal attitudes will change as this becomes commonplace. Also, attitudes towards sex are changing in America. In 20 years
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by wand3r 3y ago
I want to highlight an adjacent point: The Bank Secrecy act was established in 1970 and the $10k back then had the same buying power as $78k now. Its fucking bullshit that this law has not been repealed. With crazy inflation over the past f
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by wand3r 3y ago
> They're not Boeings stock price is down 18% this month. Sure it's not because of Kayak, this is simply another data point that consumers are wary of Boeing. Boeing is massively fucking up and even though procurement cycles ar
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by wand3r 3y ago
How do permissions work on Android? I can allow permission to select photos or all photos on Apple. Location while using the app, all the time and never. I am genuinely asking this question. I can imagine FB would love access to all my comt
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by wand3r 3y ago
Also, every company is going to want to have it's own store. This will be insanely annoying if every big company wants to provide its own store, own payments, own app that bypasses all Apple privacy and security permissions. Ideally, A
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by wand3r 3y ago
Stub article but on the main topic of Apple sideloading, I am of two minds. I really dislike the lack of control from apple, but iPhone is a locked down special purpose computer with ALL my data. The worry is that all the apps we "need
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by wand3r 3y ago
I agree heavily as a casual ebook reader. If Calibre had a team of designers I think it would be extremely popular and widespread. Its not very intuitive and the UI/UX is quite bad. It suffers the curse of all powerful applications in
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by wand3r 3y ago
It's kind of wild that you can't get it to do anything PG-13 for "safety" but it's going to be used in military technology. I have no value judgement on the decision, but it seems incongruent with their mission. Als
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by wand3r 3y ago
OpenAI speedrun to the Google playbook of abandoning founding principles. Impressive that they could get this big this fast and just go full mask off so abruptly. Google made it about 17 years before it removed "Don't be Evil&quot
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by wand3r 3y ago
I don't even use Amazon, but I definitely sympathize with prime subscribers. It's nearly a requirement for average people in their 30s. Have kids or limited time? Spouse likes a show on prime? Live in a rural area and the walmart
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by wand3r 3y ago
I definitely agree that they don't return brand results. I don't use Amazon enough to remember the example(s) that were the final straw for me. Do you have any examples/remember which brand search you did? I am curious if som
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by wand3r 3y ago
Yeah. I am quietly anti-Amazon so I mostly do not use the site. Occasionally, I'll browse for something I need and its really a shitshow: - searching for a brand, rarely returns items by the brand - search results are extremely poor an
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by wand3r 3y ago
Adjacent question, leaving aside value proposition. Do companies pay for 1000 seats like this? I didn't realize slack is $5 a user a month. Do they discount this for bulk, or are companies paying $5k/month $60k/yearly? These
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by wand3r 3y ago
Not parent, but I agree with the general point. Leaving this specific example aside which is a real world interaction, we (America) have gone to far to redefine what "safety" is. Ben Shapiro speaking at your school is not "pu
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by wand3r 3y ago
This was a problem before "AI" and will definitely be a bigger problem going forward. That said, there are more great books than I could read in 100 life times published before 2020, so I doubt this will be an issue for me persona
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by wand3r 3y ago
> Retractions remain exceedingly rare for scientific papers: Just eight out of every 10,000 are retracted, according to a Retraction Watch database. This to me is a crucial statistic. Is this number much less than it should be? Or are ma
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by wand3r 3y ago
Working for an international company has really opened my eyes. It's actually fucking insane that someone could be paying off school in their 50s. The cast majority of European schools are in the single digit thousands per semester. Th
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by wand3r 3y ago
> Apparently, dropping Prime with the shopping really does not impact the speed of delivery or cost. I don't know about this. I don't have prime and rarely use amazon. I ordered something recently that qualified for free shippi

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