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by xp84 5mo ago
> "as profit margins for news thin, it’s only become more important to news publishers to protect their intellectual property." So their argument is that people who would be paying money at their paywalls, are going to IA to ge
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by xp84 5mo ago
I assume the scalpers demand their additional payment first and upon receipt, name the buyer who can buy the ticket "for face value".
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by xp84 5mo ago
I was thinking the same thing. If there are very many seats available, it will probably be gamed by scalpers. If they are doing this, they should really do the math to try to make the expected ROI of an additional bot account doing 24/
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by xp84 5mo ago
Not OP but - I think one could make the case that if tickets were sold via a lottery and non-transferable, the average lottery participant would be a bigger fan of $ARTIST than the average person who can afford the scalped price for a ticke
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by xp84 5mo ago
New idea: You have to tie a valid credit card to a ticket in order to transfer it, if the card doesn't authorize for $500 at the gate, admission is denied, and the ticket can be used to charge unlimited concessions and merch to the ori
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by xp84 5mo ago
Anything requiring transferring "to friends" will be attempted to be used for scalping of course. I suppose if we're requiring showing ID to attend anyway, it's not a lot worse to add an online ID verification step in or
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by xp84 5mo ago
> Businesses lobbying for their interests is exactly what they should be doing and exactly what everyone should expect them to do. Elected officials and the democratic process are supposed to be the check and fix. That would be nice. I f
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by xp84 5mo ago
Wow, I've never thought of that before, but that is actually pretty compelling. It doesn't mean our current way (and the massive private industry scam) is the only and best way, but at least it is some explanation rather than it s
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by xp84 5mo ago
We don't have one. Are you talking about Direct File? The Trump admin killed it, though it was successfully nerfed from the start anyway by the Intuit and H&R Block lobbyists -- you couldn't even itemize deductions, or have 10
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by xp84 5mo ago
So sad! I used it for at least a decade, maybe like 2006-2018 or so. Their Mac desktop software was excellent then, and no Electron tomfoolery or other nonsense. And you could just keep every year's TT app installed in case you wanted
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by xp84 5mo ago
This is so bad, it's funny. But I'd expect no less from Intuit.
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by xp84 5mo ago
Wild that you're being downvoted. Mainstream "progressives" openly champion racial quotas which directly hurt Asian students in college admissions. Asians faced racism and unfairness in the past like many other groups did, bu
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by xp84 5mo ago
As a rational American, I find it infuriating to see that kind of thing going on, as though it doesn't work out to our benefit to get the most brilliant minds in science, business, and math to not just study here but settle here and co
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by xp84 5mo ago
you're right, I think we didn't realize these implied parts: "make it universally accessible [to Google] and useful [to Google's financial interests].
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by xp84 5mo ago
They don't think they really need any more content outside of a few deals they can cut directly with publishers. And they already have YouTube, which produces limitless free content for them to use as they see fit. My blog from 20 year
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by xp84 5mo ago
Step 1: Be really lax in enforcing compliance with it so that nobody complies with it. Step 2: Abruptly switch to iron-fist enforcement where suddenly people get jail time for violations, but only for entities that have been critical of the
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by xp84 5mo ago
I agree with your assessment or hopes. The interesting thing is that I get the idea the average user basically grokked, in 2008, that Google itself can't answer a question for you, it can only show you a list of websites that match key
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by xp84 5mo ago
People had a better conceptual model of what results on the SERP were: Random websites. If I ask ChatGPT "Did X do Y" and it responds with bold text "Yes, X did Y on this date, which was reported on the CBS Evening News"
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by xp84 5mo ago
Yup. I don't know enough people at giant companies to know how many actually do this though. Not just talking having 2 AZs, I'm talking about ability in a DR scenario to fail over, within 5-10 minutes, to a different cloud provide
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by xp84 5mo ago
I have read plenty of snark about them on HN, but I found their product incredibly useful, well-designed, and easy to work with. If I was building a new startup from scratch, I'd definitely be giving them a look. I'm sure there ar
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by xp84 5mo ago
And those reps might not be told what the reason is.
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by xp84 5mo ago
I wonder about that. Part of me thinks maybe they might not bother, because what are they gonna do, just not advertise? The entire online ad market is basically Google and Meta now. You'd get fired if you pulled all your ads because Go
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by xp84 5mo ago
Well, you just have to convince the jury. The defense attorney will try to throw up all the reasons it could be falsified, but the prosecutor will say "All of that is unlikely - the defense attorney would like you to believe that farfe
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by xp84 5mo ago
GPS? No problem, they can take their hi-DPI monitor and their secure camera to the sidewalk in front of the White House lawn and play the AI video they made of soldiers shooting protestors.
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by xp84 5mo ago
> switch to more independent journalists. I have no objection to this -- I follow a few that I would say meet that definition well and which I trust. But boy do I worry that for 90% of the population, this translates to picking a bunch o
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by xp84 5mo ago
Okay, but it's easy to make up a novel specific claim no one has written about before, then to make that claim and point to the AI as proof you aren't making this up. For example, imagine this blogpost: --- "San Francisco M
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by xp84 5mo ago
> How is it different from a person believing whatever they read on the Internet? It's not, directionally. But I think this is kind of bypassing the main point here. With an LLM's natural tendency to pattern-match in this way,
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by xp84 5mo ago
I spend a lot of time wondering about the true role of search in people's lives in 2026. When I watch people use the Internet, it seems like most of them perform searches simply as fuzzy-matching navigation to the websites they use. Li
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by xp84 5mo ago
I'm not sure most of those calling the shots at Google realizes they even have paying customers other than advertisers. Notably though, website publishers and consumers of their massive products like Search, Gmail, and Android are not
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by xp84 5mo ago
Yes, it's happened. Except a lot of people do have an exception - they'll trust the slop that reinforces their existing biases, or even if they know in their hearts it's not true, viewing their side's lies regularly stil

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