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by xvector 2y ago
10% of global revenue is practically unenforceable and would result in major tech companies simply ignoring the fine and pulling out of the EU. "Forcing" companies to pull out in this manner would instantly ignite a trade war be
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by xvector 2y ago
I think this is a tech literacy problem, honestly. Lots of people don't understand the local/remote boundary. To us it's obvious, clear as night and day.
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by xvector 2y ago
You offer direct to consumer sales and cut out the dealer-distributor corruption pipeline - like Tesla, Nest, etc.
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by xvector 2y ago
We have robust cryptographic constructions for channels at this point. One is described in https://www.ietf.org/blog/mls-secure-and-usable-end-to-end-e...
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by xvector 2y ago
Exactly. This is what happens when a market is so small they can overcharge for terrible technology. I figure a couple of SWEs could make a startup that completely disrupts these industries with objectively superior technology.
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by xvector 2y ago
I know for a fact that execs at my tech co are strongly considering simply pulling out of California if this passes. California will then become stagnant like the EU.
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by xvector 2y ago
Sounds like dying isn't very effective at solving social issues either, then, so the argument that it helps is somewhat moot.
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by xvector 2y ago
In my personal opinion: Life is an incredible adventure. I do not feel that the value of it is increased by death. I also do not feel that I misunderstand life.
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by xvector 2y ago
It is not an issue to me if <bad human> lives longer, if I get to enjoy more time with my loved ones, watch humanity build Dyson spheres, explore the galaxy, etc. Bad humans then become social issues - and those, we can solve.
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by xvector 2y ago
If we told someone 200 years ago that I'd be typing this on a pane of glass that talks to satellites in low earth orbit at the speed of light, accessing the entire repository of human knowledge while hurtling through the air at 600 MPH
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by xvector 2y ago
One dollar or a million - which would you rather have?
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by xvector 2y ago
I am so incredibly envious of the future humans that will live in a world without death. I have decided that soon I will quit my job ($1M+ TC at FAANG), and I will dedicate the entirety of my remaining life (I am ~30) to helping humanity so
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by xvector 2y ago
Death is a tragedy. I see zero issue with longevity research. Any second-order societal effects can be dealt with, but this is absolutely not an area where we need regulations and deliberation of "safety" when literally everyone y
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by xvector 2y ago
Do you work for Yelp? You created this account solely to respond on this post and all of your replies are defending an ostensibly horrible business practice, which is to give your API users less than one business day of notice to switch to
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by xvector 2y ago
It amazes me that we do not have a publicly funded initiative to cure death. It makes me incredibly angry and frustrated at both the general populace and the government. First, the idiocy of the general populace to not prioritize death as a
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by xvector 2y ago
Because our society is rooted in puritanical, old and crude notions of what it means to be human. This makes its way into legislation. It is one of the reasons I despise the FDA, it is an incredibly narrow-minded institution. If you made a
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by xvector 2y ago
> What more would you want the rep to do? Employ a shred of critical thinking and realize this app probably drives more value to Yelp than the cost to run the API, and flag it for an exception.
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by xvector 2y ago
This is just pure boneheadedness across the Yelp management chain, all the way down to the IC level. - IC should have recognized the site was driving traffic to Yelp and flagged to management. - Management should have realized that some API
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by xvector 2y ago
Most privacy laws today are incredibly overwrought and vague. In this case, face recognition was illegal even if you opted into it. Try being a startup that needs any amount of customer data to operate, and then read the GDPR and realize
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by xvector 2y ago
This would just create a perverse incentive for the government to confiscate everything it can. Then you would see laws being crafted that are increasingly ambiguous and difficult to follow in order to enable greater confiscation of goods.
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by xvector 2y ago
For facial recognition in 2011? Extreme take.
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by xvector 2y ago
Wrong. This is 3.5% of their annual income.
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by xvector 2y ago
Write enough laws and a company is bound to break one of them at some point. Simple probability. Easy source of income for an indefinite period.
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by xvector 2y ago
Disagree. That is not what I would expect from a privacy perspective. What if you're in the middle of a browsing session you'd prefer to be private?
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by xvector 2y ago
How many gig workers have you actually talked to? Most massively prefer it over what they had before.
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by xvector 2y ago
Your work does this. This is incredibly common on basically every corporate device issued today. The real issue is the NUX, which doesn't look like it made the data collection clear to users.
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by xvector 2y ago
Altman wants regulatory capture and nothing else. I wonder if he realizes that this can backfire horribly on OpenAI and the progress of AI, if the regulators go even a little bit further than he wants them to (eg with copyright.) Be caref
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by xvector 2y ago
Sounds like companies that aren't interested in garishly monetizing it will have their market carved out for them. There are far more clever and profitable ways to monetize MR than to shove ads in your face wherever you look. I very
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by xvector 2y ago
10 hours since this outage began. There are customers out there with zero access to the internet because of this, and they don't know why (there is no error message on iOS.) Absolutely abhorrent response time from Apple here, this is
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by xvector 2y ago
Most normal users will simply switch away from Firefox, often permanently, if things break in Firefox.

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