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by xvector 3y ago
Yes, of course people will criticize you for making money (even when you are hemorrhaging billions), and every choice you make (because it's trivially easy to construe literally any decision as evil.) Again, maintaining goodwill at sca
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by xvector 3y ago
The backlash that OpenAI gets is the same as the backlash any entity gets upon becoming large and successful. I cannot think of a single example of any company or entity that has been lauded after experiencing hypergrowth, regardless of the
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by xvector 3y ago
It's not exceptionalism if it's true. The EU's very culture lacks the "get shit done" mentality present in the US. On average, people are less bold and take less risks. This is evident in the lack of meaningful cons
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by xvector 3y ago
You can theorize all you want given a strike in 1892, but in the last 20 years demonstrate this is not the case. Hundreds of disruptive startups have emerged and become successful. Now compare this same ones to the EU.
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by xvector 3y ago
I'm glad the US does not adopt EU policies. Else we might see the dearth of progress in consumer technology that the EU has experienced over the past 20 years. Someone actually has to incentivize building things and getting shit don
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by xvector 3y ago
Yes, that is my point.
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by xvector 3y ago
Spotify is absolutely a market-making monopolistic platform all on its own. The DMA has been gerrymandered to conveniently exclude it.
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by xvector 3y ago
The fundamental problem is that the EU's regulatory bodies do not understand technology. Regulation in the EU has turned into a bona-fide industry, and it's a massive train of the blind leading the blind. Whether it's with Ar
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by xvector 3y ago
It would be really cool to see the EU develop their own consumer tech companies instead of enacting protectionist law to rent-seek from American tech. Ask any artist if Spotify should be a monopoly under the DMA. And yet it's not. Almo
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by xvector 3y ago
You are not gonna report dumb DEI initiatives if the DEI crowd will get you fired for it. And this is how you end up with LLMs that refuse to teach C++ due to "safety" or trying to convince us that Abraham Lincoln was Black and Na
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by xvector 3y ago
I absolutely love Kagi. The summarizer feature in itself is incredibly useful. Wonderful engine.
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by xvector 3y ago
You have to be very financially irresponsible to buy a Lambo on just 500k HHI
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by xvector 3y ago
The DMA is bizarrely protectionist and kind of a farce. Why doesn't it apply to Spotify? Ask any artist if Spotify should constitute a monopoly under the DMA.
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by xvector 3y ago
Because as the past 20 years have demonstrated, the EU is fundamentally incapable of innovating in consumer technology. At this point all it can do is rent-seek from US tech.
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by xvector 3y ago
Really just want to see the US tech industry leave this rent-seeking region and throw them 40 years into the past. Let the EU develop their own messaging services, mobile OSes, browsers, computing devices, and internet backbones. It'll
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by xvector 3y ago
This is absolutely protectionism. The EU rent-seeks from American tech while avoiding punishing any EU company. Ask any artist if Spotify is a monopoly!
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by xvector 3y ago
> than to scrape the floor for peanuts in hope that mega corps will reward their discoveries. Security researchers capable of finding these exploits aren't exactly starving for food. They could easily land a $500k+ job at any big te
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by xvector 3y ago
Noticing a price increase isn't "struggling." The median American could double their food budget and would be just fine. Your analysis is all wonky. The % of average income and % increase in food price is completely irrelevan
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by xvector 3y ago
Tesla is the opposite of "flashy and ostentatious," their car designs are boring as are their interiors. I don't know where you could possibly be getting that impression when they make the most milquetoast sedans on the marke
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by xvector 3y ago
So strange to see this Reddit meme make its way to HN. The median American absolutely isn't struggling for food, lmfao.
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by xvector 3y ago
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by xvector 3y ago
Interesting! I think this (and large-scale searches in general) is one area where a drone is probably much more likely to work than a helicopter/pilot, simply because of the sheer area to cover.
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by xvector 3y ago
Can someone correct me on why PPUs are not a scam when the company could simply reinvest all profit into R&D and mark it down as opex?
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by xvector 3y ago
Jesus Christ, these speeds with FP16? That is simply insane.
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by xvector 3y ago
When the EU's biggest competitor to Apple, Google, and OpenAI is Spotify and Booking.com, there's a serious problem with the EU. It shows that the region is barely capable of encouraging innovation that will meaningfully advance t
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by xvector 3y ago
When the EU's biggest competitor to Apple, Google, and OpenAI is Spotify and Booking.com, there's a serious problem with the EU. It shows that the region is barely capable of encouraging innovation that will meaningfully advance t
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by xvector 3y ago
What modern consumer-facing tech companies have come out of the EU in the past 20 years, besides Spotify? How is that list looking compared to the US? That's all the evidence you need that the EU has seriously fucked up with regards to
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by xvector 3y ago
What modern consumer-facing companies have come out of the EU in the past 20 years, besides Spotify? How is that list looking compared to the US? That's all the evidence you need that the EU has seriously fucked up with regards to enco
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by xvector 3y ago
I see a life made far easier by AI that Europeans simply lack because they have adopted a "technology bad" mindset oblivious of the fact that half their siblings would have died in childhood if it wasn't for the technology th
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by xvector 3y ago
Taking PWAs away is not "preventing other browser engines" on iOS. Apple is clearly in compliance with the law

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