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by xvector 3y ago
As long as the opportunity cost is positive it will stay. The EU is trying its hardest to make the opportunity cost negative.
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by xvector 3y ago
If you think the US will let it's shiniest company be destroyed by the EU I don't even know what to say.
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by xvector 3y ago
Telling a company they must implement an API is absolutely telling them to do work. And you're well within the right to refuse entirely.
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by xvector 3y ago
You can easily use the dearth of meaningful consumer technology companies in the EU and their absurd overindexing on regulation as a predictor of what the EU's economy will look like. While the rest of the world dives into technology a
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by xvector 3y ago
As an American dev I can't wait to see tech companies leave the EU and leave it in shambles as the EU realizes it never learnt how to innovate, only legislate and rent-seek from our companies. Frankly, the region needs us far more than
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by xvector 3y ago
The EU is economically meaningless on the grand scale. They are only 7% of Apple's revenue, and similarly low for other companies. And every day they become a less profitable market to operate in. The EU holds power only as long as the
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by xvector 3y ago
The EU does not know how to innovate, only legislate.
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by xvector 3y ago
You do realize that pensions invest in the market too? 401ks just give you more control over the investment.
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by xvector 3y ago
Same issue here. Maybe adblocker or VPN related.
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by xvector 3y ago
What a cynical interpretation. These companies have QoL for billions, directly and indirectly. You are just normalized to it now. For some reason I don't see you blaming Cambridge Analytica - the actual company running the interference
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by xvector 3y ago
The EU's entire modern tech industry does not even measure up to that of one US company. Dismissals of the EU's inability to compete in tech is why EU citizens have missed out on literally tens of trillions of dollars in economi
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by xvector 3y ago
This is incredible.
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by xvector 3y ago
Their training data is clearly better than whatever most journalists train on.
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by xvector 3y ago
$7T into AI could cure all human ailments including death.
855.
by xvector 3y ago
Who cares if something is customer driven? Ethics is still a thing. You can't just sell a ship where the front falls off because your customers want it. Bad journalism clearly causes societal harm, and it's time we regulate it. Pa
856.
by xvector 3y ago
Have you tried any leading LLM? Something better than GPT 3.5. Given the same source data AI will write with far less bias (and often more insight) than your average human journalist.
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by xvector 3y ago
No, I'm discussing LLMs replacing "journalists" (ie the ones that churn out worthless sensationalized article after article), not journalists (the ones with actual boots on the ground experience or real insight). The former c
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by xvector 3y ago
Almost entirely self-inflicted by greedy media corporations and "journalists" with no sense of ethics. Somehow we put these journalists on an unassailable pedestal with zero accountability, while we enforce professional ethics in
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by xvector 3y ago
Fully agreed. I just hope we don't get the same thing in the US.
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by xvector 3y ago
Your laws aren't keeping any knives off the streets. Your knife laws are contradictory, nonsensical, and result in normal people being hurt more than stopping any actual criminals: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
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by xvector 3y ago
There is nothing wrong with locking knives. They are much safer to use for most tasks, including cutting thick cardboard, difficult food (cheeses), etc. I've brought >3in locking knives to picnics[1]. They are quite useful. The la
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by xvector 3y ago
This is what happens when you let your government run wild. You can't carry a pocketknife in the UK, you can't carry a Flipper in Canada. Insane. I genuinely hope the US does not become even more of a farce of a democracy like the
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by xvector 3y ago
This is why I am going for cryopreservation if I ever have the luxury of choosing the way I die.
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by xvector 3y ago
Literally just get a NAS if this is such a big deal for you. For everyone else, spinning disks are an absurd antiquity
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by xvector 3y ago
Why do you have the expectation to install whatever you want on a smart TV? Just because there is a computer chip inside it? I find it somewhat absurd that if you put a computer chip inside of a gadget you are now suddenly expected to suppo
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by xvector 3y ago
Bingo. And this is the problem with the DMA. Protectionist and gerrymandered. Why isn't Spotify part of the DMA? Who knows!? Ask any musician and they'll tell you it should be.
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by xvector 3y ago
ASML licenses its fab tech from the US. Regardless, the point is that the EU has zero muscle when it comes to building out consumer-facing software. All it knows how to do is regulate. The EU's answer to AI? To nuke its only successf
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by xvector 3y ago
Do you buy a TV from LG expecting to be able to install whatever you want on it?
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by xvector 3y ago
Notarization has been a massive win for iOS and macOS. If your app store distributes malware, it deserves to get banned.
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by xvector 3y ago
You can always just not get an iPhone. But in the EU, they'll regulate the direction you can wipe your ass.

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