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by yunwal 3y ago
If there’s any company capable of raising the overton window of tech pricing it’s apple. The price of AirPods Max seemed like a joke when it came out, but I see them everywhere.
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by yunwal 3y ago
I think there’s one more factor which is that, by and large, hyperscaling has been proven ineffective for most companies. Sure, Uber got away with it, but nearly every company who goes public and triples their headcount in a year finds them
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by yunwal 3y ago
I disagree. Probably not much of their customer base cares, but I think lots of really smart researchers think a lot about these things. openAI doesn’t want them to turn elsewhere.
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by yunwal 3y ago
Wacom is a totally separate device from a laptop, and can be positioned so that you can comfortably write/draw while looking straight on at your screen.
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by yunwal 3y ago
Small city (~70k). I’ve also ordered to some of my friends/families houses who live in suburbs and large cities. The only time I ever didn’t have issues is when I lived in NYC and ordered to Amazon lockers
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by yunwal 3y ago
Embarrassment? Why would anyone be embarrassed? They’re scammers
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by yunwal 3y ago
I think you’re making gps point. No customer wants or expects spam crap in the everything store. The everything store doesn’t literally need to sell “everything”.
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by yunwal 3y ago
I’m shocked that people are having good experiences with Amazon delivery in 2023. For me, 2-day delivery means it’ll get here in a week or 2. And forget about customer service that can actually solve my issue. I want whatever program you’re
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by yunwal 3y ago
Im referring to the 2nd gen, never really saw the first gen until now but the charging method now is quite nice. First gen still is no worse than first-gen Magic Mouse, which launched under jobs though. Which is my main point, I don’t think
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by yunwal 3y ago
At least with Amazon, I don’t trust that I’m not getting fakes even if I know what I’m looking for.
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by yunwal 3y ago
> Remember the endless… I remember how the ACA was essentially a giant gift to the insurance industry, and that despite being mandated in most states, only increased the insurance rate by a few percent. Oh, and the vast majority of the i
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by yunwal 3y ago
> Is corruption actually worse in the US Yes, in particular America has by far the largest pharmaceutical and medical devices industries in the world, so politicians in other countries have no particularly strong incentive to prioritize
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by yunwal 3y ago
I think it’ll happen soon. If it doesn’t happen soon with the increasing numbers of unions and labor strikes, it’ll happen when boomers die off and the voting demographic shifts left dramatically.
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by yunwal 3y ago
The question is what do we do about it? It sounds like you’re suggesting we can vote our issues away, but the voting and primary system is also corrupt. The only way forward is to leverage our economic power (by forming unions or organizing
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by yunwal 3y ago
The thing that is unique to the US is the level of corruption. Politicians are 100% beholden to corporate interests and nothing else. America’s dominance is entirely reliant on industry, so nothing can be done to upset the big corps.
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by yunwal 3y ago
I generally vote Democrat, but there is no American political party putting serious support toward a sensible healthcare system.
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by yunwal 3y ago
From what I’ve experienced, having an open dispute doesn’t prevent healthcare providers from sending you to collections and permanently ruining your credit.
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by yunwal 3y ago
Apple Pencil is an example of a nicely designed product that Steve Jobs almost certainly did not contribute to (he hated styluses).
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by yunwal 3y ago
The natural order of things is if Bill has a billion dollars and I want that billion dollars I kill him and steal it. What we have is supposed to be an improvement on that, but if most people are starting to feel differently, those holding
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by yunwal 3y ago
I’m not sure what is meant by this. There’s no “training” happening within the context window, at least not by the commonly-used definition of training, it’s all just part of the input. If you’re asking whether you can reverse-index search
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by yunwal 3y ago
> Serfs being bound to the land This is literally RTO /s
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by yunwal 3y ago
That's not what training data means
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by yunwal 3y ago
I think a substantial number of us don’t care or are happy to see it. It’s just another level of abstraction to work with. I think some artists feel the same although I understand those who don’t.
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by yunwal 3y ago
> You’re saying it’s better to have no high quality media at all than to have any form of DRM? I get your point, but there’s plenty of high quality media produced without financial incentive or with alternate funding schemes (donations,
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by yunwal 3y ago
plus all the other types of tracking and stalking they do
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by yunwal 3y ago
They also carved out an exception for libertarians, which in the US are basically all republican.
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by yunwal 3y ago
The guy you’re responding to isn’t advocating for the technology. He’s just saying Sam Altman stands to gain a lot financially. You kinda need to chill out
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by yunwal 3y ago
Things like this can take a very long time to blow up. Cosbys first accuser was in 1965
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by yunwal 3y ago
What percentage of those “bad bots” are actually just crawlers for search engines and other internet indexes that aren’t actually bad?
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by yunwal 3y ago
I'm pretty sure there's no legislation that mandates paper straws (I could be wrong here). Legislation bans straws made from non-decomposable single-use materials. There are much better materials than paper, that aren't even

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