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Right of publicity. Profiting of their image without their permission will get you sued. Even if you use an impersonator. If there is a chance the public will connect it with them,…

> If Lisp is so good, why isn’t its use more widespread? The Lisp Curse: http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

I feel the App Store is one thing differentiating Apple from Android phone manufacturers. Money from the App Store gets reinvested in the entire iPhone supply chain. Whereas in the…

If you resort to violence so will they to protect their property. If AGI becomes a thing, without political intervention, a lot of people will effectively be left out of the econom…

There are quite a few numbers on the breakeven point but a quick google says it’s usually 2.5x-3x the budget - due to marketing cost and distribution fees.

A quick google says the general consensus is you need 2.5x the budget of the movie to breakeven.

> money isn’t cheap anymore I know nothing about economics but I wonder if it’s time to ease up on the interest rates. Inflation might not be due to too much money in the system bu…

> This line of thought leads people to naturally adopt the exact same sort optimization (exploitation) strategies businesses (your employer) does with the same justifications they …

There are 2 versions of the PS5: base and digital. The base version comes with a Blu-ray drive that can play Ultra HD Blu-ray discs.

I think he can’t STFU. He needs constant public validation and praise. Frankly, I think he never will. 20 years from now, if he is still alive and wealthy, we will still be hearing…

Quite sure there was plenty of exploitation in communist countries.

I would hardly consider this as “take those disagreements public”. It’s not like they talked to the press. This letter was circulated internally using internal employee communicati…

> Most physical world thiigs have immediate feedback of incorrectness. We might not want it to enter such circumstances where there is such feedback - e.g. car has run over a child…

> And now the Houthi rebels have become battle-hardened guerillas and insurgents, capable of projecting force into the vital shipping lanes of the Red Sea. Their ability to attack …

I made the jump from Android fairly early on when I realized that phones are terrible general purpose computers and that I mostly just use it as a phone - i.e. use almost exclusive…

China rhetoric is very concerning. As the old saying goes, when people tell you who they are, believe them.

I think it’s preferred that the “competition” aren’t the country’s geopolitical rivals who would love to see the country weaken if not destroyed.

> You've got Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Broadcom all ahead of them. None of them do any fabrication which is what’s Moore’s Law applies to.

> Yes and even within that they are risk averse, no need to look beyond 10nm and their reluctance to EUV. Actually from what I heard, their failures with their Intel 7 was partly d…

The billions Biden threw their way isn’t really that much when their fabs cost billions to build. Don’t think the grants cover the full cost of their new fabs - it was 50 billion t…

I still don’t get it. The fact that women prefer men of similar age or older … there are plenty of young men of similar age for young women, in fact it’s nearly one to one, then yo…

> The reverse problem of fertility vs sex difference in age preference exists in some African countries, where the fertility rate is very high. Which means there are more young peo…

Apple managed to screw up Facebook’s data gathering. So they are definitely hurt Epic’s ability to do so too. Epic having its own store front means they can use dark patterns there…

It’s also possible nothing sticks. Look at what blockchain amounted to.