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Thanks for the clarification.

> Microsoft using copilot to license-launder the github corpus Isn’t the game with licenses that you must specify what can and cannot be done with the code? It’s a big issue that n…

Ads are unwanted. If you serve ads, you are doing something unwanted to your visitors. So they block the ads, and you get the unwanted effect of not making money. The pain point is…

This is also what drives people into cults: not fitting into normal social environments, finding some esoteric community where suddenly there is a fit.

That would further increase the need for a single standard.

Nothing you said is truth. Those are just your own blind beliefs. How do you know the universe is meaningless? Maybe it’s a simulation being run for a purpose, and the beings runni…

The person writing about the thing has to be knowledgeable, correct, and telling the truth.

I just want to make a comment about optimizing applications even though the article is about optimizing organizations: The way to arrive at the optimal system is to continually opt…

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The infinite scrolling of the same images over and over again makes it harder to use. You can’t tell how many results you’ve actually received and what they are.

Asking because I don’t know: what is the value proposition of ARM?

Or Linus would have found some other way to have a userspace and we’d still have Linux but with different tools.

The main benefit is you get a rolling two years where no one else can use your code to compete with you. It’s a lot like a patent which gives you a window of time where you have an…

“GNU” was always crappy branding. Nobody wants to read it or say it or explain it. “Linux” sounds cool. So everyone calls the whole system “Linux”.

The better of the amateurs are as good as professionals. I’ve been very well-taken care of in AirBnb’s, and I’ve been driven around well in Ubers.

It depends on whether or not those employees were producing more than they cost. It could be that Intel is shuttering unprofitable projects the way Steve Jobs did when he returned …

Intel’s and the US’s main priority is for Intel to survive as a business over the coming decades and become competitive again. They’re going to do whatever they have to.

That’s not how price works. Price is a function of supply and demand. The cost of goods sold is just part of what goes into price. So if you make something really compelling or sca…

The concept of generative AI is not disrespectful. You could have generative AI trained on licensed data - would that be disrespectful?

> That being said it always seems like google has had a massively unfair advantage for crawling not only with budget but with brandname, and perceived value. VCs and other startup …

Yeah I’m all for these things that I was calling “vanity”. I was only using the word vanity because the comment I was responding to used it pejoratively: “vanity projects”.

You’re strawmanning. I was caricaturing the call for efficiency by blowing it up into a monster. I wasn’t saying I want to ban fulfillment of desire, or saying that’s the only alte…

The system is not perfectly efficient because humans aren’t efficient. I think the idea is, keeping a market relatively free (with a sane amount of regulation) allows capital to se…

If labor and capital truly are in tension as so much of our social and economic philosophizing says, then it’s no surprise that a structure optimized for labor is less attractive t…

People who want to make money above all else are pursuing that because they think that will make them happy. It’s just their idea of the path that will get them to happiness. They …