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Somebody came up with better phone technology. Which would have happened anyways. Your argument was that it was necessary for Microsoft and now Apple to have a monopoly in order to…

> Since real people review apps, Apple should charge per app / version submission. Or they could let developers upload apps to another app store. Apple isn't reviewing them out of …

This is a ridiculous take. The iPhone was enabled by unrelated advances in computer hardware miniaturization, it had absolutely nothing to do with Windows' dominance creating "nece…

It's inflationary because this demand is backed by Monopoly money. OpenAI is promising to buy half the global supply of RAM with money they don't actually have, pricing out people …

> Come on, EU. Help us out here. Free us from distribution tyranny. Do it before Google morphs into the same hell beast. No can do, EU is busy mandating only Google/Apple devices f…

AT&T was fined $177 million for one data breach, which represents 12 hours of revenue, and $13 million for the other, which represents 54 minutes of revenue. "Consequences". Right.…

Why single out the Chinese government? No government anywhere cares about defective software. "Engineering" is certainly not the correct term to apply to this industry. [1] Yahoo l…

Nobody has invaded the US in nearly a century, nor will they ever again with the advent of nuclear weapons; to this day no nuclear state has ever been invaded, least of all one whi…

> Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We’re introducing updates to ChatGPT that improve everyday conversations while expanding a…

Yep. It's funny how much open source maximalists harm their own cause. Everything must be "free", ergo everything must be VC or big tech backed because free doesn't put bread on th…

Why are you presenting your unfounded assumption as a gotcha? Do you have any basis whatsoever to believe GP supports AWS?

Correct. There is no other alternative. Your options are safe, useless software, or unsafe, useful software. It should be no surprise, then, that people still pick the latter in ma…

The alternative is software that is useless. You can convince consumers to use software that is useless (eg. iOS), but useless software is a hard sell for businesses that are being…

It turns out a lot of things are extremely accessible to a lot more people when you teach them as concrete, relatable scenarios in simple language with useful visualizations instea…

> The point I'm making isn't (in life or in this blog post) that LLMs do a better job than humans. Your literal headline claim is that LLMs are better than humans. With a caveat at…

I'm talking about EU/Japan. I'm aware the US also has cheap energy and loads of compute. I have yet to see any credible evidence that the Chinese government was involved with eithe…

Chinese companies have at least three major advantages: 1. Price of electricity is low because of China's excellent energy policy. Admittedly this should absolutely be a priority o…

Do you think Japan and the EU would be better off if our/their economies were centred around trillion dollar companies that make a product that is 20% better than the Chinese model…

I love how I literally cannot sign up for a new account as of last month or two. Phone number required, and it won't even send the verification text if I try! Just lovely. Now if I…

My experience with dirt cheap contractors you're talking about is that they simply throw what you put into Google Translate / an LLM themselves. So yes, strictly speaking, doing th…

Possibly, if it's a strictly formulated medical, business, or legal document (but if it's a medical, business, or legal document, being right 99% of the time isn't good enough!). G…