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bjacobel

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    Comment #49204984

    The best AI products have a userbase of one. The average AI product has a userbase of zero.

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    Comment #49196002

    Is there a need ? Or a want ?

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    Comment #49139673

    People? Or corporations?

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    Comment #48038744

    There are also a lot of bad technologies that start off being called a toy and then just die. Many more, I'd wager.

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    Comment #47905533

    > ChatGPT has a billion users And their company's leadership is famous for compulsively lying. Pardon me if I suspect they might be arriving at that number using creative math.

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    Comment #47670089

    Has generative AI made material progress on curing cancer? Has it produced any breakthroughs, at all?

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    Comment #47530312

    Exactly such an app exists. https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/232163

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    Comment #47502552

    This already exists, but you have the markets backwards. Microsoft wants to force the cruft onto everyday users; it subsidizes the cost of the operating system license. Home users …

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    Comment #47138758

    What makes the statistics published by the government inherently more trustworthy?

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    Comment #46969823

    > Upgrading your CPU wasn’t a spec sheet exercise — it was transformative.

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    Comment #46790208

    What happens when law enforcement members are the stalkers?

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    Comment #46121706

    Every unique Google search triggers a Gemini request.

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    Comment #45592420

    US GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was 0.1% when you take out NVIDIA and OpenAI sending the same $100 billion back and forth to each other

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    Comment #45592370

    They massively over-estimated demand [1] and produced tens if not hundreds of thousands of units that didn't sell. This is them trying to liquidate their inventory of components. […

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    Comment #45462337

    > According to Grok Do you have any sources that aren't prone to hallucination and fits of partisan, racially-charged, conspiratorial hysteria?

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    Comment #45449434

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/20250...

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    Comment #45377683

    Hey now, I'm sure that this one-emdash-per-paragraph comment is organic and genuine.

  18. comment
    Comment #45211455

    There is a distinction between "vehicle for a large volume of speculation" and "valuable". Cryptocurrency has not created any "value".

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    Comment #45211331

    > Plus, you no longer need to deal with buying and maintaining a separate device like an iPad! I've found a much easier solution to this problem.

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    Comment #45181447

    Ctrl-F "AI" Ctrl-F "datacenters" No results.

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    Comment #45171691

    1. Those are revenue statistics. I am asking for you to provide data to support the claim “users are finding utility from the Metaverse”, not the claim “Meta is generating revenue …

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    Comment #45169938

    Can you provide usage statistics to support this claim?

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    Comment #45167750

    Who has "the Metaverse" been useful for?

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    Comment #44659035

    It’s clearly written by AI.

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    Comment #41642953

    Is "recourse" a good pattern for preventing abuse and harassment? Do any other platforms implement "recourse?"