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I wonder where does this end? I do feel like nearly once a year some country in western world tries to ban encryption. Can we just make it a right to encrypt communications and be …

Thanks for posting this. I always found it odd that the transition from labour to capital seemed to be so hard, even with mid-figure 6 income TC's it always seemed like you can't q…

Google is slow in the AI space because it isn't willing to take the risks its competitors are willing to take due to PR and branding factors. Anthropic with its focus on AI safety …

For me, Google Search just doesn't seem to be getting better over the years, if anything its getting worse. I honestly feel like its hard to get what I want half the time with all …

It seems like every time a new UI framework comes around, a tradeoff is made between convenience and flexibility, with the advertising always being around "look how easy it is to m…

What I've learned from Google is that you are always talking to a bot, it just happens to be that some of those bots are human. Even though they are walking and talking simians the…

His audience disagrees that he needs a filter. The filtered content you are talking about is abundant, authentic content is scarce, that's why he pulls the audience size he pulls. …

Just started a position in a FAANG as a remote worker, funnily enough accidentally. I am in Seattle working for a team in NYC. I didn't realise that it was technically a remote pos…

I find that most support you receive these days (whether its from the public or the private sector) feels like it is coming from a bot. Even if it is another human on the other end…

No matter what country I am in and whether they had consumer affairs ombudsmen, filing a chargeback dispute with the merchant (in my case Visa) was the best protection I ever got f…

This is a real disappointment. Had a great job lined up at Coinbase that I was quite excited about, was in the middle of visa processing when this happened (why I had to quit my pr…

Is there a historical precedent for this outcome?

Which one?

It might be worth noting that not all Proof-of-Work is just finding hashes, newer cryptocurrencies make more economic and intelligent use of the work used for proof.

It's very nice to see Eleuther fulfill the Open promise of OpenAI. I'm scared that more and more big model advancements are being denied access from the general public, which will …

I'm not sure how NFTs work, but are they proof of work or proof of stake? I was under the impression that one was more destructive than the other, and that proof of work was very o…

All of these amendments favour Facebook. It also buys them time. I guess we will have to wait and see after the 2 month mediation period is up who has the upper hand. I guess the a…

The Australian government did a last-minute deal in which it pushed through changes to its laws that are amenable to Facebook. I wouldn't say it was a win for them.

I've never really understood this argument, the content is still on the news sites right? The news sites provide blurbs and descriptions through OpenGraph metadata that Facebook us…

Having been under lockdown (or more broadly hard restrictions) for at least 9 months of the last year I've come to the opposite conclusion, I would like to be a dual national of th…

Currently in the UK, I had a really bad experience with 3, where I tried to cancel, I was informed that I had my account cancelled and then they kept billing me (for months). I con…

As an extension developer, I am keen to put my extension on Safari however what is preventing me at this moment is dealing with Dun & Bradstreet to get a DUNS number. A DUNS number…

To quote your post: "Nope, December was pretty free and easy (comparatively speaking) and Christmas Day was not a lockdown" For people living in London, Christmas Day was indeed a …

The article being discussed is specifically about London, and the articles I reference refer to London.

I am afraid I don't understand your point, are you saying London did in fact loosen it's lockdown over Christmas?