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Content, like software, is easy to copy and distribute. Traditional supply-demand diagrams no longer apply; content doesn't get more expensive to produce if it reaches more people.…

Nominative determinism! The hypothesis that people tend to do things that remind them of their own names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. You are correct, and it is so rampant these days that I wish we just banned the word "after" in headlines.

What makes you think they've canceled it? Did you read past the headline? What should they have done here — keep the movie despite the obvious conflict of interest? Be more secreti…

1. Because Amazon is a bigtech corp making a film about another bigtech corp. Plenty of conflicts of interest here (in either direction). 2. Regardless of whether it is or isn't re…

Amazon is actually much more reasonable than the headline makes it seem: > “We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker — not to men…

The conversion would be more accurate if it compared wealth and capital gains taxes, no? A defining feature of wealth taxes is that they only tax those that make most of their inco…

No, because randomly guessing from a list of diagnoses is not 50/50

Cool! I've been using your API for running sandboxed JS. Nice to see you also support VMs now. > we mean forking the whole memory of it How does this work? Are you copying the enti…

This was interesting to do on my own profile. It got a bunch of personality attributes about me right that I haven't directly mentioned on here, which is impressive. I then followe…

This looks really useful — occasionally I run into the issue that I'm on an odd machine with minimal packages installed, and want to use AI to do some stuff without setting up a fu…

It's easy to address the limitations of AI by simply not using AI for those. No one forces you to use AI for tasks where its capabilities are limited; regardless, there are plenty …

True, but you can't have complete tests without 100% coverage. It's a necessary, but not a sufficient condition; as long as it doesn't become the sole goal, it's still a useful met…

In what sense did CashApp not pan out? $16b revenue. Too early to say whether Afterpay will work out but looking good so far

Does this question really warrant the downvotes? I'm genuinely curious. Why not just answer it instead?

Genuine question, why does Flock get so much bad press in the US compared to other, much more infringing surveillance tech? Your mobile provider knows your exact location at any po…

Likely it's just a coincidence — there were other Sybil attacks that are not in February too, so the chance that you'd get 3 in Feb isn't all that low.

He was likely referring to the claim that 70% of the internet flows through Loudon County, Virginia, where AWS us-east-1 is located, although the more accurate number is probably s…

> why do you think that this is worth sharing with the world yet? It's worth sharing because it's cool, even if it's not perfect yet! You'll never make every single person on HN ha…

My mum is not gonna use a product named like that

Yes

This is a picture of OpenClawCon in Vienna, not OpenAI. https://x.com/andreasklinger/status/2021299260784882044

Which video was that? Garry has been an outspoken Trump-critic and moderate Democrat on Twitter. Either way, my point is it's an extreme stretch to believe their departure, Trump, …

What's the context here? When, where and for what did they recommend SVB? (FWIW, it did end well, as going with a relatively large federally insured bank meant that no one lost any…

50 crypto scams? Why do you link the same one thrice, then? https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5mghcxCabxuaK4WTs/...