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Shortsighted. If they're willing to stoop this low, they should have started by selling multiple kinds of badges for smaller monthly amounts. $0.99/mo for emojis. $1.99/ to show yo…

It's more like class than caste, because it's possible to move between classes after birth. Modern advertisers are sort of similar to a priestly/censor class, in the same way that …

The problem is that people who are willing to pay $20/mo for privacy are much more valuable to advertisers than those who can't. If those users go away, the average $/user from ads…

Homeless people are often unbanked, and it's very difficult to open a new account without a credit score and permanent address. Recent immigrants have difficulty opening accounts f…

TBF, you need working hands to use hands-on computers. Plus, the offline part could make a good starting point for a DIY personal assistant. That said, their "getting started" soun…

Hmm. It looks like natural gas is a little less than $2.50 / GigaJoule (~29.3kWh) at the moment. One A100 eats about 400W, and apparently OpenAI used about 1023 of those running fo…

In the transcripts I saw, it seemed like Sydney repeated itself a lot. It used the same sentence structure a lot. Stephen Wolfram wrote a good primer on LLMs, which was recently di…