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    Comment #44730641

    And upgrade frequency. You might give your old iPhone another year or two if the phone isn’t your limiting factor for photo quality.

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    Comment #44578396

    This is the biggest impact I have noticed in my job. The inundation of verbose, low SNR text and documents. Maybe someone put thought into all of those words. Maybe they vibed it i…

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    Comment #44371299

    Americans and their driers.

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    Comment #44149688

    Flash was an unreasonably effective way to build web apps.

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    Comment #44148280

    All zero marginal cost businesses. What is the path to profitability where costs increase closer to linearly with each new API request?

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    Comment #44142220

    Anyone who thinks an executive considers them necessary or irreplaceable in the current environment is fooling themselves.

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    Comment #44080202

    Workplace safety, environmental protection and human rights laws will never be enforced in the manufacturing industry because they cannot be enforced on the Chinese manufacturing i…

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    Comment #44056564

    I think we all know they won’t. I am genuinely curious though to see the strategies they employ to absolve themselves of guilt and foolishness. Is there precedent for the entire ex…

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    Comment #44010488

    Can you learn a lot? Or do you get instant answers to every question without learning anything, as OP suggests?

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    Comment #43960264

    Does it satisfy customer support requests at a much higher rate than previous generations? Every time I’ve encountered an AI first-line support agent I still find myself looking fo…

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    Comment #43951881

    For someone guarding the platform from weaksauce nonsense comments you picked a strange one to defend. I was commenting on the weakness of the analogy. There’s nothing in any of th…

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    Comment #43949236

    “Kagi is bad. As evidence I present Siri.”

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    Comment #43769725

    Google talking about the advertising industry as something external to itself sure is something.

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    Comment #43740579

    My iPhone occasionally displays an interrupt screen to remind me that my weather app has been accessing my location in the background and to confirm continued access. It should als…

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    Comment #43728350

    I agree. I’m on the $10 professional plan and honestly if I’d received an email offering this for an extra $5 per month it would have been a no brainer for me. Please Kagi, don’t t…

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    Comment #43691938

    It’s the complete lack of profitability all the way down, from the deep Azure discounts, to OpenAI’s training and inference costing more than it brings in, to all the OpenAI API wr…

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    Comment #43671595

    It worked for Uber’s investors.

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    Comment #43663913

    Opera had zero marginal costs. OpenAI doesn’t.

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    Comment #43589529

    > Other companies pour money into their own giant datacenters, hoping to keep pace. > estimates that the globally available AI-relevant compute will grow by a factor of 10x by Dece…

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    Comment #43511785

    In this analogy are all the steamroller manufacturers loudly proclaiming how well it 10x the process of bulk ironing clothes? And is a credulous executive class en masse buying int…

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    Comment #43456649

    Thanks. Isolating Google products from one another is a legit use case.

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    Comment #43456034

    What does selling Chrome practically change? Workspaces can still force that group to use the browser that Google deems friendliest to its business practices, including a sold Chro…

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    Comment #43456004

    Yes, a unique fingerprint allows tracking. But which sites that most of us visit, without logging in, actually have and use that capability to build a unique profile? I assume ad n…

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    Comment #43455925

    What do Firefox Containers mitigate that isn’t already covered by simply disabling third party cookies in any browser?

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    Comment #43370809

    If Google sells are they also barred from making open source contributions to Chromium? From being the primary direction setter?