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because we all can agree child porn is bad and just because a company donates to a charity doesn't mean they get to dictate their policies

they banned energy shot drinks?!

there is no cloud, it's always someone else's computer, so technically someone who is physically in google/apple datacenter at the exact moment your data is being operated on, hypo…

pardon my ignorance, but why does compute hardware pose any security concerns?

From the information presented, the privacy case is not that your data is only accessible to you (which arguably can have a backdoor) but that the data is NOT stored at all, so it'…

well, name an example of a thing that can never change then. "research alternatives" meaning what exactly? You think open source is somehow not susceptible to the same issue, plus …

I for the life of me could not solve the <18 example from wikipedia. but the number/color one is super easy

by your definition, what is marketing then?

it included flights, hotels, food and travel expenses for 9000 for multiple days, as well as the "party". US-based travel for 1 person for 5 days is easily 4K, on top of that some …

it's a very simplistic take. the issue with ChatGPT is that it speaks with authority, vs webMD and such just provide information. to say that how the information is presented is ir…

a friend of mine was a creative director and a big tech co until recently, she was replaced by AI

do you genuinely think that numerous meetups isn't a marketing push?

I mean, do you think no one at OAI and every other lab has vibe-coded some agentic demo? The problem (?) is that when you work at a corporate job you have to think about security.

It was killer compared to alternatives. All other "homepages" of the internet were the cluttered mess of ads. I feel like we are arguing semantics though. But IMO any UI that does …

google search did have a killer UI though, you might be forgetting what search looked like before google

he was worth 14B

I am this person (not a genius or whatever) but work is absolutely life for me. I still absolutely resent the 996 culture and would never do that. I'd like to have agency when I wa…

look if you don't care about privacy, just buy a google phone

why do you think this doesn't already exist?

scale does not own the data of most of it’s large customers.

scale is no better or worse than any other labeling vendor.

I mean your employment can't technically be terminated because you are taking sick days, unless it's whatever qualifies as long term illness (18 or 28 weeks I forget). Technically …

"native English speaker" - is many different accents

I was there during the revolution in Ukraine. Life isn’t the movies. I’m not advocating for violence. On the contrary. But one has to wonder sometimes what percentage of the popula…

in the 1990s ~50% of women were in the workforce. in 1970 it was 40%, married women with children having to work is a recent phenomenon.