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Comment #49037308
Because... the post is about Kagi? > And $10 is about 1% of your monthly income in your example numbers, meaning it's perfectly fine also for somebody making $10 000 per year. What…
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Comment #49031060
We’re talking median annual income of $10,000. I could forgive someone getting paid that not wanting to spend that $10 on an internet search engine instead of food.
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Comment #49013062
People not from North America and Western Europe exist.
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Comment #48776830
How?
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Comment #48765407
Safety in the context of a nuclear reactor concerns human lives. “Safety” in the context of LLMs concerns not offending certain individuals.
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Comment #48524483
As opposed to future prejudices? I agree: the trials are not speedy enough. None of us will live long enough to take advantage of the endgame version of this.
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Comment #48271861
I'm not convinced it existed before - not to the extent where it actually harmed people. But you know what will harm people for certain and a lot ? "Ending H-1B ASAP". So why end i…
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Comment #48270842
So erase that worry for them of having to go back to their home countries instead of doing the opposite and kicking them out? Extend the unemployment grace period from 60 days to a…
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Comment #48268586
Also, why shouldn't those companies be forced to compete with US wages? Do only Americans get to have nice things and a strong purchasing power?
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Comment #48266128
Do you think the European workers were in the right? Is the solution to kick out (let alone slaughter) the Chinese, or is it to make them less exploitable by companies?
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Comment #48266118
I don't care about "every international company" or any company. Kicking out immigrants is cruel to people .
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Comment #48266098
Now, with the $100K fee which has turned H-1B workers into indentured servants, they could and will be used for that, sure. But prior to the EO, they had the freedom to leave the c…
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Comment #48262803
Or it’s a way for the less fortunate (geographically) to seek a better future. They more or less got rid of it last September, yet the job market has only worsened. Scapegoating mi…
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Comment #48173693
lol at the guy calling out taking an imaginary book seriously getting downvoted, not the guy taking an imaginary book seriously.
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Comment #47943004
Really? Of the two, you chose to name Karp as the fascist, not Thiel?
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Comment #47848041
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Comment #47766959
It's not a scraper though, is it? Last time I checked it was API-based.
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Comment #47762253
Huawei’s CANN is fully open and supposedly a drop-in replacement for CUDA. The latter could make it a supеrior option to either AMD or Intel.
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Comment #47677140
I'm seeing the opposite happening. The ability to focus to the point of obsession or find joy in boring repetitive tasks associated with autism helped before the rise of AI and aut…
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Comment #47560235
Are you a therapist?
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Comment #47559949
Am I the only one with the opposite experience? I can’t remember the last time GPT told me I was right. It always finds something to nitpick (sometimes wrongly). Maybe it’s OpenAI …
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Comment #47273176
I got the impression they were kick-started by Anglo countries (the Five Eyes, whatever you wanna call them), then gradually picked up by the rest.
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Comment #47273165
They are initiated by the same people - the government - and pursue the same goal - mass surveillance. They should 100% be fought against and grouped together.
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Comment #47273137
There's an ocean of difference between your device changing behavior based on a flag set by individual sites and your device using a blacklist set by some list maintainer - the mai…