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Comment · 9 months ago
Do you have children? Post some pictures of them so Grok can show us what they look like unclothed and covered in "yogurt".

It's possible to imagine LLMs implemented responsibly, but our ruling class has decided against that.

Comment · 1 year ago
Once again, if you're going to test your self driving car on public streets, all data should be open and public. Car companies shouldn't be competing on how to prevent life-or-death incidents, they should be cooperating.
Comment · 1 year ago
One reason you might still want to use them is that they used anticompetitive blitzscaling strategies and ran at a loss to prevent competitors from taking off.
Comment · 1 year ago
How about you and the people who want "relevant ads" opt in, and everyone else gets a sane default of not beong tracked and having dossiers compiled about them. You could even implement it with an HTTP header, maybe "Allow-Track"?
Comment · 1 year ago
Please show me a real-world page that performs worse on Chrome with no extensions than on Chrome with Unlock Origin.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Not sure what Yotta is like now (or was in 2023), but it used to be a very good rate. I think I opened my account in early 2020. Went back and checked my notes for details:

Every week, you would get a lottery ticket for every $25 in your account. In July 2020, expected value for a ticket was $.0227 ($.0157 if you exclude the jackpot, Tesla, and other top prizes that you were statistically unlikely to ever win). They also paid out a base APY of .20%, which was higher than savings accounts at a lot of big banks.

Adding those together, the APY came between 3.51% and 5.02%, which was good compared to most banks at the time. Over time they made changes which decreased the expected value of each ticket, I closed my account in 2021 when the rate was no longer competitive. Looks like I quit at the right time.

Comment · 2 years ago
That's how the market used to work, but hasn't been the case for generations. Nintendo has sold every platform from the Wii on at a profit.

The PS5 was sold at a slight loss at launch, Sony got production costs down enough to be profitable about a year later (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-04/sony-rais...).

I'm less sure about Microsoft, my understanding is that the Series X is profitable and the Series S is a loss leader. However, both of them can be put into a developer mode and you can run your own (or other people's) code.

Comment · 2 years ago
If self-driving vehicles are tested on public streets, all data generated should be public. Companies should be cooperating, not competing, on "don't hit telephone poles" and "don't run over children".
Comment · 2 years ago
That's a market cap, not a profit margin
Comment · 2 years ago
Amtrak and plane tickets are priced differently. For each class of ticket, Amtrak has X seats at price A, Y seats at price B > A, Z seats at price C > B, etc. When you check prices or buy a ticket, it will offer you the cheapest remaining ticket in that class. If you book Amtrak early, you'll find it is significantly cheaper than a plane ticket. Wait until a week until departure, and usually the airplane will cost less.
Comment · 2 years ago
I always felt that RGB was useless but after installing OpenRGB it's growing on me. My keyboard now lightly glows with a color indicating CPU temperature. I'm able to turn the whole board into a hard drive light.
Comment · 2 years ago
Maybe they shouldn't have spent $7 billion on stock buybacks?
Comment · 2 years ago
Gamestop proved to me that the market can remain irrational much longer than I can remain solvent.
Comment · 2 years ago
Ten years ago was before he started calling rescue divers pedophiles.

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