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Comment · 3 months ago
Every website I visit could get a fraction of a cent in my Cloudflare Wallet. A human browsing incurs a few dollars a month. Plus, any website I access in this way decides not to show me ads either and just charges me the cost of serving the data plus a nominal profit margin.

Disclosure: I am a shareholder and would love for them to solve the AI bot problem and the ad problem like this.

Comment · 5 months ago
Apple will create a comparable device; it'll just take them five more years to get the product experience down.
Comment · 7 months ago
It's also slow as hell. It takes like 200ms for the social media buttons to change color upon hover.
Comment · 1 year ago
This just happens to be the consensus opinion for their group. Kids have never cared about being accepted by people 20 years older than they are; kids have always cared about being accepted by their peers. Social cooling means that dissent from their peer group is harder.
Comment · 1 year ago
In sports betting contexts, you're often just betting against other players, I believe. If they're anything like prediction markets, the exchange isn't going to care how successful you are, as long as you're betting.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's more that the military's goal isn't to produce adults that are indefinitely healthy, but rather a robust geopolitical deterrent that only requires its employees to be physical capable for about twenty years, after which their service life is over. Running is not the issue. Even a car designed for driving can be driven irresponsibly.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, but how much of a market will there be for this kind of creation?
Comment · 1 year ago
The idea is that the stress and sleep deprivation are not sources of permanent impairment (even though they are), but rather a filter that selects the strongest candidates.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
You can, but that makes the type system worse. Also depending on how these few bytes are used, they can add up and drag down performance.
Comment · 2 years ago
The corporate charity will not dry up. AI makes it easier to generate content, and Meta's in the business of facilitating the sharing of that content. Content is surface area for ads. AI will also make the virtual realities of the "metaverse", as defined by Mark, easier to reify. It's also a giant marketing and recruiting strategy.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is a non-sequitur.
Comment · 2 years ago
The more money we give, the more viable it becomes for maintenance to become their day job. It's very likely that more money here would've mitigated the burnout. Aside from just being able to quit their actual job and focus on their passion project, it's acknowledgement that the world finds this work valuable. In many cases, burnout comes from a lack of recognition, or the sense that you've done all this work and nobody really cares.
Comment · 2 years ago
This could've happened to anybody, frankly. The attacker was advanced and persistent. I cannot help but feel sympathetic for the original maintainer here.

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