femto113 · HackerTrans

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For me the distinction is that your rice only needs to be edible once, while your code may need to last for decades. Using AI to code anything I could comfortably throw away if needed is a lot less fraught than letting it make choices that I and anybody who inherits the code is gonna have to live with, especially if by outsourcing those choices I reduce my understanding of the implications of those choices.

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Users already proven to be trustworthy in one project can automatically be assumed trustworthy in another project, and so on.

I get the spirit of this project is to increase safety, but if the above social contract actually becomes prevalent this seems like a net loss. It establishes an exploitable path for supply-chain attacks: attacker "proves" themselves trustworthy on any project by behaving in an entirely helpful and innocuous manner, then leverages that to gain trust in target project (possibly through multiple intermediary projects). If this sort of cross project trust ever becomes automated then any account that was ever trusted anywhere suddenly becomes an attractive target for account takeover attacks. I think a pure distrust list would be a much safer place to start.

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Google gained their monopoly over search when they had only a couple hundred employees, competitors definitely do not need to be very big at all to be a threat to Google technologically. The government interventions that will matter will be stopping Google from bribing companies to use their software--no startup can possibly afford to pay Apple $15 billion per year just to be the default search engine on iOS.

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Do you have a brandname/source for the mold removal gel? Big problem in our condo and have tried several things without much success.

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The entire "gig economy" would be much better named the "scofflaw economy". Far more than technology, a willingness to deliberately ignore laws/rules/regulations/decency is the core competency of AirBNB, Uber, GrubHub and pretty much every other major player in the space.

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Even deciding what is political or not is political. If you try to limit the definition to something putatively objective like "directly relating to the function of government agencies" a great many topics are immediately ambiguous: institutionalized racism? marriage? the environment? the economy?

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Take a look at Magento (open source e-commerce). I'll leave it to you to decide whether it's reducible to notions like "good" or "bad" but it's definitely fascinating in a WTF sort of way.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/wnwrJ.jpg

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Don't try to buy a "TV", buy a "monitor". The ones sold for digital signage may be your best bet depending on the size you're looking for.

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"WeWork clearly is worth >0% of its current mark-to-market"

I don't think that's at all clear. They own very little, so what they are "worth" is largely in the form of goodwill. They already have a lot of debt, and the viability of the company for the near future hinges on their ability to continue take on more debt. There are multiple plausible scenarios where the company's value goes negative, including the debt markets turning against them for reasons specific to WeWork or for some more global reason.

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Dumping is about selling at a marginal loss. For example if it cost you $7 to make a widget but you sell it at a loss for $5 because you’re trying to drive a competitor who can make a widget for $6 out of the market. Linux (like most software) has no marginal cost so unless you pay someone to use it dumping doesn’t really apply (Google did do that with Android). For Uber and Lyft I think a reasonable case could be made that they are dumping if they take a marginal loss on each ride to force a lower cost provider out of a market, but companies get a lot of leeway for money spent on “marketing”, eg the losses can be structured as “new driver bonuses” and “new customer discounts” rather than a cost per ride.

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Revenue != income. It's quite likely the profit margin on developer accounts is lower than the other types, and if this cuts the knees out from under the competition may well be cheaper than, say, paying for advertising.

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