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wtfHN26
·10 uur geleden·discuss
> A shopkeeper checking the age to sell alcohol can look at your face, but an app cannot - so the solutions all seem to resort to quite invasive age checks.

Don't give them ideas for scanning your face to check content.
wtfHN26
·10 uur geleden·discuss
With Reddit it's sort of a status signaling thing.

Like saying - I am too good for this thing.

Your disapproval of something is supposed to show your standards are high, and you got some elite taste.

BTW you can see some variations of that here also.
wtfHN26
·6 dagen geleden·discuss
Thanks for the share ... never knew so many great games were built on idTech and engines derived from it.

Source being based idTech is a pleasant surprise.
wtfHN26
·7 dagen geleden·discuss
Funny you say that.

Outsourcing to India never ended. The Indian Service companies kept growing over last two decades.

Now many Western companies are setting up Global Capability Centers driving strategic innovation, IT, and R&D.

So the work going to India has moved up from "outsourcing to the cheapest programmers in india" to "we will hire the best talent in India directly and set up our company's base there".

To give some credit to your point, moving some low efficiency work to India since early 2000s freed up resources for many Tech companies to invest their best programmers into more profitable ventures.

But with the GCCs being set up in India, even a lot of the innovation and R&D work is now moving to India.

If that's any indication to your parallels with companies investing in AI. Something similar can happen with AI - where low end work moves to AI first, and the over time as the Technology develops more challenging and innovative tasks move to AI.
wtfHN26
·29 dagen geleden·discuss
> 3. Nonethless there is and should be a limit to wealth acquisition, given moral hazard.

How do we determine that limit ?

Most Americans ( middle class and above ) are richer than most people in the world.

Way richer than most people in Africa or poorer parts of Asia can ever aspire to be.

Consider that when competing for resources these poor people are competing with wealthy middle class Americans.

Add to that the USD being world's reserve currency makes life easy for a small part of global population earning in the USA and makes it harder for people in every other country whose currency might not be competitive compared to the USD.
wtfHN26
·vorige maand·discuss
https://ibb.co/VYwvY4qN

It's possible. Done in 4.

Bounce it off the left wall in your first shot and you can land close to the end of the course.
wtfHN26
·vorige maand·discuss
Got it done in 4.

https://ibb.co/VYwvY4qN
wtfHN26
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
I have a 6 letter handle that's my first name.

One day I decided to start being more 'social online'.

Head to X. I was unable to log in with my password. No error. Just redirected me back to the log in screen.

I tried password reset. It asked me my last login date.

I couldn't be sure. Still mentioned a possible date.

I added that this is the same email listed on the X/Twitter account.

You can just send me a password reset mail to this email.

They rejected. Tried that a couple of times, then stopped.

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Started an account on Threads. Quite fun, less crowded and almost no politics on my feed.

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I decided to create my Blog and write content there.

Will probably create other accounts to post my blog posts to the socials.

But I am not giving a platform the power to cut me out of my account.

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Videos can be an issue.

Youtube is still the only decent host for Video content.
wtfHN26
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Are these Bing Ads or OpenAI has it's own Ad Platform now ?
wtfHN26
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
This is working a lot like Meta/Facebook where they have got immense data about your interests.

Google Search OTOH has been using broad matched queries and is deciding which keywords to show your Ads.

I heard from many people that they don't like this approach of Google Search Ads now. As they are blowing up more money for useless keywords they didn't want to target. The only option they have is to add negative keywords - that mostly happens after the money is spent on junk keywords.
wtfHN26
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
OpenAI has to do this if it wants to get big advertisers.

Ads need to be clearly marked as per FTC.

> According to guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the U.S. and similar regulatory bodies worldwide, online advertisements—including sponsored content, native advertising, and influencer posts—must be readily identifiable as paid content to prevent deceiving consumers.
wtfHN26
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Switching to the BIGGEST Advertising Company in the world to get away from Ads ?

I hope this was intended as humor.
wtfHN26
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
IIRC many OTT streaming players found that they can make more money from Ads than they can from subscription alone.

So paying for a service alone doesn't ensure that you are not going to see Ads.

Once they have exhausted their potential market of paying users, almost every service will eventually resort to Ads.
wtfHN26
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
It's sad that OpenAI talking about developing AGI.

But the only revenue model that they still can come up with is Ads.

For all the advancement we have made in technology from the 90s web, social networks, mobile apps, ,AI Chat bots - the business model that almost all of them will eventually resort to is Ads.

We need some new breakthroughs in monetization side of things.
wtfHN26
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
That's such an unique viewpoint that no one has expressed on the internet.

Thank you for bringing value to this comments section.