TerrifiedMouse

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by TerrifiedMouse 2y ago
Right of publicity. Profiting of their image without their permission will get you sued. Even if you use an impersonator. If there is a chance the public will connect it with them, you are probably screwed. e.g. Vanna White vs Samsung - ht
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by TerrifiedMouse 2y ago
> If Lisp is so good, why isn’t its use more widespread? The Lisp Curse: http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
I feel the App Store is one thing differentiating Apple from Android phone manufacturers. Money from the App Store gets reinvested in the entire iPhone supply chain. Whereas in the case of Android, App Store money goes to Google only. It al
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
If you resort to violence so will they to protect their property. If AGI becomes a thing, without political intervention, a lot of people will effectively be left out of the economy.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
There are quite a few numbers on the breakeven point but a quick google says it’s usually 2.5x-3x the budget - due to marketing cost and distribution fees.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
A quick google says the general consensus is you need 2.5x the budget of the movie to breakeven.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> money isn’t cheap anymore I know nothing about economics but I wonder if it’s time to ease up on the interest rates. Inflation might not be due to too much money in the system but rather supply simply drying up as China economy circles
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> This line of thought leads people to naturally adopt the exact same sort optimization (exploitation) strategies businesses (your employer) does with the same justifications they use. But that’s exactly the kind of relationship it is. I
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
There are 2 versions of the PS5: base and digital. The base version comes with a Blu-ray drive that can play Ultra HD Blu-ray discs.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
I think he can’t STFU. He needs constant public validation and praise. Frankly, I think he never will. 20 years from now, if he is still alive and wealthy, we will still be hearing from him - long after his peers have gone into quiet retire
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
Quite sure there was plenty of exploitation in communist countries.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
I would hardly consider this as “take those disagreements public”. It’s not like they talked to the press. This letter was circulated internally using internal employee communications channels. Ironically, we would never have heard of it if
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> Most physical world thiigs have immediate feedback of incorrectness. We might not want it to enter such circumstances where there is such feedback - e.g. car has run over a child. We generally aren’t interested in what the AI does in r
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> And now the Houthi rebels have become battle-hardened guerillas and insurgents, capable of projecting force into the vital shipping lanes of the Red Sea. Their ability to attack the red sea has nothing to do with being "battle-har
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
I made the jump from Android fairly early on when I realized that phones are terrible general purpose computers and that I mostly just use it as a phone - i.e. use almost exclusively the restricted subset of features that’s typical of smart
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
China rhetoric is very concerning. As the old saying goes, when people tell you who they are, believe them.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
I think it’s preferred that the “competition” aren’t the country’s geopolitical rivals who would love to see the country weaken if not destroyed.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> You've got Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Broadcom all ahead of them. None of them do any fabrication which is what’s Moore’s Law applies to.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> Yes and even within that they are risk averse, no need to look beyond 10nm and their reluctance to EUV. Actually from what I heard, their failures with their Intel 7 was partly due to trying too many unproven technologies - i.e. they p
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
The billions Biden threw their way isn’t really that much when their fabs cost billions to build. Don’t think the grants cover the full cost of their new fabs - it was 50 billion total right divided among all the corporations including TSMC
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
I still don’t get it. The fact that women prefer men of similar age or older … there are plenty of young men of similar age for young women, in fact it’s nearly one to one, then you add in the older men. For young women their suitors outnum
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> The reverse problem of fertility vs sex difference in age preference exists in some African countries, where the fertility rate is very high. Which means there are more young people, which means some fraction of young women will not fi
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
Apple managed to screw up Facebook’s data gathering. So they are definitely hurt Epic’s ability to do so too. Epic having its own store front means they can use dark patterns there too. Apple is limiting the worst of these companies’ behavi
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
It’s also possible nothing sticks. Look at what blockchain amounted to.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> If no one is consuming the business reporting it's probably cheaper to have it produced by AI and of the same value. Wait. Why produce it at all?
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
Seems everyone forgot that Epic was fined over half a billion by the FTC for “Violating Children's Privacy and Engaging in Dark Pattern Deception”. https://gizmodo.com/epic-fortnite-gaming-ftc-dark-patterns-1... They a
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
Good will? The reason they want Apple and Google out of the way isn’t just because of the 30% fee but also because it prevents Epic from collecting information and utilizing dark patterns to gouge children. https://gizmodo.com&#x
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> But soon got algorithmic feeds which effectively filter out antisocial content. You mean (we) got algorithmic feeds which feed us antisocial content for the sake of profit because such content drives the most engagement thus generating
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> Why should my choice of hardware or OS dictate the apps I'm allowed to install? Do you own an iPhone? I suspect that the vast majority of people complaining about Apple's "lock down" are people who don't even u
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> So for example, if you had a dominant market position for a particular category of phone operating systems, and you wanted to advance your interest in the market for app distribution... Except the App Store was added to the iPhone befo

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