adangert

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by adangert 17d ago
Curious, if serving bots (and traffic) is the main concern here, why is a distributed git solution like radicle not considered? https://radicle.dev/
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by adangert 6mo ago
And the downfall of anthropic starts, OpenAI has had this all in the bag the whole time. Anthropic is a poor imitation of Sam's Master plan, it was over before it even started. Money grubbers, the lot of em!
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by adangert 6mo ago
It's generally easier to start typing your street address (maybe 4-5 characters), see an auto fill, click your address and all information, including the zip is already filled out. If you started with just the zip you still have to typ
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by adangert 7mo ago
Let me reiterate some points for people here: Income and revenue sources always, inevitably, and without fail, determine behavior.
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by adangert 7mo ago
I will repeat here again the same comment I made when they posted their constitution: The largest predictor of behavior within a company and of that companies products in the long run is funding sources and income streams, which is convenie
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by adangert 7mo ago
Anthropic (for the Superbowl) made ads about not having ads. They cannot be trusted either.
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by adangert 8mo ago
Conway's law seems apt here. The behavior of Claude will mirror the behavior and structure of anthropic. If anthropic deems one revenue source higher than another, Claude's behavior will optimize towards that regardless of what wa
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by adangert 8mo ago
The largest predictor of behavior within a company and of that companies products in the long run is funding sources and income streams (anthropic will probably become ad-supported in no time flat), which is conveniently left out in this &q
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by adangert 8mo ago
Awful awful awful, ads lead to anti consumer behavior, anti free market competition, turns capitalism into a pay to win game, are similar to a cancer, incentivize the creation of extremely harmful platforms, such as slop filled tik tok, des
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by adangert 8mo ago
Dutch Mao (mentioned briefly in the wiki) is a variant where everyone comes up with a hidden rule before the game begins, and is one of my favorite games of all time. Followed closely by Eleusis the master of inductive reasoning card games,
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by adangert 9mo ago
Not everything has to be black and white, there is middle ground for improvement. I'm not sure anyone loves the same MegaCorp™ ad plastered all over buildings, highways and stoplights. The size, depth, and reach of the advertising indu
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by adangert 10mo ago
The main arguments I hear against banning all ads is that it will hurt small businesses, a better solution might be to ban all adds for companies making above X amount per year, or even better: create systems where users pay for ads themsel
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by adangert 10mo ago
Deshitification is directly related to profit motives, VC dollars, and providing a service or good that overwhelmingly exceeds any hope of making substantial ROI in the future. None was shown in any of the above promotional materials, your
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by adangert 11mo ago
Last year ChatGPT helped save my life from having a stroke. LLMs are incredibly beneficial in providing medical information and advice today.
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by adangert 1y ago
Throwing my two cents in, the problem with all of this, is that we're dealing with artificially created scarcity, for content that can be easily duplicated. Artificial scarcity is a terrible thing to exist, and if got rid of it as a wh
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by adangert 6y ago
I'm still a fan of, and use Bitcoin cash every day for small purchases like coffee (primarily using the bitpay debit card for this)
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by adangert 7y ago
Woah now, I would completely disagree, heroin does not make you happy, short term pleasure is not the same thing. New information which helps people is inherently a good thing, but can be obtained through other means than ads, i.e. word of
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by adangert 7y ago
Another alternative is patreon. Remove all ads on your site other than ones to your crowdfunding page. Users are happy, the site makes money in proportion to it's quality.
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by adangert 7y ago
I make money through patreon, patreon mainly advertises itself through their users advertising their own patreon pages on their own content, which is far different than what you mentioned above. patreon itself doesn't advertise at all.
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by adangert 7y ago
You are wrong, ads only waste people's time. It's just the main way that online companies have found to turn attention and time into money, and it's never great for the consumer. Usually the free market (adblocked internet se
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by adangert 7y ago
If adblocking is left up to the browser than companies who own the browser have a financial incentive to let certian ads from paying companies through, as has been seen by adblock plus, and the proposed built in chrome ad blocking (which wo
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by adangert 7y ago
yeah, I bring it around with me, as a portable gaming device. I consider it a mobile platform, plus I have big pockets.
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by adangert 8y ago
For reminders I'll usually just send an email to myself, or actually set a reminder through the Android calendar app.
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by adangert 8y ago
Yeah I believe that is possible, most of the stuff you can do in inbox, you can do in Gmail with more control.
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by adangert 8y ago
Hmm, I think one thing people forget, is that most of the time benevolent centralization, and revolution to another centralization when necessary is more valuable to consumers, than always on decentralization.
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by adangert 8y ago
This is not quite true if you are using an HD wallet.
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by adangert 9y ago
why not use your phone? Navigating watch ui's are horrendous. Plus you don't have to charge another device every night.
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by adangert 9y ago
The best way for Google to solve this problem, is to block all ads by default in chrome, remove ads on google.com, and charge users a yearly fee to click to the next page on any search result. Thus you have users paying real money to use go
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by adangert 9y ago
Many say that Bitcoin's primary use is a store of value and a horrible medium of exchange. In that light, being unable to make small transactions makes sense, you store your wealth in Bitcoin and leave it there, kind of like a savings
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by adangert 9y ago
You know this might be speculative, but I feel like a basic income applied to a national allows that population to act more like an ant hive. In the sense that only 3% of the population is actually doing the real hard work, but this is a he

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