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by blairbeckwith 3mo ago
The Verge is pretty well-known for their ethics policy [1] (they won't take money from any company they talk about) and that actually enables them to highlight interesting stuff like this that companies would never bother to pay to pro
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by blairbeckwith 4mo ago
Is there really a meaningful distinction between how libraries treat digital book licenses and physical books when you actually hit reality? My knowledge of how libraries work is very shallow, but I've always understood that they treat
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by blairbeckwith 5mo ago
I can’t believe you made me sign in just to downvote this.
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by blairbeckwith 8mo ago
Anecdotes, etc. but my 65 year old dad is pretty low tech and he was paying OpenAI $20/month before I was.
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by blairbeckwith 10mo ago
Netflix has raised prices about 25% at the premium tier since they released the ad-free version in 2022. The with-ads plan has also seen increases since launch.
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by blairbeckwith 10mo ago
I don't think there was any sarcasm there.
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by blairbeckwith 10mo ago
I'm sorry, I must be missing something. Which companies make up the index funds if (most) CEOs liquidated their companies and invested in index funds? And how would they liquidate at anything close to their valuation without being pric
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by blairbeckwith 1y ago
Honestly, Zen has done a good job of replicating most of the best parts of Arc; the big missing piece, IMO, is Little Arc, which was pretty workflow-changing. I'd love to see Little Arc / temporary browser windows become more comm
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by blairbeckwith 1y ago
But that's just ... Not what a bubble is. A market leader having viable competitors doesn't make them any less of a market leader, and doesn't make them "a bubble".
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by blairbeckwith 1y ago
If AI as a technology is not a bubble, why would the by-far-far-far most popular consumer technology leveraging that technology be a bubble?
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by blairbeckwith 2y ago
I listen to a lot of this world – David Sparks, the Relay podcast network, MacStories, etc. I have been varying levels of Apple Fanboy over the years, but even when I haven't been all-in on Apple fanaticism, I've always enjoyed li
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by blairbeckwith 2y ago
I don't know if you have any data to back up your claims, and I have nothing to back mine up but anecdotes but – all of the most active people I know have kids and all my single friends are amongst the most sedentary.
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by blairbeckwith 2y ago
I think you're probably right on a lot of this. I do think the pace having more granularity than five seconds is important for anyone who's doing any kind of speed work, where a pace off by 5 seconds can result in a fairly signifi
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by blairbeckwith 2y ago
I would love to hear more about your opinions on this as someone who has been experimenting with as a semi-serious runner after years of being Apple Watch exclusive. What I see is benefits around battery life, form factor (buttons are aweso
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by blairbeckwith 2y ago
If you want to maintain anonymity, building a character with false traits could be a part of that with no desire for fame.
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by blairbeckwith 2y ago
Has it been? I own one, did a bunch of research before I bought one, know others who own them, and the positive stories massively outnumber the negative ones from my perspective.
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by blairbeckwith 2y ago
I am using the CalDigit TS4+. Expensive, but flawless.
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by blairbeckwith 2y ago
TB4 should be able to handle that resolution – I am running 2x Studio Displays + gigabit ethernet + countless USD devices in to one TB4 port on my MacBook via a TB4 dock.
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by blairbeckwith 2y ago
I think I agree that AI will be a net benefit, but in world where it is difficult to have a meaningful conversation with a human because that human is so used to talking to a chatbot or someone doesn't have the skills to research a pr
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by blairbeckwith 2y ago
What's the opposite of the slippery slope fallacy, where we convince ourselves that there isn't a slope at all? I agree that there has been doomsayers with every technological advance, but surely there can be a point where a piece
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by blairbeckwith 2y ago
Why do you feel like you “need” this, though? I think that’s exactly what GP is saying – not disagreeing that it might have utility, but that there is a cost associated as well. The world is just statistically not that scary, and it’s good
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by blairbeckwith 2y ago
Is there a good way to read your own books that you load yourself, across mobile (iOS specifically) and the Kobo hardware? That has always been what's kept me tied to Kindle. The iOS app isn't great, but the "email to Kindle&
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by blairbeckwith 3y ago
I assure you that many people spend $300 annually on news and journalism.
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by blairbeckwith 3y ago
I am not sure about the rest of their nice, but at least the Logitech MX Master 3 allows you to switch between 3 paired bluetooth devices via a button on the bottom.
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by blairbeckwith 3y ago
They released new APIs and policy yesterday to allow non-Webkit based browsers in the EU, among many other changes to comply with the EU's Digital Millennium Act.
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by blairbeckwith 3y ago
Phew, that was close. I thought I had missed a story about NFTs having actual utility.
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by blairbeckwith 3y ago
> New research by Mastercard across 16 countries in North America and Europe revealed that 59% of people who identity as nonbinary say they feel unsafe while shopping We should do what we can to make life easier for everyone, but we shou
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by blairbeckwith 3y ago
It’s certainly believable that there actually was a real girl who was doing that at his work, but we should also probably stop taking comedic storytelling as truth without question. See: recent Hassan Minhaj controversy, etc.
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by blairbeckwith 3y ago
how far do we take this? would we have motor vehicles if we knew how many people would be killed by/with them every year?
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by blairbeckwith 3y ago
Consider that all it was trying to prove was that it was an interesting demonstration.

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