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by gizmo 7mo ago
Because mastercard/visa don't personally bear any risk they are very happy to process refunds and chargebacks in the customer's favor. It's not a perfect system, but it's much better than direct bank debit where the
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by gizmo 9mo ago
If businesses are rational agents that seek to maximize profit then yes you would expect agentic AI to eat SaaS. But this is not the world we live in. So much of business could be automated with 1990s technology. A model that predicts socie
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by gizmo 10mo ago
No DDR4 is affected too. It's a simple question of production and demand, and the biggest memory manufacturers are all winding down their DDR4/DDR5 memory production for consumers (they still make some DDR5 for OEMS and servers).
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by gizmo 10mo ago
The big 3 memory manufacturers (SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron) are essentially all moving upmarket. They have limited capacity and want to use it for high margin HBM for GPUs and ddr5 for servers. At the same time CXMT, Winbond and Nanya are st
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by gizmo 10mo ago
The problem with your perspective is that citizens can still tell right from wrong. And the public is much less Machiavellian than those in charge. The people can change how their leaders act, but won't when they believe any attempt to
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by gizmo 10mo ago
Flops per watt is relevant for a new data center build-out where you're bottlenecked on electricity, but I'm not sure it matters so much for existing data centers. Electricity is such as small percentage of total cost of ownership
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by gizmo 10mo ago
For those who don't know, the French (and British) instigated the Suez crisis. It was a highly illegal attempt at regime change in Egypt and the US along with the USSR and United Nations rightfully pressured the French to stop. Bizarre
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by gizmo 10mo ago
When AI tools make it easy to cruise through coursework without learning anything then many students will just choose to do that? Intellectual development requires strenuous work and if universities no longer make students strain then mos
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by gizmo 10mo ago
Google is the favorite to win AI by a mile. Not only do they have some of the best AI people, they have absolute unmatched distribution with youtube, search, gmail, docs, chrome, and android. As impressive as OpenAI is they don't have
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by gizmo 10mo ago
You describe the "fake email jobs" theory of employment. Given that there are way fewer email jobs in China does this imply that China will benefit more from AI? I think it might.
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by gizmo 1y ago
Not every business loses 95% of their market cap in 3 years. Many companies bleed out slowly as they struggle to retain their market share in the face of new competition. This is normal. It's not normal for a business to just collapse
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by gizmo 1y ago
I think that the database layer is the wrong layer for reconciliation of change sets. The main problem with any sync system that allows extensive offline use is in communicating how the reconciliation happens so users don't get frust
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by gizmo 1y ago
If the manufacturer doesn't want to go through the trouble of creating a less powerful engine because it's not economically advantageous then the consumer should just get the better engine by default. It's ridiculous and insu
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by gizmo 1y ago
This is all sizzle no steak. Marketing without substance, frankly. A proof-of-concept doesn't provide any value. For Linux to gain further adoption a gargantuan effort is needed to get things from 90% done (or 90% working) to fully wor
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by gizmo 1y ago
Her personal politics are not extremist in the conventional sense. She is a center-right technocrat at heart. She believes people like her have to protect Europe against the idiot masses. When she dismantles European civil rights she does s
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by gizmo 1y ago
Other than the "request for startups" YC publishes YC doesn't push founders to start a specific type of business. AI is simply where the opportunity is (or is perceived to be). YC (and everybody else) understands that most AI
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by gizmo 1y ago
All systems crash "under memory pressure" but there are no details provided that show what the actual issues are? You can write software that is very robust under memory pressure in a low level language, for instance by forking in
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by gizmo 1y ago
- He means written dialogue. Think Plato. - It’s an example of a statement that rests on a false premise
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by gizmo 1y ago
US startups also don't care about US regulations. AirBnB, Uber, Tesla, Coinbase and many others break the laws in the US they don't like. I'm not making the moral argument that breaking laws is always wrong. Instead I'm
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by gizmo 1y ago
After WW2 Volkswagen didn't change their name or Nazi branding (if you haven't seen the uncropped version of the VW logo you're in for a surprise) exactly because people in Allied countries refused to buy German cars after th
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by gizmo 1y ago
Electronics are responsible? Really? Is this why the car radio interface lags and barely responds to input? Is this why the maps apps is terrible? Car infotainment systems are comically terrible even in areas that are 100% controlled by the
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by gizmo 1y ago
That so misses the point. Not all work that pays contributes equally to society. Some jobs that pay well (because they are of value to the employer) are harmful to society as a whole. If you harm society for 40 or 50 hours every week you&#x
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by gizmo 1y ago
Phones and tablets are already among the most energy efficient devices. A tablet sips power compared to a desktop PC. Isn't energy use totally dominated by lights, cooling and heating of the spaces we inhabit? Repairability rules I lik
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by gizmo 1y ago
Am I reading this wrong or does this almost open up any server bound to localhost to the outside? I think proxy_pass will forward traffic even when the root and try_files directives fail because the junction/symlink don't exist? A
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by gizmo 1y ago
1. Europe joined the US willingly in the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Even with article 5 NATO countries could have protested against it or provided minimal non-combat support. 2. This isn't about blame or NATO or ethics. This is
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by gizmo 1y ago
Much of what this article writes is not true: - You can absolutely get in trouble for voicing political speech in Europe. We've seen plenty of headlines of people who got fired in Europe for making offensive statements. In the UK in pa
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by gizmo 1y ago
All too often it's those companies that worry excessively about saving a few dollars that also have meetings for everything, glacial decision making, poor strategic focus, tons of internal politics, and so on.
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by gizmo 1y ago
Security is not that simple. Duplicate HTTP headers, utf-8 in HTTP headers, case insensitivity etc has resulted in countless security vulnerabilities over the years. Do you reject suspicious requests? Do you process the request but filter o
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by gizmo 1y ago
The world is changing. Maybe for the better, maybe not. Personally, I'm pretty optimistic. Other people might mostly see risks and harm. I get that. But what I don't get is how people think this is boring . Today's kids will
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by gizmo 1y ago
The new reserve currency won't be a single country's currency but a basket of currencies, where the ratio contribution of component currencies gets adjusted every once in a while.

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