greenmilk

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by greenmilk 9d ago
Hertz infamously came out of bankruptcy guns-blazing and purchased 100k cars for $4.2 billion and helped drive Tesla's market cap above $1 trillion in 2021 By 2024 they had begun dumping the EVs and reported a $2Bn loss as a result.[0]
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by greenmilk 1mo ago
I guess the fact that Paul Graham felt the urge to write and publish this in 2020 is indicative of the toxic relationship that was developing between silicon valley and the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this essay exhibits the hallmark
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by greenmilk 2mo ago
The Chinese gov't and also the rest of humanity... I'm not sure how everyone in the US forgot that monopolies are bad
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by greenmilk 2mo ago
We have an entire generation of technologists convinced that you need a monopoly for a business to be viable, so every tech company is either trying to subsidize its way into a monopoly or running a deadweight loss. Unsurprisingly, the resu
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by greenmilk 4mo ago
> The state of the art models are going to get better and more expensive and smaller models are going to get cheaper. Why do you think this will be true? Right now I see the major US labs betting on gaining an advantage from having way m
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by greenmilk 4mo ago
I believe this is the process that defines Julia Evans' writing (and cartooning)!
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by greenmilk 5mo ago
Is there any country where it is?
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by greenmilk 5mo ago
I've got news for you there. The Biden administration tried to take the first real antitrust action in decades and then suddenly a bunch of tech oligarchs switched from supporting Democrats to supporting a convicted felon
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by greenmilk 5mo ago
To me the biggest (but not only) issue is that blindly connecting sensitive tools to 3rd party services has been normalized. Every time I hear the word "claw" I cringe...
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by greenmilk 5mo ago
They could be VC-backed and selling at a loss to grow market share
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by greenmilk 5mo ago
Are any inference providers currently making profit (on inference, I know google makes money)?