interludead

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by interludead 4mo ago
I think the pyramid/army analogy works for some kinds of work, but maybe not for the kind of work the essay is mostly talking about.
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by interludead 4mo ago
The more interesting question is whether you can make higher levels of government depend more explicitly on lower levels, instead of the other way around
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by interludead 4mo ago
I think the middle ground probably isn't "no hierarchy" but "less fake hierarchy"
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by interludead 4mo ago
Plenty of startups recreate the same dysfunction at a smaller scale, just with less process and worse boundaries (I think...)
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by interludead 4mo ago
A polished website and audited reports don't always tell you whether aid is reaching people effectively on the ground
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by interludead 4mo ago
I agree with the second point especially. What stood out to me was not just that Django endured the bureaucracy, but that he remained grateful and composed through it
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by interludead 4mo ago
It sounds less like arrogance and more like both sides trying to improvise with incomplete information
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by interludead 4mo ago
From the outside, the "official" shipping route feels like the safest and most obvious option
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by interludead 4mo ago
Your doorbell has an excellent threat model
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by interludead 4mo ago
I think the distinction is: physical access helps bootstrap the research, but the resulting key/signing logic is not device-specific
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by interludead 4mo ago
The most depressing part is that none of this sounds exotic
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by interludead 4mo ago
As an out-of-the-house computer, or a second/hand-me-down laptop, that tradeoff makes a lot more sense
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by interludead 4mo ago
I agree that for the actual target market, 10Gb/s is probably not the thing that will make the machine feel limited
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by interludead 4mo ago
My concern with the Neo is that it may have the same "feels impossible for the price" quality early on, but the 8GB ceiling gives it much less room to become the kind of absurd long-lived machine your Air turned into
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by interludead 4mo ago
I think 8GB is harder to defend in 2026 than it was in 2020, but maybe Apple's low-end machines may be staying useful long after the spec sheet says they shouldn't...
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by interludead 4mo ago
The most interesting part of this is the 8GB RAM decision. Soldered 8GB in 2026 is the sort of compromise that looks fine on day one and painful in year three
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by interludead 5mo ago
Yep, the silence around provenance is probably the most suspicious part
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by interludead 5mo ago
At minimum, collecting voiceprints should come with much stricter consent, retention and security requirements than ordinary "training data"
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by interludead 5mo ago
This is exactly why "voice as authentication" feels like a dead end to me
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by interludead 6mo ago
Frontier AI + tens of billions in capex was always going to end here
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by interludead 6mo ago
I don't read that as "rattled" so much as leaning into the one thing they clearly have that Anthropic doesn't: massive consumer distribution
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by interludead 6mo ago
I think this is more about deal structure than spin
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by interludead 6mo ago
I'd be pretty cautious comparing those numbers directly
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by interludead 6mo ago
"Not yet profitable" doing a lot of heavy lifting here for an 852B valuation
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by interludead 6mo ago
Your "feature, not a bug" take is exactly right... the slight unpleasantness is what creates empathy
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by interludead 6mo ago
I think a big part of it is that, at some scale, leaders stop lacking access to reality and start lacking incentive to engage with it
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by interludead 6mo ago
This is like a perfect case study in how problems don't get solved, they just get… routed
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by interludead 6mo ago
The fact that showing the actual product in a product meeting triggers panic tells you everything you need to know about how far things have drifted
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by interludead 6mo ago
It does look strange when you compare it directly to a MacBook, but headphones are a weird category
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by interludead 6mo ago
Apple clearly optimized for the "always ready" experience, but it does feel awkward that the intended workflow involves putting them in the case

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