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by loeber 3mo ago
I have zero dollar exposure to $PLTR. And no, you're moving the goalposts again. My comment is strictly about Nazis, not "nazi or fascist". If you can't even keep this straight, then my time is wasted on you.
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by loeber 3mo ago
You're moving the goalposts. The original poster wrote that Palantir is on par with the Nazis. (Typos notwithstanding.) That's what I'm responding to. And yes, it is offensive and trivializing to the millions that were murder
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by loeber 3mo ago
You're out of your mind -- and politically radicalized -- if you think that Palantir is on part with the Nazis. And this kind of facile comparison is offensively trivializing those who died in the holocaust.
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by loeber 3mo ago
Replying: 1. It's not about technological development as an absolute metric, but as a relative metric. The current AI race is a winner-take-most game. Google must compete and shoot to become a $10T+ company or effectively go under. T
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by loeber 4mo ago
Downvoted. Stripe Atlas is a massively successful service that handles 100K+ incorporations annually. It's a key piece of Stripe's ecosystem support. You writing that you're "not sure who it's for" suggests to
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by loeber 4mo ago
This is totally false, sorry. Delaware entities are the standard. Delaware corporate law is better understood than any other by a long shot. Dealing with a random non-Delaware LLC is usually a hint that your counterparty is a rube.
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by loeber 5mo ago
I wrote an article a few months ago about how I expect open-source development to shift toward people no longer contributing code, but just contributing money, for the maintainers to purchase tokens to have AI ship a given feature request.
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by loeber 5mo ago
Unified charging cable: what if the standard had been set much earlier? For example, in 2008? We'd all be on Micro-USB, far inferior to USB-C. Right now USB-C feels great, but do you really think this is the end-all, be-all? I think th
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by loeber 5mo ago
> if you were not selling all that visitor information to anyone Do you understand how rare it is for a company to actually sell its user data?
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by loeber 5mo ago
Say that to the people who can't afford them!
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by loeber 5mo ago
I worry that this ends up, like other EU consumer-protection regulation, as an own goal. - The cheapest phones available in the EU (and purchasable online) all have glued-in batteries, not swappable ones. Forcing consumers to use phones wit
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by loeber 5mo ago
Same!
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by loeber 5mo ago
It's because we went from the Desktop environment, where rules were well-documented and standardized, to the Web/Mobile environment, where rules had to be reinvented and, for the most part, were not. We've lost design idioms
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by loeber 6mo ago
If your deathbed is at the hands of an adversary that beat you because you didn't have any weapons, do you think your views might change?
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by loeber 6mo ago
I previously tried buying Apple for Business and it was an endless runaround with terrible signup nterfaces and having to call dumb flunkies. The whole process sucked and was disrespectful to their business customers, who do not have the ti
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by loeber 6mo ago
Can you provide credible examples of each of these?
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by loeber 6mo ago
This stuff strikes me as misguided. Britain's Ofcom is sending censorship/deanonymization requests around the world, Germany prosecutes thousands of its citizens every year for "offensive" things said online... and you t
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by loeber 6mo ago
Interestingly, this suggests that the Lean Startup methodology is basically a suboptimal strategy that produces acceptable outcomes only in the most fruitful circumstances. You can start a Lean Startup that makes a little bit of money, but
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by loeber 6mo ago
Shameless plug: I wrote an essay a few weeks ago pushing this exact same thesis. https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/31-open-source-software-in-t... Instead of people buying the tokens themselves, they should just donate t
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by loeber 6mo ago
This is both (1) not necessarily true -- there's no first-principles reason why being powerful implies being unethical -- and (2) deeply pessimistic and defeatist. You can apply whataboutism and say that everyone's equally bad, bu
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by loeber 7mo ago
Comparing OpenAI and WeWork is a nonsensical perspective. OpenAI is shipping the most revolutionary product in a generation, with 800 million monthly active users. It's the fastest revenue ramp ever, at incredible scale -- $20B+ ARR. T
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by loeber 7mo ago
Because offering to pay people to implement features is very expensive and tends to take a long time, if they do it at all. Often, they can't even find people to pay to implement things. In the case of companies hiring Linux devs, that
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by loeber 7mo ago
If you don't get it, then you should read the blog post and come back if you have questions.
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by loeber 7mo ago
Because donating to open source projects today has an extremely unclear payoff. For example, I donate to KDE, which is my favorite Linux desktop environment. However, this does not have a measurable impact on my day-to-day usage of KDE. It&
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by loeber 7mo ago
This is a deeply pessimistic take, and I think it's totally incorrect. While I believe that the traditional open source model is going to change, it's probably going to get better than ever. AI agents mean that dollars can be dire
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by loeber 7mo ago
But it's not free. Persona is hugely expensive.
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by loeber 7mo ago
"Hold to skip tip" was devilish.
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by loeber 7mo ago
MacOS is the "it just works" operating system. As such, I think the moment that you need to declare custom workarounds like this, it kind of loses its legitimacy, and you should already be in Linux land.
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by loeber 7mo ago
I wrote about something very similar a long time ago.[0] The key problem is that most contemporary web design does not follow any idioms. Idioms are conventions of design that are universally understood. Skillful use of idioms makes it much
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by loeber 8mo ago
But that's the point of the article. The state is failing in all of these dimensions, while state tax revenues and budgets have nearly doubled! We have more spending, but it's not fixing the issues. Many Silicon Valley people ar

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