maximus_01

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by maximus_01 28d ago
Garbage blog post with no insight beyond copying and pasting some tweets. Clearly has an agenda. I don't really care for any of the AI providers but for instance the idea that Nvidia is doing what its doing because it think OAI is fail
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by maximus_01 2mo ago
Let’s not forget that Anthropic only paid that to settle a class action lawsuit.
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by maximus_01 3mo ago
Yep and more like 25%+ of profits (given the google revenue, and most ad revenue, is close to 100% margin).
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by maximus_01 11mo ago
This is true but airpods is a bad example. They are a runaway success. Estimates are they did around $25bn of revenue in the last year. For context the highest annual revenue Bose ever did was $4bn (since declined). Sonos does something lik
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by maximus_01 11mo ago
Good investment decision and obviously the street was very wrong, but the reason the multiple was low was because of concerns earnings were at risk from a) their issues in China (which they solved, at least for now, but was a very valid con
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by maximus_01 11mo ago
Not that small. High income and roughly the same population as California, which isn't too small for companies to bother selling into. Ozempic did about US$2bn of revenue in 2024 in Canada.
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by maximus_01 11mo ago
Private companies do things to maximize profits. They might lose money on some stuff to make more on other things, and there might be some gunk in the system but they are almost all laser focused on making bigger profits. Governments have l
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by maximus_01 11mo ago
Except it isn't at all. The properties to buy all have a fixed price, costs of houses/hotels are fixed, rents are fixed and can't be adjusted, and most importantly, a) you can only buy a property if you randomly happen to lan
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by maximus_01 11mo ago
No, that is not the free market at work at all. I agree it happens however. We simply don't live in a 100% free market world.
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by maximus_01 11mo ago
I'm not here to debate whether free markets are good or bad, but governments have a privileged position versus private companies, and effectively operate above the law (again at least compared to private companies). Any government inte
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by maximus_01 11mo ago
I'm not really disagreeing with you as it's not like there is a 100% true definition of a free market, different people can have different conceptions, but the original Adam Smith / classical view is that a free market should
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by maximus_01 1y ago
Yep. But Apple are appealing that decision.
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by maximus_01 1y ago
There is a limit to this sort of logic though. Don't get me wrong, I'm generally pro free markets. But: A) Apple's policies make some products completely unviable (anything with a gross margin less than 30%). Even for product
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by maximus_01 1y ago
You are really trying to say that for a startup trying to build software, say a productivity app or whatever, they should consider launching their own hardware device? They are very different things and would basically make indie developmen
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by maximus_01 1y ago
Power to you, but you probably miss out on masterpieces in the other direction though. The ones you would be more likely to watch if you spent more time watching those 'conventionally' liked movies, given the limit of time.
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by maximus_01 1y ago
It does seem so. To be fair I live in Australia which does seem to have much stricter labelling requirements than the US.
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by maximus_01 1y ago
Ok then. I wish you well in your quest.
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by maximus_01 1y ago
I don't know how I can be more clear about this. It was a thought experiment. Take the very best piece of writing from [BOOK/ARTICLE/TEXTBOOK/JOURNAL] you could ever imagine. Would you or should you be willing to pay 10c
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by maximus_01 1y ago
I must admit I didn't know that. Do you think that is widely known amongst people who eat them? But yes, either way, I find that disturbing.
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by maximus_01 1y ago
I get all that. Still doesn't mean there isn't some things worth paying for that are created in real time and aren't out of copyright. Something like Stratechery, as an example most people would be familiar with. Picking on m
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by maximus_01 1y ago
I think that example wasn't the best as it's probably so obvious it isn't salmon it wouldn't fool anyone. But would you be comfortable if someone sold Hoki or Puffer Fish as Salmon? And then only in the fine print said i
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by maximus_01 1y ago
Sure but that's what happens when you cut distribution costs to zero (i.e. the internet). It's pretty indisputable that most content online is garbage. But there is also a lot of super high quality information out there in all sor
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by maximus_01 1y ago
If you invert it, though, money is really compensation for time (directly or indirectly). Most of the things you pay money for are compensating someone for time spent (whether that time was spent in the past, present or future). Why is it s
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by maximus_01 1y ago
How much do you value your time? A lot of people think like this and I'm not judging you or saying this applies to you. But I find it kind of odd when people I know who earn hundreds to thousands of dollars an hour won't pay even
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by maximus_01 1y ago
I agree with this. I think potentially someone may have suggested the federal court sit on the decision until the 10% tariff was confirmed a couple of weeks ago. Mostly because the announcement pre Tariff might have resulted in a long Truth
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by maximus_01 2y ago
100%. But gradually being solved as source links are being provided. If the source link is as good as what you’d find on Google anyway then you have a way better search experience and don’t really burn much extra time checking the LLM work
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by maximus_01 2y ago
He means the top part above Google suggestions. If you type a url or company name Apple sometimes guesses the url and provides a direct link. Google not involved there - only if you click a Google suggestion or hit search/enter or what
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by maximus_01 2y ago
I don't entirely agree, but thank you for elaborating. I see at least where you are coming from.
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by maximus_01 2y ago
So you have decided anyone who can read faster than you is a fraud? Meaning you think you are in possession of the fastest non-fraudulent human reading abilities possible? Do you have any evidence of this beyond the fact that if you sped up
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by maximus_01 2y ago
The deal with Google is not a fixed amount. It has a revenue component (ie a share of Google revenue from that user). So the motivation for Apple to make it difficult is clear - a user switching browser costs Apple money as it does not have

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