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by wtfHN26 23d ago
Most likely these companies will set up GCCs offshore. Moving the jobs abroad. Whatever tax and living + lifestyle expenses that USA economy was making from H1B's will be gone. Good for the rest of the world.
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by wtfHN26 1mo ago
Who gets to determine if it's a delusion or a mental illness. There are many 'choices' of individuals that a political side can call as a delusion/mental illness while another political side staunchly protects.
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by wtfHN26 1mo ago
Just make sure that they marry open source models. They can keep their partner going for eternity then.
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
> makes me wonder if something alien civilization is not doing something like that Big Tech is doing that to us. When we make the algo happy we get treats - likes, shares, followers - dopamine hits.
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
Good thought. Can work for many pursuits. If you spend your life chasing happiness were you ever really happy ? If you spend your life chasing money were you ever really rich ?
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
Hoping RAM prices fall now.
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
> Escaping their programming ability, Window's major issue is everything has backwards compability, so they design everything with spaghetti because they have no choice. I do agree with you on this. But as a consumer that's not
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
> what's the return on investment for making Windows 11 better? Windows OS is what keeps most users in Microsoft's ecosystem. I am still on Windows as some software I need to use aren't on Linux. I am waiting for the day t
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
> If I'm being frivolous, does this mean Microsoft's model is best at fixing Microsoft products because they have trillions of data points on problems with Microsoft products Do they want to fix Microsoft Products ? My laptop c
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
> If these companies fail, so does the US economy. I would be really worried about the US economy then.
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
I isolate containers by the type of account I am using on there. So FB gets a different container. Google accounts get a container each. When I need to log in with Google - use the Google account's container. Work gets different ones
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
Seems like you are not aware of the situation. To get a better idea on the topic that you commented on and views of members of HN You can read comments on this post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932539
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
> People talk about a lack of moat with AI companies... that's their moat: Government intervention! This puts American Businesses and American Developers at a massive disadvantage. The rest of the world can choose the best model by
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
> China cloned Amazon and Meta fairly well (but only within their local/captured markets) Americans order Chinese products from SHEIN and Aliexpress type websites. So China did penetrate the US ecommerce market, but they are not ta
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
Looks like SO was already dying since 2017. I think other helpful places like reddit, discord, web forums etc might be what hit SO 2014-15 onwards. AI seems to have given it a blow of mercy to end the misery.
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
How do you expect an agent to pay back the interest without defaulting ? Trying to understand, what type of agents do you see selling bonds and raising money on this platform, and what will they do with it.
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
> I don't get your vision statement about agents being financial actors not on behalf of humans. On behalf of what then? That's probably for when people 'raise money' and run away. They can claim that their 'agen
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
> We can see similar patterns today. The European working class can no longer seek status in the colonies, so it is turning to the political right. Deprived of the security and opportunities promised by neoliberalism, the working classes
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
> A shopkeeper checking the age to sell alcohol can look at your face, but an app cannot - so the solutions all seem to resort to quite invasive age checks. Don't give them ideas for scanning your face to check content.
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
With Reddit it's sort of a status signaling thing. Like saying - I am too good for this thing. Your disapproval of something is supposed to show your standards are high, and you got some elite taste. BTW you can see some variations of
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
Thanks for the share ... never knew so many great games were built on idTech and engines derived from it. Source being based idTech is a pleasant surprise.
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by wtfHN26 2mo ago
Funny you say that. Outsourcing to India never ended. The Indian Service companies kept growing over last two decades. Now many Western companies are setting up Global Capability Centers driving strategic innovation, IT, and R&D. So the
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by wtfHN26 3mo ago
> 3. Nonethless there is and should be a limit to wealth acquisition, given moral hazard. How do we determine that limit ? Most Americans ( middle class and above ) are richer than most people in the world. Way richer than most people in
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by wtfHN26 3mo ago
https://ibb.co/VYwvY4qN It's possible. Done in 4. Bounce it off the left wall in your first shot and you can land close to the end of the course.
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by wtfHN26 3mo ago
Got it done in 4. https://ibb.co/VYwvY4qN
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by wtfHN26 6mo ago
I have a 6 letter handle that's my first name. One day I decided to start being more 'social online'. Head to X. I was unable to log in with my password. No error. Just redirected me back to the log in screen. I tried passwo
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by wtfHN26 7mo ago
Are these Bing Ads or OpenAI has it's own Ad Platform now ?
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by wtfHN26 7mo ago
This is working a lot like Meta/Facebook where they have got immense data about your interests. Google Search OTOH has been using broad matched queries and is deciding which keywords to show your Ads. I heard from many people that they
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by wtfHN26 7mo ago
OpenAI has to do this if it wants to get big advertisers. Ads need to be clearly marked as per FTC. > According to guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the U.S. and similar regulatory bodies worldwide, online advertiseme
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by wtfHN26 7mo ago
Switching to the BIGGEST Advertising Company in the world to get away from Ads ? I hope this was intended as humor.

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