zrn900

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by zrn900 5d ago
> As a platform technology company why would you want these people on your board? Investors tell you to put them on the board and you do it. The worst mistake WordPress made was taking investment from private equity and assorted Wall Str
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by zrn900 5d ago
So not having an algorithm cuts engagement by ONLY half? How can that not be a good thing? Just remove it and save all the headaches for your service, ranging from user addiction to regulatory pressure. Let people engage however much they w
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by zrn900 5d ago
Unfortunately, Mullenweg, for all his faults, is a very good open source project leader. He carried WordPress to success, and he kept it at the top and as relevant for two decades, successfully navigating a lot of trials while also creating
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by zrn900 5d ago
> nomitative fair use No, WP Engine has been highlighting WordPress and using the word in a way that it did make a lot of non-technical people believe that WP Engine was 'WordPress'. In that, Mullenweg has a point.
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by zrn900 5d ago
> Unfortunately, this is for the best. Is it? The chief FINANCIAL officer took control of the company after Blackstone's investment in Automattic lost 50% of its value in the last two years. Has there been ANY case in which a privat
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by zrn900 2mo ago
For China, AI is infrastructure. For the US, it's another cash cow to be made scarce so that investors can milk it. That's why China chases open-source AI and commoditizes it. It will improve the AI until it is used in all kinds o
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by zrn900 2mo ago
And they are using the special debt vehicle tricks that made the 2008 bubble and the resulting crash. This is an economic nightmare: https://makingsense.quora.com/AI-Bubble-Seems-To-Be-Using-Th...
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by zrn900 2mo ago
At this point we have no choice but to conclude that the Eu has been subverted by megacorps as badly as the US political system has been.
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by zrn900 2mo ago
Eu cannot be bettered. It was transformed into a supranational institution that imposes its will upon countries. At this point its a detriment to the entire continent.
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by zrn900 2mo ago
Yes, the Eu basically morphed into a supranational institution that allows a minority to control entire Europe and use it as a private farm for the countries that dominate it.
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by zrn900 2mo ago
Censursula is her nickname that she got in the days when she was a minister of family or something and wanted to censor the internet and allow using it only with a permit (2009).
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by zrn900 2mo ago
If you water down democracy 2-3 times, it's no longer democracy.
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by zrn900 2mo ago
> recent (15) years Not really - all of these have been happening in the past 5-6 years, since the surprisingly London-linked von Leyen and her cadres somehow ended up at the helm. So it's not a surprise that whatever law the UK pas
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by zrn900 2mo ago
No machine has evern been 'the most important'. It's a freaking machine. Whatever it does can be replicated by different machines if you pour enough money into it. This delirium of thinking that if you ban !something specific
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by zrn900 2mo ago
> Nowhere near the value of having access to chips, at any cost. T Disagree. Anything produced in the Eu or other US satellites is priced as high as possible. One could say that allowing China to buy those chips would have been a bigger
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by zrn900 2mo ago
> To what end, other than "well, future historians may need it"? Future historians ! will ! need it. Today we learn the most about past civilizations from what the ordinary people left behind.
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by zrn900 3mo ago
By the early 2010s, the Eu corporations noticed that they could use the consumer protection regulations as a means to sneak protectionist measures to protect their profits, and from then on, it has been a downhill ride. They have taken over
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by zrn900 3mo ago
It's hard to understand: Do you think that having to use chips that were 20% less performant would lock China out of anything? Are you not aware that with the low costs they have, they can just stack ten times or more datacenters and r
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by zrn900 3mo ago
Nope. If China were not banned from US-controlled chips, it would be importing chips at much higher prices, therefore getting less bang for its buck while strengthening competitors with its money in the process. Instead, the US banned China
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by zrn900 3mo ago
Slow? The chip ban was just a few years ago. The result? China is more or less self-sufficient in chips, about to catch up with the latest generation. They even banned China from using lithography machines. The result? China is now producin
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by zrn900 3mo ago
In certain jurisdictions, yet. Yet is the operative word, leaving aside how it readily gives the authorities the ability to directly pinpoint and persecute you with a court order.
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by zrn900 3mo ago
People are downvoting this, but the objective is precisely that.
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by zrn900 3mo ago
The objective of these digital id laws being pushed through age verification is to be able to easily ! legally ! prosecute the dissidents. That's one thing the intelligence agencies could not do with their illegally collected data.
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by zrn900 3mo ago
> are people still horrible on the internet if they use their real name Yep. Google forced real names on youtube. People kept acting the same way.
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by zrn900 3mo ago
> I have bore first-hand witness to the scale of the PsyOps war waged on the American people by institutions near and far. You can be sure that none of those organizations will be affected by it. Especially the domestic ones. > But, a
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by zrn900 3mo ago
> Note that age verification does not rely on you handing over identifying information to the party requesting it It most certainly does, because it has to: https://reclaimthenet.org/starmers-social-media-ban-surveill...
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by zrn900 3mo ago
> AI is the CNC machine of the software industry. CNC and other factory automation have eliminated innumerable jobs.
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by zrn900 3mo ago
We are at the stage of capitalism after the usual control mechanisms the system used to keep people compliant started to fail, exactly as Frank Zappa described: "The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to
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by zrn900 3mo ago
I can assure you it will be much faster than that.
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by zrn900 3mo ago
God... Nobody else would be able to destroy the US dominance harder and faster than Trump... Though the other party was going to do the same - albeit slowly and more civilly. (Obama admn. started the trade war way back).

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