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Also don't forget the unhealthy Monopoly lots of ISPs own on small areas. Starlink disrupts that.

Curious about what your opinion of the Venezuela elections.

the part they just made up of course!

I keep laughing at the "law" arguments people keep bringing up - even if the law allowed for this kind of thing (which is clearly against the Brazillian constitution), does that make it right?

Yes, the law is apparently abusable enough that it allows the supreme court to deem whatever it wants illegal and censor what they disagree with. Does that mean it makes sense?

These people are in for a rude awakening in a few years.

Go ahead my guy, you have my support :)

It wasn't? None of the people I know thought it was Scarlett Johansson.

When Altman tweeted "her" I just thought: "wow, these voices sound really realistic, kinda like the movie"

Is this lawsuit worthy?

What if that's just the VA's natural voice? Must she stop doing VA?

I think you're being a little disingenuous here. Nobody claims to know Norwegian, it's just that the value of knowing it is not as valuable now that I can just use Google Translate to talk to a Norwegian.

I do agree that memorization is important, by the way. I just think that it's useless if you can't also derive your way there. Nothing wrong with having checkpoints in your mind though.

Also that sentence on "you need to go through YC three times in your lifetime, so you need 26 lifetimes" is absurd. I got a migraine trying to understand his line of reasoning.

Hey man I'm Portuguese but just wanted to say how fucked up what's happening in Brazil (Brasil) is. The worst part is how people are fine with it. If you go to r/Brasil you'll see endless mobs cheering the supreme court.

What's the political situation like? Do most people agree with what's going on? Are they uninformed like in Portugal? Is it a loud internet minority thing?

Come on, read what you just wrote.

Freedom of broadcast? They're not exactly on state-sponsored TV. What does the government have to do with what shows up on social media?

In a country with actual freedom you'd have riots on the street.

I'm guessing you're Brazillian? I'm Portuguese and we're very strict about freedom of speech, almost like the US. Sad to see what's happening to my brothers & sisters.

Hey man you'd be surprised how much they stretch the "honour" part in Brazil.

There have been multiple accounts of comedians, podcasters, and YouTubers being fined or even arrested because of their opinions or jokes. Often these jokes wouldn't even target anyone in particular.

It's batshit crazy.

To my knowledge, X hasn't had a recent history of not blocking posts/accounts that actively incite violence.

What's weird to me is that the Brazilian court would prevent them from sharing (or even telling them why) the posts should be blocked, which accounts should be blocked, etc...

If you go to subreddits like r/Brasil you'll see people actively cheering the government's decision. These people want to be censored and have a massive hate boner for billionaires.

Seriously, go take a read at the subreddit. Even if you disagree with me on the judge's decisions for some of the accounts, you'll be shocked at how little nuance there is in the Brazillian community (who should be aware of how thin the line they're walking on is).

Thanks, that was very enlightening!

I had already had the hunch months ago that the problem companies in the same space are solving is of a "minimum requirements cover your ass" thing rather than "how good is the platform".

I don't think I have it in me to break a monopoly as big as this one. To be honest I'm much more interested in building something than talking to old people at central bank entities.

One thing that has come up when talking to smaller competitors in the space is that some of them already have a few clients ($10M+ ARR) but are struggling with the tech and dataset (which is what my startup has in spades). We've started having a few acquisition talks lately and it looks like merging with a bigger company might be the path forward.

Thoughts on this?