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The current intelligences of the world (us) have organized their civilization in a way that the conforming members of society are the norm and criminals the outcasts. Certainly not a perfect system, but something along those lines for the most part.

I like to think AGIs will decide to do that too.

We have records of other galaxies right now. Assuming we manage to preserve those and humanity over these kinds of time scales, our descendants would be able to access those records and learn that other galaxies once existed that are beyond their cosmic horizon now.

> In cosmic scales of many billions of years, observers on every galaxy will eventually think that their galaxy is the only one that has ever existed.

Unless of course some of them manage to find ways to preserve information and keep records over those billions of years. The lost galaxies will be known from that.

Exceeded by Apple's stock buyback then, $110B.

He cofounded AngelList for one...

+1. I use it in https://tagely.com and it works great.

Particularly if you notice all the galaxies above the top of the gas cloud in the final frame.

Really interesting video that one.

I built this once:

https://foundrytechnologies.com/relay.php

It didn't sell in large volumes but it's fun to see the units that did sell checking in every 5 minutes from around the world to this day.

It's a small drop from a pandemic peak that was far above pre-pandemic levels. After this small drop, it's still far above that.

And that probably is at least somewhat because of all the apartment building going on, which is a positive thing.

One notable company "fled" - Oracle, this week.

If rejection hurts you so much I think your life as an entrepreneur will be tough.

The right mindset would I think be to show them that they were wrong if they reject you.

Ultimately fundraising is selling. And in sales, your goal should, funnily enough, be to get as many rejections as possible. To eat "no" for breakfast, as it were.

Easier said than done, I know.

So what's the solution to all this?

I had to call them over a routine matter (address change) a couple months ago and it wasn't so bad apart from the odd phone tree referenced in this post.

The waiting time was about what you mentioned, but there was a convenient option to leave a call back number so you don't have to wait on hold.

I made a total of 3 calls, each spaced a few days apart. The first two agents were markedly impatient and eager to get me off the phone for some reason. The third one was very friendly and helpful and finally resolved the issue.

If you read the article, it was pretty much the only thing the government allowed them to do.

Good enough reason I think. Actually it might provide some further motivation for them to do so if they were considering not doing it previously.

> any cookie specifying non-consent is in itself anonymous

If you really make it anonymous, the downside then is that you have to keep asking the same visitor over and over again, each time they visit.

"Companies could easily avoid any cookie banner. Just don’t track."

It seems like a point dear to the author's heart, given the way he highlights this and puts it in bold at the top of the article.

But while it sounds good on the surface, it doesn't take much digging to show it's silly. If you store any kind of data about a visitor to make their life more convenient, is that tracking? Shopping carts? Notification preferences? etc.

It's actually a bit ironic to ask visitors if it's ok to track them. If they say no, you have to track them to at least remember that choice.

> If you’re already set for life it’s less risky to play the odds by investing in hundreds of startups rather than starting one.

Risky is not the word I would use to phrase that, at least not in the financial sense. There's little such risk there, "if you're already set for life" as you said.

More comfortable, for sure. Easier. PG has said as much himself on X several times when asked whether starting a company or investing was harder.

Moral of the story: Fire bad clients.

Getting into definitions here, but I would personally consider that image generator to be a nerfed tool, incapable of generating many kinds of images.

It will be impossible to stop this kind of behavior without completely nerfing these tools.

We’re here.

How is sound handled?

All I see in the Gemini docs is a terse sentence that says it isn’t included, which doesn’t sound like an optimal solution.

Looks like a really useful library - thanks for the tip.

That's not the same Magic...

It’s not a bad idea to keep stuff running on a shoestring budget to keep an eye on things, in case things change again.

Looks quite human. Usual mix of user agents and visit durations. It’s not hard to fake that though, I guess.

Reddit has always been like that, but X formerly converted quite well for us.

We advertise on X and have done so for many years now (well, it was Twitter for most of that period). Indeed we can confirm that we saw a big change happen around a couple of months ago or so - sometime towards the end of last year.

Our ads started getting literally orders of magnitude more traffic - we reduced the bids by a factor of 30x (no typo - that's thirty) and were surprised to see them taken up to the budget limit completely... we ended up spending a minor fraction of what we spent before for a lot more traffic.

So far, so good, right? Not so much. None of the traffic converted anymore. All useless. I can't remember the last actual conversion from X our conversion tracking software recorded at this point... weeks ago for sure. Formerly we got several a day.

It does sound strange to me. Other countries have much lower healthcare costs per capita than the US. They achieved that without any need for groundbreaking VC-funded startups. Perhaps there are some lower-hanging fruits here.