This seems true based on my experience. I've taken two startups from 0-$100,000/month in revenue on shoestring budgets, and I've tried for years to get a corporate job with no luck.
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Example: In 2024, I have to go into my AdWords account daily and prevent them from adding irrelevant search terms they decide I should use to eat up my PPC budget. At best, that's user-hostile, if not outright theft.
I pay openAI $20 a month as a user and another $2.5K for their API for our business, and if I could put a memo in the payments, it would be FGooG. I don't think OpenAI is any better, but I'm ready for some new flavor of corruption.
Google is eventually going to have to pay for decades of user-hostile behavior. They just aren't loved; there is no stored-up goodwill there, which means if someone else has a better mousetrap, they die. Programmatically letting companies bid against each other for their Yellow Pages listing clearly is the most lucrative business model in the history of the Earth, but let's see what's next.
The only questions are when and how and what will the rest of the world will do about it.
It may be that Apple's abusive track record in the App Store ends up getting them locked out of whatever the next thing is since it's clear that gated, extractive monopolistic practices are core to their identity and business model.
The problem we are solving is that about 1/3 of all web leads are fraudulent. Our clients are having trouble sorting through which leads are real people who want to do business and which ones are bots/BS. This ruling is disappointing.
There are better ways to solve this problem, as described for many years here and elsewhere there should be "postage" for messaging and calling. Sender pays, and they get their money back in full if the recipient responds. Costs spammers millions, costs normal people nothing or very close.
If you insist on proceeding... Validate demand first; once you find something you're sure people want, you know a great deal about these people and enjoy working with them. You're sure you can find lots of them, and you find the core problem you're working on fun and interesting.
My dad told me... "A successful business is when you can do something badly and people will still pay you for it." That's key in a startup because it takes a long time and a lot of money to do most things well, so you need customers who will settle for ok.
Good luck!
Good luck!
So US is adding about $1T per quarter in deficit?
Serious question, do deficits matter? Does this need to be resolved and if so how?
Like are companies like this a credible threat? https://www.cerebras.net/
I hear a big part of Nvidia's lock-in is that they provide software that runs these AI projects?
For example, the process for filing complaints could include a $1M fee refundable at 2X if you're right and a tax-paying citizen and/or entity.
These types of hackers exist outside of a society ruled by law, and it's unacceptable to let them leverage the tools of a civilized society if they don't live within its rules and pay taxes.
If someone has a better idea for how to fix the incentives, I'd be sincerely interested to hear it.
This, of course, could be done, but what if people driving fast are rushing to flee a rapidly advancing forest fire, tidal wave, active shooter, etc?
As a check on the ever-growing power of government and surveillance tech, anytime a system is capable of taking away someone's liberty, there should be a human in the loop on the other side to make sure those decisions are reasonable.
Edit: Or just don't take away their liberty at all
I looked to cite this but couldn't find it on Google, so I may be mistaken...
It would also be helpful if the warrantees on these electrics where much longer, and/or if most EVs moved toward a leasing model. Consumers are rightly concerned about the long term maintenance and resale value uncertainty around electrics.
The detailed list of specific injuries to victims here is sad... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
Whatever the manufacturing challenges are would be worth addressing to essentially have no paint.
You can have your Tesla in any color as long as it's bare metal.
I imagine it could be used to make unlimited hacking attempts on websites and industrial control systems (power grids). Could be used for propaganda also. Are those what everyone is worried about or is there much more to it I'm not considering?
America needs to stop being the world police and start being an arms dealer. We have the weapons, democracies that want to buy them to defend their borders from tyrants are welcome to. The notion that we should send our young people to put their lives on the line for some other country is absurd. Let them fight for their own freedom with American weapons.