lobsterthief

Thanks for sharing this here, for those of us who avoid X.com like the plague.

What’s your sample size? Unless it’s 30+ politically-neutral manufacturing founders, you’re citing anecdotal evidence.

It must not involve electrical components either, or any of the other inputs the US cannot produce at the scale or price-point of other countries.

Same here in Uruguay but only for certain interactions (like contractors). Thankfully there’s a transcription feature that catches 90% of the message generally.

I think they were just excited to share that a newer game exists, given OC was posting how they liked it.

I disagree. It’s possible that AI removed more people from the chain and that more human involvement could have prevented it from happening.

What’s the sample size here? Sounds like anecdotal evidence to me.

Yes, the side effect has been me using Reddit via Incognito, which means I don’t see it every time I open iOS Chrome, and also I’m not signed in, so after 14 years I’ve basically stopped using it.

I guess with their IPO “the line must go up”. Very stupid, dark pattern.

… in these trying times?

I agree (from semi-relevant experience). Also, any “poor” country that’s inexpensive enough to fit this requirements probably isn’t one you’d voluntarily live in.

Side note for the original commenter: It would be kinder and more accurate to state “lower cost of living countries” than “poor countries”. There are numerous lower COL countries that offer a higher quality of life a than that of the US but they aren’t “poor” (I moved to one).

Related: Great new Freakonomics podcast about why we do poorly under pressure[0]

[0] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/choking_radio/

You’ve cherry-picked two successful examples but ignored all his failures. He wasn’t even solely responsible for those two successes. He didn’t found Tesla. He didn’t even found PayPal. He’s not an aerospace engineer. The number one predictor of future wealth and success is starting with wealth to begin with.

In some countries (e.g. Uruguay) it’s possible to ingrain anticorruption ideals into the fabric of society. This lowers the overall level of corruption as citizens are more likely to feel it’s wrong and they’re raised to call out corruption when they see it. I guess we’d call this “social responsibility”. Of course, the social aspect must be coupled with governmental and legislative changes aimed directly at increasing transparency and reducing corruption—this is what was done in Uruguay, at least.

Corruption isn’t eliminated entirely but is drastically reduced. Taxes then get spent on society instead of corrupt politicians. The result is more bureaucracy but it also placed the country lower than the US on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)[0]. CPI has its own measurement issues but is the best we’ve got.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

Yes, again, as part of a well-regulated militia…

High-hold hairspray will work wonders for you. I’ve been using it to print, including on glass, since 2014.

Because the FTC has been defanged, and it was the main body preventing this sort of thing. Along with the CFPB for financial products (I don’t think insurance qualifies though.)

As a CTO this has been my experience as well. I would add in every non-technical C-suite member aiming to use AI as some magic lever to avoid prioritizing projects or engaging in real critical thinking. Too many people are offloading their cognitive decisionmaking to some magic box, thinking it has all the answers, because its output appears magical and complete.

After 25 years in programming I think I’ll finally start that farm ;)

Just Google it yourself; numerous legitimate publications have reported on it.

Unfortunately this SCOTUS is not comprised of those who the founders intended would sit on it.

I wouldn’t say “would likely abide”, I would say “will abide” based on their actions. They are nothing but an extension of the Trump administration at this point.

Agreed, I’ve been using Dropbox for 15 years with minimal issues. The key is to ensure it’s running and syncing with the proper settings on both machines.

What can get things into a weird state is if both machines are editing the same file while only one of them is actively syncing. But for basic backup and sync, this is extremely rare.

And Django is still great!

But we need to be careful, such strict liability rewards larger companies that can afford such risk. Small companies and freelancers could be left out to dry.

I think the laws would need to be generally around not hindering competition. If competition were high, and you had a dozen operating systems to choose from, then you’d move away from this annoying one (Windows). And thus Windows would have a lower incentive to engage in this behavior. But current laws don’t discourage monopolies/oligopolies.

This is why the user can’t be trusted to assign severity. Incentives across teams aren’t aligned and they don’t have visibility into other issues even if they were aligned.

But then the Chinese government has the ultimate say and, propaganda aside, if they don’t like what your product is you might suddenly lose access to said LLM provider.

People believe X can’t happen there until it happens. Tale as old as time.

They’ve really improved Projects! If your team is entirely technical, this can replace Jira.

Great summary, thank you for taking the time

If he keeps surrounding himself with sketchy people, people will look at him as a sketchy person. It’s not because he’s Sam Altman; it’s because of the people he surrounds himself with—and the things he says and does, of course.