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I mean, EM set the expectation with his free flow of information and anti-draconian dream. I'm curious to see if anyone honestly believed it.

I feel like this is the greatest demand for LLMs at the moment too.

It's hard to believe we're only 8 months into this industry, so I imagine we'll start seeing smaller footprints soon.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879737

Is there any way around this, like spoofing headers or OS specs?

Tech competitiveness relies on network effects. Breaking up tech would just cede marketshare to companies like ByteDance and Baidu.

Any successful US-based tech post-breakup would be acquired by larger international players, like Tiktok was.

You're right, but not because of politics.

FTC is on a losing streak, with the latest fiasco being the Microsoft Activision acquisition fiasco.

Transition costs are prohibitive.

Some SaaS platforms bill just enough to stay under the cost of transitioning to a competitor (or building first party) to maximize revenue.

Comparatively more than it is now. It's a no-true-scotsman to exclude it.

Even at hypothetical 100% effectiveness, you're still going to be spending the same budget to match variable ROI on CPCs and CPA.

Nit: Tesla has word of mouth advertising, which works for automobiles when you have brand loyalty.

Cloud really does make most computing power fungible.

If Twitter's (or X?) performance is anything to go off of, that's probably not true.

Honest question: Why not subscribe?

IIRC content creators get more revenue per user from YT premium than ads.

Expensive right now, but at the rate things are going, we'll probably see more efficient LLMs for things like mobile real soon.

I remember when voice to text was expensive, now we have on-device neural networks working.

It was possible in some of the SimCity's IIRC, where you build a network of subways instead of roads.

Yep, and what your CPA is.

LTV for a 30 yr mortgage is hundreds of thousands - that pushes for some expensive clicks at auction.

The pixel is just an image, so unless you disable email images loading by default, the server will still count you.

Pre-caching will sometimes mess with the counters though, making the counts lower than the actual.

Email pixel tracking is an industry standard these days. Every time the email loads the pixel, it counts +1.

Some platforms like Gmail partially obfuscate it.

>If you choose to make your app eligible for auto install, Play can deliver your app to users’ devices automatically on launch day (if they’ve opted in).

It's up to the users.

I'd argue the internet has gotten worse over the years too.

Search results are only as good as the links to content that others make.

What was the prompt?

Not GP, but the utility of a social app is linked to network effects - i.e. the more people who use it, the more utility it provides. Otherwise you're risking tooting to the wind.

Possibly the Slippery Slope fallacy.

There's also an appeal to consequences where if the outcome of something is considered undesirable, then that something must be false.

Ethanol is technically an alcohol hydrocarbon, if we're getting into the weeds on semantics.

I think it's a combined vector of the drawing action - i.e. a true circle stays in place.

And that's what happened in this case, right? The author seems more upset that it tracked his visit to the coffee shop, which to GP's point, they opted into.

Post cloud boom, the expectation is cloud syncing, not the exception.

We used to joke that a drone mesh network to a local Starbucks was the best opsec.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with choosing products and services that don't align with your views either. Just look at conservatives trying to cancel budweiser & disney.

I wasn't aware of Ein's outspoken and proactive homophobia, so this is still news to some.

Nitpick: EPD is responsible for the cookie consents everywhere, not GDPR - https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

GDPR primarily concerns the user with information and takedown requests, the latter which could be considered deletion.