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How would this work? Wouldn't a reciprocal tariff with identical parameters by the US against EU tech companies completely obliterate EU tech landscape?

Man I suffer from this recently. Everything I read feels AI written but because it’s just a guess I get into this loop of questioning myself and then the whole read is ruined for me.

I hate it so much.

An important thing that this joke misses is that both economists now also owe federal income tax and social security tax.

I have a Macbook Pro M4 Max, an Apple Developer account, a bit of time, and some enthusiasm. Would love to help!

I think Google PMs would respond by saying that nobody in 2007 was like "Man, if only I could get rid of the physical keyboard on my smartphone".

You know, the whole "faster horse" argument.

https://sdf.lonestar.org has been around since 1987. They have a one-time lifetime membership fee of $36.

I feel like I would trust them more than probably anyone else for hosting a static website for a 100 years.

Funny because seven years ago Tom Cruise did a PSA about this exact same thing for Mission Impossible [1], during which he said “filmmakers are working with manufacturers to solve this issue”. I guess seven years later it’s still not solved.

[1] https://youtu.be/1J0Dan0WaZk?si=fPH8uL3FhaiCKIRy

> If AI frees up VFX artists so they can work on movies rather than commercials, I'm all for that.

This isn’t how it works. Excel didn’t free up bookkeepers to become CFOs. Digital photography didn’t free up photo lab technicians to become cinematographers.

The person who in 1970 would have been an accountant at Ford Motor Company with a pension and a mortgage is now, displaced by Excel, working at two burger joints to make ends meet, with no realistic path to anything better. The VFX artists will follow in the exact same footsteps. The shareholders will keep the difference, as they have time and again.

I do wish I were born early enough to have been a software engineer in eighties and early nineties.

> First and foremost listen to what your child is interested in

A child can only ever have interest in things he or she has been exposed to. A good environment will expose them to many different things, expanding their menu of interest options.

How would such verification work at planetary scale?

My favorite Reddit UX scam is that you tap on comments to collapse them along with their children, UNLESS they’re an ad that masks itself exactly like a comment in which case you tap it with the intent of collapsing it, but instead you inadvertently increase RDDT shareholder value (at the expense of the time you waste closing the webview)!

I’ve met a tremendous amount of very smart but miserable software engineers.

Most of them miserable because of utter lack of love in their lives.

In small part because they were snarky and egocentric, and in large part because they didn’t look that great by conventional standards.

What are the disadvantages of having all the shocks go fully into the jaw?

It is and many immigrant families frequent their origin countries for this purpose (my own as well as many others I know), but it’s hard for someone born and raised in the United States to conceptualize what this looks like in a country like Portugal, Armenia, Russia, Turkey, Korea, etc. There’s issues of trust, risk, learning new and unusual systems, travel discomfort, and the incumbent American system benefits from this. It’s a massive thing for someone in Nebraska to say “let me check treatment options for my chronic back pain in Seoul and run the numbers”.

There’s nothing, absolutely nothing that as an immigrant I loathe more in the United States than the healthcare system. It is disgusting. The mediocrity of the average doctor combined with how much they charge for that mediocrity blows my mind every time life forces me into their wretched cabinets.

Not necessarily, it’s either that, or the robots are so good it’s unattainable by the imperfect human flesh.

What is the conceptual difference between Cloudflare and the companies in that list? We all love a David vs Goliath story, but haven’t we learned anything after buying the “Don’t Be Evil” bullshit?

How does this happen?

> At least they’re not selling ads using your data

Sounds great, until a new CEO steps in. Any company is exactly one (or more often zero) CEO away from doing whatever they want (within legal constraints) with their business, in order to fulfill their fiduciary duty (and greed).

I really need to look into what building UI looks like with Rust + WASM nowadays. I've tried Dioxus in the past, but found its UI programming ergonomics to be atrocious.

Simple — Rust for everything except Typescript for browser/mobile and Python for scripting.

Is the concept here that a government, which may not be oppressive enough to spark a domestic uprising (and might even be broadly accepted by the majority of its own citizens due to common moral values or other merits), should be destabilized by external forces to provoke discontent and shift blame onto the government?

How would you "see" that, given that OpenAI isn't public?

> The fact that the most enthusiastic adopters of non-yellow emojis seem to be non-white people, while white people tend to be more on the ‘I was fine being yellow’ side… just suck it up and pick a color.

I come from a country where almost nobody is white, and pretty much everyone is happily using the yellow emojis.

As a not-white person I hate the skin colored emojis. I find them to be a ridiculous waste of human thought, effort, and time.

Why would real estate do well in a world of double digit interest rates?

Why must humans be responsible in court for the biological neural networks they possess and operate but corporations should not be responsible for the software neural networks they possess and operate?

Are there any attempts to formalize the concept of “common sense” in the context of AI? What would that look like?

As a person who owned multiple Teslas I really don’t understand the “poor build quality” sentiment. What other car at the same price point has better build quality? And if one or two do, does that make the Teslas build quality “poor”?

I had a MINI. That was a build quality disaster. Major engine issues after only three years. I now have a Silverado 1500 LTZ. It has obvious build quality issues. Interior isn’t as good as it used to be. Gearbox has a banging sound. My Teslas seem so much better than either of those or most other cars I interact with really. I sat in my friends Toyota Camry the other day. The interior seemed so much cheaper, the sound quality so much worse, the cabin was so much more loud than my humble Model 3. What about my car has poor build quality that I am oblivious to?

Works great on mobile Safari

I don’t know about Android but iOS does offer a picker. The user can grant permission for the app to access all photos, only selected photos, or none.