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No one outside of select circles cares.

Pegasus is notoriously sold to more than 40 countries worldwide, among them a fair share of dictatorships: Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, (Hungary?), Bahrain, Russia...

> The NSO is only supplying a product for which there is insatiable demand from every government.

There is also insatiable demand for nuclear weapons, but if a private company from the US started selling them to random dictatorships, yes, I would blame them.

Why would you trust anything a spyware company says? This is not a tongue-in-cheek question.

Youtube is somewhere between number 2 and 5 in traffic ranking in Japan. What are you on about?

I think Apple will be a lot more hurt by not having Youtube on their devices than the other way around. Youtube is ubiquitous and has no alternative. If I was Alphabet, the price would be 0.

A clear sign that good anti-monopoly regulations result in a better world. Less rent-seeking from Apple at the expense of smaller software developers, more agency for users when it comes to choosing their browser engine. I am sorry for non-EU consumers.

Where is the face enhancing feature?

Can't any random international bank propose the same service for cheaper? Or are they already making more money than Wise ever would by taking larger fees?

I think one of the biggest barriers is that the human brain isn't running on binary code, and attempting to replicate it on our current technology model is doomed to encounter emulation issues.

The gotcha is that these stores aren't theirs.

Rolex is very happy to use retailers to sell their watches, they're just not happy with retailers having the freedom to sell their watches as they deem appropriate.

It's basically retailer freedom to sell as they wish vs Rolex's freedom to prevent the retailer selling as it wishes, and I tend instinctively to support the little guy in these fights.

Unless the OP is using a 8K monitor with professional color grading, I don't understand how he can say that some of these pictures are "looking like shit". They all look exactly the same to me on my regular 27" 1080p, on my 27" 2K or on my iPhone.

It's so weird that an oligopolistic industry with the largest barriers to entry (your average CPU factory will cost $5/10+ billions, and that's just the factory) have the lowest margin, by far. Why is that so?

The big difference is that Apple isn't the largest advertising company in the world, and makes money through other ways.

What exactly is the issue with proprietary drivers? They ship the hardware, they ship the driver(s). That's their problem. They probably want people to be able to use their cards. Why fight this battle?

If Nvidia wants to lose Linux users by not shipping drivers, let them fall, but I don't see the point in badly replicating drivers and making them "open-source". You still bought the GC from BigCorp, and only Nvidia can make those cards anyway: this "open-source" driver can't exist without Nvidia making cards. Who benefits from all that work?

In Java, BigDecimal (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/api/java.base...) is the standard. It's used widely in every bank around the world. In Python, you have Decimal. In C#, Decimal works also great.

It's not like COBOL has a particular edge against "modern" languages, but it has legacy with it.

Haven't most of these codebases moved to C#/Java over the past 20 years? I feel like Cobol is truly a thing of the past, even for your average old-school bank/insurance behemoth, but then I might live in a bubble.

VTV (to name the biggest one) has been consistently either tracking below or severely underperforming the S&P. If there is value to be found, that's not there.

He's simply trying to dismantle the Swedish social contract right now, but he's a good boy you see? Let's make him richer and gain more influence!

"Not voting for [xxx] because you hate [xxx] is just as silly as voting for [xxx] because you hate [xxx]"

Value investing has very little to do with investing in ETFs/indexes. By definition, investing in an ETF can't be value investing, because value investing is about picking (yes, picking) stocks that are undervalued. And that implies going against the market. The complete opposite in buying into the market through an ETF.

Isn't it very easy to "dump" electricity? Why even sell it?

On which planet is nuclear more expensive than the ones you mentioned?

Obviously. The surface for such an enterprise is tiny, while a worldwide multinational with hundred of thousands of employees and contractors can't afford that luxury.

"Why should I be the one to take out the trash?"

It's just a bunch of privileged armchair humanitarians who never left the confines of their fancy circles, let alone been confronted to the things they're trying to fix. They think they can fix issues better than NGOs which have had boots on the grounds for decades, just because they know python and excel, as if people actually working on humanitarian causes were benevolent r**ards. Of course, it allows for great intellectual masturbation and self-congratulation, as if fixing complex social/ecological issues was just about "cracking a problem" and presenting a neat 12-page PPT presentation, before moving to the next problem.

If any of these people actually walked the talk, we'd see a lot more one-way tickets to Africa for them to finally be able to employ their beautiful minds on real problems.

Scraping is about hundred of millions/billions of pages, not thousands.

I don't see how that contradicts my point. With your provider, we're talking about a 100% price increase, for what can't be more than a few points of accuracy in return (and a huuuuge slowdown, because LLMs are slow). At scale, it's all about going through a lot of pages, and fast: accuracy is a bonus, and being 90% accurate is better than being 99% accurate if the throughput is divided by 10 or more.

No large-scale email scraper has the budget necessary to run the content it scrapes through a LLM. So as far as real-world goes, nothing changes: the .2 cents it would cost to run ChatGPT on a page to extract potentially obfuscated emails would cost magnitudes more than it could ever bring in revenues.

Regarding the examples provided, there is nothing there that a simple regex couldn't achieve, so I don't really see the benefit of introducing a LLM into the flow, besides making it slower and more costly. john [at] company [dot] com was never a safe obfuscation in the first place, and ~99% of text obfuscations are known (because they have to be read by a human ultimately, and conventions are a thing).

How could the system even guess that you'd be departing from home? That you'll need transport to and from the court? That you want to play for one hour?

I don't see these statements as "assembly language", they are questions a human assistant would ask as well.