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I always hate it when a person tries to "X Y problem" me.

I have to explain that, yes, I'm looking at other options, but I'm also exploring this option and need to answer this specific question.

People try to use "X Y problem" to feel superior somehow.

Reddit has the most advanced AI system.

I tried to post on r/showerthoughts several times over the past 10 years. And every time it deleted my post saying my thought wasn't original. I was wow how they would even know that, and this was pre-AI.

The first layoff or in this case the first buyout is probably the most generous one.

The parent comment I originally replied to prefers "ooh, gotcha" too; they mentioned the sarcastic "My kids must be losers"

Nobody here intends to have an actual conversation including you. You know this but still act obtuse.

so, you mean they still let the kids use tablets then. I thought tablets were poison.

They smacked their children. Not sure if we want to go there.

If a kid made a scene in public back in 1950, they would be smacked. In fact, in many countries in the world, people are still pro-smacking. Teachers can smack the kids with no moral issue.

Mental health for kids before 2000 was much worse... to be generous to the older generations.

They might be because they don't get to build the muscle around how to control themselves in front of addictive software. It's an important skill to develop.

Yeah, even if we are looking at some top developing countries like Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, the corruptions at these countries are insane at every level compared to US, and I'm not even exaggerating.

But Americans and westerners visit these countries and they love it. They would be like wow the countries are paradise, so convenient, and etc.

> we still did not know how COVID was transmitted

If we didn't know, then the correct action would be to exercise pre-caution.

> at that time there was perceived to be a strong likelihood of supply shortages that would affect medical providers worldwide

Then, say that. Instead they specifically recommended against masks and said masks wasn't effective.

COVID is visibly like a flu where people cough. Saying masks doesn't work for flu-like diseases raises red flags... but people who dared questioning it were branded "anti-science".

> The united states is the most corrupt country i've witnessed (first hand),

Well, you haven't traveled much to other countries, I suppose.

Trump would look like an angel compared to other leaders in developing countries.

It's like during the covid era where CDC and WHO recommended against wearing masks. Anyone dared questioning it was branded anti-sciene.

Yeah, they have the brand name already. Can sell to large traditional orgs like hospitals, governments, and etc.

Formatting, syncing, and organization but yeah the benefits are too small for many people including me. I just use vscode.

However, enough people find those things valuable enough that Obsidian has millions of paying users.

I don't think software really need to penetrate more than 1% of the market to be profitable. If Obsidian penetrated even 10% of the market, they would have been worth >$30B lol.

> antitrust regulation

This is kinda amusing.

An antitrust case over an AI girlfriend... I didn't even know there was a monopoly on that.

Maybe Anthropic.

I imagine, when your company grew astronomically fast to the level that was unseen in the past, the investors would be a lot more forgiving.

I doubt it.

People have a hard time differentiating between bets vs. fraud.

OpenAI is a bet. Maybe a bad bet. Sure. But everyone knows it is a bet. Their investors are experienced and multi-millionaires with teams of analysts. They cannot just act like they are dumb. Not say it's impossible but highly unlikely they can just claim they don't know any better.

SBF was a fraud for using the customers' funds. The customers were promised that their money wouldn't be used for anything. And their customers are average people. Albeit, SBF's investments are pretty godlike based on the current valuations.

A companies with thousands of engineers should simply go native.

Write once, deploy everywhere like React Native mainly benefits small teams and startups who are okay with building 90/10 solutions.

At the shopify's scale, they would want to go advance for every corner of the apps and use cases, and only native allows that.

I've stopped using Spotify for 2 years now.

What I've realized is that Spotify is great for discovering new songs. But I'm a grown up and listen to the same hundreds of songs every day anyway. No need to keep paying the taxes.

> they definitely will be solved by removing the cameras

We'll see.

These are public areas. It's not spying.

Almost every house in my neighborhood has 1-2 cameras pointing around their houses. When there's an issue, my neighbors share the footages with the group, and that's so useful. And I live in a very very democrat state/city.

Also, we should definitely address the privacy and access control issue with Flock. Removing the cameras isn't the right solution.

The kind where the author hates the omarchy creator, so every issue is a world-ending issue.

Because many people agree with having cameras to help reduce/monitor crimes.

From their views, the right isn't trampled. It's a win

A Cursor CEO's tweet.

Cursor founder just tweeted that he was sad to see this ban and that OpenAI model represented around 5% of total usage.

Burn.

What a failure. Only be able to afford a giant painting. A truly successful person should've been able to afford a football-stadium-sized painting.

That's true. By any standard, Facebook is very much a failure.

OpenAI-Anthropic is similar to Twitter-Facebook.

Twitter was full of dramas at the exec and founder level, and that impacted their execution.

Facebook had strong leadership, was very focused, and executed well.

I am sure my country's economy sucks.

But then nobody really screams apocalypse. But, in US, people are so alarmed about US' economy collapsing.

Can somebody explain what this means exactly?

Why do they need to pay it back? If they pay it back, then what will happen?

I'm from a developing country. My country is objectively much worse than US in every aspect. My country doesn't export anything significant. There's no innovation. insane level of corruption. Yet we don't have this issue. Nobody screams that the country will collapse.

Is this kind of doomsday thinking an American-only culture?

Actually, increasing the fees will lead to more expensive in-game products. Higher price = higher barrier will reduce the number of players.

Therefore, this is opposite of praying on the kids.