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Poor people don't save because they are poor and there's nothing to save.

It costs loads more to be poor than to have some money. You won't save money by buying up-front, if your credit is low you'll pay more than a person with more money, you miss payments and the late fees rack up, you overdraft and your fees add up, you can't go on autopay to save money because you risk going into overdraft, etc.

Maybe if the 1% didn't own 50% off all the resources (money) than poor people could find some money to save.

> the service has one clear goal - build the best product they can for their users.

I don't believe this in the case of anything funded with big VC money. But let's say that Perplexity is trying to build the best product they can. They are scraping content and selling (or giving it) to their users, but at whose expense? Users get a convenient search engine and content makers get their work scraped. But now Perpelixity will let content makers pay them money so they can get traffic back to their site. This is kind of just the internet services 30 year timeline on a speedrun.

> It's why we have an epidemic of screen addiction and social isolation.

Advertising isn't why this happens. Massive greed, immoral behavior, and natural human behavior to be entertained and distracted is why you get screen addiction. Netflix changing it's model to ads based is because they make more money that way, not because viewers get more addicted from ads. Meta makes an absurd profit every quarter but two years from now they'll inject more ads into your feed to make more profit.

Corporations have record profits and record stock prices, and then fire thousands of people only to get rewarded with their stock price going up. The entire system is just set up wrong.

And IMO Perplexity is fucking gross way more than advertising.

The first one is humorous, but the second is a little iffy (lying to your family). But the final shot of the mom is funny because she looks almost nefarious.

I think something similar was in the Apple Keynote but it wasn't as nefarious. Basically, your worklife is hell so you forgot your kids play but magic AI cures it by letting you know that it's coming up? I forget exactly what it was but it seems like something a calendar reminder could have solved.

I think all these consumer facing AI tools seem to not address the root of all the problems that connected technology has brought on. It's like being allergic to dairy but instead of abstaining, you just take a lactaid pill and keep eating pizza.

Agreed, I was just making a comment that the changes can be from the artists and not the services.

I've been streaming music since Yahoo music, but have started to change my ways by buying vinyl or digital through the artists own site or bandcamp. It's less about my music changing and more about supporting the artists instead of the corporations taking a big cut.

I mean it's clearly not caring about the author of the works. With a Disney movie you're not making a difference in the creators pockets, but an author of a book or a comic do feel the effects of pirating.

> If consumers just made a leap for physical copies again it also wouldn’t be this way.

How so? When DVDs and VHS were at their most popular not everything was in print or available.

They've been changing album covers and songs since at least the 70s. This isn't anything new or recent, except streaming makes it a lot more convenient while also getting artists out of hot legal water like the Gorillaz change. I'm not here to defend streaming services (vampires), but changes are coming from the artist and not the service. Youtube didn't take out the spongebob sample in the Gorillaz song.

Obligatory billy woods + kenny segal's Spongebob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83F4JpVu61k

I second this thought. The first thing I thought was when I recording v-drums. Overall great product and idea.

I've never had much of a fear of not being good enough for others but I've had a fear of not being good enough for myself. I don't know if this will get you over the hurdle but here's what really opened up my work and had me procrastinating less as an artist was:

The act and the process of creating art is what I enjoy. The outcome of that work and sense of accomplishment is fleeting, not that important, and a little out of my hands.

Once I realized this I just make more things, take more chances, and find myself making "better" work than I ever have. So just spend your time doing the thing you like doing. If you don't actually enjoy the process then you probably aren't meant to do it, regardless of the outcome or the accolades.

I'm not sure why you don't think there's not a place for research. Personally, I think social media, and just the internet itself, is most likely harming society as it's by and large run by corporations. I would love to see research validate or invalidate this in multiple ways.

My thesis is anything too big or too large is usually bad for society. Forums, social media, corporations, etc. lose their humanity and good once they reach a certain size.

This has nothing to do with safety or helping their community, but all to do with gaining market share. This is literally an inexpensive investment in his investment made through legal loopholes.

15% of people in Vegas live in poverty while this person sits on billions of dollars. It looks like the entire city of Las Vegas only had $12m in 2024 to go to homelessness and food, but this guy is using $7.8m for surveillance "making things safer".

Damien Hirst did a similar thing with his art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_God

I believe Beeple had his NFTs purchased by some platform or NFT investor group. Scammers continue.

I've used VLC for a long time as well, and while I wouldn't call it crusty, I would call it odd. Powerful, super capable, but doesn't seem to follow standard conventions. Honestly, it's odd but I would rather they don't do some overhaul to standardize or modernize it. Software, hardware, etc. don't have to be homogenous or turn into bland corporate-ware.

Here I was looking to learn some new art technique through various mediums in the 19th century.

The parent comment said "uncontrolled".

It also boggles the mind that immigrants are the issue while the 1% own as much as the entire middle class, while the bottom class owns nothing at all. When you pay more for groceries, or rent, or gas do you think it's the immigrants making it expensive?

This is also what billionaires and the rich want, which is how you can tell rural USA isn't going to gain anything. But they'll blame immigration or some other issue instead of the people swimming in gold coins, making them work harder for less money year over year.

There's 2x the amount of border apprehensions under Biden than Trump. I'm sure more people are trying to get into the country under Biden than trump so let's say the control is pretty even but not uncontrolled.

https://usafacts.org/topics/immigration-border-security/

I don't know why they chase other products when they could take both of those and have some sort of premium additions to charge for. I pay for my mail clients, my calendar clients, and would pay for a browser with extra features / extensions.

Focus on the things people are using and not on becoming a VPN provider.

That said I like, and use, Firefox for all of my work related tasks. And I have nothing against them having "too many employees". A non-profit providing jobs is not a bad thing and feels like the best of both worlds.

You can use use get info (command + i) on the application file and drag and drop a new icon. App updates would get rid of that though.

Overall, this is affordable and easier if you really want to make a lot of changes.

Apple has gotten into Windows and PC territory with their naming for chips and models. Kind of funny to see the evolution of a compact product line and naming convention slowly turn into spreadsheet worthy comparison charts.

That all said, I only have an M1 and it's still impressive to me.

I would go multiple routes with Apple if you're able. They tend to be pretty good with in warranty and even out of warranty.

> It was largely used as a way to trick search engines.

I imagine this happens with LLMs and everything else over time. Along with the ads and pay for placement.

Pure snark but use AI to learn about line-height in CSS! Hard to read in Safari MacOS.

I'm not a kid and I know about bookmarks, but I prefer using apps to apps in my browser. Electron apps I have less interest in, but I really don't like working in something like Figma (which is in the top of it's class) in the browser.

In-browser apps do all sorts of clunky things like going back a page because I'm trying to scroll right or left or hotkeys not working. Native apps feel so much better to use and I can close my browser and stay focused on the task.

If you were to respect things like lights and lanes in NYC you would never get anywhere. I believe the city is generally pretty safe when it comes to pedestrians. Usually deaths are late at night from truck drivers going way too fast in the outer boroughs.

This doesn't indicate cities but shows by state and NY is very low compared to others. The worst thing is deaths are up in the country and the "light truck" seems to be a leading factor: https://www.ghsa.org/resources/Pedestrians24

NYC here. I always used the crosswalk when I was with my child to teach him the safest way.

Impressive shaders, blog, website, and work. Really nice to see thought and details going into what looks like every aspect of their domain.

Glad you made that work but that's counting steady job, steady health, no kids, cost of living staying the same the entire time.