mrkramer

>And if you are consistently winning they will ban you! They can legally back off (reduce max bet to a tiny amount) or straight up ban people who bet smart.

I'm not from US, I'm from EU but I'm still paranoid of that so I only sports bet at state owned lottery/betting company.

>New, US-specific TikTok App, separate from the main TikTok app in content and users.

I'm from Europe so if I want to follow US content creators, I need to download separate US specific app?! Kinda silly.

YouTube's biggest strength is its scale; there is no web service out there that let's you upload literally unlimited amount of data for free.

If I were to make Wikipedia once again from the ground up I would put more attention into building reputation system of contributors. If you have more reputation you are allowed to edit something and/or your edit has more weight.

I remember when teachers in school use to tell us that Wikipedia sucks because there in no scientific peer review. They couldn't wrap their heads around the concept of casual crowdsourcing.

Why banks don't make their own blockchain or public distributed database of transactions or whatever else you want to call it. There are thousands of banks in the world and each of that bank can be a validator node. Seems like pretty robust network to me.

>- no company generates revenue in its first second. Even if you start a lemonade stand tomorrow, you'll have to buy some lemons first. The time-to-revenue might be very short, but it's never zero. Therefore, making no revenue for 1 day or for 10 years is not a step change, but simply a point on a curve.

Yea, it's called investment. If you want to get rich overnight play lottery or start gambling.

>A secure browser was never a concern.

Because majority of malware if not all was written for PCs. Nowadays still most of the malware targets PCs but now attacks targeting web users are more prevalent. Attackers attack through compromised websites or phishing websites using social engineering techniques or exploit kits[0]. Websites are dominant attack surface not web browsers because it is hard to find 0-day exploits and usually they are found and used by state sponsored attackers. Chrome is still the most secure browser because it has enormous market share and everybody is attacking it, both whitehat and blackhat actors so Chrome team is constantly fixing and patching Chrome.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploit_kit

Any word from Microsoft?

It increased my interest because LLMs can explain me something that would usually take days or weeks to research and learn.

In capitalism everybody specializes in something, retailers in trading, logistics in storage and transport and producers in producing. The most efficient way to improve all that is to have vertically integrated business where you do all of the above. In my country we had one big retailer like that but it became so huge and in the end it imploded. And yes I agree that capitalism is exploitive and I think that instead of working for salary people should work for equity. I would certainly be more motivated if I own piece of the business instead of merely getting a salary.

Maybe they will go back to mining crypto coins.

>Researchers at MIT published a report showing that 95% of the generative AI programs launched by companies failed to do the main thing they were intended for — ginning up more revenue.

AI startups were meant to solve problems in novel ways not to amass revenue.

I don't find short videos addicting because I feel like I'm not getting enough context and information from short videos. I like long form videos.

They offer "spying" services for your big data. Essentially something like Facebook and Google but without selling ads, instead spotting patterns that seem interesting for whatever reason.

I often compare China to the British empire: ruthless autocratic capitalistic dictatorship.

Payment ecosystem is so complex and convoluted that it is hard to tell. I was using my Visa card for years on Steam and all of a sudden Steam started refusing it. Steam support was repeatedly telling me that the problem is not on their end but on my end. At the end I figured out that I need to enable Visa 3D Secure feature on my credit card because I assume Visa was seeing a lot of fraud from Steam so they started requiring 2FA for Steam payments.

Also Bandcamp.com refused to accept the payment from my credit card and I contacted my bank and they told me that payments to Bandcamp are always blocked because of security reasons(that is their policy) and they had to manually approve my credit card for use on Bandcamp....which is totally fu*king crazy. Manually approving payment transactions in the 21st century is wrong. How the hell should I know which vendors are on my bank's blacklist?!

Tbh or at least that's my impression all comes down to the problem of fraud and crime. That's why we still have shitty payment providers and processors.

Cryptocurrency like Bitcoin can probably be made by LLM so if you have a good idea for cryptocurrency or some crypto token and you can vibe code it with LLM, perhaps it can reach a $1bn market cap.

>without permission

If it is without permission than it is illegal and people can sue otherwise web scraping is legal.

The only viable and useful alternative to Wikipedia that I found is https://golden.com/ (it somewhat loads slow for me but it is useful.)

Often when I search for startups and their founders I can't find information about them on Wikipedia but I find it on Golden.

My idea was to have Wikipedia like platform where you could write about yourself and then have your friends, family and colleagues confirm that information or vouch for that. You can even turn things around and give permission to your friends, family and colleagues to write and maintain Wiki page about you.

I don't use LinkedIn but when I stumble upon someone's page, I often see testimonies from their work colleagues about them.

Facebook and Instagram are too cheesy, I want something more genuine.

Ironically enough rampant piracy turned out to be the best method for preserving history because that way thousands of people have x or y thing on their hard drive stored and preserved in decentralized fashion. One way centralized archiving is fragile.

I don't understand why somebody didn't fork the Wikipedia and build the version where you can self promote. It kinda sucks that you are not allowed to claim and edit your Wikipedia page.

I doubt Google and Facebook are any better but the catch and the question is; how to measure awareness of ads e.g. if I see an ad and it sticks in my mind but that doesn't show up in advertiser's ad campaign analytics? Raw stats are one thing but awareness is another.

Maybe screen on your eyes(AR glasses like Zuck wants) or chip in your brain.

No I want my YT vids and AI summaries! /s

Yahoo wanted to be internet's hotspot for everything....ironically enough Google become that despite the fact that they rose to power because of their minimalism and search focus.

>in 2008, Microsoft offered $44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo.

Steve Ballmer was even more crazier than I thought.

>Inclined because, for example, Viaweb didn't become Shopify

Who cares, it gave Paul Graham money for the Y Combinator.