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prasadjoglekar··on Samsung TV privacy issues
You are unlike most people. Most people just want to come home and watch TV. Historically it used to be cable, now it's YouTube or similar. What do you think is the quickest way to watch YouTube?
prasadjoglekar··on The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
Parent had a sarcastic reaction to Texas burning fossil fuels - which they have a lot of. They also have sunshine. Sweden seems to have neither but has hydro.

Point is each geographic entity is maximizing their resources. And they have every right to without outside interference.

prasadjoglekar··on The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
Chat GPT output; do take with a grain of salt.

TX generated 4x the absolute solar electricity as Sweden and 5x per person in the last 12 months.

prasadjoglekar··on Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations
For the same reason people buy shiny new cars, bikes, keyboards....you name it. The novelty and sometimes bragging rights in the circles they inhabit.
prasadjoglekar··on Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees
The opposite of what's being alleged. From TFA:

Broadly, the interlocking restraints set and maintained by the defendants have forced merchants that accept any Visa and Mastercard credit card to accept all such cards, regardless of cost, thereby eliminating any incentive for issuing banks to compete by lowering their fees, the suit says. The lawsuit claims the challenged restraints have also prevented merchants from being able to steer customers to lower-cost payment options—for instance, by surcharging based on a customer’s use of a particular card. These and other restraints have prevented competition among issuing banks and other credit card networks, allowing the financial giants to raise their fees every year “without consequence,” the case alleges.

prasadjoglekar··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
It's how things were always done. The content from broadcasters has/had audio watermarks...frequencies which humans can't hear.
prasadjoglekar··on AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
To be fair - no one is suggesting the gunslinger shouldn't go to jail or worse. It's using that crime as an excuse to take other people's guns away.

In this example, the equivalent would be everyone gets their AI models banned vs. putting the perpetrator of this fraud in jail.

prasadjoglekar··on EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
Good thing that Chevron is no longer the law of the land right? So courts can review the law without regard to what the EPA says.
prasadjoglekar··on AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
For enough income, maxing out 401K is the one way to reduce taxes and keep your money.
prasadjoglekar··on Which streaming service was that on again?
We need an updated version of this:

https://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg

prasadjoglekar··on Airbus Takes Flight from AWS
A symptom of the larger problem to want to divest and outsource everything not considered a "core competence". Hence the outsourcing of everything from housekeeping to IT
prasadjoglekar··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
Also, get off my lawn.
prasadjoglekar··on We Got This Wrong. and We Are Fixing It
ToS missteps notwithstanding, it's a bit more than your data surfaced back to you. You share your data and in return you get to share in other people's data. Fairly common community data.

Whether it's what HubSpot customers want, opt in/opt out are valid criticisms.

prasadjoglekar··on [dead]
In fairness, all of these firings are at public universities. The 1A applies at a much higher bar than a corporation.

The shoe was on the other foot when conservative professors were being fired or disciplined for expressing - say "anti trans" viewpoints publicly. The outcomes were largely the same.

prasadjoglekar··on Virginia bans sale of geolocation data
The biggest issue is that enforcement and litigation is limited to the VA AG. You and I as wronged citizens can't go sue.

That's corny capitalism. A sibling post that talked about 1750 ft or whatever is just noise.

prasadjoglekar··on The Doom Justifies the Valuation
Setting up for the eventual bailout. Remember - "we can't let banks fail or it'll be a depression"?
prasadjoglekar··on Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
It's a mixed bag at best. The product has had numerous features pushed, but in the US, the navigation feature is objectively worse than 5+ years ago. Too much spoonfeeding of directions to ensure the app is kept on. But the app won't actually tell you the freeway number and direction - which the driver can see on the dozen signs on the road.

Or, the incessant "police activity" shit from Waze. That creates all kinds of rear ending hazards as morons try to slow down.

prasadjoglekar··on Fox to buy Roku
No different than a tech platform expanding into content. Like YouTube, Amazon and Apple. I understand your complaint, but those two worlds are intertwined beyond redemption now.
prasadjoglekar··on There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing
All the more reason to let states and local governments do more. Rather than a unitary congress or executive that only 1/2 the people (+/-) like.
prasadjoglekar··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Yes. Plenty is correct. Fidelity let's you buy SpaceX at IPO with only $2K in the bank.

And there are other reasons to be cautious. Many passive funds don't license the SP500 and instead mirror it with their own synthetic index. They are not bound to respect this decision.

prasadjoglekar··on How to convert between wealth and income tax
Social security and Medicare are also payroll "taxes" in that they're not optional and are automatically deducted.
prasadjoglekar··on Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
Au contraire, enacting such a law is akin to forcing FB to support certain speech. That itself is unconstitutional and any such legislation would be struck down.
prasadjoglekar··on Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight
NYC unions are not your average worker. In my north of NYC town the labor rate for a union worker is 3x that of non union..and state laws mandate govt projects must pay that rate.
prasadjoglekar··on Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
Very much dependent on age, rest and general conditioning. I went from sea level to 14K at Pikes peak in 1 day and it was quite uncomfortable. I managed, but folks who lived in Denver with lower physical fitness levels than me, did better.
prasadjoglekar··on OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
$100B isn't a startup. And if there's a $100B deal, you better believe the cash is there. Case in point - Netflix/Paramount wanting to buy WB. Or the $44B that Musk had to raise to buy out Twitter shareholders.
prasadjoglekar··on Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online
Take it to it's logical conclusion. Free universal choice of schools rather than being tethered to your home address.
prasadjoglekar··on OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
The revenue is in the ads. If they hit a decent run rate prior to the IPO then there's a viable path to profitablity and justification for the insane capex.
prasadjoglekar··on Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6B valuation
More WeWork than Theranos. Theranos was a fraud.

WeWork was a legit real estate business with a SaaS multiple on valuations.

prasadjoglekar··on CBP says it can't comply with refund order
The headline is absolutely declarative. CBP can't comply. Period.

That's not what CBP said, and the article itself has the nuance that the headline doesn't

prasadjoglekar··on New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice
True. But just changing the prompt to include "cite me cases" expands the search to court systems and actual cases. It's pretty useful as a first pass to get a sense for the issues, precedents and laws at stake.
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