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thefounder··on Chinese students charged with lying on midnight trip to Michigan military site
Why do they travel with photos stored on physical devices/phone instead to simply “email” them home?
thefounder··on Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store
Well chances are that Apple will start accepting out of AppStore installs as well. At least in the EU so you don’t have to worry much about Google stopping apps being installed outside of google playstore
thefounder··on FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia
And who invests in companies that merely recoup the R&D ?
thefounder··on FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia
It may not be fair math. The company may bet on 10 different things and just one pays off. It needs to pay off for the bad bets as well.
thefounder··on Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here's an early look
What’s hate speech to you is free speech to someone else.
thefounder··on Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here's an early look
So this will be similar to Google Appengine(now Google run) ? If that’s the case I would love to give it a try but then I need close SQL server nearby and other open source services as well
thefounder··on House passes $1.6B to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas
Right…and 3 years prison for that. The gap got pretty narrower. I think half of the gaming communities should be put in jail under this law.

Saying a trans women is a boy is also gender hatred with possible catastrophic harm (as we know the suicide rate is pretty high on trans people). To be honest I would not be surprised at all to see people in jail for what JK Rowling said.

thefounder··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
You would be surprised how many people pay for OF content. The novelty is that the clients are picked using mainstream social media. Most actually believe they talk with the influencer while in reality the “influencer” doesn’t even know where its content is distributed(not that she cares). Chatters and voice-overs are the norm.
thefounder··on House passes $1.6B to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas
After stating that she was “completely sure that he knew racial hatred would be stirred up” as a result of his “utterly repulsive, racist and shocking posts that have no place in civilised society, including on social media”, HH Judge Lucking sentenced Kay to three years and two months in prison. Detective Chief Superintendent Rich Tompkins said: “I hope this case sends a very clear message to people who think they can hide behind a screen and publish hateful, racially prejudiced posts without consequence.
thefounder··on House passes $1.6B to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas
What about this one? https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/news/in-court...
thefounder··on House passes $1.6B to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas
Well, the law is there. How it applies it’s a different thing. Here is one fresh that actually got jail time for posting mean stuff https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/news/in-court...
thefounder··on House passes $1.6B to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas
I think it’s about hate speech but the OP doesn’t know that UK!= EU.

For example in the UK you may get jail time if you say a transgender girl is actually boy or whatever. See here one famous case: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna146065

That being said free speech is being eroded in the EU as well but the UK is “leading” that.

For example the EU tries for some time to mandate backdoors into encrypted chat applications.

thefounder··on Tesla self-driving promises are getting weaker on new cars
The only issue with Tesla is that sometimes they fully self drive themselves into other cars or static objects. But rest be assured they are Fully self driving.

The official and legal requirement is not important. The only important thing is what Tesla’s marketing team says about its own features(I.e FSD).

If I think a bit about this I think I could make an unofficial FSD system as well.

>>The CEO went as far as claiming that this would make Tesla vehicles “appreciating assets”

Right…

Meanwhile they can’t even make it legal for level 3 like other auto manufacturers(I.e Benz)

thefounder··on Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
I think the plan is to raise a lot of cash and then more and then maybe something comes up that brings us closer to AGI(i.e something better than LLM). The investors know that AGI is not really the goal but they can’t miss the next trillion dollar company.
thefounder··on Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype aces 2nd test flight
I think this is really tough especially since the US is a big market and usually airlines don’t like to buy planes that only fly in specific countries.
thefounder··on I was asked to leave an event for female founders because I had my baby with me
I call this b.s as it sounds like religion in the first place and forgets that being a parent it’s not only about creating life. That’s the “easy” part and you don’t have very much of an input(I.e compared with other mammals anyway).
thefounder··on AltStore PAL receives Epic Games MegaGrant, will no longer require subscription
The issue is the “core technology fee”. There shouldn’t be any OS fee to install apps on your device. This became beyond ridiculous. A kind of “black mirror” episode,
thefounder··on Cancer rates are rising in young people
Yeah but unless he does something very stupid(which is hard considering there is Trump) he has no chance/traction.
thefounder··on Cancer rates are rising in young people
Ultra-processed foods is the new tabacco or even worse. I wonder how long until we start to see the warnings on each package like on cigarettes.
thefounder··on A high energy hadron collider on the Moon
The tech to build a collider on the moon seems quite enticing to me.
thefounder··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
I think that’s a different fee. As a merchant accepting credit card or debit card payments is going to cost you the same 2-3%. At least that’s what Stripe or local payment processors charge
thefounder··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
I think visa and Mastercard have the same behaviour even supported by the governments. You can’t add the visa fee to the checkout.
thefounder··on Waymo the Leapfrog
I heard Tesla has no real FSD. Just a broken prototype with customers used as Guinea pigs.
thefounder··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
Invention is one thing, a product to sell is almost an entirely different thing. The more I see the more I realise that being technical is almost all the time the least important part.

You need to get people around you to succeed. In practice that means investors so that you can hire and people with the right connections so you can get sweet deals.

You need people skills not inventions. And a bit more fake it until you make it rather than correct/technical information.

thefounder··on China builds first dedicated drone carrier
Well I knew that in 1998, immediately after playing StarCraft with Protoss. Too bad I didn’t have the right connection s to sell this precious information to the U.S army
thefounder··on China builds first dedicated drone carrier
The U.S could do the future war trial in Ukraine. Such a missed opportunity…it’s clear that the heavy weapons packages are not enough. Taking out drones with patriot works against the economics of war.
thefounder··on Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right
I can either use the apple account on the latest iOS or on the old Mac mini but not on both. Basically when I’ve tried to log in on the iPhone it told me I need to upgrade the Mac mini or remove it if I want to use the account on my iPhone. Obviously I removed the account from Mac mini. Perhaps I can create new account specifically for Mac mini but what’s the point to have different iCloud iMac accounts for each device? I’m confident but at some point this trick will stop working as well.
thefounder··on Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right
Soon it will stop upgrading the OS and then the apps will stop working and then AppStore itself will stop working as well. Apple services will stop working as well.

I have a perfectly good Mac mini (32gb ram, intel based) but after I’ve updated the iOS on my iPhone the account stopped working on Mac mini. It says I need to upgrade the OS in order to use apple services(I.e iCloud, mail etc) but there is no OS upgrade option for the old Mac mini

thefounder··on Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
Let’s hope Go never gets try/catch exceptions
thefounder··on BRICS Digital Currency: Cryptocurrency on a Public Blockchain
Unless it has AI it’s not worth our attention. Blockchain is so 2021
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