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Android only really was competitive for a very short window of time
Complete non-sense. iOS and Android are equivalent. Users do not chose Android or iOS because one or the other is better.
It's just brand loyalty, status signalling and ecosystem lock-in that creates enough friction that people don't bother.
I wonder if that changes in countries where the main language is written right to left?
Completely irrelevant to my point.
The point was just this: you don't need $100 trillion to actually exist for that market cap to be possible.
Like spacex isn't going to be the world's first 100 trillion dollar company because there isn't that much money.
That doesn't really matter. As we saw with crypto valuations, market cap is just number of shares * last price.
If you have 1 trillion shares and one is traded for $100 you have a 100 trillion market cap.
So the rate goes from say 4% to 4.16%? That's still unimpressive.
If you mean from 4% to 8%, then that's actually raising by 100%
Maybe I'm missing something but when would the 500 geese instances ever be stack allocated in Rust? That comparison seems unfair, the lifetime of that kind of object isn't going to be compatible with stack allocation.
Allocations are really really cheap in Java by the way, so I don't get how 500 allocations would even be an issue.
That wasn't what was implied then. If old media continues playing then it's still "forever".
BluRay no, because your player's keys can be revoked when you pop in a new disc
Wait what? How? How is that possibly legal?
And who is the customer?
Healthcare market is completely distorted. Price isn't linked to value because the person that uses a service is usually not the person directly paying for it. Worse, the price usually isn't known upfront, so no one is making a rational decision based on "value".
How does KYC tell a company whether you have bad intentions or not? Let's say you work in a consultancy doing security research. On paper that looks good right?
How easy would it be for criminal orgs to setup legitimate looking fronts to pass these KYC checks?
What makes the diagnosis "worth" $100? Right now it requires a highly paid human which sets a floor on the cost.
If there's competition from LLMs it's going to drive down the cost.
Symlinks are a pain if you're on Windows, I'd rather not bother with them.
But the sentiment of nuclear depends purely on which party you vote for, I don't think the language itself has an impact.
People aren't really partisan like that in Switzerland. They'll happily elect people from one party then vote against the party on specific issues in referendums or initiatives.
For something like nuclear, people who vote for green party might be mostly aligned with the party because it's a key issue for them while people who vote for center or right parties won't really care what the party recommends.
Switzerland is not part of the European economic area, aka EEA.
MRIs by themselves no, but depending on what you want to actually see you need to inject a contrast agent which is probably not something you want to do too frequently.
pressing up on a new console doesn't bring you a command from history, which Linux terminals and 3rd party Windows ones have been doing for decades, even Powershell does that.
I'm wondering if you're confusing Windows terminal with cmd.exe?
Windows terminal is not the shell. It's a terminal emulator. You run a shell inside of the terminal, for example you can run... Powershell.
Command history is a feature of the shell.
What good is advertising if they can't actually sell the product?
Serving Opus 4.8 isn't worth a trillion+ valuation.
The valuation of the AI labs is based on continual improvements of their models.
Open weight models are going to catch up to Opus 4.8 and at that point the model is a pure commodity.
How many entreprise customers that aren't in the defense sector currently have R&D departments entirely composed of US citizens?
And what does it mean for indirect access to the models, through say agents working off ticket systems.
The problem here is that the valuations of these AI companies was based on the fact that they'd keep improving models. A company that just serves the latest Opus isn't worth trillions.
Back-end improvements (if done right), should improve platform speed, stability, scalability etc. which should have revenue implication
Depends entirely on the domain. If you're selling entreprise software, this kind of stuff barely matters for sales.
It can reduce operational costs which is good but there's a limit to how much that's worth.
I prefer being alone but also feel worse after prolonged periods alone.
Preferring something doesn't mean it's good for you.
Those last few generations have no technology, they're huddled around in the dark trying not to starve.
At that point, the birth rate would quickly rise again, no?
Because if you're back to living in a pre-industrial society, kids suddenly have value again.
So it's likely that either there's a point of equilibrium or the population keeps swinging up and down. Total extinction seems unlikely.
Why do billionaires keep working, keep amassing more money, donate to politicians, buy media companies?
They want influence and power. Being at the top of a hierarchy of millions, billions of people.
If there are no massess the 1000th billionaire will be a the bottom of the hierarchy instead of near the top. They don't want that. The masses are needed to give them the sense of power.
What these people want is power and control. Eliminating the masses goes against that.
My experience in Europe is that healthcare is expensive but efficient, bureaucracy is fine and salaries are very high. Guess which country I live in.
Point is "Europe" is way too diverse to generalize like that.
Many people can't afford to have kids
Wrong. Poor people have 0 problems having kids.
People can afford kids, they don't want to compromise on lifestyle.
License can not order someone to publish something.
No it can't, you are right.
By default, you don't have any right to use any given software. The license outlines the conditions under which you have are permitted to use it. If you don't comply with the conditions, you aren't permitted to use it.
The license isn't ordering you to do anything, you can simply not use the software!
Having good intentions doesn't give a free pass to be obnoxious.
Copy/pasting a question to LLM and pasting back the output isn't an attempt ar being helpful. It's the equivalent of a lmgtfy link.
You also have to pay taxes on that $5000 like other revenue.
Businesses do not pay taxes on revenue, they pay taxes on profit.
Other taxes may be applicable though (such as VAT or sales taxes).
That's like saying if you accuse someone of murder and they get convicted, you've altered their life forever.
That's not a burden, it's justice.