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I refuse to be part of an "ecosystem".

It's super slow.

I was told by economists that the invisible hand would solve this!

So what you're saying is "the reason companies don't sell equity at these huge valuations is because investors wouldn't buy" (or wouldn't buy in the necessary amounts)?

I wouldn't be surprised if that's part of the calculation at these companies... And attempted and failed equity sale surely would have a bad impact on stock price.

"Slippery slope" does not by itself invalidate an argument, because slippery slopes do exist.

Anyone else surprised that with record valuations these companies aren't selling equity instead?

Can you connect CoMaps to your car's navigation, like you can with OsmAnd?

Stupid Europoors, optimizing for making a good product, instead of optimizing for making as much money as possible /s

I like this passage

Frames are made out of the details that seem important to you. The important details you haven’t noticed are invisible to you, and the details you have noticed seem completely obvious and you see right through them. This all makes makes it difficult to imagine how you could be missing something important.

What exactly is dangerous about this climb? What kills people specifically?

I hear people talk about the weather, visibility, injuries, etc etc. But all of those, if you stay put they're not problems, right? The only real problem I can think of is temperatures so low that your equipment can't contain heat loss for long enough and your body will shut down.

Ok temperature. So if this is the only danger (that can't be addressed by staying put) then could it be addressed by thicker clothes and/or electrically heated clothes?

Not trolling, real question.

Reading this for the N-th time inspired in me the observation that one difference betweent software engineers and carpenters is that software engineers tend to spend most of their time dealing with things they've never seen before, or variations therefore (new bug, new OS, new framework, new programming langauge, etc etc) whereas carpenters tend to spend most of their time doing the things that they know how to do perfectly.

Please check out the investigation in 3 parts (linked from OP's link) where they explain all of it. Fascinating reading in my opinion.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/hatching-a-conspiracy-a-b...

Does it allow streaming?

In effective terms they're lowering prices.

haha Oracle bleeding money. If AI ended up killing Oracle that would've been so great.

Seems like a weird mistake to make. If they're going to bait new users, why not just use bets that did exist? Better yet, why not use users who did make a lot of money?

LOL

I was doing well until I got to grandmaster.

Then I was doing poorly in grandmaster, until I realize you can ace grandmaster by just picking the longest explanation every time.

https://archive.ph/GkkmV

Enron Musk.

I know I know. I think most people wouldn't blame any one individual American voter. This specific issue isn't even left vs right in any case.

Why is it not sustainable? Right now it appears to be a better business than selling access to models.

I think nobody here can agree what part of that offended you.

reconstruction fund

Literal reparations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_reparations

War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other. They are intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war.

Another war lost by the USA, despite its infinite military supremacy. Weird.

One observation that comes to mind is that a lot of people in the world realize that the interests of the US and of Israel are not aligned, but American policy makers keep pretending they're one and the same. This was completely self-inflicted and it's not the first time. (The Iraq war cost what, trillions?) It's quite incredible.

I think they're the kind of people who would argue that the "immigrants" should be kept out, but "expats" are ok.

Phew this guy hasn't had a new idea in a long time.

One funny thing about incompetence is that they don't have the competence to know that their incompetence is straightforward to verify by a competent person.

I don't believe we can understand in depth faster than we used to.

When the volume of content goes up, the depth goes down.

What is happening is that we're consuming more and engaging with everything more superficially. I think that's a concerning trend.

I'm not the person you were responding to, but I could've written the same as they did, so here's my reply:

I don't dispute that in aggregate the effect was positive. But I spend more time thinking about things which impact me directly, and I assure you that in my personal life it used to be a problem, and fixing it was an improvement.

Sorry, I was being provocative more than anything. I should've said nothing.