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If these companies fail, so does the US economy.

I would be really worried about the US economy then.

I isolate containers by the type of account I am using on there.

So FB gets a different container. Google accounts get a container each. When I need to log in with Google - use the Google account's container.

Work gets different ones - depending on nature of work.

That makes it easy to manage containers for me.

In theory that account's data tracking to an extent is limited. But with browser fingerprinting I doubt this whole set up is very useful once you start aggregating data from multiple providers.

Seems like you are not aware of the situation.

To get a better idea on the topic that you commented on and views of members of HN

You can read comments on this post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932539

People talk about a lack of moat with AI companies... that's their moat: Government intervention!

This puts American Businesses and American Developers at a massive disadvantage.

The rest of the world can choose the best model by value for the task on hand.

Americans would be stuck using only 2-3 big frontier labs and paying a huge premium for using American models.

I don't see why hundreds of thousands of American Businesses will agree to that only for the benefit of a few tech companies.

China cloned Amazon and Meta fairly well (but only within their local/captured markets)

Americans order Chinese products from SHEIN and Aliexpress type websites.

So China did penetrate the US ecommerce market, but they are not taking on Amazon directly.

People are buying from the Chinese and reselling on Amazon, which has a good logistics network that Chinese companies can't possibly build in the USA.

absolutely not Apple

You need to look up Oneplus to see how many people were using their devices till they announced exit from Western markets.

The Chinese Android phones are essentially replacement for a big chunk of Apple ecosystem.

If these cheap mobile devices didn't exist - Apple could possibly be selling many more devices.

China cloned .... Meta fairly well

TikTok is giving Meta a run for their money in USA.

They had to be restricted via threat of regulation to offload stake in TikTok USA.

Microsoft

They didn't compete with Microsoft directly as entering Western Enterprise market is hard for the Chinese. Even Google can't beat Microsoft there till now.

Looks like SO was already dying since 2017.

I think other helpful places like reddit, discord, web forums etc might be what hit SO 2014-15 onwards.

AI seems to have given it a blow of mercy to end the misery.

How do you expect an agent to pay back the interest without defaulting ?

Trying to understand, what type of agents do you see selling bonds and raising money on this platform, and what will they do with it.

I don't get your vision statement about agents being financial actors not on behalf of humans. On behalf of what then?

That's probably for when people 'raise money' and run away.

They can claim that their 'agent' bought the Lambo and gifted it to them.

We can see similar patterns today. The European working class can no longer seek status in the colonies, so it is turning to the political right. Deprived of the security and opportunities promised by neoliberalism, the working classes increasingly seek inclusion through the exclusion of others.

I see the same on HN when a topic about H1 B visas is posted. Going by comments on such posts Immigration seems to be fine as long as it is affecting blue collar work. The pitchforks are out when it concerns one's own job. Then they talk about quality of programmers, outsourcing companies, the process of H1B not being fair etc.

Makes me think that it's insecurity about finance and status, but not limited to a certain economic class.

Populist parties frame migration as an economic and cultural threat. They blame migrants for problems ranging from crime to unemployment. And while social democratic parties are campaigning on ideological platforms, many voters still prioritise material security. Voting patterns suggest that class remains central.

This framing of the issue suggests that the issue is not real, while it could be a simple matter of people being worried about their financial well being and safety.

Consider the Pakistani Grooming gangs in UK with estimates suggesting up to 250,000 potential victims nationwide over several decades.

Many of the victims were young working class. Their plight was ignored so as not to antagonize a community. Dismissive attitudes towards victims: Many of the victims were working-class, vulnerable, or living in state care. Authorities often stigmatized them as "troubled" or "consenting," systematically ignoring their cries for help and failing to implement a child-centered approach.

As per BBC - Institutional paralysis: Police forces and local authorities lacked adequate training and suffered from severe bureaucratic dysfunction. In some instances, agencies viewed the gangs’ ethnic minority status and cultural backgrounds as "no-go" zones, allowing criminal networks to operate hidden behind the shield of "cultural sensitivities"

So to ensure that you are not being 'against migrants' created a situation that was hell for a lot of women.

We don't know if European Working class in other countries are seeing similar issues that happened in UK but were brushed under by the police and the British Media.

Let's not paint the working class as naive and just against migrants as 'seek inclusion through the exclusion of others."

The working class was not against migrants all along. If something changed, we should try to find out what the real issue is.

A shopkeeper checking the age to sell alcohol can look at your face, but an app cannot - so the solutions all seem to resort to quite invasive age checks.

Don't give them ideas for scanning your face to check content.

With Reddit it's sort of a status signaling thing.

Like saying - I am too good for this thing.

Your disapproval of something is supposed to show your standards are high, and you got some elite taste.

BTW you can see some variations of that here also.

Thanks for the share ... never knew so many great games were built on idTech and engines derived from it.

Source being based idTech is a pleasant surprise.

Funny you say that.

Outsourcing to India never ended. The Indian Service companies kept growing over last two decades.

Now many Western companies are setting up Global Capability Centers driving strategic innovation, IT, and R&D.

So the work going to India has moved up from "outsourcing to the cheapest programmers in india" to "we will hire the best talent in India directly and set up our company's base there".

To give some credit to your point, moving some low efficiency work to India since early 2000s freed up resources for many Tech companies to invest their best programmers into more profitable ventures.

But with the GCCs being set up in India, even a lot of the innovation and R&D work is now moving to India.

If that's any indication to your parallels with companies investing in AI. Something similar can happen with AI - where low end work moves to AI first, and the over time as the Technology develops more challenging and innovative tasks move to AI.

3. Nonethless there is and should be a limit to wealth acquisition, given moral hazard.

How do we determine that limit ?

Most Americans ( middle class and above ) are richer than most people in the world.

Way richer than most people in Africa or poorer parts of Asia can ever aspire to be.

Consider that when competing for resources these poor people are competing with wealthy middle class Americans.

Add to that the USD being world's reserve currency makes life easy for a small part of global population earning in the USA and makes it harder for people in every other country whose currency might not be competitive compared to the USD.

https://ibb.co/VYwvY4qN

It's possible. Done in 4.

Bounce it off the left wall in your first shot and you can land close to the end of the course.

Got it done in 4.

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I have a 6 letter handle that's my first name.

One day I decided to start being more 'social online'.

Head to X. I was unable to log in with my password. No error. Just redirected me back to the log in screen.

I tried password reset. It asked me my last login date.

I couldn't be sure. Still mentioned a possible date.

I added that this is the same email listed on the X/Twitter account.

You can just send me a password reset mail to this email.

They rejected. Tried that a couple of times, then stopped.

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Started an account on Threads. Quite fun, less crowded and almost no politics on my feed.

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I decided to create my Blog and write content there.

Will probably create other accounts to post my blog posts to the socials.

But I am not giving a platform the power to cut me out of my account.

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Videos can be an issue.

Youtube is still the only decent host for Video content.

Are these Bing Ads or OpenAI has it's own Ad Platform now ?

This is working a lot like Meta/Facebook where they have got immense data about your interests.

Google Search OTOH has been using broad matched queries and is deciding which keywords to show your Ads.

I heard from many people that they don't like this approach of Google Search Ads now. As they are blowing up more money for useless keywords they didn't want to target. The only option they have is to add negative keywords - that mostly happens after the money is spent on junk keywords.

OpenAI has to do this if it wants to get big advertisers.

Ads need to be clearly marked as per FTC.

According to guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the U.S. and similar regulatory bodies worldwide, online advertisements—including sponsored content, native advertising, and influencer posts—must be readily identifiable as paid content to prevent deceiving consumers.

Switching to the BIGGEST Advertising Company in the world to get away from Ads ?

I hope this was intended as humor.

IIRC many OTT streaming players found that they can make more money from Ads than they can from subscription alone.

So paying for a service alone doesn't ensure that you are not going to see Ads.

Once they have exhausted their potential market of paying users, almost every service will eventually resort to Ads.

It's sad that OpenAI talking about developing AGI.

But the only revenue model that they still can come up with is Ads.

For all the advancement we have made in technology from the 90s web, social networks, mobile apps, ,AI Chat bots - the business model that almost all of them will eventually resort to is Ads.

We need some new breakthroughs in monetization side of things.

That's such an unique viewpoint that no one has expressed on the internet.

Thank you for bringing value to this comments section.