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9cb14c1ec0 commented on Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

atleastoptimal · 2 days ago

Everyone claiming AI companies are a financial ticking time bomb are using the same logic people used back in the 2000s when they claimed Amazon “never made a profit” and thus was a bad investment.

9cb14c1ec0 · 2 days ago

Wrong. The depreciation cost on the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the AI build-out is almost certainly larger then the AI industry's gross income. This is a vastly different depreciation cost schedule than AWS.

9cb14c1ec0 commented on Kiwi.com flight search MCP server mcp-install-instructions.... · Posted by u/Eldodi

9cb14c1ec0 · 3 days ago

So now I can use the MCP server as a defacto API in my non-AI related project. AI is finally good for something.

9cb14c1ec0 commented on US Intel stratechery.com/2025/u-s-... · Posted by u/maguay

MangoToupe · 4 days ago

Note that all our issues with china would be solved if we stopped pretending like they're our enemy.

9cb14c1ec0 · 4 days ago

Oh yes, that nice warm fuzzy China that definitely doesn't speak regularly about war and conflict with the West.

9cb14c1ec0 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

kovac · 4 days ago

Do you not have to use a 2FA app for things like banking? In Singapore, they are phasing out 2FA options other than the banking app. The banking apps only work on iPhones and Google-approved Android phones. It's pretty bad.

9cb14c1ec0 · 4 days ago

It's kind of stupid when you consider the number of people who don't have screen locks (or else have easily guessable ones) on their phones.

9cb14c1ec0 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

nottorp · 5 days ago

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

It's been there since Android 1.0.

What's missing is a way for the user to deny it.

9cb14c1ec0 · 4 days ago

Even device owner (MDM) apps can't revoke that permission.

9cb14c1ec0 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

9cb14c1ec0 · 5 days ago

As a developer of android apps that get distributed outside of the Play store, a Google identity verification system sounds like a nightmare. What if I'm deemed to be politically incorrect? Will Google brand safety exclude me?

9cb14c1ec0 commented on From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year npr.org/sections/shots-he... · Posted by u/laurex

lazide · 8 days ago

It depends on what problem you’re referring too. Many socialized healthcare systems have huge backlogs right now.

Ration on price. Or availability. Or quality.

Eventually, every system ends up with one of the three. Sometimes 2.

9cb14c1ec0 · 8 days ago

My Canadian father-in-law had to wait over a year before being able to see a neurologist about his suspected Parkinsons symptoms. Fortunately, he's well off enough that he was able to afford medical treatment in another country, but many people trapped in such systems are not.

9cb14c1ec0 commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

andrewmcwatters · 8 days ago

I'd really like to just run my own Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassin stack, but it seems totally discouraged these days just on the basis of email sender reputation.

9cb14c1ec0 · 8 days ago

It's not as bad as some make it out to be. Check out Stalwart, as it is much easier for a newcomer to mail hosting to manage.

9cb14c1ec0 commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece

matthewdgreen · 9 days ago

Lots of people in the US are religious. This generally doesn’t seem to dramatically lower crime on a statistical basis (with all kinds of caveats.)

9cb14c1ec0 · 9 days ago

Far less than in previous generations. And just because people vaguely claim to be religious in some general sense today doesn't mean that their vague generalities provide them with communities that bring about social responsibility.

9cb14c1ec0 commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece

closewith · 9 days ago

All examples of high trust societies show that those consequences must be social, because _by definition_, in a high-trust society, you must trust other people to do the right thing.

A punitive dictatorship or police state is not a high-trust society, even though laws may be strictly enforced. Likewise, in a high-trust society, behaviour is expected to be good and moral, even where not mandated by law.

9cb14c1ec0 · 9 days ago

And there-in lies the problem of modern society. There are no social consequences. The decline of religion and family with no suitable replacement has left most people without a peer group to exert these social consequences.

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