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BugheadTorpeda6 commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian

Simulacra · 8 months ago

Is this just people who REALLY need their porn, or a backlash like when people buy lots of guns because they think they will get banned?

BugheadTorpeda6 · 8 months ago

The first thing. Governments let it fester uncontrolled for decades, it's going to be a huge shitshow to try and control it now.

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BugheadTorpeda6 commented on Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots blog.cloudflare.com/intro... · Posted by u/scotchmi_st

ryan_lane · 9 months ago

Except I don't want to use crypto, I don't want to accept crypto for content, I don't want to pay middlemen for using crypto.

Micro payments using crypto is just a way for folks to prop up crypto currencies. It also is a dead concept, because how do we all agree on _which_ crypto to use? If I'm browsing the internet, and each site only accepts a particular shit coin, is that ok? Does everyone just use a single stablecoin? Now everything is locked to a single currency?

The cloudflare approach is honestly ideal, because it charges people profiting from your content, not humans looking to read your content. It also doesn't use crypto.

BugheadTorpeda6 · 8 months ago

I don't think it would even be remotely as technically feasible or viable if it was crypto based. I don't want crypto either, but as far as I can tell, crypto is much much much less ergonomic and inconvenient than just having a tab that you pay off monthly in a normal way with a single transaction.

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BugheadTorpeda6 commented on Ask HN: Using AI daily but not seeing productivity gains – is it just me? · Posted by u/grandimam

joshstrange · 9 months ago

> 200k lines of code per week

Do you seriously think that someone can write/review/maintain that?

Either they are lying about the output or they _are_ creating slop, period.

Ridiculous comments like that should _not_ go unchallenged, I wouldn't want younger-me seeing that and thinking it was normal or a good idea.

BugheadTorpeda6 · 9 months ago

I'm reasonably certain that a lot of that sort of bullshit is literally just astroturfing by desperate AI companies. I know it happens but that doesnt mean there aren't people really going along with it.

BugheadTorpeda6 commented on Ask HN: Using AI daily but not seeing productivity gains – is it just me? · Posted by u/grandimam

jf22 · 9 months ago

Yes, I do.

You didn't challenge, you insulted.

You can ask how they ensure quality, what the review process is like, what QA is like, how do humans keep up with that pace of change, etc.

BugheadTorpeda6 · 9 months ago

In this case, it deserves an insult. The answer to all of those hypotheticals is "you don't, it's impossible". Please, go ahead and tell us how you ensure all of those things. I would very much like to hear what you have to say because it will be groundbreaking for the whole industry, clearly. You have found the golden goose.

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