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Thrymr commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo

DANmode · 2 days ago

Could you elaborate?

Do you mean to say they’ll never take the payment?

Thrymr · 2 days ago

What are the terms? It is not at all clear from the announcement. "part of this three-year licensing agreement", it _could_ mean the license cost is $1 billion, which Disney in turn invests in OpenAI in return for equity, and they're calling it "investment" (that's what's hypothesized above, but I don't think we know). Disney surely gets something for the license other than the privilege of buying $1 billion in OpenAI stock at their most recent valuation price.

Thrymr commented on Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows healthisotherpeople.subst... · Posted by u/brandonb

IAmBroom · 11 days ago

"A Fairytale Map of Every Dollar of America's $5T Healthcare System" is the complete, accurate title.

Is this funded by an insurance company?

Thrymr · 11 days ago

The author calls himself a "Real Estate Novelist and recovering healthcare consultant" (https://substack.com/@andrewtsang).

Thrymr commented on Anthropic acquires Bun bun.com/blog/bun-joins-an... · Posted by u/ryanvogel

joewhale · 12 days ago

why couldn't Anthropic simply use Claude Code to write Bun over the weekend??

Thrymr · 12 days ago

It is open source (MIT license), Claude should have a pretty good start on it already.

Thrymr commented on Google Antigravity antigravity.google/... · Posted by u/Fysi

jasonjmcghee · a month ago

Curious if the name is a reference to https://xkcd.com/353/

> Come join us! Programming is fun again! It's a whole new world up here!

Thrymr · a month ago

I hope Google is at least acknowledging the origin of the name, even if they are not paying royalties to Randall Monroe.

Thrymr commented on Gemini 3 blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/preek

simonw · a month ago

Here are my notes and pelican benchmark, including a new, harder benchmark because the old one was getting too easy: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/gemini-3/

Thrymr · a month ago

Considering how many other "pelican riding a bicycle" comments there are in this thread, it would be surprising if this was not already incorporated in the training data. If not now, soon.

Thrymr commented on SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search blog.kagi.com/slopstop... · Posted by u/msub2

laacz · a month ago

Which troubles me a bit, as 'bad' does not have same definition for everyone.

Thrymr · a month ago

How is this any different from a search engine choosing how to rank any other content, including penalizing SEO spam? I may not agree with all of their priorities, but I would welcome the search engine filtering out low quality, low effort spam for me.

Thrymr commented on SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search blog.kagi.com/slopstop... · Posted by u/msub2

laacz · a month ago

Then the fight Kagi is proposing is against bad AI content, not AI content per-se? Then that's very subjective...

Thrymr · a month ago

Explicitly in the article, one of the headings is "AI slop is deceptive or low-value AI-generated content, created to manipulate ranking or attention rather than help the reader."

So yes, they are proposing marking bad AI content (from the user's perspective), not all AI-generated content.

Thrymr commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl

gblargg · a month ago

Things have always been rounded (tax). There's just a change in what multiple it's rounded to.

Thrymr · a month ago

And in inflation-adjusted terms, rounding to the nearest nickel now is about as significant as rounding to the nearest penny was in 1978.

Thrymr commented on Nutella maker in hazelnut stand-off with Turkish dealers ft.com/content/4826dfd2-8... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

Thrymr · a month ago

Hazelnut politics are a big deal in Europe [0].

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/how-a-hazelnut... (archive link: https://archive.is/1UTf3)

Thrymr commented on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k threads.com/@nthmonkey/po... · Posted by u/stevenhubertron

jobs_throwaway · 2 months ago

> US health care which is probably one of the worst in the world

Not really. If you have money, the US system is one of the best. It just really, really sucks if you don't have money.

Thrymr · 2 months ago

US health care outcomes are really not great, even if you are rich. Yes, you live longer than poor people in the US, but still do worse than Europeans, even those with lower incomes [0]. All while spending much more [1]. It's a system designed to siphon money from wherever it can (individuals, governments, companies, etc.), not to provide the best health care.

[0] "in some cases, the wealthiest Americans have survival rates on par with the poorest Europeans in western parts of Europe such as Germany, France and the Netherlands." https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-04-02/wealth-mortality-gap

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low

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KarmaCake day2682June 13, 2011View Original