finikytou (u/finikytou)

finikytou commented on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail mcc-berlin.net/en/news/in... · Posted by u/mpweiher

andrepd · a year ago

Absolutely. Next time you see a free parking spot mentally calculate the rent of ~10m² on that part of the city to understand how much of a subsidy that is. Then multiply by 50 parking spots in a street. Then think how many thousands there are all over the city...

finikytou · a year ago

do you have free parking? cities are making money out of parking spots. a lot of money. so much than one would say they have an incentive to reduce parking space to increase price and reduce expenses

finikytou commented on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail mcc-berlin.net/en/news/in... · Posted by u/mpweiher

looofooo0 · a year ago

Healthcare cost also decline, and people become less sick because you have to walk some amount to get to the train.

finikytou · a year ago

in Paris (and pretty sure that applies to pretty much any big western city, new york for instance is worse in a few of the criterias ill reference) subway increase stress, frequent delays(if you have 2-3 train as part of your commute you will experience it daily), pollution down under is high, virus/covid transmission is high, pickpockets are everywhere if not worse, bedbug, pee smell, junkies. Id take a car any day.

finikytou commented on 'Nearly unusable': Calif. police majorly push back on Tesla cop cars sfgate.com/bayarea/articl... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

finikytou · a year ago

they had over 100K BUDGET to make the car ready for police work but somehow they did not find a way to reproduce the "hide behind the engine". sounds like they hired the wrong engineers to do the job. I think even GPT 2 can come up with a solution to this for less than a few thousands

finikytou commented on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro' tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/WithinReason

SavageBeast · a year ago

I was having some kind of issue the other day - browser cache corruption issue or ChatGPT hiccuped for a few minutes - but I needed to know an answer for a thing RIGHT NOW. I reluctantly went back to Google and searched for it the old way.

Just ... OMFG ... I used to do this all the time? This used to be how you learned things? You mean I get to read 10 sites and 25 dumb answers to get to a possibly correct one? And all the while I got ads coming at me for this and that. A friend was trying to decode some chat convo we had about GLP-1 drugs and get factual information.

Google search was nothing but direct ads selling "IF YOU LIKE OZEMPIC YOU WILL LOOOOOVE NOZEMPIC - ITS ALL NATURAL!!" and the content-mill blogs and such that tout the benefits of some "NOZEMPIC" variant.

AI has changed the way I learn and research. I have a very capable tutor on demand for any subject there is, any time I want to use it. Its mostly right or "good enough for government work" as the old guys say.

I was once an AI hater - now Im an AI evangelist and Im turning people in my sphere of influence into AI users too. Once you show them the value prop they totally get it. Learning and such no longer requires manual work for the 90% case.

finikytou · a year ago

dont forget google wasnt like this at the beginning. OpenAI or competition WILL incorporate ADS into the equation and at the end we will have moved away from google to reproduce the same model

finikytou commented on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro' tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/WithinReason

finikytou · a year ago

they are right tho. He is a snake oil vendor and all his A team leaving due likely to his moves and unethical steps taken from day 1 are proof that TSMC is a solid business

finikytou commented on Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape... · Posted by u/Anon84

lrem · a year ago

It’s not really about the numbers. My pile of money at retirement would definitely be larger if I moved across the pond. But here my children walk themselves to school from the age of six. I don’t worry about them getting killed by a madman. And even the homeless get healthcare, including functional mental health support. Things no employer can offer in the US.

finikytou · a year ago

Im in western europe and I would never let my children walk themselves to school at 6. europe is far from being a safe place minus some eastern europe.

finikytou commented on Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand torrentfreak.com/kim-dotc... · Posted by u/wut42

echoangle · a year ago

Are you missing the point on purpose? The suspicious thing isn’t that he has money, it’s that he’s storing the money physically as cash in his home. You think Google has a safe at the HQ filled with dollar notes?

finikytou · a year ago

he got banned from banks before and he doesnt want his money seized. anyone with the slightest understand of how us government operates would understand why hes storing the money physically.. Even bitcoiners do it....

finikytou commented on Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand torrentfreak.com/kim-dotc... · Posted by u/wut42

popcalc · a year ago

He's an example to be made of by rights-holders. People smarter than him decided to quit the business or go into becoming IP owners themselves: see Manwin -> MindGeek -> Aylo. It was a calculated risk.

finikytou · a year ago

it was. he chose freedom and trusting people. if you go to jail for that you can be sure that it already created a precedent that put into jail a lot of innocent people

finikytou commented on Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand torrentfreak.com/kim-dotc... · Posted by u/wut42

wepple · a year ago

There’s a substantial ongoing debate about how much responsibility a platform as for what users do on that platform. Nearly everyone in tech is affected by that.

The theatrics and drama of it is a silly distraction, but the fundamental questions seem worth following and discussing.

I’m not German; what an odd thing to comment.

finikytou · a year ago

yeah I guess you just need to fund political campaigns for democrats to be in the good part of "the platform is responsible for what users do on here". seeing what Google and FB got away with its pretty obvious that USA is bending the law to remove political oponnents here with KDotCom and soon with Musk