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tedeh commented on A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down shaun.nz/why-were-never-u... · Posted by u/jemmyw

zhivota · 4 months ago

The right solution here is to take the telecom tax invoice, edit it in a PDF editor to say Telecom bill, and send it back.

The process is stupid enough that this will work 95% of the time. Is it fraud? No, not really, I'd argue. You're just conforming the document to an arbitrary standard, but all the relevant details are factual, not fraudulent.

tedeh · 4 months ago

I can confirm that this is the exact method recommended in forums where people and businesses that meet adversity from banks on a daily basis (most of the time for completely legitimate businesses, sometimes not) congregate to share advice.

The point is to feed the compliance critters exactly what they want so they can tick their boxes without sticking their necks out.

tedeh commented on Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or other health conditions en.ssi.dk/news/news/2025/... · Posted by u/healsdata

api · 7 months ago

There seems to be something special about vaccines that really sets these people off, and it goes way way back. Vaccine paranoia is as old as vaccines and they’ve always drawn a special ire from believers in naturopathy, natural medicine, faith healing, new thought, and similar strands of thinking.

I don’t quite get it.

tedeh · 7 months ago

Fear of needles

tedeh commented on Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service customerexperiencedive.co... · Posted by u/elsewhen

DanielHB · 9 months ago

Yes they are, a few years ago once got a scuffle with the Swedish tax agency because they were abusing some tax loopholes. The tax agency came in with the bill and they just immediately "layoff" 90% of the contractors working there (a good chunk of the workforce). All so their quarterly statements wouldn't look bad for the stock market.

Klarna is the prime example of toxic public companies

tedeh · 9 months ago

Klarna hasnt even gone public yet...

tedeh commented on Publishers say traffic to their sites has plummeted due to Google AI Overviews bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

tedeh · 10 months ago

I can't see any reason why Google would send traffic anyones way in the future. "Search results" will turn into a "Citations" list at the bottom of the page for the excessively curious, and probably look like it does on a page like Wikipedia. Meanwhile 98 % of the "results" page will be AI-generated and ad-ridden. Ads will be inserted into the AI content as recommendations because why not?

tedeh commented on China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns wsj.com/world/china/china... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

tedeh · a year ago

When did Sam Altman last visit China?

tedeh commented on A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929 moreisdifferent.blog/p/a-... · Posted by u/drcwpl

api · a year ago

What is it about vaccines?

Lots of anti-vaxxers are fine with other kinds of drugs and use them liberally, even in many cases street drugs. They'll eat fast food, processed food, use household chemicals, do all kinds of other things that expose them to things they don't understand and may not be good for them, but vaccines are just the devil incarnate. The word vaccine seems to provoke a visceral gut reaction among a lot of them.

Like you said it goes way, way back. Something about vaccines creeps a lot of people out for reasons I don't understand.

tedeh · a year ago

Fear of needles and having your skin pierced is my guess, at least for some.

tedeh commented on The decline and fall of the British economy (2022) worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/MrBuddyCasino

vishnugupta · a year ago

The word colony appears just once. Britain's economy was built on extracting resources from her colonies around the world. Surely what was happening in India, African continent, and elsewhere had some bearing on rise/fall of their economy? Perhaps they got spread too thin trying to administer so many colonies with so few people? Perhaps colonies started exerting more and more resistance?

tedeh · a year ago

Not mentioned more because it probably just wasn't that important.

tedeh commented on The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape pcloadletter.dev/blog/llm... · Posted by u/bazil376

Eisenstein · 2 years ago

This post is complaining about something that has nothing to do with ChatGPT. They complain because in order to get your business to get indexed and found, you need a large amount of useless content. It is the same reason that every recipe you find online has 2 pages of drivel about their family and traveling somewhere before you get to the recipe. Blame SEO and the search indexers. That is why the market exists for this nonsense; it wasn't created by LLMs.

tedeh · 2 years ago

It's a fascinating thought that so much of all online content is created for the consumption of bots instead of humans. Because the bots are the gatekeepers to what gets shown to real humans, the bots need to be pleased first.

tedeh commented on GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack nian.llmonpy.ai/... · Posted by u/parrt

whimsicalism · 2 years ago

Increasingly convinced that nobody on the public internet knows how to do actual LLM evaluations.

tedeh · 2 years ago

I'm just glad that we are finally past the "Who was the 29th president of the United States" and "Draw something in the style of Van Gogh" LLM evaluation test everyone did in 2022-2023.

tedeh commented on Dubai's Planned $32B Mega Airport Project tamernoah.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/silahyd

GuardianCaveman · 2 years ago

Yes when they run out of oil money at some point I doubt there will be much airport traffic or money to keep the airport of this size running.

tedeh · 2 years ago

Dubai never had much oil

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