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Its too bad that Patrick McKenzie sided with the promptfondlers because he was a useful ally calling "we need more reporting on cryptocurrency by journalists who can read a balance sheet and do arithmetic"

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When faced with a long complicated argument outside your competence, its a really useful heuristic to spot-check a few sections and assume that if they are wrong the whole structure is flawed. And at least as many readers will take away the soundbites like "none of these companies is profitable" and "pathetic revenues" as any nuanced version that is hidden in there. At critics of spicy autocomplete go he is really far on the "pundit" end of the "academic to pundit" scale (well past our David Gerard).

I think Zitron has posted that none of these companies is profitable. Midjourney claims to be making a profit since 2024 although that depends on not paying for the IP they use etc. etc. etc. (and private companies can claim all kinds of things about their balance sheets without the CEO going to jail if they are creative).

The market should be flooded with used business laptops that can't be upgraded to Windows 11 but will take an easy Linux distro

now it works! I do not understand the two sentences "I’ve never heard of a function being called entire out of complex analysis. But still, it (what? - ed.) is zero at i."

Who is flaviat? I don't see that handle on this lemmy or Greg Egan's mastodon account, and Egan just re-tooted someone who gives x^2 + 1 as a counterexample.

Wouldn't f(x) = x^2 + 1 be a counterexample to "any entire (differentiable everywhere) function that is never zero must be constant"? Or are some terms defined differently in complex analysis than in the math I learned?

Given the state of Mozilla I hope the EU is debating "do we build our own browser or something to replace web browsers?" Likewise for a web search index.

The big web exists because 1) VC money, 2) massive surveillance rewarded by lack of privacy laws in the USA, 3) US hegemony, and 4) cheap energy and a stable climate. All of those are going away. Most of the big sites are like an 18th century sugar plantation owner's formal garden and pet composer, they lose money or barely break even but M$, Google, and Facebook have so much money that they don't care. Then one day the plantation owner hears that Saint-Domingue is free or the colonials are in revolt, and a few months later the servants are told that economies must be made.

And how does a 23-year-old whose parents run a Chinese restaurant have >$600,000 to found a company? Austria is a conservative country with a lot of old money and laws that are not friendly to small speculative businesses.

Founders' credentials include a PhD, experience developing software, and being ranked #4 in League of Legends (European edition)

It does look like the facial recognition in the support.apple.com link is opt-in!