I also noticed that the "smoothness", when everything feels quicker, is immediately noticeable on desktop (vs laptop), all apps, several laptops (Mac, Thinkpad, Framework).
In traditional regular investment you give companies money so they can make more money off them by creating value, and also you get some control of the company.
Note that commercial companies are obliged by law to maximize shareholders value, government can punish them if they don't.
Gambling, on the other hand, only redistributes capital around, without creating any value, which would be at least benign, if it didn't _attract_ all kinds of crime: drug abuse, human trafficking, fraud and violence.
But when I buy stock it doesn't give money to the company. It gives money to the previous stock holder that I bought the stock from. From the company's perspective all that happened is that a small share of the company has changed ownership.
You probably talking about publicly traded companies: If you buy stock at IPO, direct listing or any other follow-on offering -- it goes directly to the company.
And the price you pay then already accounts for your future ability to resell your stock to anyone else later, stocks would valued way less if you could only sell it back to the company.
But also don't forget that public trading is only one market, there's also a huge market for private companies stocks. Those go directly to the company for its operations.
Unpopular opinion, but I think that any website owner accepting uploads from strangers should bear responsibility for those uploads. You cannot just say "not mine, I just distributed it".
UPDATE: Unpopular because it means there's a lot of work for the owner to moderate the files. And large sites like facebook are notorious for very bad moderation. It's not like we mandate them to hire N moderators per M users.
I'd be fine if that were the law. What really frustrates me is the double standard where I can't host something that Microsoft or Wetransfer can without repercussions
When running an actually competent LLM is as cheap as a $10/mo cloud server (for the moderation), I'll actually agree with this sentiment. Probably wont be unpopular long beyond that point in time.
There's a middle ground for this though. Platforms like Youtube, Facebook, etc, have no excuse anymore. They can literally scan with these models they have available and handle it. So write the legislation based on their capacity so you don't screw the one dude just trying to support some indie game devs in a small community or something.
To me the distinction is in whether model trained on my data can return it almost verbatim. Any statistical model, even linear regression can expose some of my data and preferences, but the difference is whether they can compromise the data they've been trained.
And frankly I see the distinction in only number of model parameters vs number of people in cohort it was trained. So 50k-param model trained on 1b emails from 1 million people is ok, encoding/compression loses anything personal. But huge LLMs are closer to lossless compressors that can just spew all my passwords, prescriptions etc verbatim.
According to its logs, my bargain basement Huawei 4G router from 2019 got an update last week.
I hope that most of these devices actually do update themselves automatically, and people just aren't noticing. (Whether the updates are any good is another matter!)
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