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Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal | TechCrunch in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

70% of revenue goes to rights holders.

Thus could mean that 69% of revenues go to rights holders A and B and 1% of revenues are spread between holders C - Z.

Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal | TechCrunch in c/[email protected]
OpenAI co-founder makes spectacular return mere days after ousting, with the board that fired him mostly swept away in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

What? Rumors work by people discussing them.

I didn't ask for proof.

OpenAI co-founder makes spectacular return mere days after ousting, with the board that fired him mostly swept away in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Can I find out more about these rumors somewhere?

505 of 700 OpenAI employees tell the board to resign. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

More like a for profit arm ruled by an non profit head.

Price of solar dropped 89% in ten years in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The mirrors are the not the expensive part.

anon watches frasier with his cousin in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You are given a calf-skin wallet on your birthday...

Does mountain dew taste better than black tea? Yes. Does it also cost 30 times as much to get the caffeine fix? Yes. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Add milk until the colour of He-man

San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I've stayed in one in Osaka. You don't have access to clothes or belongings during your stay. It's a lot like staying on a space ship without the travel.

Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

True. The next iteration doesn't need to be optimal, just an improvement in the loss function.

Not sure how they would decide when to stop.

Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Proof of work need not be useless. E.g. https://primecoin.io/

The tricky bit is finding a problem that is hard to solve but easy to verify. I'm not sure AI tasks fall into that category.

The transaction verification is separate to the work.

Perspective in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What business practices in particular?

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