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3·4 days agoGotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers
12·10 days agoOpenAI still has $50 billion, about half of that in cash, because they keep fund raising. The game is keep extending the runway until early investors can cash out and leave someone else holding the bag.
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4·12 days agoSurvivor isn’t nearly as good, Fallen Order was genuinely special
The comparison to Epic (with a massively lower sales volume) is a bad one, because Valve’s sales volume is so much higher. Once you have a store up and running, the marginal cost of additional units sold in software is extremely low, so most sales are close to 30% of pure profit for Valve.
The entire Apple App Store costs $100 million a year to run, with revenue recently hitting $1.4 trillion, an infrastructure to revenue ratio of a fraction of a percent. That makes their 30% vig even more unconscionable than Valve’s obscene rake.
Stop defending billionaires, the infrastructure costs are a small fraction of the fees they charge
That’s not how spreadsheets work
How is competition that benefits consumers in the form of lower prices “malicious”?
He’s right. AI is a bubble and a grift based on the lie that it will take your job, which he knows is a lie (despite profiting from others like Altman and Amodei spouting that lie).
There was a specific clause in the deed that it had to be used for a park, and now that is not being honored
If you read the article, there was exactly this sort of clause in the deed, and now the courts are saying “fuck you”
Translation: “we really would love to stop spending money on training new models in order for our financials to look better ahead of our IPO”
There are literally 9000 hidden object games on Steam
Are you okay? Do you support the war on drugs too and think that that lowest-rung enforcement is actually effective? Instead of whackamole vigilantism, how about a blanket ban on companies paying children to become brand ambassadors instead?
Mistaking structural factors, like the profit imperative amidst an enshittogenic regulatory environment, for moral failings is unhelpful. For-profit companies will do what they can get away with, which is why these lawsuits are so important.
Do you think all the sellers to whom Amazon put exactly the same ultimatum have a victim complex too?
but the business model isn’t profitable…