Imo those web apps are all infrastructure services: logistic network, content library access, and hardware access.

Yeah. Exactly. Most of the stuff you pay for is. Hardly anything is pure app without some kind of value external to the software.

> > Stage Restrictions: Only age-assured adults may speak on stage in servers.

Does this mean that in panel-like settings where 100s of users are listening to a speaker, in order to ask or contribute in voice you need to be verified?

I guess so, since the same role is used for anyone with permission to speak up in a stage channel.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005513722-...

Hell if I know why unverified users are allowed to speak in normal voice channels but not in stage channels.

Competitors use ads?

I'm "excited" for the era of different locally run LLMs get to have ads baked into them... People start selling ad-space to inject into their training/tuning data. Could be quite lucrative.

Not yet. But they likely will, if OpenAI's ad revenue becomes worthwhile.

Or they view it as a differentiator and focus on a different segment. As I understand it, this is what Anthropic is doing:

1. Focus on businesses and developers

2. Make money on productivity and API platform

Enterprises are particularly sensitive about their data being farmed (e.g. note that paid Google accounts don’t have their emails used for ads.)

Keeping that trust is not a differentiator and existentially important to Anthropic.

I just don't believe that is likely.

I think that, despite Anthropic's present statements, they will move to ads if ads prove successful for ChatGPT or Gemini.

It would be viewed as "leaving money on the table" by their board and shareholders if they didn't.

this is false and not how things work at the enterprise level. trust is important and it is not lost by showing ads in free tier.

trust is lost in other ways.

no they don't

They will or they will perform worse. OpenAI will be able to offer a better `free tier` as it won't be free after all.

Not yet, but they all will. OpenAI has shown that customers will accept it.

name a single product that has

1. many competitors

2. ways to pay for the subscription but no tier exists to remove ads

i can't even think of one.

Ever heard of a thing called television?

Netflix

Netflix does not replace television channels, except when it actually partners with TV broadcasters. Netflix only replaces how you consume series and films. Many TV programs --news, short series, specials, local/regional programs, etc-- aren't available at all on Netflix, or when they are they only become available months/years later due to licensing.

Which security bug(s) are you referring to?

Presumably bugs that may still be under embargo

> You can tax the worker and she will still be better off than if you had taxed the capital, due to greater productivity.

This assumes the worker is the one benefiting from the productivity gains. We're just worked more and we don't get the added value.

Yeah but even there, how do you get dynamic routes for static builds?

We didn't decided that–they did.

The more I see these types of things the more my skepticism shoots up when someone tells me something is perfectly safe.

I find it odd that when I happen across an article talking about some negative links between x and y being discovered, there's always someone in the comments saying this was known for some decades.

In my case, my dad was in this industry so I had heard about it since day one. And I know doctors knew about it too

It's attractive enough that people keep going despite it "constantly happening."