Is this a tax that domestic companies already had to pay, but foreign companies were exempt from? If so, then I wonder what took them so long.

So why don’t you at least try to run the numbers. Takes like 2 minutes. Total output, output per car, number of cars - it’s not rocket science.

Kind of like every other job.

Trains are expensive to run if you don’t have enough passengers (like in small villages).

At least Android also proactively asks them whether to disable notifications for an app if they always swipe them away, or if they haven’t used the app in a long time.

You have to go where the people are.

The default now is that apps have to first request notification permissions, on both iOS and Android.

I don’t see the US restricting AI development. No matter what is morally right or wrong, this is strategically important, and they won’t kneecap themselves in the global competition.

How did you measure this?

But how is Signal going to make enough money to support a massive user base?

Also, the article says

Cathcart responded that WhatApp will not have ads within the inbox or in the “messaging experience.”

So it seems they’re just going to be added to the extra features that most people don’t care about. Of course they could always change their mind, but that seems like a suicide move.

You need to look at this from a practical standpoint.

The vast majority of phone apps are not local-only. They are merely the frontend to services provided by some company - e.g. a Reddit app is really about Reddit the service, a food delivery app is about the service, not the locally running code, etc.

Apple controls what users can and cannot install on devices made by them, but the web and things like PWA are an alternative that would be viable for some portion of these.

You can make a web app that can be added as an icon on the homescreen, can access the camera, location, notifications, storage, authentication (e.g. require fingerprint), etc. It still can’t do everything native apps can do, but it would be good enough for a good portion of popular apps.

But in China, that is not really possible without the government’s approval either, because China requires the same kind of registration and an ICP license for websites, otherwise things will get blocked. Which, even if you could install anything you want on a device, would effectively limit you to purely local-only apps anyway.

Unless of course the app makes API requests to its backend, which is blocked in China.

Web is the universal open platform, and China just blocks it with a firewall 🤷‍♂️.

I used to play a bit on Geforce Now when I only had my laptop with me. That was the only service with usable latency where I live.

Now, there was a paper that instantiated a couple dozen LLMs and had them run a virtual software dev company together which got pretty good results

Dude, you need to take a closer look at that paper you linked, if you consider that “pretty good results”. They have a github repo with screenshots of some of the “products”, which should give you some idea https://github.com/OpenBMB/ChatDev/tree/main/misc .

Not to mention the terrible decision making of the fake company (desktop app you have to download? no web/mobile version? for a virtual board game?)

(Also the paper never even tried to prove its main hypothesis, that all this multi agent song and dance would somehow reduce hallucinations and improve performance. There is a lot of good AI stuff coming out daily, but that particular paper - and the articles reporting on it - was pure garbage.)

True, as of today. On the other hand, future advancements could very easily change that. On the other other hand, people have been saying the same about self driving cars 10 years ago, and while they do basically work, and are coming eventually, progress there has been a lot slower than predicted.

So who knows. Could go either way.

Yes, people using it as the main messaging app is still preferable to the situation in the US where people on different mobile platforms can’t message each other without bullshit compatibility issues and bubble colors.

At least here it doesn’t matter what platform you’re on - including desktops and the web - and as a result nobody cares.

Of course, the same is true for almost every other messaging service too, and there are better ones out there.

So you’re more inclined to believe any online misinformation that happens to agree with your priors?

I.e. the exact same problem you’re indirectly complaining about?

So you have zero evidence that this is actually happening?

If it gives you video from the same channel instantly after blocking, that means nothing, these changes take a while to propagate, YouTube is a distributed system. Give it a few minutes to rebuild the feed and then try.

How are people upvoting this crap?

Internet is just a series of tubes. You’re talking about alternative content/services providers (news, video, shopping, etc.) if the existing ones choose to require only approved browsers.

Are you going to run your own news company?