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New comment by websiteapi in "Gmail is entering the Gemini Era"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:31:38 +0000

What about yahoo and hotmail then?

New comment by websiteapi in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:26:09 +0000

The article itself already provides them with the TV… you can use cell phones too if you’d like. A palm pilot vs a Xiaomi. Virtually any electronics junk that you’d find on Amazon is cheaper now. What’s the common factor…? China. Again, in the paper.

New comment by websiteapi in "Gmail is entering the Gemini Era"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:23:52 +0000

They must have pushed down the inference cost quite a bit to launch this

New comment by websiteapi in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:15:54 +0000

I included a link that explains this. Anyone who thinks things becoming cheaper without mentioning china is delusional.

New comment by websiteapi in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:05:49 +0000

One example is the Samsung frame vs Hisense canvas. $1500 vs $1000 msrp. You can see similar price differences across all Samsung vs tcl and Hisense.

New comment by websiteapi in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:58:28 +0000

cocoa is the main input for that and is subject to weather and crop failure, which - surprise - is why its' more expensive. however if you're talking about chocolate candies (not raw cocoa) it is indeed less expensive now adjusted for inflation. the problem is the quality of chocolate candies has reduced, so the equivalent chocolate bar is probably more expensive even though the similar one is cheaper.

ironically cocoa is a great example of my point though - it's not imported from china, so there isn't a huge cost reduction.

New comment by websiteapi in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:56:07 +0000

huh? it is all cheaper relatively. which exported good from china is more expensive now than the 90s adjusted for inflation?

it's literally what the graphs in the article say... increased efficiency and what I am saying are not in contention.

New comment by websiteapi in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:54:33 +0000

> South Korean TVs are cheap, too

more expensive than chinese

as for salaries - yes indeed they are up. not every chinese laborer is a slave obviously, but many are - not usually for electronics directly though, more often for the inputs of such (energy and what not).

i'm surprised there's contention about this - it's all over the news.

New comment by websiteapi in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:43:09 +0000

chinese (slave) labor. in fact, look at anything primarily imported from china - very cheap compared to 1990s. look at things that cannot easily be exported from china like housing or education. expensive.

the world has never been cheap, we're just better at arbitrage now.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w21906

New comment by websiteapi in "ChatGPT Health"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:32:57 +0000

the amount of people willing to delegate to chatgpt tells me in the near future only rich people will be able to speak with a real doctor. the current top comment about someone's uncle being saved due to chatgpt guidance says it all.

New comment by websiteapi in "ChatGPT Health"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:32:12 +0000

> The proper decorum here is if the doctor made the wrong diagnosis. All fees and causal charges made by the doctor must be fully refunded and paid for. It’s only fair given the premium they were originally given to make a false diagnosis.

lol terrible idea. just as great as having so that the service you bought is entirely refunded if the code has a single bug.

New comment by websiteapi in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:49:17 +0000

Watch the video, it’s obvious. The person was stopped as part of an ice directive.

New comment by websiteapi in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:38:56 +0000

They’re literally on camera doing ice work (prior to the killing), virtually guaranteed it’ll count.

New comment by websiteapi in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:46:54 +0000

this is not true. why is this upvoted? first of all, ICE is federal. second, they were acting as part of "federal official" duties. it will be trivial to move any state prosecution to federal court.

New comment by websiteapi in "Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:25:28 +0000

I don't disagree, but I don't think private companies should be able to both keep videos indefinitely and for those videos to be accessible to the government for arbitrary goals.

New comment by websiteapi in "Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:55:22 +0000

so even if you don't have your face scanned on the register, unless you're paying cash they'd still know who you are right? don't most people have passports? real ID is also a thing. if you're concerned about a hostile government wearing a mask at a grocery store isn't going to do anything sadly. not even counting things like gait analysis, security cameras or tracking your phone

Katz v. United States is an interesting case if you're interested (tldr one thing the case implied is that if your actions are freely observable by others of the public there's no expectation of privacy).

personally I think the only option these days is to push for very short retention policies governed by law such that use of information is inadmissible in a criminal situation (e.g. say a 1 week retention, they can't go scrubbing footage from months back to convict, wouldn't be allowed during discovery), and making it harder or illegal to share with other non-government entities. stopping collection I think is a ship that's sailed imo. it's pretty unlikely public or private surveillance (for supermarket like stores) will ever be made illegal. in fact I can't think of a country where it is.

- as a side note, suggesting to switch to Whole Foods is hilarious. Whole Foods is owned by Amazon, and you can look for yourself all the tracking they do

https://www.reuters.com/legal/lawsuit-accuses-amazon-secretl...

New comment by websiteapi in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:48:43 +0000

? the chauvin case wasn't the same at all. he choked flyod needlessly for 10 minutes. completely unnecessary and good that chauvin was convicted. I follow these cases since I'm part of a police justice group - I've never seen a case similar to what happened here where the officer was convicted. there's just too much precedent that if a car is going towards you the officer is justified in shooting

if you have an example of a similar situation where the cop is convicted I am very very interested.

New comment by websiteapi in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:37:30 +0000

there are already sites where again you can put it anyone's name and it will show you where they live, where they lived, people they've lived with, and no I will not link them because they're already too widespread and I don't want more to know about them, but someone on here can trivially find one

New comment by websiteapi in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:35:49 +0000

there are plenty of people who are children of cops or military who have no shame, so I doubt it

New comment by websiteapi in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

websiteapi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:21:07 +0000

the simplest explanation is simply that they preferred trump to Harris.