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It’s like he said decades ago, or near decades ago. Piracy is a quality of service problem.
When you do the right thing the right way, people will come and you can make a shit load of money. It doesn’t even mean he has to have done everything right, but you do enough right non-anti-competitive things like that, and it makes a difference.
Same thing like you said about SteamOS. They didn’t have to make it open, and could have made money, but the ecosystem that can be built around an open platform, and the people you can draw to it are going to be miles better than a closed system where thats the mindset from the top.
when they have absolutely nothing to do with AI other than their poorly chosen marketing name
I worked somewhere once where they had an algorithm that placed items according to rules it was given, and it would output variations based on the rules to give the user some output options to work with. Think A or B could go here, and the different outcomes based on if you started with A or B.
It was pretty complex, but ultimately it was just a deterministic outcome of many possible deterministic outcomes based off the rules and what you started with.
They marketed that shit as AI.
It infuriated me.
No machine learning, no neural nets, no reinforcement learning, or learning of any kind, just placing things based off rules.
And don’t get me wrong, it was good, just not AI.
Hopefully there are people still working on non-llm type general AI, because i don’t think we’re ever going to get there with LLMs. The architecture just seems wrong to ever get there, and even Altman has said they probably can’t solve hallucinations. We can probably go very far down this road and get them pretty good, but it’s the wrong road if you want a real AI.
Practically no one in the world who accepts payments for their online business directly integrates with visa or Mastercard. It’s all 3rd party companies who integrate (because it’s fucking hard and tedious) and then resell it in a nice easy package.
In almost all cases, any talk about payment processors, is them, not visa/Mastercard.
Android dev of many many many years here.
Android Studio with Jetpack Compose.
I’d also suggest you try doing kotlin multiplatform. You can take your Android app and end up with a iOS app, and if you want, a desktop app. You would need a Mac for the ios app eventually, but not for the desktop apps.
There is minimal work to get it set up to start, they provide a wizard, and there are a lot of libraries available now that are multiplatform.
IOS and Desktop are both considered stable now, but the iOS beta was pretty solid.
All the apps it generates are native apps.
Even if you don’t want to do multiplatform to start, if you use kotlkn only libraries that are capable of it, you could easily switch to it in the future if you wanted to as it’d be structured properly from the start.
E.g for libraries if you use Koin instead of Dagger2/hilt you could switch to multiplatform in the future without much effort. If you chose dagger instead, it’d be a big task to switch. And if you start it as multiplatform but Android only, you’ll know which areas still need implementation work later to eventually work on iOS.
I don’t even think the business software side is that problematic for a lot of good use cases, it’s the general non user friendliness of wallets and having to guard your seed phrase properly and just general technical knowledge.
As soon as your concert ticket is an NFT people can risk losing their ticket, and people will lose tickets.
Making the ticket and scanning the ticket for entry isnt too difficult a problem, and it’s entirely fraud proof.
Edit: and so many people get scammed out of their seed phrases while trying to get help because they just don’t understand.
They could (but didnt) do it with zero knowledge proofs as well. Then the website could go back and verify against the state site and no private information would be leaked.
The state would know the site requesting it via IP, but they wouldn’t know which proof they were validating.
It’s often talked about in the blockchain crypto space, but it’s not the only way to use them. You could use it in a centralized system like this too.
They might get processed via the visa network, but the money is still leaving your bank account. Visa never really had it.
So now you gotta deal with visa and your bank to get something back that was stolen, and no, you aren’t ending up with the same protections. They aren’t as motivated as none of them are out the money.
If it was a credit transaction, the credit card company is out the money, and if you say it’s fraud and refuse to pay them, well now they are on the hook. They’re now motivated to determine if it was fraud or not as their money is on the line. Also, they now lose out on a potential customer that gives them high interest on debt if they dont undo it (because most people don’t pay off their credit cards). There’s no debt when it’s a debit card and transaction fees are smaller so they earn less from you.
Edit: and even IF you get the money back, it’s going to take a lot longer, and that money is gone in the meantime. Needed it for rent? Sorry the fraud investigation takes 2 months. With credit, your rent money isn’t gone.
It’s just that the usecase (NFTs) were terrible.
It’s the use case for digital images.
NFTs in general are still cool. Concert tickets, tokenzied stocks, land ownership, car ownership, digital keys (that can open digital or physical things), digital IDs, it’s endless what can be done with them, but it’s a long way until some of these things get adopted.
It absolutely can be done with zero knowledge proofs, but it needs to be from an authoritative source.
It could prove you are over the age of 18 (or 21) without having to divulge any other sensitive information, and be untrackable between sites or any outside agency (e.g government doesn’t know and can’t know you visited a site or location that verifies your age)
They could add it to our drivers licenses or passports or whatever which would cover the authoritative part. Your ID is an NFT at that point, and could be fully digital.
Edit: they might even tie generating the proof to requiring a biometric verification (fingerprint) so you can’t give your ID to someone else.
Interesting, had no idea about its origin story.
Also… of course
In June 2006 a Rockingham school inquiry was launched after parents complained of the traumatic effects classroom Mafia was having on their fifth-grade children. Davidoff responded to the reports, saying that as a parent who had studied child psychology for 25 years, he felt that the game could “teach kids to distinguish right from wrong”, and that the positive message of being honest could overcome the negative effects of an “evil narrator” moderating the game as if it were a scary story.
I remember when HDMI came out and then DP.
I wish I knew what was actually going on at the time with regards to licensing, I just knew they both worked and didn’t really pay much attention to things. Sometimes I’d use DP sometimes HDMI.
If I’d known, I definitely would have made a more concerted effort to support DP when it could have made a bigger difference.