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by BbzzbB 5y ago
They've worked on the design for over 20 years AFAICT. Even tho Starship will enable bigger and better telescopes, if there's a repairable problem and it is within reach, would be odd to just bail on JWST when the whole design&#x2
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
While I'd personally feel uneasy asking out a co-worker and never have, I don't think it's weird as long as there's no power/authority dynamic (even than I don't think it's an absolute per se), it even use
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Has one of you smarter people looked thru the code to attest (honor code, I won't sue you) the extension is not shady with it's use of "Access your data for www.google.com" and it's "may use" of "Acce
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
I mean, it'd be another Pandora's box that can't be closed. It maybe sounds nice until a variant of it emerges with dangerous characteristics that is also a hyper spreader.
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
The benefit I highlighted is rather geared towards being an enabler of entrepreneurship, I myself dislike ads enough that I barely ever see one (outside Facebook, great HTML obfuscation there) so I can't pretend I'm a fan of it fo
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
>I'd say it's local, and lets people know what your business is and what services you offer. >I'd ban targeted advertising in any form. Aren't these at odds? Genuine question, I just don't see how you can ban
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
An understatement, it's a fantastic business model. As I recall they have less than 12 employees, and they have printed like $80B with zero accountability. There's a saying that a good and strong business has a licence to print
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Here's one blatantly noticeable difference that makes me more trustful of USDP than USDT even without being informed about Pax : total USDP in circulation ("market cap") went down nearly 50% when Bitcoin and cryptos crashed i
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Equally likely to be enough motivation for potential iPhone buyers to instead get a Pixel or whatever other top-end phones are made for Android. That seems like a more likely compass for Apple's decision making. Besides, when has there
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Apple fighting it on a technical level or playing tough in private negotiations is one thing, but do you truly expect Apple's customers would be pleased if Tim decides in their stead that Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat are off-limit
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Snap, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, [...] execs scrambling to lock or destroy their mental health research programs. I'm obviously not the only person saying this, and I don't want to brush Facebook and Instagram issues under the ru
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
I'm from Québec and GAFAM is the usual media term for the big tech companies here. Amusing how the acronym got (IMO appropriately) corrected in translation, tho I'm not sure if it's just an artifact of it sounding cool (where
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
I hear that thrown around, but while it may be accurate, it sounds like retconning as Jim Cramer came up with the term, and I can assure you Jim Cramer does not give a damn about developer salaries. It was about fast growing tech stocks, no
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
I'm curious as a hosting and cloud noob, do you have an estimate how much that would cost monthly or yearly if hosted on a cloud?
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
I similarly don't understand why Netflix is included. Well, I do, but I don't understand why "we" didn't change Cramer's acronym to FAAMG long ago, IMO Netflix does not belong with these names neither in it&#x2
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
1:9 was merely an example of a video that is likely to be garbage or highly controversial (with exceptions, namely COVID & governmental videos), there was also a visual bar indicating where it sits at for people who find it hard to tell
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Because you can't see a video has a 1:9 like:dislike ratio to tell you it's not worth your time. Granted, you'll (probably) be able to tell from the comments, for now. I'm not convinced how much it'd actually impact
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Right, not sure why it wasn't working yesterday as opposed to now, I swear I wasn't doing it wrong (or how I could've).
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
>Plenty of pandemics have come and gone Honest question, how does this one go away on the timescale of a few years to a decade (or, worst case in what truly interests us, a generation)? Couldn't seem to find an answer on pubmed or s
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Lockdowns by definition harm the population psychologically and economically. For merely slowing it down when it won't stop it from circulating or mutating, I don't see what the point would be by now unless we get a variant that i
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Basically I understand Marginalia's proposition as a search engine focused on retrieving text-heavy/long form content. Unless I misunderstand it's intent, that can't replace a generalist engine (nor does it have to) as n
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Googling that with the brackets I get results containing "eggzackly this" ranked 3, 4, 6 (your comment) and 7 whereas the others contain just eggzackly (or with the 'this' preceded by punctuation as you mention). Therefo
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
>"I'm feeling lucky" button My brain got so used to ignoring it I completely forgot it's a thing. I'm also unclear what it does? On an empty request, it gets me to their doodles page and with text in the box, get
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
You've said it and it is rude, what's the point of that first sentence except to spite him? I'm sure he's well aware of the price per capability trend since 2005, you don't code a search engine without knowing that.
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Neat website, unfortunate there is no sorting option or a way to port in your account's feed (I think?).
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Didn't get the answer I was looking for when searching for 'ed'. Well, I found it after adding a word, but got a chuckle first.
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
I.. didn't know that. However, trying it just now in incognito I don't get the same results[0] (some different links, and most re-ordered). Is Duck repurposing Bing's results? I've tested with "how to get rich"
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Isn't it's familiarity to early Google a side-effect of the early Internet being text-heavy sites in the first place rather than a similarity in the search engine? Unless I am misunderstanding your site's intent, even if you
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Marginalia is great to find blog posts, personal sites and other long form content, but it's not a replacement for Google nor intends to.
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
No mention of DDG in the comments? Is there a reason I'm not seeing or it's just not the preferred alt-search on HN? Seems to have been working fine for me when I struggle to get past the funnels and content mills on Google.

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