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by actuator 6y ago
Is it cheaper and better though? You will need to setup redundancy if you use your own hardware, verify your client and server scripts, take care of encryption etc. Also, syncing anyone from Dropbox to Onedrive can do. I like the photo tagg
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by actuator 6y ago
I don't get this honestly. None of us will like if our photos are used for ads as they are deeply personal. How do you think this should be monetized then?
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by actuator 6y ago
> Without the second argument it makes total sense to look at other, more privacy-oriented providers. Photos data isn't used for ads according to the post. Are you concerned about photo analysis for tagging? You can upload to Google
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by actuator 6y ago
Please, no. Photos has way more personal photos of mine. I would prefer to pay and have my content be there without ads. Also, maybe I am the odd one out here but I don't like concept of public sharing. The only reason I have wanted to
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by actuator 6y ago
Does something like this help? https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9776477 I prefer not to manage the content actually. It is way better for Photos to group on dates, location, content. That way finding co
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by actuator 6y ago
I am all in favour of even going after game consoles if it helps other platforms but smartphones are worth fighting for first. Smartphones are logical successors to PCs as general purpose computing devices. A lot of people just have them as
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by actuator 6y ago
What? This is completely false. I don't know what other manufacturers are doing but Google on stock android and on Pixel does mandate asking for permissions. Even Google's own apps ask for them. If your Pixel is stolen you have re
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by actuator 6y ago
They are. MS could have shipped their browser with features that can support game streaming but they can't. Open Web on mobile is being held hostage on iOS side. At least on Android I was asked to choose my default browser and other br
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by actuator 6y ago
Well, limiting your control for some time on matching spamming heuristics is also kind of rate limiting. I am not sure I see the link between number of email attachments and spam though. > The point is, there was no transparency. Agreed
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by actuator 6y ago
I don't know anything about this but being an engineer myself I am assuming you hit a rate limiting function. I am assuming Gmail caches the images when you upload, image upload being an expensive operation per se; when you uploaded so
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by actuator 6y ago
YT is certainly different than Netflix but I would put YT above Netflix on potential. I think YT is much more valuable to human civilization in general. If we consider it as a knowledge bank which has everything from learning a new recipe t
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by actuator 6y ago
Everyone expected this for all big tech. Google's came as a surprise as last quarter numbers weren't that good. I am assuming it will start moving now considerably.
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by actuator 6y ago
Personal observations: - No mention of YT subscription revenue? Does that mean it is low. Considering Netflix success, I am assuming there is a lot of ground to be gained there. - GCP revenue at $3B seems quite low compared to even what MS
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by actuator 6y ago
I wonder what's replacing the ads from travel(hotels, flights, packages). Stock seems 6% up after hours, that does make sense. It had relatively gained less compared to FB from pandemic lows.
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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, this doesn't seem believable at all. East and South Asians are definitely overrepresented (compared to US population) in tech but not by these numbers. Luckily some big companies do publish diversity reports which will easily giv
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by actuator 6y ago
> Googlers have probably forgotten the olden times, when they didn't have Gigabit connections to their pockets and lounge rooms. Sure, that's why projects like Project Loon were launched by Googlers. I don't think the CC v
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by actuator 6y ago
If we rename it and add some open license video as an example instead of music videos, can they still ask for a takedown?
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by actuator 6y ago
Isn't Azure leading the turnaround, not Windows?
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by actuator 6y ago
> A narrative Googlers might tell you, sure. But that has no historical reality. There is a historical account of Google devs submitting improvements to Firefox which were delayed or not merged and that led to the desire to just create a
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by actuator 6y ago
> There are other things Google is doing wrong, but they all exist to feed into the ad industry. Do they now? You seem to know a lot about them. YouTube Premium, Docs, entire GCP suite etc kind of hint that they don't have the same
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by actuator 6y ago
Wouldn't product launches like these be tied to usage data which AWS already has? Do specific customer requests change the development trajectory significantly?
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by actuator 6y ago
I doubt most consider gold to be a worthy long term investment for pure returns as there are products that have performed better than that. It is extremely good as a currency hedge though. BTC was also touted on the same lines with assumpti
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by actuator 6y ago
Gold dipped slightly and rose fast, nothing compared to what happened to say BTC or the big indices. Gold dipped by 10% from its peak when lowest, BTC by 50%
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by actuator 6y ago
Sure, individual coins could have better movement but I would like to track it on a whole, as individual stocks also have better movement than the index. Is there a composite index for the coins at least say the Top 100? I picked BTC as by
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by actuator 6y ago
After the 2017-18 craze, I don't know if HODLers have gained anything on stock market. It has almost followed the broad stock market movement these days. Look at the covid crash in March, coins like BTC also dipped and peformed worse t
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by actuator 6y ago
> Selling an OS doesn't require any particular scale at all It does require scale to build an OS, have appealing devices that ship with the OS and have apps that developers write because they can make money. How the OS is monetized
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by actuator 6y ago
These arguments are so weak, if arguments like these hold we have similar analogies in other domains. > search advertising of any kind requires a search engine with sufficient scale to make advertising an efficient proposition for busine
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by actuator 6y ago
@dang makes sense to add this in the top level comment as well, lest people create separate threads for this.
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by actuator 6y ago
I love Encarta. Growing up with limited access to internet, Encarta was the world of information for me. It used to be so fun going through random articles, finding some multimedia which explained stuff with animations like for Chernobyl ac
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by actuator 6y ago
> Intel may be slowly dying, but this is fine and eventually happens to all ageing corporations. The sad bit is, it will lead to consolidation at the hand of few players which would be worse for customers. Intel used to have good product

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