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by apozem 8y ago
That is absolutely the end goal of all these network-effect companies. Uber wants to be a monopoly on transportation, Google a monopoly on search, Spotify a monopoly on music consumption, etc.
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I have never not had access to a desktop PC, but what about people who can't afford one? Say a poor family has $100 to spend on a kid. They're going to get a phone every time. I could definitely see a poor kid only grow up on mobi
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Ben Thompson at Stratechery has been banging the centralization drum for a while. His take is the sheer scale of the internet imbues tremendous value to any centralized service that can organize it (e.g. what Google does for web pages or Fa
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by apozem 8y ago
Talk to a congressperson who knows about cyber like Ron Wyden.
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by apozem 9y ago
If you don't want to wait, people have gotten it working with Wine. I installed it on my Mac the other day. https://www.reddit.com/r/IntoTheBreach/comments/80nt36/i_hav...
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by apozem 9y ago
Tizen has serious security issues, though. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/12/samsungs_tizen_no_l...
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I agree. Samsung makes great cameras and good hardware (Bixby button notwithstanding), but their software is unacceptable. I get that Samsung still dreams of gradually replacing Google services with its own, thus providing a reason to buy S
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by apozem 9y ago
This article reflects an opinion I've long held about game reviews - it's okay for other people to have different opinions. All a review can be is one person's opinion. It might be insightful, helpful, great, terrible, but it
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by apozem 9y ago
One of the most troubling articles I've read recently is an Atlantic piece examining Facebook's effect on kids' brains. Zuckerberg can say connection makes us happier all he wants, but Facebook can make children miserable.
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Fascinating profile. The newspaper this article talks about is basically an analog, extremely inefficient version of Craigslist.
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by apozem 9y ago
Great point. You don't see issues with basic filmmaking like with "Birdemic" - inconsistent audio levels, etc.
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by apozem 9y ago
Reminds me of an interview I saw with one of the co-authors of "The Disaster Artist," the book about the making of "The Room," a famously terrible movie. He said that was what made "The Room" so fascinating - i
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by apozem 9y ago
As someone who is socially awkward and struggles with the nuances of interpersonal communication, this has a certain appeal. I don't know if I could go whole hog the way the coach in the story does, but removing some of the annoying ev
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by apozem 9y ago
Environmental problems seem intimidating to me because by their very nature they require so much collaboration. My ability to live in a green way is more or less irrelevant to the planet- what matters is whether I can convince large groups
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by apozem 9y ago
I don't believe faster internet is the top priority of most American ISPs. This is the quality of a monopoly- the focus on maximizing profits. It's not that having faster internet is bad for them as much as it's a waste of ti
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by apozem 9y ago
This is an excellent point. The FCC's shameful cowing to ISPs has a huge opportunity cost to consumers. Greater connectivity creates new business opportunities. Uber would be impossible without smartphones and reliable data. Netflix wo
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by apozem 9y ago
Reminds me a lot of a persistent surveillance program they've tested in other cities. The idea is if you record all movements in a city from the air, you can trace where criminals come from or where they go. This system has not been im
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by apozem 9y ago
Every designer should be aware of the difference between what they see on their monitor and how their final product will appear. In college, I helped design part of my student newspaper. Images that looked beautiful and had perfect contrast
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by apozem 9y ago
An article that is simultaneously interesting and unsurprising. Cultural differences can be hard to navigate in the workplace, especially if you can't communicate without Google Translate. The learning and adjustment curve will be di
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by apozem 9y ago
Building a financial system without some level of flexibility and human judgment seems like an awful idea. Forgive the lengthy story, but this tale courtesy of Matt Levine is perfect for this [1]: > The California electric grid operator
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by apozem 9y ago
> Perry says the sound waves generated by uBeam tech are safe, and the company will be "conducting third party tests to assure folks the technology is completely safe." And this is why I don't want uBeam doing the testing-
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This is a great idea and an exciting feature, but I wish it came to a better product. I've run into endless bugs with Chromecast streaming and library management with Plex. When I google solutions to these problems, I find threads up t
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by apozem 9y ago
I think the author has hit the nail on the head here. Blockchains offer two useful things: * Decentralized authority * A way to make digital goods scarce To my knowledge, no one has created a business that takes maximum advantage of these s
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I thought the same thing about your alternate theory. If they did figure out how to fix the problem, they absolutely would not reveal that.
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> t has failed to manage conflicts of interest adequately: for example it gives companies a veto over case studies written about them and academics can be paid by the companies they teach about. These are textbook conflicts of interest.
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Far from it for me to take anything away from Star Citizen hopefuls - I hope the game comes out and is good and fans have fun with it. But when I look at the mind-numbing scope and ambition of the project... It will be very impressive if th
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by apozem 9y ago
> Let’s assume Facebook does target ads at depressed teens. My reaction? So what. Sometimes data behaves unethically. Stop right there. Data has no behavior. You behave unethically. Data informs a decision, but you are making the dec
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Growing Old in New York's Snarkiest Early-Internet Community(theatlantic.com)
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The Switch is a huge hit among Nintendo fans, but it's no surprise they turned out for the best Zelda game in years. The real test of the Switch is if Nintendo can keep it stocked with more first- and third-party games than the Wii U h
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> One former employee familiar with the matter said media companies' business models had initially been all but an afterthought. "The idea that these products could meaningfully impact the revenue of the news industry just didn

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