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by aylmao 8y ago
Or a deal. Perhaps DDG will help Apple out as provider of search data of some kind (like WolframAlpha, or Yelp). Not sure what this could be that Apple can't do themselves though. If Apple wants to focus more on services it makes sense
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by aylmao 8y ago
Go figure, I stand corrected.
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by aylmao 8y ago
+1 to who cares. > If the speech recognition is horrible I’m sure they’ll take it off. This is interesting and cool, cause it sounds to me like they only detect for the keyword to "unlock" the Google home, so in theory they don
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by aylmao 8y ago
> Users without the skills to verify the code isn't nefarious have to trust good samaritan developers instead. I trust that amongst thousands of people with different incentives at least one will raise their voice if something is no
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by aylmao 8y ago
> It’s very unlikely because Amazon and Google pay for false positives, so they have a strong incentive to develop really good trigger word detection. There's a feature in my Pixel to show what song is playing --like in the real wor
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by aylmao 8y ago
If the incentives would've been right there's no reason this should've been the case. Large media companies don't make money form being in the Facebook newsfeed, but rather from the traffic redirected from there.
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by aylmao 8y ago
Not to be under-estimated either: Android in general and Chinese phones. Android has gotten pretty good. I broke my iPhone 7 earlier this year and am using a Pixel 2-- I thought I'd switch back, trade it for an X or an XS as they becam
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by aylmao 8y ago
I personally don't think this comment is flamebait or nationalistic, and I think it raises a good question that I think could bring substantive discussion-- why would Cuba want to attack American diplomats? This comment also begins wit
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by aylmao 8y ago
Well, most brains all look the same. It's much like hands. If you were tasked with finding out if someone had a hand chopped off, and saw they had two hands on them, you wouldn't need to know how many hands they had before to be a
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by aylmao 8y ago
> 24 random people became government employees and all had the same/similar brain abnormalities Only 21 were checked afaik, and out of those only 3 showed something significant in the MRI, which the researches concluded "the fi
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by aylmao 8y ago
Did it though? I commented this on another sub-thread, but it seems to be relevant here too. Straight from the report: > MRI neuroimaging was obtained in all 21 patients. Most patients had conventional imaging findings, which were within
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by aylmao 8y ago
Straight from the report > MRI neuroimaging was obtained in all 21 patients. Most patients had conventional imaging findings, which were within normal limits, at most showing a few small nonspecific T2-bright foci in the white matter (n
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by aylmao 8y ago
Or the Iraq intelligence operation, which led to the Iraq war and a lot of the present-day instability in the region. There was wrong intelligence that was believed-in, and right intelligence (claiming there were no massive stockpiles of WM
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by aylmao 8y ago
It goes on to explain it in the following paragraphs: > Don't get me wrong — this is far from the full picture. There are a ton of second-order corrections we need to make. We'd want to inquire how the money was earned, for exa
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by aylmao 8y ago
Also not to be underestimated: Android. Personal anecdote: I broke my iPhone and have been using Android for a bit, and I must admit: at first I thought I'd switch back but nowadays Android is pretty good. Hardware at a comparable pric
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by aylmao 8y ago
+1, plus it threatens global Western influence. Ever since Western colonialism took off, in spite of the eventual independence of the colonies, the West has had economic and thus a lot of political dominance all around the world. China was
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by aylmao 8y ago
Ah sorry, that's true. I take my statement back. Also, yikes, that's even more leverage for Google.
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by aylmao 8y ago
The problem isn't really who has the engine itself-- I'd say for most purposes, most browsers are about as good for 99% of workflows. It's more of the forces and plays each company has around their browser strategy. IE wasn&#
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by aylmao 8y ago
Mossberg had a long career or tech reviews and CEO friends, but I've personally never thought of him as a "thought leader". Moreover, he's unfamiliar to a lot of people. IMO statements by Chomsky would be more news-worth
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by aylmao 8y ago
I don't think it detracts from previous viable points like OP, but I do think the headline might at first trigger an eye-roll on a lot of readers. It sounds like an irrelevant piece of trivia that the NYT wants to blow up in an attempt
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by aylmao 8y ago
As someone who currently lives in NYC, I personally prefer it to San Francisco, but I wouldn't call it better without comparison. A lot of the cheap rent is a longer commute away-- like is the case with SF. In the case of Google, they
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by aylmao 8y ago
I wonder this too. My guess is it could be similar to programming-- there's times when it's just me and my computer-- everything else is a distraction. Other times though, I'm working with others, asking questions, helping pe
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by aylmao 8y ago
Why is this comment getting downvoted? I found that Wikipedia article quite interesting.
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by aylmao 8y ago
Investments tend to take a while to return-- this one didn't pay off though.
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by aylmao 8y ago
I'd hope this is one of the things Apple audits against in their app review process.
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by aylmao 8y ago
Google didn't shut down Google+ to preserve user privacy. Not sure if that's what you're implying with your comment-- I hope it's not.
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Google CEO faces Congress over political bias, China and data collection(cnet.com)
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by aylmao 8y ago
It's the little things (: To be honest as soon as I figure out how to change all the little workflow details I currently use in Chrome, I'll be happy to switch to use Firefox more often / primarily. I love how snappy Quantum
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by aylmao 8y ago
What really gets me is the “for profit”, especially since these are organ donors. They get their “merchandise” for free from the last goodwill of people. If not, apparently they’ll offer free cremation to families to convince them to agree
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by aylmao 8y ago
Guessing this is after they take the “useful” organs out? My guess is not the whole body is necessary. Poor wording in my opinion.

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