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by badinfo 5y ago
Yeah, and also cuz they kinda sucked. 1st-gen iMessage, or even old-school Trillian, was loads better than Google's graveyard of shitty chat products. Google had no overarching chat strategy, just threw gobs of money and different team
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by badinfo 5y ago
Their CEO was on here the other day and said it doesn't apply to R2 or Workers, and that they needed to update their TOS: > (eastdakota) That limitation doesn’t apply to the R2 service or Workers generally. We’ll update and clarify
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by badinfo 5y ago
Google had a relatively good chat product, Google Talk. Then they invented Google Hangouts, Google+, Wave, Allo, Messenger, Meet, and Chat. Now IRC is dead. Who gets the last laugh, huh?!
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by badinfo 5y ago
What do you mean by "Cloudflare isn't a slick Brand"? I feel like they're the only cloud company that's been doing any real innovation for the last 5-10 years, and in a very approachable and affordable way. What&#x2
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by badinfo 5y ago
> Whether someone is interested in religion is not the same as whether they find truth in religion. OK, I agree with that assessment. But I wasn't arguing that Einstein was deeply theistic. I was saying he and other scientists were
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by badinfo 5y ago
> but we simply don't know because it's impossible to ascertain through external means. Yeah, exactly. We haven't developed a good enough Turing test -- for machines, people, or gods. > What a ridiculous strawman. I don
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by badinfo 5y ago
I don't understand what you're trying to point out. That groups of things can have behaviors that lone individuals don't exhibit? Yes, that is true, whether at the atomic level or the cellular level or the family level or the
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by badinfo 5y ago
Sorry, I tried. Hearing one of what?
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by badinfo 5y ago
You can't just take one quote out of context and use it to paint Einstein as altogether disinterested in religion -- he wasn't. To him, there was a difference between believing in Your Own Personal Jesus™, or some variation of Abr
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by badinfo 5y ago
Spinoza's God is interesting not because it's a competitor to the Christian God or Thor or whatever, but because it's a rarely-explored aspect of Einstein's belief system (and confusion) about the origins of, well, every
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by badinfo 5y ago
> It requires no explanation, it must be. It's sort of like asking "why do we have something instead of nothing?". You can substitute "universe" for "god" and still get the same level of meaning (or lac
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by badinfo 5y ago
We as a species may lack the mental faculties to truly understand the mechanisms by which life evolved the ability to analyze and reason about its surroundings and itself. We lack the scientific tools to properly differentiate or falsify &q
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by badinfo 5y ago
What's the philosophical difference between your subjective experience of existence and a 90s-style power-on-self-test? "I am on. I can tell that I am on. I dunno what I think once I am off." Same could be said of man, machin
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by badinfo 5y ago
I'm imagining The Universe™ sitting in front of a crusty old interdimensional space laptop, thumbs-upping your actions in the ol' Fatebook once in a while. Probably The Universe™ ran out of space cats and you were the next best th