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by cbsmith 2y ago
Yeah, the amazing thing is that everyone talks about how Google destroyed search, but fails to acknowledge that nobody with a better search emerged. The amount of money at stake with regards to search is such that the decline of search acr
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> This fact metaphorically depicts how sad this story is. It also highlights how selective the information & context provided in the story is.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
That's the first question that came to mind while reading the article. Many of the possible answers that came to mind did nothing to improve my perception of the article.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
In terms of understanding the dynamic though, That Fucking Guy doesn't really help. At best it can be emblematic of the underlying dysfunction, but in reality, with complex organizational dynamics, it's the underlying forces that
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> ...and gives us a name to actually blame. I'm not sure that scapegoating makes the characterization of the article any better. > atleast this guy has given us good information and context to understand Googles decline. The styl
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Yes, I felt that the style of the writing lead me to doubt whether I was reading the full story (and indeed, the way Prabhakar's work at IBM is minimized reinforced that impression).
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> Is it right? I don't know. Can we stop it? Absolutely not. Depends on what you mean by "stop it". Patents are public, but it's hard to employ them for commercial purpose without an agreement from the owner.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
With an eyewitness, simply saying that you think they are mistaken, with no evidence as to how they are mistaken, is sufficient. In this case, it was easier for the courts to believe hundreds of people were lying and committing fraud, then
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> I can understand how they got here: Most computer-provided evidence will be something like a printout of an email thread or a saved Excel sheet. Proving that the hard drive, printer, CPU, drivers, application software, etc. are all unt
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> This is just an assumption that generally, computers are doing what they're supposed to. It's more than that. You don't have to instruct a jury that they have to accept that a person does what they're supposed to do
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by cbsmith 3y ago
The legal system already has checks and balances to account for errors in paper accounting. They don't require an assumption that the paper accounting is correct, but rather rely on the jury to make judgements, because juries are famil
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Worth keeping in mind that even a lot of these cases weren't treated as murder...
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> Ugh yeah I turned down a job offer even from seemingly ethical and nice startup in large part because I’d be exchanging actual publicly traded RSU vesting in the future with equivalent in options. I did the same thing. The options were
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I feel your pain.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Interestingly, CP/M's filesystem would actually do lowercase. It's just CPP would uppercase every command entered at the command line before executing it. Not surprisingly, people tended to use uppercase with CP/M.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
It's inherited from CP/M. That's also where the 8.3 character limits came from. Interestingly, CP/M's filesystem did support lower case characters, but CP/M's CPP would convert whatever commands you gave i
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Makes me wonder about software development and libertarianism... ;-)
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by cbsmith 3y ago
More or less devastating than extracting heavy metals and setting up a battery farm?
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> The real Woods was arrested and charged with identity theft and false impersonation, under a misspelling of Keirans’ name: Matthew Kierans. > > Because Woods continued to insist, throughout the judicial process, that he was Willi
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by cbsmith 3y ago
You'd be Kierans . ;-) That was such an ironic twist to the story.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
While I am sure the overall narrative is accurate, appraisals tend to be less accurate when there are few transactions occurring for a product. I imagine the appraiser had a hell of a time assigning any value (including $0) to much of the c
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I don't think it does, though that would be great. Burning the methane on site as waste is still significantly better than releasing it into the air (converting methane to mostly CO2 is still better than not doing it). This technology
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Is that more effective than the traditional, "store the energy as kinetic potential energy by pushing water uphill, so you can let it go down the hill later" approach.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
That's basically what this is, minus the "worthless" part. That's the part you'd have to read past the headline to be sure of anyway.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Classic, "if you've done nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide". The unscrupulous aspect might not be the company, but the audience. It shouldn't be that hard to imagine that owners of companies might be targete
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by cbsmith 3y ago
We've already got electric trains. It's way more efficient to have the energy delivered to the trains on the track than to carry a battery on the train. Planes is another problem.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
That's anonymous remailers. Jeez, autocorrect hates me.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
TIL that untypical is a word that means the same as atypical. It's funny. I think of anonymity as something that has been part of the Internet going back through at least the last three decades of my experience with it. Back in the day
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I thought it changed to 57 days.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I really appreciate the effort you guys are going through to make me not feel so old. ;-)

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