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by charlesism 7y ago
This comment seems strained. A history book would neither back up the claim about unfettered travel, nor the claim about corruption. The parent comment actually seems reasonable to me. It really wouldn’t take much escalation for a trade war
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by charlesism 7y ago
Yes, that’s what I was thinking. I can’t disagree that users tolerate ads, since advertising is the model of plenty successful websites. It’s just that, like bundled OS crapware, the user experience is better without it.
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by charlesism 7y ago
Am I doing your comment an injustice if I paraphrase it as follows?: - Ads do not adversely affect customer satisfaction. - The combined forces of Microsoft, Apple and others could not create a serviceable search engine (despite Microsoft a
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by charlesism 7y ago
Your generation had "Don't trust anyone over 30!” We should revise the message to be “people of all generations make lousy decisions” and leave it at that.
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by charlesism 7y ago
If you mean “conflation of what customers want and what companies need” that is another way to express “customer focus” If companies like Apple and Microsoft care about providing a great user experience, Google search is risky. I think user
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by charlesism 7y ago
...answering my own question: because Google pays these companies off! I almost forgot they pay Apple almost $10 billion to be the default search on iOS.
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by charlesism 7y ago
I don’t understand why Google’s competitors don’t form an independent search engine. If I were Microsoft, I’d talk to Apple and others to see if they would help fund a spun off Bing. The internet badly needs a big alternative search engine
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by charlesism 7y ago
HN is “social”. It’s just not so “social” that I want to throw my router off the balcony upon reading it.
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by charlesism 7y ago
I don’t know about ideology. I know Gawker alerted Torontonians to the fact that their mayor was off his gourd on drugs, hanging out at a crack-house. That seems like a public service to me.
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by charlesism 7y ago
Oops, I forgot about that guideline. Won't be a problem in future.
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by charlesism 7y ago
Thanks! If someone linked a NYT recipe for chicken soup here, it would be full of "fake news" comments. [edit: speculation removed]
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by charlesism 7y ago
Considering Hollywood’s low tolerance for risk, this young trend is going to be huge, and permanent. I can’t help but be excited to see new movies with old stars, but I can already tell it won’t be fun for long. A decade from now, we’ll pin
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by charlesism 7y ago
> “I thought it was essentially game over for Apple,” > Silverberg told me, recalling his thoughts about > Windows 95 at the time. “I didn’t see how they > could compete.” > > Fortunately for
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by charlesism 7y ago
Imo, this article crosses the line into spam territory. If there's a tool with which the HN audience is already familiar it's the text editor. This article seems like a random list. That might be okay (barely) if the first entry w
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by charlesism 7y ago
There are two big problems with these algorithms. Problem one is less controversial: small groups of propagandists game the algorithms to gain more exposure than they could get organically. Problem two is less comfortable: sometimes content
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by charlesism 7y ago
> YouTube is merely a mirror of our societies. Youtube hasn’t affected the world? That seems like an extraordinary claim to me.
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Mozilla unveils 28 horror stories about YouTube’s recommendation algorithm(thenextweb.com)
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by charlesism 7y ago
I have a theory that in ten years or so the tide may turn. That’s enough time for this generation to have lost, or have had to deal with unpleasant migrations of, their valuable data due to online services shutting down... repeatedly. I don
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by charlesism 7y ago
What does “allowed to have a past” mean? What a person does today can have long-lasting ramifications. If you decided to chop off your own hand, for some misguided reason, ain’t nobody ever growing you that hand back. The permission to “hav
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by charlesism 7y ago
Great point. I made some assumptions without taking a mental inventory. The issue is disproportionately an Apple issue (and even then, an issue with programs that rely on Apple APIs).
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by charlesism 7y ago
The paradigm programmers deal with today is demoralizing: it’s lousy to know your work will disintegrate in five or ten years. For a while Mac OS 10 had support to run Mac OS 9—- via nicely integrated emulation. Then Apple removed it. I’d j
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by charlesism 7y ago
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. And yet https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/opinion/jeff-bezos-spend-...
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by charlesism 7y ago
Well, it is often useful to ask why a user wants to do something a particular way, and commendable to inform them if it’s bad practice. The trouble is, if you’re going to reply that way, you should strive to first answer the question, as
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by charlesism 7y ago
Is consciousness a binary state? There are many examples that suggest it is not: toddlers, the dream state, computer programs, communal endeavors (such as a scientific inquiry), not to mention animals. If consciousness is something that is
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by charlesism 7y ago
Read between the lines: "Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Lower Customer Satisfaction." That's less obvious because Amazon traditionally has been a customer-focused company, and this is a step away from that.
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by charlesism 7y ago
Imo, the shark-jumping moment for any search engine is the day when they deprecate the "0 results" page. I mean, when the user searches for "alice bob" and the search engine pretends the user searched only for "alic
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by charlesism 7y ago
> Has anyone found that recently Google search > is becoming more and more useless? Absolutely. I use DDG now. Google spams me with ads, and ignores my search terms. This 'search disease' seems to be spreading
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by charlesism 7y ago
If it's difficult, as opposed to unrealistic, then it's a good opportunity for a third party (or a google spin-off) to wholly dedicate itself to solving. Also, PageRank is easier to game because Google must stick to existing rules
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by charlesism 7y ago
Unless the Wikipedia article claims Dan Rather has an ability to telepathically beam messages into his viewers' heads, I don't see a strong connection.
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by charlesism 7y ago
It's only "too big to fix" because Youtube insists on fixing it centrally. They could fix it by delegating responsibility to creators, and implementing some sort of "user-rank" to avoid moderating every single bit o

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