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> but that is true for all the products I buy Some things are more obscure than others. It's easier to trust and verify Office SaaS than AI SaaS. The determinism and obviousness of most other activities make them less susceptible to
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> The games went to a Saudi sovereign wealth fund. The map went to defense. The map went to offense . Nobody needs scans of someone else's country for "defense". At this point it's a given that any data source that c
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> I would never know whether the models they launch will silently corrupt my output You never knew to begin with, now you have an explicit reason to realize this. Any black box run entirely out of your control, where you can never verify
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> If you become a bat, you are a bat, you cannot get out of that space and think "oh so that is what it is like to be a bat". This is what makes the question so difficult. The human would experience what is like for a bat to be
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> FYI last fiscal results from Q1 I googled the money they made from cloud, subscriptions, platforms, and devices, then approximated almost $120bn in a year. The precise number mattered less than the fact that it's a ton of it alrea
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When someone says that all money a company pays is "money from their main segment", that's intentionally misrepresenting. In this case what's important is what the money is for , not from . Calling it "Firefox had
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> I'd never expect an invoice after not putting in a card. Startups have to innovate to stay alive and YC never discourages this kind of "innovation" if the startup has the potential to turn into big dollars.
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The similarity between mobile internet (CSD) and dial-up wasn't really obvious from the users' perspective because they weren't explicitly making a call to access the internet. The session was established transparently when
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I'm with you on the first one and that's the closest reason why you could call Firefox payment "ad money". But the rest are not too strong. Google makes a lot of non-ad money too, even if it's a smaller portion than
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> Google, being an ad giant Isn't Google also a cloud giant?
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Well thought out commentary... Let's dig deeper and at least we make it more interesting conversation, not a blurb. Wouldn't it be technically no because Google's revenue isn't 100% from ads? They're making almost $
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Making Firefox even less desirable by "googlifying" it pushes Firefox users away and kills its image of a viable competitor. That's exactly what Google is paying for. Why would Google destroy the cover they have for keeping c
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> the ad money kept rolling in Why "ad money"? That's a very uncharitable interpretation and for anyone not aware of the situation it's misleading. They're not paid for ads or by ads, they're paid by Google
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> I assure you that a great many of them take great offense when you suggest that they are not experts in whatever they are speaking at a given minute. That I can believe without question. I see it in action every day. But how are they a
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Those people are people with high HN karma, a lot of it for posting or submitting technical discussions. Is that enough to give that much weight to their opinion on political topics?
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TL;DR. If you ask me, the essence of social media today is the algorithm and the "social curation". Is what I see dictated by some behind the scenes algorithm and by the mob (votes, views, engagement, flags, clicks)? It's soc
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> Is it not clear at this point that the real issue is how lacking the term "social media" even is? It's very clear. Empirically a common sign across all social media is basing very strong opinions on very vague personal i
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You wrote a paragraph to say you don't "think" the others are right. What is the definition that made you think this?
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> if you think What do you think social media is? What are the clear criteria that make something social media, or make it not social media? If you know HN is not social media that you have a clear demarcation of what is.
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Why is nobody here defining social media, put down the clear criteria? "I say this, I am tired of people saying that" isn't productive if everyone has their own interpretation of what's being discussed.
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> And no, HN is not social media in any normal sense of the word. The pedantry involved in that comparison is extremely tiresome. For an arbitrary definition of "normal"? The last remark is unwarranted and can only have a chill
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> Took many risks and things worked out okay for me in the end. I could tell my kids to do the opposite but I'd be lying and they'd know it. Why do you think they'd know it? Working out in the end for you was the less like
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That just leads either to disproportionate or cruel and unusual punishment (not every object has the inherent level of danger so your $200 property must be rigged to kill or severely injure on attempted theft), or to raising stakes where th
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People are very conscious that a child costs a lot to raise and the reality is usually worse than their estimates. They know children will impact their career and promotion opportunities, so a lower expected income just when they need it mo
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All contracts take away rights that the law explicitly guarantees you? Such confidence. Sometimes talking to an LLM is an improvement...
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Everything is a technicality if you squint hard enough. I see you’re confused about the concepts. You’re mixing “things that are legal (sometimes)” (smoking, but not on the plane) and “rights that you have all the time” (freedom of speech,
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> I just said you're giving away liberties. >>this is even written somewhere in the contract between you and the airline that you agreed on What I wanted to say is that you'll never give up any civil liberties because of
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In every store demo people go to the TV with the most vibrant colors even if they're unrealistic. You can't even tell which is the color you're expected to see sometimes. I have the movie "Once Upon a Time in America&quo
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> I will assume that those people are already stressed and will probably act even less rational than they normally would They turned what most passengers considered at most tasteless into a real threat worthy of returning to base. How ca
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No contract is allowed to take away what the law gives you. Either the law says "except on a plane/ship/etc." (which is plausible) or the contract is invalid. Can you imagine how it would be if every contract you sign ha

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