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by creato 1y ago
I can't understand how this is even a question. At the time, google was a $30B company, 10x smaller than Microsoft. Where 2 Technologies was a 1 year old company with 4 people, with 0 documented sales or market share that I can find. T
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by creato 1y ago
One of the acquisitions you are talking about was 4 people that started a company and was "acquired" by google less than a year later. The idea that something like this should be blocked by competition regulators is frankly, tota
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by creato 1y ago
It's disappointing to see the historical revisionism in these threads. Say what you will about google now, but the idea that they just bought their way into X industry doesn't seem right. Until maybe 10 years ago, tech people almo
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by creato 1y ago
They did exactly that for decades.
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by creato 1y ago
"Not to mention" doesn't make sense here. Everything else in this thread is talking about reducing the demand for trucking labor. Your post is talking about reducing the supply.
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by creato 1y ago
This seems like good news if it means the AI safety nannies are losing influence.
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by creato 1y ago
As of 2023 Apple had done very little of this to iMessage, a far simpler app than a browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37425007
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by creato 1y ago
Every browser I've used in the last 20 years: IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, all free. The browser market has been full of free competitors since before Google even existed.
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by creato 1y ago
I don't think Google uses data from Chrome this way. I don't think Google actually wants to associate data with people so aggressively. It's obvious when that happens and it feels gross (this is why I stopped using Facebook 1
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by creato 1y ago
I'd suggest simply adding `assert(-M_PI/2 <= x && x <= M_PI/2)` to your function. It won't slow down the code in optimized builds, and makes it obvious that it isn't designed to work outside that range
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by creato 1y ago
The modern equivalent of working a lathe is running a CNC machine tool, and I would bet that if we suddenly killed off the tech industry and ramped up CNC machining in the US, the CNC machine industry would have far more former SWEs than fo
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by creato 1y ago
Requiring people to be able to interact with other people is not "bigotry".
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by creato 2y ago
Aren't these kinds of services already largely banned in China?
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by creato 2y ago
I have family members that when they say "ChatGPT" they actually mean google's AI overview in the search results. The term ChatGPT might just be the Kleenex or Xerox of this market.
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by creato 2y ago
You don't need to know the license terms to know what is happening. Just observe that you get ads based on browsing and searching behavior. Most people can see that it's happening and don't care. Or at least not enough to giv
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by creato 2y ago
Isn't it equivalent to an actual grill in that regard? I haven't heard anyone say that a grill is abusing meat.
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by creato 2y ago
There's a whole world outside the US and China that companies are competing in.
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by creato 2y ago
hotmail, yahoo mail, etc. were also free when google started gmail. gmail won because it was just way better, and it has changed very little in terms of its value proposition in all that time.
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by creato 2y ago
A level playing field is good. The playing field includes other countries.
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by creato 2y ago
uBO Lite exists and I can't see any visible difference in how well it works. So, it's not a price you need to pay at all.
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by creato 2y ago
And also requires far less intrusive permissions.
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by creato 2y ago
It's also great to not give basically unlimited permissions to an extension.
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by creato 2y ago
The simple explanation is they want the tariffs, but get scared by the blowback, but can't just give up, because that would look even more dumb than it already does.
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by creato 2y ago
At 7 transactions/second? Good luck.
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by creato 2y ago
They also do really shady things with affiliate links and their scheme to hijack ad revenue from websites.
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by creato 2y ago
You're making a great case for why most people should prefer chrome to remain a google product.
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by creato 2y ago
I was just forced to switch from uBO to uBO lite because of this. I can't see any difference in behavior, and now the extension doesn't need unlimited permissions.
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by creato 2y ago
Good luck paying engineers to work on chrome on the GS pay scale, subject to the whims of Elon Musk's DOGE.
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by creato 2y ago
And I get nagged by the operating system in multiple different ways (system dialogs, notifications, opening a new file type, ...) to switch back from Chrome.
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by creato 2y ago
Trump is going to demand a lot more than the few million Google donated for that. I doubt Trump would settle for anything less than a public grovelling to every Google/YouTube user (like TikTok), serious and significant pro-Trump tin

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