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by d1zzy 7y ago
Investing (at a loss) many years to grow a business where you are starting behind others seems sensible. Let's not forget that Amazon had reported almost no profit or just loss for more than a decade. So as long as the business grows i
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I can see why someone might not want to loose their 40% appreciation of their real estate property but that doesn't make them right. That is, of course if you change a policy that was primarily designed to inflate housing prices to the
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> 1) made for high-income dwellers, thus not reducing prices, because the high-income and low-income housing markets are often effectively separate markets, like cars and semi-tractor trailors. That doesn't seem right to me. Sure, t
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by d1zzy 7y ago
That's assuming that what we describe as "artistic" is not the result of processes that neural network can emulate reasonably well. But even if that were the case, I'd argue that 99% of music is rehashing previous. Hell,
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Check out AI made black metal, it's not fantastic but also well above garbage. https://dadabots.bandcamp.com/album/coditany-of-timeness
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Hmm, this seems dangerous or maybe unique to each individual. In the past I've had low blood sugar issues (started shaking and got splitting headache) because I forgot to eat for 24h or so and worked long hours, it wasn't a nice e
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> While anecdata can be useful in general, in this particular case I have a hard time believing that the case you describe: working in a worse job than your home country, is informative or representative. Does being a homemaker as a res
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> But it does show yet another example of how designing a language to solve Google's fairly-unique problems doesn't result in a general-purpose language suitable for solving most people's problems. How much of Google'
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> Except it does not affect Google, because Google has this install ID to use both for tracking and preventing ad-fraud. So when Apple releases a privacy feature, that doesn't affect them as a business, we praise the feature or we s
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Quite a lot of reasons. I assume you asked that because you're thinking it's used to gather information on its users. That could be one of the many reasons. At least initially it was because Mozilla/Firefox didn't want t
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by d1zzy 7y ago
TL;DR I think whoever posted that is trying to bury the UA anonymizing feature by derailing the discussion. What I'm seeing is an RFC for anonymizing parts of User-Agent in order to reduce UA based fingerprinting, which improves everyo
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by d1zzy 7y ago
The difference of income between top 1% and bottom 1% in an area is as useful/relevant as talking about the _average_ income in said area. If some area has some very rich people (or very poor people) this difference is likely going to
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by d1zzy 7y ago
There were plenty of technical reasons at the time, remember Firefox/Mozilla devs were strongly against the multiple processes model that Chrome devs really wanted. Chrome has redefined what it means to build a secure browser and I&#x2
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> When is IE gonna die? The year following the year of the Linux desktop!
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That's fine and all except we should at least recognize when we've decided by gut and when by logic. Unfortunately this doesn't happen in most cases which means that when weighing alternatives we give equal credit to gut and
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> I’m skeptical that there is a significant body of critics that share these patently conflicting views. If I take a serious look at my own C++ needs I do find myself having those contradicting views. Essentially what I find is that for
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by d1zzy 7y ago
This is why I get confused when someone on HN says it would be easy and quick for a competitor to replace Facebook or Google. It's only easy if you can support such costs year over year over a decade or more. The amount of software and
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> Facebook and Google on the other hand make their money from stalking people and developers are giving them data in a nice standardised format. Do we know that the privacy policy/terms of service for these services allow Google&#x2
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I wonder about that, after looking at HNs level of response to privacy issues. First, if you look at the number of topics covering privacy issues on this site it completely dwarfs news about people getting killed in Ukraine, for example. Bu
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Not having exceptions doesn't imply that. An alternative is ErrorOr<ReturnType> returning factory functions. It requires that ReturnType is movable tho (can be further wrapped in std::unique_ptr if not). Not every error is except
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> I think it's fair to say that any of Google's individual technologies can be replicated in fairly short order, but the problem is that the combined effect of Google's collective suite of tools is powerful. What? That ma
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> Imagine if someone comes along and takes away Google's search business? At this point, their results are such a trash fire it can't be that hard. And if that happens, they've got nothing, because they've been lazy a
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> Now that everyone and their dog appears to be offering their own streaming service, we are right back to the "app store" days of competing on the basis of "total number of apps". Quantity over quality. As a not youn
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Great questions! I think it's fine to try to raise awareness of this issue simply as something that younger folk/people starting in their career should consider, if they haven't already. But yes, if they do consider it, also
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by d1zzy 7y ago
While I agree there are plenty of examples for either of those companies which seems to clearly show a violation of basic ethics, does that happen simply because the scale/size of it or because of the people working there? Do those com
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> Just because we're all living in the status quo doesn't mean we can't change because we're all hypocrites for living with the status quo. Aspire to something better. Even if you're currently benefitting from or
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Just search in a private window then, the part of the tracking that I assume you find objectionable (gathering info on what sites the current user visits) goes away when you close the window while the part that helps the search engine (and
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by d1zzy 7y ago
At which point pushing for new technologies as a private entity is anti-competitive vs moving technology forward? If the criteria is just "needs extra work" then unfortunately almost nothing can change and we're all going to
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> I just hate when tracking is bundled with advertising. And I hate when advertising is camouflaged. AFAIK pretty much all customers that pay for internet advertising WANT tracking (a cookie or URL session ID that tracks you from the ad
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by d1zzy 7y ago
This is a tricky proposition. Google has free speech rights to display whatever they want on their own server pages. These aren't statements of fact so it's not falling under libel & co. It's like saying that you want to

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