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EC Ruled Months Ago That Google's Integration of Gemini in Android Violates DMA(daringfireball.net)
4 points by danaris 4mo ago|2 comments
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by danaris 4mo ago
His "ventures" started out with PayPal. Not exactly nerd culture. For the nerdy ones, he bought his way in; he never actually founded Tesla. Everything you think you know about him, at least as expressed in this post, is a result
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by danaris 4mo ago
How about the author actually, y'know authors the report?
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And yet, you still think that Econ 101 is as far as those courses go...perhaps it's true that you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
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by danaris 4mo ago
No, no, see, of course it's a law! Now, I'll explain it to you: First, assume a spherical economy in a frictionless vacuum... (/s)
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by danaris 4mo ago
Yes, but have you seen what's happened to hardware improvements over the past 20 years? From the 1960s to the mid-2000s, every 10 years you'd have a big enough improvement in computing power that you could basically throw out the
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by danaris 4mo ago
There's a big difference between physical products, which, once the government has them, it can just use them, and digital infrastructure, which has a number of issues. The two big ones I see off the top of my head are: 1) Once the gov
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by danaris 4mo ago
Neat, and one I haven't heard of! But the existence of one or a small handful of sci-fi authors who happened to predict it doesn't change the fact that they're the exception, few and far between. Search through the vast libra
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by danaris 4mo ago
Because it doesn't matter what you say to the bot. You might as well have a conversation with yourself about the PR. The bot isn't making decisions. It's not choosing to submit extensive PRs with bad code. The colleague is
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by danaris 4mo ago
Most sci-fi from prior to the smartphone age did not foresee pocket-sized interconnected computing and communications devices, and certainly did not foresee how they would be commonly used. Where they addressed it at all, they largely predi
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by danaris 4mo ago
> No one needs work to have or portray value, that's just capitalist propaganda. To be fair, it was Puritan propaganda for a long time first.
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by danaris 4mo ago
There's been a fair amount of research done on this, and while Marx's alienation theory isn't totally out there, what makes the most difference for workers is autonomy and purpose . We need to feel like we have some contro
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by danaris 4mo ago
The problem with trying to price it is that literally everyone needs it to live. Access to clean drinking water is, and must be, a human right. We need to find a way to limit its use for profit, while still allowing actual humans who need i
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by danaris 4mo ago
Water isn't carbon. Leaving aside whether a carbon tax would be an effective solution to CO2 (I genuinely don't know), there's no reason to suspect it would be an effective solution to our water crisis, particularly given the
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by danaris 4mo ago
From what I understand, there's a very good chance that Venezuelan forces of some kind collaborated on that—possibly to the point of delivering Maduro gift-wrapped.
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by danaris 4mo ago
> OBVIOUSLY if you absolutely HAVE to spend money because your life depends on it Food. Clothing. Shelter. For most people in the world , all or nearly all (or, in some cases, more than all!) of their annual earnings go toward these a
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by danaris 4mo ago
> Change the comment to say "the tax rate keeps climbing so I quit working" and it would not occur to anyone to challenge it. Um, what? Many people would challenge that, because it's absolutely bonkers. The only way it cou
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by danaris 4mo ago
But a huge percentage of Americans are spending all, or approximately all, of their income. (I don't know offhand if it's technically a majority, but if not, then it's not far under 50%.) And these are the people who are go
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by danaris 4mo ago
It is entirely possible for the US government to have been implementing an awful policy for decades, and for Trump to be cranking it up to 13 and making things massively worse. Most things aren't binary.
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by danaris 4mo ago
The choices are not between "perfect oracle that never makes mistakes" and "hallucinated AI overviews". Google 100% has the choice not to include AI overviews. Which they know are often false. It would mean egg on th
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by danaris 4mo ago
I guess the operative warning here would be "Don't underestimate the potential for the Russian people to cause problems for Putin."
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by danaris 4mo ago
> Don't underestimate the potential for a Russian dictator to cause suffering for his own people. Oh, I don't, believe me! But the thing is, Putin is already doing this . AIUI, he has been conscripting soldiers to fight in Ukr
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by danaris 4mo ago
This isn't about what the LLM knows. No one's trying to hold a computer liable. This is about what Google knows. And Google knows perfectly well that LLMs hallucinate all the time. They will provide incorrect information, conf
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by danaris 4mo ago
There's no reason this has to be the case. It's entirely possible for legislatures to attach clauses to restrictions that make them only apply to businesses above 50 employees, or above $1M ARR, or whatever.
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by danaris 4mo ago
> Being able to recognize those contradictions is an essential skill My eyes are brown. I dislike coffee. My phone is on the desk next to me right now. One of these is false, and the other two are true. Can you recognise which is which?
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by danaris 4mo ago
That's trying to apply two completely separate legal frameworks, with different purposes, and force them to come to the same conclusion about one aspect of each of them. It's not that simple. It's perfectly legally consistent
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by danaris 4mo ago
Based on the article, the problem isn't that Google is attempting to present the AI Overview as "search" to the users. Google is attempting to claim to the court that AI Overviews are just like search, and the court isn&#x2
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by danaris 4mo ago
> if Russia launches an offensive against the EU With what ? Russia has been wringing itself out to find enough soldiers to continue the war in Ukraine, and while they haven't been driven out just yet, I think it would be somewhere
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by danaris 4mo ago
The solution is legislation and regulation. In a capitalist system, those are the only ways to get for-profit companies to care about externalities (which is what sustainability and longevity address).
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by danaris 4mo ago
How? How, exactly, do you propose that someone with no connections, no authority, and no clout of any kind within major labor organisations of the country "can make happen" a general strike? And if you could, do you think yo

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