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by elicash 3y ago
> If search engines overlap 99.9% in quality, default might win purely because users are lazy and uninterested in understanding the application domain. What Microsoft is saying in this case is that their search engine sucks by comparison
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by elicash 3y ago
This is a better argument, as opposed to the "power of defaults" stuff that has dominated this case. There's a contradiction, though: Is google OVERPAYING so that apple won't start their own search engine? Or is google U
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by elicash 3y ago
I don't have an issue with a law that says companies that create phones have to show X number of search options for the user to select on first startup. But the central argument in this legal case, that just paying to be the default me
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by elicash 3y ago
Microsoft, whose testimony has gotten the most attention in this case, has $111.26 B on hand. Google pays Apple between $18 billion to $20 billion a year, supposedly, and of course makes money back in search revenue. And even more by being
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by elicash 3y ago
This case makes zero sense to me. If just paying Apple for default automatically makes you the highest quality search engine and number one in the market, why didn't somebody else just do that? There's a second more interesting ar
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by elicash 3y ago
I was able to find this project along those lines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5d8gTppuYo
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IRS to offer a new option to file your tax return(washingtonpost.com)
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Ask HN: Where can I get a tabletop programmable "Las Vegas Sphere"
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by elicash 3y ago
I haven't evaluated to see who is right, but to your question they cite this link: https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/ That says: > A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped
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by elicash 3y ago
Yeah there’s an inflatable version but it doesn’t work well if the person in front of you reclines. If it was four inches taller you’d have the bottom part on your lap rather than the tray and it’d be pretty great https://www.ama
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by elicash 3y ago
"Bing Chat's" implementation already allows you to select more creative generation of text. It's just a radio button option. There are also different technical solutions for the LLM to select which word to generate that
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by elicash 3y ago
I might get downvoted for this, but it would make sense as one-time purchases lessen the need to provide more regular updates. It becomes unaffordable to continue, so they now are forced to launch separate, new products. Subscriptions can b
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by elicash 3y ago
Unilaterally disarming seems bad. But yes, I’d agree a rethink of the process could take into consideration it doesn’t represent public sentiment, though I have no alternative solution in mind.
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If I read your title, I’d assume they specifically requested that end solution. Here, all they knew they wanted technically was NodeJS, not where to get the data.
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by elicash 3y ago
In your clarification, I still don't see anything I disagreed with.
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by elicash 3y ago
I remember listening to a great podcast about digital circuit breakers that seems relevant to this discussion: https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-digital-circuit-breaker-and-why#...
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by elicash 3y ago
I think you misunderstood my comment. In that scenario, it still wouldn't rule out the possibility of a lab leak, since like I said they still could have been studying that natural origin inside of a lab.
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by elicash 3y ago
I'll obviously disagree my statements come from ignorance! I think our views are nearly perfectly aligned, in fact. We're talking about a rhetorical difference with me saying "disprove" versus what you called "plaus
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The only thing I find somewhat frustrating about this is that lab leak is nearly impossible to disprove. Because even if you can convince folks that the science shows it was natural in origin, that still doesn't mean it wasn't bei
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by elicash 3y ago
Half-right. In my experience, it's often younger folks out of school, with no kids, who make low wages and live with their parents. It's folks for whom unemployment insurance is a great benefit, assuming they were at their previou
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by elicash 3y ago
Yes, "fun-employment" is essentially the new sabbatical.
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by elicash 3y ago
I think you misread my comment!
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by elicash 3y ago
Yes, absolutely, super interesting. Would it ALSO be a good idea to standardize battery specs? If so, which?
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by elicash 3y ago
Could you go down a rabbit hole a bit on this part of your response? "[Manufacturers] could design their packs to be more reliable and easier to repair." What is it, if you were a state or local government, that you would force on
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by elicash 3y ago
Do e-bike batteries generally need REPAIR or do they more likely just get less effective over time in a way that's not really fixable? Not arguing against repair here, just trying to understand the landscape. Is "fixing" them
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by elicash 3y ago
I'm sympathetic to the argument that you shouldn't be allowed to do something so dangerous it not only threatens to set your own house on fire, but also your neighbors. But it seems to me the solution to that is forcing manufactur
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by elicash 3y ago
There was a great 787 comment thread a couple years ago where people came up with all sorts of better ideas, but for 500 years. Trusts, physical archives, multiple languages, etching into various materials, shooting things into orbit, etc.
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by elicash 3y ago
Here they just rewrote a Verge article titled "NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices" and made it inaccurate. Why they would go out of their way to make the headline they copied from wrong and also slightly LONGER is super weird.
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by elicash 3y ago
I agree with you. However, one thought I had is that you want to make sure government business happens on government phones, and maybe people are less likely to do that if they habitually using their personal phones during the work day? I&#
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by elicash 3y ago
"from government devices" seems important to the title Edit: also, this article simply re-reports a Verge article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23834579/nyc-tiktok-ban-n... Props to Engad

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