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by gerash 7y ago
Can somebody explain why anyone should use DDG instead of Google when they are both free and ad funded? I just issued my last Google query (some Mac OS troubleshooting) and the results were not even close. I understand that they try to diff
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by gerash 7y ago
"2FA market". Wait now 2FA apps constitute a market? The whole article is inaccurate and tries to jump on the stereotypes we see in the news about Google to capture clicks. Authenticator is still a secure 2FA app (unlike Authy) an
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by gerash 7y ago
IIUC the Authy "feature" where it allows you to transfer 2FA codes to a new device defeats the purpose of 2FA. That is, if someone gets access to your Authy account they'll get access to your 2FA codes. This has been used to
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by gerash 7y ago
Slightly off topic but it seems the "Islamic world" reference to the middle east is overmuch. No one calls the medieval west the "Christian world" as much.
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by gerash 7y ago
I agree that this seems to be a narrative that exists only inside the HN bubble. The fact that a multi million dollar business decision is being made not by running numbers and future roadmap but by one guy in the meeting saying "wait!
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by gerash 7y ago
How come a sensational post like this finds its way to HN front page?
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by gerash 7y ago
Are other nations any different? If you had a dictatorship in your country, would a foreign attack win your "hearts and minds"?
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by gerash 7y ago
The design is such that it's hard to tell if the video on the website are real or animations.
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by gerash 7y ago
No, the health care situation in US is just perfect. Don't you try to do anything there big bad tech. companies. All they are going to spend their budget on is to personally identify people with sensitive health issues (eg. erectile ds
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by gerash 7y ago
Sampling realistic text from large pretrained models is non-trivial. I came across this paper in one of ACL 2019 workshops: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09751.pdf
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by gerash 7y ago
I don't know why you excluded PhDs but their code aren't any better necessarily. Hiring straight from school doesn't necessarily mean bad S/W engineering skills. But generally the research code is either made hastily dur
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by gerash 7y ago
It is hard to accurately judge how the CEO is doing as most us are not privy to what he has to deal with in his job. That said, to me he seems uninspiring, dodging questions and without much background in Computers. In some ways arguably si
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by gerash 7y ago
I think that's how you end up with corp. speak. Anything an exec says is going to be blown out of proportion for grabbing clicks. Next time he gets a question he's going to read his answer from a legal and PR approved script.
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by gerash 7y ago
This seems like a fake outrage to me. If I were a homeless I'd be more than happy for someone to take a photo of me for $5. In fact, I'd find it pretty hypocritical if someone was spending their energy fighting against possible in
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Google is facing another EU antitrust probe over its jobs search tool(cnbc.com)
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by gerash 7y ago
See my comment above.
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by gerash 7y ago
I don't know about you but if I didn't know what Gluten was and an article simply defined it as "Gluten is a protein that causes diseases such as celiac disease" for its audience to further its argument I'd consider
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by gerash 7y ago
The propaganda machine that is WSJ. I'm glad that I don't pay $300 / year for that. Here is a quote from the article: > Cookies are small text files stored in internet browsers that let companies follow users around the in
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by gerash 7y ago
You're just talking in abstract terms. Let's be grounded in facts. His initial "poor experience" was that his website was hacked in 2012 and Google warned its users about visiting it.
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by gerash 7y ago
Had you done a quick search you'd find his Wikipedia page along with several references.
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by gerash 7y ago
You'd imagine a professor in Psychology from Harvard would not hold a grudge for seven years over Google warning users about his hacked website and "tarnishing" his reputation. Apparently not.
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by gerash 7y ago
It sounds like tech. hasn't bought enough Republicans yet. That's all these investigations are about apparently. Otherwise Sinclair media, for example, should be investigated for having an actual monopoly over US local news TV sta
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by gerash 7y ago
That's not proof. Alright, here's my understanding of the situation but you can stay as paranoid as you wish about things: Google is among the companies which doesn't do much business in China while many others tech or otherw
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by gerash 7y ago
Apple products have always made choices for their customers. Most of the times they're helpful and desired like this one but some times they're also anti-competitive. eg. making Spotify and Google maps second class citizens compar
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by gerash 7y ago
No, you don't get to choose. You have to be privacy first which narrows it down to DDG and Apple. Deal with it.
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by gerash 7y ago
Peter thiel was recently speaking at a conservative whatever in DC spreading nonsense and creating a bogeyman out of Google (but not FB obviously). That they're working on some evil AI. Anyone actually working in the field knows how bl
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by gerash 7y ago
The first version worked exactly as you proposed. The UX however was meh. You'd place a monthly limit on your ad (outbidding) spend (eg. $2) and it ended up outbidding only some of the ads: those served by Google which were also outbid
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by gerash 7y ago
Here is my version of a post mortem: Google plus interface was modern but clunky at the time. It was a Facebook clone with just a cleaner implementation. The RealName policy wasn't as big of a deal as a loud group make it out to be. Th
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by gerash 7y ago
I have never heard anyone working at Google say that. I'm not sure what your old friend was up to though.
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by gerash 7y ago
The ones I mentioned (cc card, bank, TurboTax, etc.) are all data on third party services too.

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