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by golfer 8y ago
That's great for Finland! That is a real asset to your country. The rest of the world doesn't necessarily work the same way Finland does, unfortunately.
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by golfer 8y ago
Exactly -- there is a lot the OP isn't telling us. Maybe Google was right to shut them down.
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by golfer 8y ago
The Ars Technica writeup is superior, IMHO: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/google-duplex-is-cal...
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China brain thought experiment(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by golfer 8y ago|0 comments
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Boltzmann brain(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by golfer 8y ago|0 comments
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by golfer 8y ago
Wrong pedal? How about faulty pedal. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/20...
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by golfer 8y ago
Sadly, a search for Treadstone returns no results </bourne>
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by golfer 8y ago
You're close. The number is currently 86% and has been falling over time. https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2018Q1_alphabet_earnings_releas...
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by golfer 8y ago
Give Google a little more credit. They have 7 separate products with over 1 billion users each [0]. Search, Gmail, Android, Chrome, Maps, Youtube and the Google Play Store. [0]: https://www.popsci.com/google-has-7-product
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by golfer 8y ago
Now translate those into the 72 languages that Gmail supports. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail#Language_support
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by golfer 8y ago
Why does the bottom of the page say "All fights retarded" ? wtf?? Totally unnecessary.
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by golfer 9y ago
But it also applies to EU citizens living outside the EU. So the use cases get complicated.
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by golfer 9y ago
Your $30 phone likely cost far more to build, perhaps hundreds. You bought it at a huge discount probably, since you said it was after the platform was dead. Therefore, this statement doesn't make sense to me: "For a $30 phone, it
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A Cyberattack Hobbles Atlanta, and Security Experts Shudder(nytimes.com)
4 points by golfer 9y ago|0 comments
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by golfer 9y ago
Google obviously relies heavily on ad revenue, but their business is far more diversified than FB. Consider: Google Play revenue (apps + media purchase/rental) Hardware (Pixel phone/Google home/Nest hardware) YouTube video a
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by golfer 9y ago
Sounds like a really paranoid CEO.
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by golfer 9y ago
Verizon plays shenanigans with it's prices though [0]. Initial pricing that skyrockets after 12 months, for example, and other hidden costs. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15423998/verizon-7
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by golfer 9y ago
He's an egot[0] candidate for sure. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_won_Ac...
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by golfer 9y ago
You can't just thumb through all the pages. It's search based, so you'd have to know what phrases to search for. Meaning, you'd need to have the book already. Google actually thought this through.
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by golfer 9y ago
Google has 7 different products with a billion users [0]. So few successes indeed. [0] https://www.popsci.com/google-has-7-products-with-1-billion-...
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by golfer 9y ago
DDG misses the mark for me way too often. Simple query like "pizza near me" shows awful results. Places that are 10+ miles away. I live in a big city. There's hundreds of pizza places closer to me than the ones it shows. M
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by golfer 9y ago
With your consistent anti-Google bias, I'm not surprised you posted this. But every large company has hits and misses. You can't name a large tech company without plenty of failures. That's just how it works. They all try
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Apple Store reportedly evacuated after iPhone battery overheats(cnet.com)
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by golfer 9y ago
Good call. Will be fascinating to see how this plays out!
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by golfer 9y ago
"Long" as a verb means to purchase their stock. As opposed to "shorting" a stock, which means making a bet that it will go down in value.
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by golfer 9y ago
Anyone can sue anyone else at any time. If you think Intel isn't going to be sued for this, you're wrong.
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by golfer 9y ago
Same here. Hopefully it gets fixed, I'd love to try this out.
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by golfer 9y ago
This is incredible. I want an automated Lenny feature for all telemarketers that call me.. I get around 5 a day, this would be amazing.
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by golfer 9y ago
Gross bookings: $9.705 billion versus $8.741 billion last quarter (up 11%). Net revenue: $2.013 billion versus $1.658 billion last quarter (up 21%). Net income: -$1.462 billion versus -$1.064 billion last quarter. Total assets (including ca
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by golfer 9y ago
This is currently being tested in court. Tesla's autopilot has resulted in fatalities.

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