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by hobofan 9mo ago
Google Ads still make up a 75% share of their revenue, and likely an even bigger share if looking at profit.
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by hobofan 9mo ago
My point is that Windows/Office are a essential part in their sales funnel. Google also makes most of their money in "ads" but if they were to axe Search and Youtube (which in an reduced view are only sales funnels for ads),
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by hobofan 9mo ago
> I’m not sure how reasonable it is to expect a business to continue offering the same product or service indefinitely if market forces are pushing it elsewhere Market forces aren't pushing it elsewhere. The cornerstone of Microsoft
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by hobofan 9mo ago
> Not every interview No, not every interview. But if an interviewee presents fiction/hatred as fact the interviewer should have the ability to call that out or at least caution the reader with a "I don't know about that&q
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by hobofan 9mo ago
> he knows when to just let the speaker speak I think similar to Joe Rogan that's the main value he provides to listeners. He identifies guests that have some veil of intellectualism and provides them with a platform to speak. Howev
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by hobofan 9mo ago
Canadian ones?
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by hobofan 9mo ago
Sadly their whole frontend seems to be built without QC and mostly blindly assuming a happy path. For the claude.ai UI, I've never had a single deep research properly transition (and I've done probably 50 or so) to its finished st
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by hobofan 9mo ago
I think the benefit to transportation companies would not just be about salaries, but also about predictability in staffing. I've experienced a few times in the past that a strong flu season causes specific bus lines to be serviced wit
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by hobofan 9mo ago
So displace human drivers with public transportation?
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by hobofan 9mo ago
It reads like an anti-ad for both. "I didn't use the Copilot IDE because I lack control over the context provided" and "I used Copilot 365 because it for sure doesn't have any context of anything because connecting
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by hobofan 9mo ago
With experience and optimal prerequisites (good connections to a notary, single founder with default bylaws and no asset transfer into the company) you can do it in ~4 days, e.g. for a holding company. I did it in ~2 weeks last year, where
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by hobofan 9mo ago
So what would your straightforward "fix" look like? Buying refurbished phones is nothing to "fix", and undercutting the psychological effect of pre-ownership price-drops is essentially impossible. I'm really not sur
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by hobofan 9mo ago
So are you buying a Fairphone right now? Because from my rough estimation Framework and Fairphone are about the same when it comes to performance/convenience tradeoff right now. I mostly focused on the "YC disruption" part in
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by hobofan 9mo ago
> Seems like such a low-hanging fruit, especially given the very visible success of companies like Framework. Is there very visible success of Framework? How many people in your everyday live have you encountered with a Framework laptop?
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by hobofan 9mo ago
As a German, I very much share those observations, and it seems to be underdiscussed and not that apparent to most people here. The German social scheduling culture can definitely be a viscous circle, where everyone having to plan their cal
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by hobofan 9mo ago
I wouldn't want to post it unless GP wants that, but it's discoverable via their digital footprint for those willing to put in the effort.
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by hobofan 9mo ago
Off-topic: Is it just me, or have there been a disproportionally high number of ~mid 2025 posts that have been reposted the last few days?
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by hobofan 9mo ago
They also raised $10M at that time. I assume there were conditions to that deal and/or the launch didn't really turn the trajectory around and they saw the writing on the wall. While I admittedly also haven't been using them
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by hobofan 9mo ago
They _are_ in the CI market. Two of their products are the Docker Build Cloud and Testcontainers Cloud. IIRC Docker Hub also came with automated builds at some point (not sure if it still does). I do get your sentiment tough. For the positi
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by hobofan 9mo ago
Really depends on what you want to do with the agents. Just yesterday I was looking for something like this for our web access MCP server[0]. The only thing that it needs to do is visit a website and get the content (with JS support, as it&
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by hobofan 9mo ago
Maybe just a reflex by people that had to hear a decade of "why not C++" whenever it was mentioned that Rust is being used?
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by hobofan 9mo ago
> why not simply do vertical integration and build your own robot arms? Robot arms are neither a low-volume unique/high-cost market (SpaceX), nor a high-volume/high-margin business (Tesla). On top of that it's already a qu
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by hobofan 9mo ago
Because they approach creating such terms in a different way? e.g. some competitors may consider the chances of it to be enforceable to be 0 and not bother with it at all, while others just didn't bother tweaking the standard boilerpla
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by hobofan 10mo ago
> As a customer, you already trust Kagi enough to feed them your entire search history, so I guess you don't think they're bad actors. Do I? I'm not going to post sensitive information into a search engine no matter who ru
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by hobofan 10mo ago
> but he abdicated all the responsibility He abdicated the responsibility as he from the beginning didn't have any power (always the single dissenting vote). There also isn't much leadership to provide if everyone else in the &
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by hobofan 10mo ago
> Listen to your instincts and body signals. Okay, sure, I'll start eating a very sugar-focused diet as that's what my body (via high release of dopamine) tells me is best.
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by hobofan 10mo ago
Doesn't mean it's a valuable take. It doesn't even significantly matter whether it's a bubble or not, but whether its a "bad" bubble. I think Steve Eisman (of housing bubble fame) recently made the argument tha
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by hobofan 10mo ago
Ooops. I thought something was off when I looked it up (headquarters of Nobel Foundation are in Sweden).
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by hobofan 10mo ago
Normally they aren't, but maybe the US will take over Sweden and the Nobel Foundation and make it happen.
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by hobofan 10mo ago
This is great! Looking forward to using it. Especially the rule-based filtering function, as my biggest sore spot with notifications are the few handful of highly functional apps that stuff marketing notifications into notification groups t

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