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by j_maffe 2y ago
I highly encourage you to read about monopolies and their mechanisms. Competitors can be incentivized with a monopoly's profits all they want, the amount of money it'd take to enter the space is unfeasible.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
I think in this case it could, simply because all of the competitors are American, none are foreign.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
> It wasn't until years later that they started paying to be the dominant search engine. I agree but I that's not what the GP said.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
> We forget that there was at least a decade of several "Google killers" a year [1]. It's a graveyard. Yes, that's called a monopoly.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
ITT: People not understand the basics of a monopoly.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
> But if it were possible to build a better index of the Internet, Google would do it. Not when it's detrimental to their sources of income, i.e. Ad Sense.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Yeah I mean obviously people here in the forum know how to spend 20 billion dollars than the dumb executives there...
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by j_maffe 2y ago
It's funny you say that because as an Edge user, I constantly get bombarded with popups on Google websites asking me to switch to Chrome. It's all about who's on top and how to keep it that way, not quality.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Is it only confusing to me that the Americas region is the lowest one and that it barely dropped after the sanctions?
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by j_maffe 2y ago
This is just factually incorrect. Facebook doesn't have "infinite growth"
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CryoEM structures reveal how the bacterial flagellum rotates and swaps direction(nature.com)
1 points by j_maffe 2y ago|0 comments
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Math and Art of Smooth-Rollers in Solidworks(goengineer.com)
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Ordinal value doesn't really matter in this case, especially when it's a categorically different option, access-wise. A 10% difference isn't bad at all.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Totally agree. Your suggested response is perfect IMO.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Not sure what you mean by "they are good to be a user only." Whatever their strategy is, this is great for the community.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
I think it's great that you're fighting to maintain the term's fundamental meaning. I do, however, think that we need to give credit where credit is due to companies who take actions in the right direction to encourage more c
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Of course, it's not altruism; it's a publicly traded corporation. No one should ever believe in any such claims by these organizations. Non-altruistic organizations can still make positive-impact actions when they align with their
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Complex Systems Fail(how.complexsystems.fail)
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Since there's no personalized content, it was probably just copy-pasted. I get the constant fear though.
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Can we build GPT-4 but for scientific data?(bitsofwonder.co)
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Wouldn't you say that the second and third statements slightly contradict each other?
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Compositional Generative Modeling: A Single Model Is Not All You Need(arxiv.org)
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Poor Man's Profiler(poormansprofiler.org)
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by j_maffe 3y ago
I think the users a software like NP++ is aimed for are willing to spend more than 1 second to find out about this option. It appears that you're not one of those users ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by j_maffe 3y ago
Yeah but vertical toolbars are a thing. I love the vertical tabs option in Edge.
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Up to 17% of AI conference reviews now written by AI(aimodels.substack.com)
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by j_maffe 3y ago
There is no justice in following unjust laws.
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by j_maffe 3y ago
Actually, it peeked in 2008 and I wouldn't say 4% over 18 years a steady decline. In fact, it seems to be recovering from Covid to reach a new high. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/WLD&#x2
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by j_maffe 3y ago
I'm not sure if the librarians in the article meant this but that's beside the point. The publishers can enforce a DRM on their side such that only one reader gets it at a time and adjust the contracts with the libraries according
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by j_maffe 3y ago
Yeah, I agree. I think it can be a case-by-case situation depending on both the reader and the publishere/author. An undergrad needing a course textbook that's published by a monopolistic cartel with a 300% markup? Absolutely. For

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