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by jfil 3mo ago
I love that!
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by jfil 3mo ago
Thankfully, our body is already compensating by growing sturdy protective skull spikes to repel predators ( https://www.earth.com/news/looking-down-phone-skull/ )
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by jfil 3mo ago
Regular end-consumers didn't pay them anything. The people paying were corporations that advertised online. Through Google's publisher network (Adsense), their Doubleclick acquisition and the DART For Publishers middleware, and th
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by jfil 3mo ago
A free market with functioning anti-monopoly enforcement is a simple solution. Why trust in a government enforced Supply Management system when the same government can't manage to punish a clear criminal conspiracy to price-fix?
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Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata(tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi)
216 points by jfil 3mo ago|50 comments
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by jfil 4mo ago
I just thought of an interesting thought experiment. Inagine a politician who kowtows to racists and does their bidding for his whole career and then, just before grabbing the presidency, he has a heart attack and dies. How would you see hi
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by jfil 4mo ago
Reminds me of a forecasting book I read. The author highlighted that services such as The Weather Network are entertainment/ad-media services first and foremost, and they'll serve you inaccurate forecasts to make sure you return.
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by jfil 4mo ago
I was going to reach out and share the Japanese type art of the Grand Opera House, but looks like you already found my site :-) Also check out RTTY art (radio teletype) http://taipeisignalarmy.blogspot.com/2010/09/
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by jfil 4mo ago
I encourage 'yall to reflect on how the content of the CUJ disappeared as Dr. Dobbs' magazine was shut down (along with Dr. Dobbs' own content). If this reader base - tech savvy and archival minded - will not save copies of t
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by jfil 4mo ago
'Real techies don’t worry about forced eugenics. I learned this from a real techie in the cafeteria of a software company. The project team is having lunch and discussing how long it would take to wipe out a disease inherited recessive
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The American civilians that stayed behind in Saigon(connla.substack.com)
3 points by jfil 4mo ago|0 comments
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by jfil 4mo ago
Well, none of the AI-generated code now seeping into those companies' codebase is copyrightable. So we're about to see a lot more free-use code hit the scene, when the chickens come home to roost. (Not the same as open source, but
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by jfil 5mo ago
That's a very good question that few people consider. Here is the answer: https://knuckleheads.club/how-google-distorts-the-market/
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by jfil 5mo ago
I used to work at a large global company that was part of a uopoly in its industry. We had a lot of mandatory training about bribery, how its forbidden to offer bribes and receive bribes. A lot of training and processes around data retentio
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by jfil 5mo ago
There's no legal requirement to maximize profits. That's a common misconception.
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by jfil 5mo ago
Both could be true. I think Google is milking their main asset and tanking it, before the party ends.
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Material Nonpublic Information at Hughes High(arcove.substack.com)
3 points by jfil 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jfil 5mo ago
I recomment reading "The Management Myth" by Matthew Stewart, on this topic
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by jfil 5mo ago
Ah, the "colonize the stars solution".
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by jfil 5mo ago
For site-search, I recommend making it a much better value for money. Sites with 300 pages don't really require a search engine. Imagine people with 30,000-300,000 pages where 99% don't ever change (so don't need a re-crawl)
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by jfil 5mo ago
I'm creating a piece of "home cooked software" - a multi-player web game to play with my team at your monthly Social. Made for a specific team, for a specific occasion. Its janky, and I made several time-saving decisions that
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Hanoi Hannah(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jfil 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jfil 5mo ago
It's unpleasant to face, but this initiative from Google is a concrete example that the homeless/too-poor-for-phone do not matter. I've heard of cases where university library apps/admin systems required a phone, and for
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by jfil 5mo ago
I've had a roasted barley drink called "Orzo" in Italian McDonalds. It had some of those same roasted/caramelized flavour notes as in coffee.
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by jfil 5mo ago
I used to read through search engine patents back in 2006-7 when I was an SEO consultant. I could see the same names from the AltaVista patents later start appearing as authors on the Google patents.
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by jfil 5mo ago
>one of the ways that Google Ads milks (scams?) unsophisticated buyers The average advertiser has no clue about this. Google's role in the advertising ecosystem has been as a scammer and monopolist for many years now. Unfortunately,
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by jfil 5mo ago
I think the existance of the Soviet Union - some alternative system to compete with - kept Western governments more honest and mindful of consequences. With no alternative "exit" from the system, its easier to abuse workers now.
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Your biggest vulnerability is your shitty compensation(green.spacedino.net)
107 points by jfil 5mo ago|49 comments
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by jfil 6mo ago
This is why Intercom and Pendo are in my adblock list. Enough pop overs!
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by jfil 6mo ago
I think the impact of specific workspace arrangements will be different for each person. And no e of these adjustments are going to unlock a torrent of productivity. From my own experience: * Getting an ear-covering gamer headset was most e

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