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by jfoster 4y ago
I think what's meant is: "this is my fault"
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by jfoster 4y ago
Screenreader: image "alt" tag should be equivalent, shouldn't it? Arguably better, because the intent of it is more widely understood. Search engine parsing: image "alt" tag should be equivalent again. Copy-Paste: A
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by jfoster 4y ago
> the Mozilla position on... Where does Mozilla's revenue come from? Are they an impartial 3rd party?
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by jfoster 4y ago
If you did that, what's the advantage? Instead of loading an image file, it loads a font file, which seems a lot like an image file when used that way.
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by jfoster 4y ago
If this worked well enough, some "laptops" could become just a slab with a keyboard & touchpad on it. Screens are thin & light already, but perhaps there would be some power savings in that?
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by jfoster 4y ago
It's an ethical problem with our society, not the model.
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by jfoster 4y ago
I've never been an admin of any meetup group, but I have been an attendee of many. As an attendee, I'm almost never caring who the group owner is, and it certainly doesn't play a role in whether I decide to join the group or
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by jfoster 4y ago
Agree that it would be a regulation. I'm suggesting that this be the goal of regulation, though. Instead, many regulations seem to be focused on improving quality without regard as to how that affects access.
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by jfoster 4y ago
People talk about regulation as though it's a single thing. There's a difference between ensuring that food doesn't contain melamine and dictating the precise temperature that a steak must be cooked to. We need terminology ca
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by jfoster 4y ago
Perhaps the primary goal shouldn't be regulation or de-regulation, but ensuring affordable access?
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by jfoster 4y ago
I think you're technically right, but that this will be overlooked from a legal perspective because it's less obvious that humans have been training ourselves on the prior art of others. We tend to blend in additional things besid
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by jfoster 4y ago
The problem I have in assigning credibility to Twitter's position on bots is that they seem to have held multiple seemingly inconsistent positions (all paraphrased): 1. "Finger in the air estimate based on sampling", aka. &qu
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by jfoster 4y ago
How would such a camera ensure you're not taking a picture of a picture?
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by jfoster 4y ago
The AGI could just exploit security holes to take over compute resources around the world in order to make itself more performant & resilient.
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by jfoster 4y ago
Good point. Otherwise $400m is quite a high price to pay just for an entry point into Apple Music.
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by jfoster 4y ago
That did cross my mind and probably explains it. I do wonder how much Apple Music revenue really comes from Android users via Shazam, but perhaps it's significant enough that they don't want to ruin it.
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by jfoster 4y ago
I'm surprised that Apple have kept Shazam working well on Android for this long. They acquired it 4 years ago already.
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by jfoster 4y ago
That's a super interesting approach to culling the spam, since web spammers often are trying to make old content look new. Does it work well?
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by jfoster 4y ago
There is an extent they can go to with account verification where gaming is not very feasible. Can you create a fake account with a verified credit card number, verified phone number, passport, drivers license, account history consistent wi
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by jfoster 4y ago
There would be cold vaccines if it were possible to produce effective ones, so it's not an argument against producing a highly effective vaccine.
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by jfoster 4y ago
What's unique about iOS device hardware that enables them to seamlessly detect AirTags? Pretty much all Android devices have Bluetooth.
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by jfoster 4y ago
> An end game solution would be all the OEMs working together one some anti tracking notification spec but that isn't easy to arrange Apple could just publish their spec so that Android can also implement it.
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by jfoster 4y ago
I've heard it's also cheaper from a hardware perspective, because ultimately any modern car was going to have some kind of screen anyway, so you get the screen to replace every instrument cluster. It might then mean using a better
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by jfoster 4y ago
It's certainly remarkable and interesting that he's able to raise despite the bad rep. That's definitely worthy of discussion. I'm just surprised that some seem to be almost insulted by it, if that makes sense?
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by jfoster 4y ago
I don't understand why people care if he manages to raise money. What am I missing? If you don't like the chances, but it's not your money, then so what?
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by jfoster 4y ago
It seems it can happen in Australia. Only a sample size of 1, but I took a trip to Melbourne earlier in the year. Prior to that, I hadn't received any Melbourne-centric spam. At some point during the trip, I started receiving spam from
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by jfoster 4y ago
I feel like that explains why it happened with chat. That it's now happening with their entertainment offerings suggests nothing was learnt. The organisational incentives might be structured such that it will continue, but surely leade
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Ask HN: Is entertainment getting the Google Chat treatment?
2 points by jfoster 4y ago|2 comments
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by jfoster 4y ago
In 2022, Android & Chrome are the most valuable pieces of Google. For instance, if Microsoft controlled them, they could just point the search functionality toward Bing, and most users mightn't even notice.
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by jfoster 4y ago
> Years ago, many people used operators because search engines sometimes needed additional guidance. Things have advanced since then, so operators are often no longer necessary. In my experience, things have degraded since then, so opera

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