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by jfoster 5y ago
Only works if the time gained is being used to work on mitigations. So, who needs to work on the mitigations & are they using the time that has been bought?
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by jfoster 5y ago
Things have truly become quite dire when we won't even use an API in a side-project out of fear that the account could get blocked. It means there must be a whole lot of businesses who, unless assurances are made & believed, won&#x
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by jfoster 5y ago
Which can be substituted by any other computing platform that has the necessary function for your application. As long as one exists, you're good to go. (possibly none exist yet) The brand name doesn't count for anything unless yo
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by jfoster 5y ago
It is just delaying the inevitable, though, right? The problem of a flood of fake spam content is still not too far into the future, just not going to be powered by OpenAI specifically.
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by jfoster 5y ago
I sometimes do the same, but I am pretty sure such behaviour does make you an outlier.
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by jfoster 5y ago
How do you prevent it from being toxic if you won't mute or ban anyone? I get where you're coming from. The idea of "uncensored" is appealing, but the ideal is ruined by a tiny minority who won't behave in anything
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by jfoster 5y ago
Blockchain solves the "how do we keep track of everything?" problem. We already had databases for that, but OK, blockchain is decentralized. The much harder problem of "how do we bridge data & reality?" is mostly uns
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by jfoster 5y ago
Viewers want to go where the content is. Content creators want to go where the users are.
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by jfoster 5y ago
Something that's frustrating about this type of situation which is probably going to arise many more times over the next few years; time is of the essence in this type of situation, and whilst detailed research into the nature of the m
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by jfoster 5y ago
Might some large governments be interested in destroying a cryptocurrency?
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by jfoster 5y ago
I think it should be the opposite. When they were raising from just Google, I was worried they might get acquired and ruined. If they raise so much that they have to IPO, great!
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by jfoster 5y ago
If he can do this at home, why hasn't a pharmaceutical company made something equivalent for the incredibly large population of lactose intolerant people around the world?
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by jfoster 5y ago
If Apple were to make inclusion in this optional, then it would be viewed in a very different light, and there would still be plenty of developers interested in participating.
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Ubuntu (In the Browser)(malisipi.github.io)
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by jfoster 5y ago
One point that I'm surprised the article didn't make: despite the findings of their experiments, Airbnb & Ebay still advertise.
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by jfoster 5y ago
As a public company, it's arguably already sliced that way. What difference would it make if it's sliced further?
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by jfoster 5y ago
How would that address the issue of Google rigging the bidding by owning the bidding mechanism, marketplace, and managing publisher inventory? There would still be a real time auction taking place for each impression.
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by jfoster 5y ago
I've seen lots of comments recently in response to the Google & Facebook advertising issues suggesting that Google should be split into X, Y, and Z. Most of the proposed splits seem like they would do absolutely nothing to address
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by jfoster 5y ago
If it were the case that they were late with the software update, it would make more sense to impose the embargo along with an explanation so that everyone could better understand why it's there.
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by jfoster 5y ago
Whatever they go with, the guaranteed outcome (due to being Google) is that they will do something else within a few years.
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by jfoster 5y ago
Or you move to something that better fits your budget. At least, if there's sufficient supply you will.
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by jfoster 5y ago
> “battery life, security, privacy, and a stance against Chrome dominating the entire web” Sounds almost like an argument against 3rd party apps on Apple's platform overall. Browsers are just one specific type of 3rd party app.
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by jfoster 5y ago
> Why let the platforms eat our lunch? Maybe we should just be giving them a snack, or a little treat, but even that would just be for "services rendered", not as a condition for our meal. I actually do think the platforms do a
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by jfoster 5y ago
Your premise seems to be that Epic being back on the app store increases the risk of change for Apple, but I would argue that making some degree of peace with Epic definitely decreases the risk of change for Apple. The only way I can ration
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by jfoster 5y ago
The Hallmarks of Aging: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3836174/ and from a previous HN discussion about that ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18826833 ) I also found this:
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by jfoster 5y ago
This is probably an example that the writer came up with. I'm very sure that the people who work on this are well aware that the details it fills in may not match reality.
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by jfoster 5y ago
They should unbundle. At the moment, doing business on the app stores entails so many things, but they can break them apart and allow developers to purchase them individually: 1. Put your app on the store. (but only reachable via direct lin
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by jfoster 5y ago
Certain categories (porn, gambling, etc) of payments reportedly have a lot more fraud associated with them. If that's true, it makes sense for this to just be settled through a rate-card.
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by jfoster 5y ago
But OF didn't announce a move to crypto payments. They announced that they were wiping out a massive amount of their current business in order to stick with traditional payments.
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by jfoster 5y ago
That would make sense from a perspective of the transactions being higher risk, so higher transaction fees could cover the additional risk. Why would they not have explored that option in the first place, though?

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