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by jfoster 6y ago
How could a vacation imply anything about chronic illnesses or future pregnancies? I mean, of course there's a chance something might be mentioned as an aside, but it seems very unlikely. Visiting family much more often than not will j
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by jfoster 6y ago
> I'm trying to come up with any legal, ethical reason to want to have and keep records on this. What's even the non-legal, non-ethical point of recording employees' vacation experiences? Feel like I'm missing somethi
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by jfoster 6y ago
I found a video of a restaurant receiving a booking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_FuvIwSxT4
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by jfoster 6y ago
Does this feature really have to be geo-locked & only available on specific hardware?
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by jfoster 6y ago
> What annoys me about google though, isn’t the personalised advertising, it’s the personalised results. That's true. It's almost subconscious for me now go incognito prior to searching or visiting a website if it's someth
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by jfoster 6y ago
"I don't care about privacy; I have nothing to hide." Can I offer a variation of this one? I care about privacy. I wouldn't want a human to be looking over my searches. That said, if they're just using the data to s
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by jfoster 6y ago
That's more than a hypothesis; it's the plan. https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux "In cities where demand exceeds the supply of customer-owned cars, Tesla will operate its own fleet, ensurin
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by jfoster 6y ago
Police can let people off the hook because they are already dealing in exceptional cases. They only get involved by exception, and making exceptions on exceptions is scalable.
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by jfoster 6y ago
If you allow flexibility on such a matter, people will come to expect it. Some will be doing things where the flexibility would be permissible, but a lot would go further and be surprised that flexibility cannot be extended to them. It&#x27
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by jfoster 6y ago
I would like to emphasize that when you use AnyCrop, none of your images are sent to any servers. They are processed entirely on your device. I think that's extremely important & valuable from a privacy perspective, and it also mak
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by jfoster 6y ago
It's not possible to build a business without participating on platforms. Even the web is a platform now. You won't do well running a website if Google Search and Chrome don't favour it. Depending on how you plan to get your
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by jfoster 6y ago
The products themselves are often very interesting. The next step in consideration is whether they are fit for purpose, though. Google have made a reputation for themselves for abandoning their products/services, but at the same time a
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by jfoster 6y ago
It is a necessary lens to view any new Google product through, though. There is a real risk that they will abandon anything they launch.
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by jfoster 6y ago
> I think Google knows that people in certain circles talking nothing but that view. They probably also have real stats on how their experiments are picked up and used, and I suspect they aren't at all what the people who think that
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by jfoster 6y ago
Sounds like spreadsheets where the data is more structured. Seems like a cool idea that could become a successor of spreadsheets. Even more convinced that Google will abandon it, though.
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by jfoster 6y ago
If HN is interested in the success/failure of products & services, product-market fit and such, then what Google have done to themselves is a fascinating phenomenon. In the past, many companies have had "not great" reputa
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by jfoster 6y ago
Well there's two things to say about that: 1. Some of the things they launch they probably shouldn't be launching because they have next to no chance of ever being a meaningful business for Google. (eg. Google Helpouts) 2. Some of
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by jfoster 6y ago
Google: Hey users, please commit your teams & projects to our new shiny product! Users: Hey Google, please commit to supporting your new shiny product for the long-haul! Stalemate. Google did this to themselves.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Exactly my point. Those are, however, the words Google used in the email they sent out about this.
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by jfoster 6y ago
I'm not personally impacted by this one, but I've been impacted by a very similar deprecation (Google Wallet for Digital Goods) by Google. Can assure you that anyone impacted by this deprecation isn't feeling comfortable abou
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by jfoster 6y ago
From the email: "When we launched the Chrome Web Store 11 years ago, there weren't a lot of ways for our developers to take payment from users. Today, there is a thriving ecosystem of payment providers offering a far more diverse
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by jfoster 6y ago
I reckon most people who wrote extensions would be happy for Google to keep the $25 and instead refund the time they spent writing the extension.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Anecdotally, I could probably get lots of value from some extensions (even free ones) but I generally won't consider installing them because a lot of the ones I could get value from would be able to intercept all data rather than speci
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by jfoster 6y ago
It's interesting, isn't it? What's the difference between the two? A few possibilities: 1. Having been through big outbreaks, some countries are now doing a much better job of coping with it. (protecting vulnerable, treatment
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by jfoster 6y ago
Suppose pretty much everyone can fly around in flying cars. Isn't there now an immense amount of noise and wind everywhere, akin to having a landing helicopter next to you all day?
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by jfoster 6y ago
I don't think it's impossible to make flying cars work, but the practicality of them seems very questionable. I think Elon Musk makes some good points against them (noise, wind, anxiety, danger): https://www.youtube.com
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by jfoster 6y ago
What problem does he face that a personal website is the best solution to?
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by jfoster 6y ago
Could that be determined by something like the level of Vitamin D a person has?
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by jfoster 6y ago
I think this is a really interesting point, because I don't think FLOSS is quite the answer, either. If you just want a dependable service that's going to stay around, and you're willing to pay for it, what do you do? As you

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