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by jonas21 4y ago
It makes sense though. The biggest threat to Google right now isn't some scrappy startup eating their lunch. It's the looming regulatory action over antitrust and privacy that could weaken or destroy their core business. As this i
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by jonas21 4y ago
Uh, those are the reporter's words, not the prosecutor's. If you read the indictment [1], the word "remotely" never appears, and it's pretty clear the prosecutors understand how Bitcoin works. If anyone's cluel
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by jonas21 4y ago
A decade before that they had an ad for the Google Search Appliance, which was the first physical product Google sold: https://web.archive.org/web/20020703150514/http://www.google...
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by jonas21 4y ago
Google has been promoting other Google products on the home page for over 20 years [1]. I think the only difference this time around is that people didn't realize Fitbit was acquired by Google. [1] https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by jonas21 4y ago
Can someone explain what's going on in this example from the gallery? The prompt is "a humanoid robot using a rolling pin to roll out dough": https://dreamfusion-cdn.ajayj.com/gallery_sept28/crf20/a_
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by jonas21 4y ago
How so? Google gives 55% of the ad revenue to the creator and pays for all the hosting and administrative costs itself. And none of the Patreon revenue goes to Google.
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Regardless of whether they foresaw it or not, what should they have done differently?
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In other words, Sony isn't charging more (in dollars). Your euro/pound/yen is just worth less than it was a year ago. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/EUR-USD?comparison=JPY-...
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by jonas21 4y ago
Have you tried googling "iphone manual"? The first result is the iPhone User Guide [1], which is a comprehensive manual that does document literally everything. The manual is also available as an 843-page ebook [2], and is accessi
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by jonas21 4y ago
Demis Hassabis made tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in the Deep Mind acquisition. I'm sure most people would consider that to be adequate compensation. If anything, the lesson is that if you care about making lots of money
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by jonas21 4y ago
She's working partial days on Mon, Tues, and Fri, full days (and perhaps a bit more) on Wed and Thurs, and a 4-hour block on the weekend. It sounds like our work culture is doing a pretty good job at giving her the flexibility to sched
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by jonas21 4y ago
I mean Google basically lost in this market. If Google Surveys were an independent company, it would have gone under already. Would you rather they keep propping up failing products forever? That seems anticompetitive.
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by jonas21 4y ago
So something even more vaguely defined and detached from real use cases than last time? Great.
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Microsoft isn't funding UNI. Communication Workers of America, which is working to unionize Microsoft employees, is. They're on opposing sides. CWA recently got Microsoft to agree to be neutral on whether Activision Blizzard emplo
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by jonas21 4y ago
If you're confused about who censored the report (as I was at first), it's UNI Global Union, an "international network of unions" and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, "a nonprofit arm of the Social Democratic Party of Ge
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by jonas21 4y ago
Flappy Bird didn't become popular until 2014, when the App Store was already 6 years old.
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The quote from the police chief implies she was arrested (though it's in brackets, so it could just be sloppy reporting): > “My sergeant on the scene received information from Philly PD, who said, ‘Go ahead. Lock her up. It’s [a] g
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by jonas21 4y ago
Right, but they could have verified that the registered owner and person driving the car were the same person. However, since it was in a different state, perhaps the registration database wasn't available - only the stolen vehicle dat
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by jonas21 4y ago
That's what they did last time, and now everyone's probably going to jail... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/technology/joe-sullivan-u...
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by jonas21 4y ago
It says so right on the landing page, https://www.youtube.com/premium . > YouTube and YouTube Music ad-free, offline, and in the background It amazes me that when it's pointed out that you can easily buy an ad-free
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by jonas21 4y ago
Yeah, many things in the report seems a bit off. Like they assume everyone uses the same amount of data regardless of what kind of network they're on. So since 5% of users are on 2G networks, they assume 5% of total data is transferred
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by jonas21 4y ago
> Additionally timber likes to make claims like "we plant 2 trees for every 1 harvested." What they don't tell you is that half the trees won't make it to the next clear, and often smaller/weaker/sick trees
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I think that's their point. Even if bicycles aren't a solution for all, everyone can still benefit from more trips happening by bicycle. The elderly or those with a commute that would leave them unacceptably sweaty can still drive
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This is PyTorch code, so the Python is setting up a bunch of kernels that are executed on the GPU. The switch from + to += might allow two of those kernels to be fused together or something, and that could lead to the large performance gai
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by jonas21 4y ago
It's not like they wanted to do this. They had no choice because standard photo viewers can't refocus photos. And a Lytro photo without refocusing is... just a photo, and a low-resolution one at that. So they had to build a UI f
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by jonas21 4y ago
Overall, I struggle to see how this is a bad thing. Take the example at the start of the article: 1. Two decades ago, the UN set up a program for selling voluntary carbon credits under the assumption that renewables would not be price-compe
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by jonas21 4y ago
The ability to write that comment?
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Yeah, the numbers are extremely sloppy. Even for the basics, like coming up with the marginal tax rate in NY, he uses the top federal, state, and city income tax rates and adds the social security tax to that. But the top federal tax bracke
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by jonas21 4y ago
What would such an "escape hatch" look like? I sometimes get YouTube recommendations where I think, "why would I ever watch that?" and I either ignore them or mark them as "not interested". Most people probably
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by jonas21 4y ago
> they merely filed for government protection while they reorganize That's what Chapter 11 bankruptcy is in the US - I assume Germany has an equivalent.

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