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by ksk 6y ago
>You mean like friends recommending Firefox and someone naturally going to Google to search for “Firefox” and the top link being malware? If someone recommended an app and they found a fake version on the third party App Store how would
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>What does this have to do with PCs? Your question was about PCs Your answer wasn't about PCs, it was about flaws in other products/services. >So which search engine do you suggest? What if there were a secondary App Store o
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by ksk 6y ago
What has that got to do with PCs? All you're describing are flaws in other products - namely Google's search. Google does a terrible job because they promote illegitimate sources over legitimate ones. The solution is to not use Go
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Are you saying a grandma starts a PC and immediately knows about SourceForge?
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No, I don't think its just due to telemetry, I think its a combination of multiple factors as you suggested.
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You can have a kiosk mode in any OS without giving up freedoms for people who don't need to be straight jacketed. I don't want to beg Apple or Samsung or Google or Microsoft or anyone for the ability to program a computer that I p
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I don't want Apple exploiting their vendor lock-in and robbing other companies of 30% sales of a digital only product, even if it doesn't personally impact me. That is not strange or hard to understand IMHO. >Nobody is forcing
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by ksk 6y ago
>How did software and features ever get done before telemetry? IMHO, The software today is miles better at UX.
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by ksk 6y ago
I don't want to beg Apple or Samsung or Microsoft or Google to be given the ability to program a computer. I don't know if you realize it, but that is the way things are headed now. To be supremely clear - You can support convenie
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by ksk 6y ago
Well, FB is disliked more because many well-meaning left leaning folks bought the "trump won because putin bought FB ads" argument.
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With phones replacing traditional uses of laptops and desktops, "but its a phone, and their software/their rules" will not be an appropriate defense of Apple. We would never accept Microsoft banning Chrome or Firefox from bei
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>Does anyone disagree that Apple and Google have the right to just go "this app store business is just not worth the headaches, we're gonna shut it all down." Its not a headache, it's basically a money grab at this po
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by ksk 6y ago
Can you explain why you are claiming this as a "problem"? There is no reason to think that anyone is qualified to tell others what products they should or shouldn't buy. The idea that people need to be "saved" from
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by ksk 6y ago
It will be hard to find agreement on what is perfect machine code. Smallest binary? Fastest? Least number of instructions? Lowest power consumption? Able to run equally well across more CPU generations? Able to be understood and debugged by
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And how does one know that Google even has a maps service to go to? Google maps didn't start out great or even good (Its pretty good now). Google promotes their beta-level products over other mature products to the point the competitio
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Data based algorithms can only get better when you feed them data. Google makes sure that the data only goes to their own algorithms. Its a chicken and egg situation IMHO.
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I can agree with that. I didn't mean to derail the debate.
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I fear that this will just increase the price of the products. Apple will toss the broken iphone and hand you a new one because they don't want to pay the cost of labor to fix it. Repairing reduces e-waste, competition in repair reduce
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by ksk 6y ago
I've lived in Singapore, and while it is generally a free society, its only pseudo democratic, and the government has placed various restrictions on political activities. Its no where near the level of Saudi Arabia, but there is a huge
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That is a very valid point, however, how long before the US can't get away with simply printing money during financial crises ? :)
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Its a fairly old concept, but we're still not at the stage where it can be used in a product for human use. I work in vaccine r&d (though not as a scientist) and there are many technologies that sound great on paper, but haven&#x27
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by ksk 6y ago
How come you don't moderate Google's search results and remove homophobia/violence/rape content from them? You already have a platform where you don't care at all about the content you host and present the user with
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TBH, I think its better now that they're trying to level the playing field. Before (circa 2006 when I used to watch every single race) it was basically whoever had more money to spend. >The winners were almost always, already decide
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by ksk 6y ago
Hmm, I guess there's some level politics in every situation where humans have power over other humans, but I don't understand why that would make F1 compelling to watch.
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In an ironic cycle, many employers also market their services and products in this fashion - over the top marketing, fake enthusiasm for the customer, over-selling features, constant talk about "community", virtue-signalling with
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Thanks for your insight. Out of curiosity, why don't more of such production lines have dedicated machines that each do one small/simple action and then send it to the next one. It seems many seem to deploy general purpose robots
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According to this article https://aeronauticsonline.com/the-airline-economics-of-the-b... most airlines use a combination of both models, but the hub and spoke model is more economical for the airline (apart from providing
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Are you saying Boeing is getting new orders, when they say they're not?
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Well, that is certainly a major difference between our points of view. I'm not going to say that you're wrong. Global labor arbitrage is an expected byproduct of Capitalism. There is no easy fix for that. Economies will have to tr
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Well, nobody is "owed" a job. Markets transform and respond to pressures. When you operate in a saturated market like the US the only line item on the balance sheet that is easy to tackle is labor costs, not revenue or profit. You

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