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by lowkey 2y ago
I might be missing something, but in my experience as a product manager, we would refer to these as requirements.
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by lowkey 2y ago
Privacy, just not privacy from Google, kind of like browsing in incognito.
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by lowkey 2y ago
Little known fact. He wasn't just an amazing Canadian. He was a Maritimer, born and raised in my home town, Saint John, New Brunswick.
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by lowkey 2y ago
I’m the same except replace ChatGPT with Perplexity.ai which has 3 improvements: 1. Includes recent web search in context 2. Includes footnotes with sources 3. Has a much better voice recognition that improves accuracy from context of your
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by lowkey 2y ago
Do a random search on Google. Now count the number of each of the following on the first page: - Ads / sponsored links - blogspam - organic results Now try to remember what it looked like 10 years ago. The rot is real.
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by lowkey 2y ago
The answer is to STOP using Google Search which has become increasingly user hostile over the years. The sad truth is that Google Search 2024 can’t even compete with Google Search of 10 years ago. The problems: 1. First page of search resul
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by lowkey 2y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned LiceCap - www.cockos.com/licecap/ Free GPL app to record a screen recording directly to animated gif. I use it to add an embedded video of a bug or tutorial to an issue tracker.
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by lowkey 2y ago
I knew this going in so went with an ultra wide monitor, no regrets.
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by lowkey 2y ago
I wish there was a keyboard shortcut to run apps full screen
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by lowkey 2y ago
From the article, Perplexity includes full attribution and a link to source for every article excerpt they include in Perplexity pages. Forbes only real gripe is that the source link is not prominent enough. I fail to see the issue here. By
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by lowkey 2y ago
From the article Texas is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other state including New York and California.
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by lowkey 2y ago
Tech job market has certainly collapsed. Two data points: - software engineer job postings are down 70% year/year - product manager job postings are down 90% over the past 2 years on LinkedIn
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by lowkey 2y ago
I’ve started using search.brave.com instead of Duck Duck Go as my default search engine (which in turn replaced Google search, the spyware/adware posing as a search engine) I was formerly a huge advocate of DDG but between the Microsof
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by lowkey 2y ago
The best highly-opinionated product management (not project management) alternative to Jira is Linear.app - it is sooo good I can’t begin to do it justice.
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by lowkey 2y ago
I agree. I have a last gen base iPad with Touch ID and a home button. I am pretty tech savvy but actually prefer this form factor.
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by lowkey 2y ago
Clarifying, they have run out of ideas for profitable growth net of the cost of capital.
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by lowkey 2y ago
As of 2020, AdWords represented over 80% of all Google revenue [1] while in 2021 7% of Google’s revenue came from cloud [2]. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/how-does-google-make-money-a... ? [2] https:&#x
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by lowkey 2y ago
Google has a deep addiction to AdWords revenue which makes for a significant disadvantage. Nomatter how good their technology, they will struggle internally with deploying it at scale because that would risk their cash cow. Innovator’s dile
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by lowkey 2y ago
When a company reaches saturation in their core market and can no longer find new ways of investing free cash flow from the business into new markets that are likely to grow the value of the business greater than their cost of capital it ha
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by lowkey 2y ago
Purchasing bitcoin on any random date in history and holding it for four years or more has outperformed every single index, ETF, stock, commodity, real estate every single time. Betting on a single index even being around in 100 years is ri
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by lowkey 2y ago
Can’t imagine we would still need 1000 bases in 80 countries around the world if we didn’t have to protect the petrodollar and reserve status. The same goes for gold. If only used for jewelry and industrial applications we wouldn’t need to
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by lowkey 2y ago
Truth is Bitcoin has mostly failed as a currency, and that’s ok. The only thing Bitcoin really buys is freedom.
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by lowkey 2y ago
https://survivedoomsday.com/how-to-send-bitcoin-over-ham-rad...
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by lowkey 2y ago
“Actual currency, on the other hand, derives its value from the willingness of the issuing sovereign to accept it back in payment of taxes.” And yet the purchasing power of the dollar has fallen by 99.5% since moving off the gold standard.
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by lowkey 2y ago
The primary argument for holding bitcoin is as a store of purchasing power to counter every government and central banks addiction to printing money. The economic theory is that money printing is the primary cause of inflation and bitcoin,
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by lowkey 2y ago
Gold mining, which is primarily open pit strip mining, is massively more polluting than just measuring its carbon footprint. Gold mining completely destroys large tracts of land, poisons enormous water supplies and leaves huge areas complet
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by lowkey 2y ago
Ignoring banks for a moment, consider the US military which some claim protects the value of the dollar. According to The Atlantic, the US military alone counts for 5.5% of global carbon emissions. https://archive.is/DVWZs
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by lowkey 2y ago
I think you would be shocked to know how that compares to the emissions of the US military which some argue forms the security backing the US dollar. [1] “There are no solutions, only trade offs - Thomas Sowell” [1] https://archi
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by lowkey 2y ago
Bitcoin transactions work via satellite, ham radio, or cellphone. If there is any form of working communication you can send or receive Bitcoin. If comms are temporarily disabled, your Bitcoin is still safe on tens of thousands of nodes.
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by lowkey 2y ago
You make some valid points but one nitpick: what we call organic food today, they simply called food in the 60's since all food was by definition organic.

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