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by maigret 6y ago
It looks like the same in the interactions, but it has critical differences beneath the surface. Start with the money - their business incentive is totally different. Apple sells devices, Facebook sells ads. One of those two companies have
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by maigret 6y ago
Look at the documentary... One of the guy explains that AI is not yet good enough to surplace humans at their strengths, but can game us on our weaknesses. This is the exact point that people think it's not having an impact on them, wh
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by maigret 6y ago
I moved most of my critical contacts to Signal. Not done yet though to be able to delete WhatsApp, but near there.
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by maigret 6y ago
Signal/SMS is not the same beast as WhatsApp in terms of surveillance, nudging and all of those things falling into "forced addiction". When is the last time a SMS app wanted to give you recommendation or force you online?
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by maigret 6y ago
No it is fine sending a comment expressing opinion. There are so many qualitatives differences: - This is human to human communication, not an optimised algorithm. - People here are not sending you 10 comments and looking at the one which y
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by maigret 6y ago
TV, magazines have to choose _one_ editorial line at a given time. Social media can present everyone their own bubble, and so it has bad side effects. When you have a forum, everyone is presented the same content. For example, this results
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by maigret 6y ago
I'd wish every product would tell what's in for me. Telling that it's world changing doesn't mean it's useful or impactful for me, as consumer or as developer. Usually, usual products brand themselves as "new&q
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by maigret 6y ago
Oh right, keep safe then! Hope the situation gets better soon.
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by maigret 6y ago
Yes, and... I’d be curious to see which digital nomads follow the local taxes regulations. It’s easy to get in trouble with working abroad.
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by maigret 6y ago
I wouldn’t think the commuting air is much better than in a park. Outside beats inside in most scenarios, doesn’t it?
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by maigret 6y ago
Sometimes I do a “fake commute” by foot, walking around 15 min outside from my kitchen to my home office. The days I don’t want, I just walk into the home office. Sometimes I take this walk at the lunch break, or after work. I can accomplis
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by maigret 6y ago
What does this tooling do? Of course I could Google the components and look it up, and I already know some of those so I can imagine what it might do. But it would be so much better to get the author stance. Ideally for users the first para
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by maigret 6y ago
You are pretty much describing a coworking space or a good library. I don’t know if you own a house, but you might change your opinion once you’ll be on the search.
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by maigret 6y ago
Turns out it's surprisingly hard to stop being a Google customer, if not impossible. I advise you to check the series by Kashmir Hill if you haven't yet: https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-l
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by maigret 6y ago
Yes, this is exactly what this does. "Lane assist" does the steering. I think the good think that Tesla does though, is having a simpler package for all of that. German makers can't keep but making 5 different systems that yo
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by maigret 6y ago
Design covers user experience, and user experience includes people feeling safe and trusting their product. I think this goes rather as different prioritising. So it is a matter of product management, not design. Not that I agree with this
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by maigret 6y ago
Exact! Or build your own Kubernetes cluster at home on Raspberry Pi for less than the price of a phone or TV.
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by maigret 6y ago
That's really oversimplifying. EVERY tech has learning cost, and so a return on investment. K8s has been so hyped that many developers think it's a mandatory skill. It's not. I've seen talented app developers not getting
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by maigret 6y ago
Making a car cheap is the hard part. You have so many less known "luxury" manufacturers who will build cars on demand for tons of money. The scaling and cost management is the hard part.
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by maigret 6y ago
Yes it is, but the gp is also right that it is part of a well calculated and proven way of keep existing customers and getting new ones. $$$ is the reason they do that, else this would not exist.
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by maigret 6y ago
You can still find places to work with other peoples, or spontaneously meet your colleagues in a much nicer (and possibly nearer) place. When the COVID crisis will go, you'll find tons of options to meet people thorough the day and enj
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by maigret 6y ago
Work from home is an old term from decades ago. What we have now is best described as "pandemic lockdown office". The actual state of the art is mobile work. With mobile work, you are in control of where you work - whether home, i
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by maigret 6y ago
If I can really rearrange my life around remote, be sure my couch will not be my first choice :D I've seen social media make enough people miserable and sad, but there might come a time of reckoning that will change that and have peopl
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by maigret 6y ago
Wyoming would still be empty. People would still not commute. But - they would still want to visit family and old friends, so not be too far from an airport or a highway, and they still need a good internet connection. Also, living somewher
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by maigret 7y ago
I think what you mention is completely stopping infections, which is certainly a great goal - albeit a very costly one for many countries which started the right actions too late, too little. Flattening the curve is only about spreading the
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by maigret 7y ago
If you’re not export oriented, you need more consumer purchasing power, so higher wages.
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by maigret 7y ago
I don’t think so. People are all agreeing on that based on good judgment. As someone who accepts the current restrictions, there’s no way I’ll accept some random other abuse afterwards. I reckon our society will be in for majors discussion
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by maigret 7y ago
An insurance lawyer (friend of mine) also advised me to stay on a public plan and add up private addons where needed - those can be canceled very easily. I’ve not regretted that decision since.
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by maigret 7y ago
Effective medication would go a long way if it can make the illness less aggressive and less deadly.
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by maigret 7y ago
When I was a student, I had a summer with a month with nothing to do, and I had a big backlog of 20+ books. I spent the month almost reading from morning to evening, read around 20 books during the month. It didn't feel like restrictin

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