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by mrkramer 4y ago
>Is this normal? I would assume that no bank has 100% liquid assets against liabilities Banks are required by law to have regulatory capital[1] and reserves[2] in order to stay liquid and solvent. Longer explanation: "The reserves o
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by mrkramer 4y ago
user's
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by mrkramer 4y ago
You said >In the future, instead of everyone sharing the same search engine, you’ll have your completely individual, personalized Mike or Julia or Jarvis - the AI. This is what Google is doing under the hood and they have the upper hand
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>I have always imagined PageRank to be modeled after how academic papers are judged. What cites that publication, and who that publication cites, are quite important information to put a publication in context. For the same reason, I don
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>In the future, instead of everyone sharing the same search engine, you’ll have your completely individual, personalized Mike or Julia or Jarvis - the AI. Instead of being scared to share information with it, you will volunteer your data
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>Ads may suck, but simply charging for the same service isn't really innovative. Would I pay for a version of Google without ads? Probably not. Google already does this with YT; YouTube Premium[1] offers you YT experience without ad
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I'm sick and tired of this pop science. Write research papers don't clot my YT feed.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I wanted to make something like this. You almost fulfilled my vision!
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by mrkramer 4y ago
But it doesn't make sense when you know that they have billions in cash sitting in bank waiting to be spend. They have the money and the knowledge to implement whatever feature they need to. Backend load and infrastructure scale is not
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by mrkramer 4y ago
You can still do it in YouTube Android app as far as I know. Open video, tap that little empty square in the bottom right corner and your video will be rotated to the horizontal position(view) and then tap that little comments box[0] in the
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by mrkramer 4y ago
People at Google don't use Google products, YouTube in particular. It is quite astonishing that so many features are nonsense or not yet implemented. Why I can't search comments in comments section of a video; if a video has 100+
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I meant vigorous market competition from the economical point of view not from the entrepreneur's point of view. But yeah the ultimate goal of every "for-profit" company is monopoly but the goal of every economist is vigorous
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Page says: "The list is grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred and does not include every reported laboratory-acquired infection. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for
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by mrkramer 4y ago
There you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity... You can also search previous Covid related discussions here on HN for more information.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>Based on the analysis of the publicly available information, it appears reasonable to conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident. I knew it from the day 1; my layman understa
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Elon Musk will reportedly take the CEO role after exec exodus(techcrunch.com)
8 points by mrkramer 4y ago|4 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>I’m very curious what would happen to Google and Meta if Apple announced they’re going to seriously pivot into ads with a revenue target of 100B per quarter. Real capitalism would start happening or in another words vigorous market comp
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I always wondered why Facebook didn't make their own search engine considering how massive their userbase is and how much technical know-how and experience they have. But then pretty soon I realized it's all about distribution; Go
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by mrkramer 4y ago
$15 billion makes no sense to me as well; why would you give that huge amount of money to some other company no matter how big and important they are if you believe that you search engine is the best in the world. That makes me conclude tha
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>Most problems Google is trying to solve now outside their core competency and existing offerings are not, fundamentally, software engineering problems. Their problems are mixed bag problems. First of their problems is lack of vision. No
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Miniclip, home of childhood nostalgia, is finally dead(pcgamer.com)
2 points by mrkramer 4y ago|0 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>So biotech companies secretly manufacturing illnesses.... They are not but they profit from lab leaks liked Covid.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
For example there are thousands of blogs out there but the question is how much are they consumed by people. Overall I would say majority of people(casual users) still use Open Web to find general information and some smaller percentage of
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Others were Web Portals that had search, Google was only search engine but ironically enough as they grew larger and more ambitious they became Web Portal(the concept that they once feared). But I admit Google's UI is still nice and cl
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by mrkramer 4y ago
If that happens people will abandon "Open Web" and will only use "Walled Gardens" like FB, IG, Twitter, LinkedIn, YT, TikTok, Reddit, Discord etc. That would be tragic.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Google claims that majority of search queries do not return ads but the most common and the most popular search queries return a lot of ads as we can witness.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Magnificent simulation game. Make commercial version of it and I will buy it.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Nowadays it's called metaverse.
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SurveyMonkey parent Momentive Global lays off 11% of workforce(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mrkramer 4y ago|0 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
This blog post[0] explains it pretty well: "Fewer and fewer computer users think their computer is too slow." And therefore they only buy new computer if the current one breaks. "This happens less and less often. Even most di

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