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by mrkramer 4y ago
>A smaller community of TikTok dedicated to only hosting music videos (for example), Or a community dedicated to books on tape and interviews of authors would be far more enjoyable, more easily moderated, and effective than a platform fo
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by mrkramer 4y ago
If ByteDance wants to sell they will most likely choose Microsoft and demand at least $100bn for TikTok. Microsoft has the money and that acquisition would turn Microsoft into advertising powerhouse with Bing raking in $10bn a year, TikTok
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>In a really strange way I almost feel like I'm rooting for all of these large social content sites to implode. If they are about to implode, what will replace them? For example YouTube got started in 2006 and at first it was all ab
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Meta’s Forced Sale of Giphy Halted as UK Court Orders Review(bloomberg.com)
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I think TikTok's competition with Alphabet and Meta for digital ad space is healthy for market but security is the most important for users. At the end TikTok will be open sourced because there is no other way to guarantee 100% securit
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Tesla to demo Steam integration next month(pcgamer.com)
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But that well designed systems are run on software. And there are security standards and compliances which they need to satisfy. I don't see a reason why something like GitHub Copilot wouldn't be subject to security standards and
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In the short term maybe but in the long term everything will be automated just like there is flight autopilot or self-driving cars which are just getting started but yet they are very good at driving. Fault tolerance mechanisms will be impl
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>By 2030, the world is expected to be short of around 82.5 million coders — already, 87% of organizations struggle to find the coding staff they require. GitHub Copilot to the rescue! jk but you know the usual economy; invest more into e
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Powerful insight! You are correct. I think the Open Web is in grave danger because in the future majority of the new data, information and content will be generated inside walled gardens like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp
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AI Dungeon lets the game illustrate stories as they're being generated(pcgamer.com)
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I wouldn't count that out because Netflix is facing and will face only growing competition from YouTube, TikTok and other screen time attention apps. But tbh majority of people use "Netflix" as a synonym for movies and TV se
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by mrkramer 4y ago
When subscription business model does not meet your revenue projections just shove ads down the users' throats. Disgusting!
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by mrkramer 4y ago
MMO games that you speak of are reversed engineered and run on emulated private servers. It turns out that people who reverse engineer those games are as smart as people who program them. I was always fascinated by software reverse engineer
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by mrkramer 4y ago
That's why Microsoft moved Office to the cloud. Edit: Didn't know that Adobe didn't move its portfolio to the cloud yet. I thought Adobe Creative Cloud is all about that plus subscription model. My bad.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I think back in the day Larry Page saw that Altavista was free and he wanted to compete against it so he chose Google to be free and when millions of users started flocking in with millions of data points ads were the next logical step. The
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by mrkramer 4y ago
In the pre Facebook era people thought social networking would be distributed over thousands and millions of blogs with the help of RSS but that didn't happen because it turned out that centralized commercial services are better than F
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After all this publicity Lofi Girl will become even more popular.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>Can't this have the SSID/password too? Already linked by people in this topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Joining_a_Wi%E2%80%91F... >All too often you see what should be simple textual data w
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I know but salt is so tasty :/ Especially salted meat or French fries.
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India set to overtake China as the world’s most populous country in 2023(cnbc.com)
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by mrkramer 4y ago
SAP stands good with €27.842 billion revenue plus there are plenty of good European gaming companies. But yea US is the one innovating.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>The SEC does not license crypto exchanges, and the DOJ cannot “order” anything on its own. I'm not a lawyer so you explain me if you know it. But SEC is already investigating Binance over their token[0]. [0] https://www.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Binance.US has license in US for crypto trading and at the same time their parent company binance.com is evading US sanctions. License can be revoked by SEC and DOJ can order FBI to seize Binance.US
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith was sentenced to 5+ years in jail in US for evading sanctions on North Korea[1][2]. US is not joking. [1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/12/former-ethe
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Binance served crypto traders in Iran despite U.S. sanctions(reuters.com)
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by mrkramer 4y ago
My HP laptop has Toshiba SSD. I'm not sure about other models. But I think only enterprise SSDs are affected.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>What they do want and always have is natural language based searches in there language of preference with clarifying responses from the search engine in natural language; that is, they want to treat a search engine like a person and be
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From the economic point of view TikTok's arrival is more than welcome so Meta's and Alphabet's dominance of digital ad market can be challenged but looking it from US national security point of view it is a disaster. Thanks J
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Google's end goal is Answer Machine but we are decades away from that. Answer Machine would be something like God-like software which gives you the ultimate answer to your query and that answer would be 100% accurate, true and personal

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