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by mrkramer 2y ago
I shared this 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30324595 Long story short: Gates and Microsoft were in domination mode and everybody else was in experimentation mode. Microsoft's management are par exce
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Yea and that....my bad for not mentioning it.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Idk, my impression always was and is that Android app development is complex, especially when you got Java in the mix....maybe now it's easier when Kotlin is around. Your idea is very good and you can even monetize your app by selling
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Even more cooler idea would be that the app restricts you to only communication apps when you choose "communication" intent or when you choose "boredom" it prompts you to enjoy IRL activities and tells you to leave your
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Yes but without Chrome, Google wouldn't have 90% search market share that they have today. They are completely dominating the WWW industry.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Google realized if they don't control the search distribution they gonna lose out sooner or later; which is kinda contradictory for them if they claim Google is the best search out there and that they are constantly improving it and th
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Before you place bets on Polymarket you need to check the box which says something like this: "I promise I'm not from US". Pinky swear that I'm not using VPN to place illegal bets. That's why FBI is investigating th
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Election interference is just a scary phrase for plain old propaganda; back in the day it was radio, flyers, billboards and posters and nowadays it is internet ads and spam. Same old stuff.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I don't understand what's all the fuss about gambling?! Yes, it's somewhat bad, yes it's somewhat addictive but if you want to live in a liberal democracy you need to tolerate such things....like we tolerate alcohol and
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I think this will mostly hurt Perplexity because Google controls web distribution through Chrome, Android and Google Play so it won't phase them.
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OpenAI launches its Google challenger, ChatGPT Search(techcrunch.com)
2 points by mrkramer 2y ago|3 comments
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by mrkramer 2y ago
People who have mission and vision of the future are entrepreneurs because they want to solve problems and help other people not because they want to become rich and sail with yacht. Listen to Snapchat's founder and CEO Evan Spiegel[0]
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I filled you in with a right word.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
>Factorio is designed to keep providing them for hours and hours It's called replayability, the crucial selling point of every successful game.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
What made them think that installing corporate antivirus software on their critical computer infrastructure was a good idea? They need to gather their sysadmins and go back to the drawing board and redesign their business computer infrastru
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by mrkramer 2y ago
>i doubt that google will keep the code around to support V2 for long after that.. Browsers that want to keep it will have to maintain the code themselves and deal with any problems and costs that it causes.. That's bad but yea Chro
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by mrkramer 2y ago
It seems like old Google Meet app is getting replaced by new Meet app. So no worries about this one.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
It seems like shuffling of exces.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
>Other Chromium browser vendors have claimed that they will continue to support MV2 based content blockers, later revealing that they were unwilling to support the code once Google removed it. But Brenden said: >Brave will support uBO
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Google Chrome's uBlock Origin phaseout has begun(theverge.com)
95 points by mrkramer 2y ago|35 comments
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by mrkramer 2y ago
In another words: UX nightmare!
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by mrkramer 2y ago
>The main issue with Stack Overflow (and similar public Q&A platforms) is that many contributors do not know what they do not know, leading to inaccurate answers. The best Q&A platform would be the one where experts and scientist
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by mrkramer 2y ago
They probably couldn't figure out the legal part behind p2p in person crypto exchange but I didn't follow the crypto scene for the last few years so idk if there are any alternatives to localbitcoins.com The most safe and private
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by mrkramer 2y ago
With timestamps?! I gotta try this.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
That's what Disqus has at the bottom of every of their comments section[0]. I find it ridiculous. [0] https://electricdusk.com/img/disqus-gdpr-violation-marketing...
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by mrkramer 2y ago
You can exchange your existing crypto for another crypto in numerous ways and there use to be localbitcoins.com where you could buy crypto with cash and vice versa p2p in person.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
S/he probably meant payment information as credit card number, cvv etc. And there was no way before this for merchant X to know what Alice or Bob bought from merchant Y.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
They should let them co-exist but probably they figured out it is just easier to kill V2 extensions all together. What a shame.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
He is on Extensions team. lol
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Steam was always meant as an easy way to distribute and update games. It was never meant as a licensing machine.

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