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by prepend 2y ago
Mortgages are useful even if you don’t repay them. The mortgage gets settled upon death. And while alive it allows the lendee cash flow to live in a home. It effectively becomes a shifted rent payment where instead of landlords, the person
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Evolution’s goals are different from vanilla ice cream makers’ goals.
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I’ve had some success with google assistant calling restaurants to make reservations, when they are phone only. I expect it’s a matter of time until they can camp on my doctors office. Or call my insurance and pretend to be me.
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by prepend 2y ago
> cancel anytime with two clicks This seems odd. Why not one? One thing I really like about iPhone subscriptions is the ability to cancel them with a single click through a common interface. I suppose it’s technically more than one click
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This is my experience. I have no interest in registering just to read free content. It’s also annoying with its UX and spammy when I did register. I’m not sure what user wants this.
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Medium should have like 5 employees and just simply be a blogging platform. I think the challenge is they want to be something they can’t be. And they have too much capital seeking a high return. We need a good, simple blogging platform. We
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by prepend 2y ago
They mean “more private” as in your data are less useful for things like exporting into tools or third parties. I wish google would just focus on apis and tools for me to work with my data as interoperable as possible. But there’s no money
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by prepend 2y ago
Both can be true. But fakes screenshots isn’t relevant to the topic at hand. So why mention it?
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> AI overviews are an extinction level event for low-quality information-regurgitators. I think this is good. They don’t serve a positive role in the information food chain. Freeing up their space should be helpful for people using infor
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> Having "a content policy violation on less than one in every 7 million unique queries" seems pretty solid to me. Not to me. AI will lead to more queries because I search differently with AI results than an index/page ran
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Regarding SEO stuff, I cynically think Google knows about it, but doesn’t do anything because it would reduce revenue. A friend told me that google estimates about 30% of its clicks are fraud, accident, waste, etc. But they have no incentiv
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by prepend 2y ago
If they were truly poison, yes. But it’s a figure of speech. I prefer Apple because it’s not nearly as bad. And I like having a phone and laptop.
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I guess you have to pick your poison, then.
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Google makes almost all their income from ads. Apple makes almost none.
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I want my kid to have a phone at school AND not be allowed to use it during class. It seems an impossible task for teachers to stop 30 kids from using their phones. But they give assignments that require their phone (eg, watch a video, make
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by prepend 2y ago
I don’t want to humiliate google, I just want them to fix their stuff. I’m annoyed with them because they have poor, ad-infested search results and kill many products I liked (code, reader, froogle/shopping, blogger static sites, etc e
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by prepend 2y ago
Gpt4 doesn’t show me these summaries and answers even though I never asked and just searched. This is just another example of google sucking and being kind of stupid now.
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Exactly. Part of the fun of tattoos is everyone thinking you look stupid and being able to practice the stoicism of not caring what other people think and focusing on the intrinsic joy of doing what you want.
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Libel and slander must have malicious intent. I think the better legal tactic would be defamation as it doesn’t require intent.
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Facewatch is telling the store. Technically, it’s probably saying “there’s an 80% chance this person matches a thief” and the store is interpreting that as “ban them.” I don’t know UK slander laws, but in the US, it has to be incorrect to b
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by prepend 2y ago
I don’t think it is. The price increases due to additional cash would not be addressed by restructuring corporate profits. Unless you want to do away with corporations all together and go full communist. If people have more money, they will
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Robotaxis hit far fewer pedestrians per mile than human driven cars.
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Robotaxis will fix this problem as they just won’t hit pedestrians as much because they’ll check for pedestrians.
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Corporate price gouging is only due to increase in consumer funds. Companies want to price gouge all the time, but were only able to do so because everyone, especially lower income people, had extra cash. Good luck introducing price control
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by prepend 2y ago
Society is just a set of mutually agreed to rules. There’s no natural law for language, currency, culture, etc. So saying property rights are bogus, but body autonomy rights are ok seems like an arbitrary line to draw that makes society wor
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Even in languages where you can have spaces, only jerks do that. Do you really want to type [Some stupid variable name].[some Stupid function]? These are false time savers. We’re writing code, just recognize that and do what’s natural, snak
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by prepend 2y ago
Tell it to my professor :) I guess I was lucky. And perhaps I was taught incorrectly or remember incorrectly. But I experience lots of ads with impersonators so maybe they just aren’t sued enough. Also, Jack Nicholson never stopped Christia
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How the assistant was aware of what was happening around the user and would reply with context dependent info. And retain memory of previous interactions. And appear to have preferences for itself.
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I recall the basics from my contracts law class that it’s not against the law to hire an impersonator as long as you don’t claim it’s the celebrity. So it’s legal to hire someone who sounds like SJ. And likely legal to create a model that s
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by prepend 2y ago
I thought it was about functionality more than the specific voice.

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