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by rchaud 2y ago
This is the textbook definition of survivorship bias. Amazon out-priced everybody when it arrived, because it didn't charge any sales tax for years, until the laws had to be re-written to close the loophole. It didn't have the eye
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by rchaud 2y ago
The $644b number comes from Gartner, who are a 'trends' consultancy, not an accounting firm. It likely includes spending 'pledges', and doesn't account for things like a looming recession and self-inflicted trade wa
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by rchaud 2y ago
Ad revenue dwarfs any number that consumer dollars could put up. ChatGPT has been a household name for years, Copilot bloatware is shoved into every Office subscription on earth, and it still runs deep in the red. Ads are the only way.
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by rchaud 2y ago
> It would be so insightful to understand to which degree the technology is subsidized and what the actual value/cost ratio is. For whom would this be beneficial? The design goals of these products are to get as many users as fast a
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by rchaud 2y ago
I see the neo-Silicon Valley spirit of "regulatory arbitrage as a service" is unwavering. It's promotion for OpenAI's product, without any of the appropriate licensing. 3D printing companies don't provide Lego sche
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by rchaud 2y ago
The Minimal Phone is coming out this year with an eink screen and qwerty keyboard. https://minimalcompany.com/
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by rchaud 2y ago
You can do that on the Boox devices. On their default Neo browser, the volume keys act as PgUp/PgDn, so the screen doesn't refresh when you scroll a few pixels. I had this feature on the Dolphin Android browser way back in the day
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by rchaud 2y ago
The wrongdoing here isn't in devaluing somebody's work, it is about enriching oneself by openly repurposing their IP without compensation and dodging any kind of repercussions whatsoever. It was bad when Chinese companies did it,
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by rchaud 2y ago
Matriculating into college with a phone addiction is akin to starting off with executive functioning impairments. I was in college 20 years ago and was probably addicted to the Internet, but I didn't have wifi and a laptop with me at
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by rchaud 2y ago
The Ivy league isn't teaching Dostoevsky any differently than from an 'average' school, and have a significant number of legacy and preferential admissions who wouldn't otherwise pass the academic standards that everybod
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by rchaud 2y ago
When it comes to the ChatGPT-ification of cheating, I'd say it's an Anglosphere problem, as it's primarily trained on English-language material.
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by rchaud 2y ago
20 years ago, I would get the book list from the professor and purchase the identical "international editions" of the same books on Ebay, shipped out from Macmillan India or a foreign imprint publisher. They were probably 1/3
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by rchaud 2y ago
Accelerate our work towards achieving AGH
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by rchaud 2y ago
> But we can, for example, click down below Google’s AI offerings to look at actual links. And we can generally go about living our lives in our sad old way without the benefit of AI “personal assistants” I don't think this will be
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by rchaud 2y ago
It's the kind of articulation you'd see in a McKinsey pitch deck. It's corporate apologia, heavily skewed towards Apple. His takes on Apple's 30% cut and the EU telling Apple to allow third party app stores, tell me he&#
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by rchaud 2y ago
Have you considered the possibility that the world has changed after 2020, and there's more to discuss re: technology and society than whatever Apple is up to? We've had Covid, meme stocks, Jan 6th, Huawei bans, Ukraine, NFTs, sta
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by rchaud 2y ago
A 'bombshell' to me would include some original journalism, details we weren't otherwise aware of. I read that article, it is basically an essay about a guy realizing that the pedestal he puts Apple on may need some recalibra
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by rchaud 2y ago
> I can say there is a definite reduction in the overall quality of discourse around Apple news versus general topics on HN. Much more knee jerk reactions. "Knee jerk reactions" presumes that Apple today behaves no differently
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by rchaud 2y ago
Interesting? So Android replaced Windows CE in some cases?
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by rchaud 2y ago
CAD 1 = USD 0.76 So if my Canada-origin flight price is CAD 100, and the equivalent flight out of a US airport is USD 76 (24% less dollar-to-dollar), I'm not saving any money.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Android TV is not AOSP, it is an Android variant actively developed by Google and requires Google Play Services. Kindle Fire is based on AOSP, that was my mistake. I will say Amazon is a rare OEM in this regard; they're tablet-only, an
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by rchaud 2y ago
The Airbnb co-founder is at DOGE now, so I wouldn't hold out much hope. https://www.yahoo.com/news/airbnb-hosts-ditch-platform-billi...
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by rchaud 2y ago
> Historically, Canadians will drive across the border in search of cheaper airfare in the US. Cities like Buffalo, NY, Burlington, VT, Detroit, MI, Minot and Grand Forks, ND. I don't see that being the case for quite a few years. U
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by rchaud 2y ago
No OEM is interested in AOSP builds, because no one is going to buy an Android phone without Google Play Services, which is required for many popular apps to work (banking, games). There were some Chinese OEMs that ran an Android build and
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by rchaud 2y ago
They had support for PWA in 2021, before they pulled it. Hard to see this is anything other than a concession to its biggest funder, Google. Chrome, Edge and Safari all support installing PWAs, while FF, the biggest beneficiary of such a ch
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More than half of its front page is identical to HN's.
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Stack Overflow. Not a 'forum' per se but is otherwise built around the discussion of browser hacks.
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Any person's first contact with a PWA is going to be in the full-chrome browser. The user has to voluntarily choose "install as web app" to actually lose the browser chrome. Not giving users this choice and opting them into a
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by rchaud 2y ago
There will no doubt be some techbro startup that promises to solve this: after all, who wouldn't want to build a platform that guides you to these products and take a cut of every sale? Whether or not such a platform actually meets you
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by rchaud 2y ago
If you're buying clothes a year apart, they're likely using a different supplier using different grades of fabric, differently calibrated machines, so the clothes won't feel or fit the same.

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