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by remir 7y ago
I guess the value is that you can keep in touch with people without knowing their phone number or email address. That's about it. Personally, I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything by not being on Fb.
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by remir 7y ago
Standard is the key word here. Good thing McDonals is partnering with Stabucks here.
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by remir 7y ago
I bought a Contigo stainless steel travel mug at some big box store and was really impressed. Coffee stays hot for a long time.
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by remir 7y ago
There's plenty of stuff out there, on Earth and in the universe, that we don't know about. I bet the majority of them we don't know that we don't know. The more we'll discover, the more we'll realize the univer
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by remir 8y ago
I briefly looked around and it seems like desktop PWA are not yet supported by Firefox. At least I haven't found a way to add an app to the desktop like we can do in Chrome. A bit disappointing.
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by remir 8y ago
In the grand scheme of things, I think it is a good thing that Google, or any other big tech company, isn't dominating every product category. Think about it: Google is dominating search and online advertising, they have the most popul
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by remir 8y ago
School should be a place of discovery. By being exposed to multiple things, you're encouraged to find your interests and talents. Society should help students find their path and encourage them to pursue it. Not everybody has the same
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by remir 8y ago
They should do the same thing ChromeOS does with A/B partitions.
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by remir 8y ago
Do we know why Google grew dissatisfied with Apple and forked Webkit?
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by remir 8y ago
Some of it could be re-used, but from what I understand, lots of fiber could become worthless because of the failure of their micro-trenching "experiment".
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by remir 8y ago
Cooperatives could be a good middle ground: they have to turn a profit, but the members have their say in how things are run.
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by remir 8y ago
>So During Ballmer's tenure, they always made a ton more money than Google. As expected, since Microsoft is an older and much more established company. >Ballmer was somewhat aggressive in character, so was Gates by the way - they
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by remir 8y ago
This goes beyond what the customers think of the CEO. This is about culture, about employees morale, about attracting developers who may have been against using some of MS products in the past for all sorts of reasons. Perhaps having Linux
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by remir 8y ago
Everything is about perception. What Satya did was change Microsoft's image and culture for the better, insuring Microsoft's cash cows have a future and stay relevant in a world that is changing rapidly with other strong competito
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by remir 8y ago
Yeah, I've been saying that for years, but I think it's too late for that. Now that ChromeOS supports Android and Linux apps, I don't see how Mozilla could seriously compete against that. Chrome OS is also heavily tied to Goo
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How a Vermont social network became a model for online communities(theverge.com)
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by remir 8y ago
Mozilla was doing some work with speech recognition. Don't know if that project is still active. But yeah, these things needs lots of data to work well. That would be a massive project.
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by remir 8y ago
To be fair, Google has been working on speech recognition for longer and likely possess more data than Amazon.
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by remir 8y ago
I wonder if solid state LiDAR would be cheaper?
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by remir 8y ago
I'm usually not into these long narrative article, but this was an interesting perspective and a good read.
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by remir 8y ago
Are you working on making actual hardware like smart speakers? I'm only asking because this would definitely help spread this kind of platform. Raspberry 3, despite being great, is not something the average Joe will mess it. There need
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by remir 8y ago
Meditation apps certainly helped a lot of people discover that practice. In a stressful world, that is great. But it's funny how this turned into a big business.
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by remir 8y ago
Sure, but without these apps, perhaps millions of people wouldn't have been interested in meditation. I mean, you certainly don't need a Fitbit or Apple Watch to change your habits and start to exercise regularly, but for some peo
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by remir 8y ago
Went to your Amazon page, but it looks like the product isn't being sold? There's no way to buy it.
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by remir 8y ago
If you don't mind having a Chromium-based browser, Brave is also quite good and include a native ad blocker.
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by remir 8y ago
"its about beating the other guy. I think its the same mechanism that will drive someone to grind for many hours in an MMO or suchlike." I think their sense of identity is tied to their performance. I noticed the same thing in s
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by remir 8y ago
Apple has been extremely influential in consumer tech by refining technology to make it approachable by the common man, starting with the introduction of the Macintosh, and then the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, Macbook Air, etc. All of these
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by remir 8y ago
The point is that past a certain point, things will get wild.
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by remir 8y ago
Let's put aside 2018 for a moment and imagine society in 2100. Gene editing and human cloning will happen: only a matter of time. What we can't accept today, someone else will accept tomorrow. Now, add automation (remember, this i
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by remir 8y ago
This is what they're trying to achieve: phones are heavily tied to services, so if you want people to break free from Google, Apple, MS, you need strong alternatives. The /e/ Foundation is working on services that will go wit

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