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by rrdharan 6y ago
I think you'd have to be kind of nuts (or filming a Top Gear episode, not mutually exclusive) to be driving a Ferrari through an unpopulated desert.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
I learned about this from the excellent Canadaland podcast: https://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/279-did-the-new-york-... Side note, Jesse Brown (Canadaland’s creator) was also a cofounder of Bitmoji, which I think g
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Given the hyper targeted efficiency of the modern ad networks, are you sure the fake crypto and tech support ads are going to everyone and not just to you?
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by rrdharan 6y ago
The Us subsidizes European drug prices: https://www.ibtimes.com/how-us-subsidizes-cheap-drugs-europe... Though there are lots of other ways to frame this of course since most of that is eaten up by US marketing expenses: h
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Charles Fitzgerald (Platformonomics blog) has a series of sobering blog posts about IBM that are worth reading: https://www.platformonomics.com/tag/ibm/ As for his take on this latest piece of news: https:/&
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/nyregion/nyc-recycling.ht... You’re right though, NYC is less affected by the change in Chinese policy..
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Recycling is dead anyway. https://www.nrpa.org/parks-recreation-magazine/2019/april/re...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
There was a post maybe two weeks from Tavis Ormandy (a tweet) that made the HN front page, about how he uses WordPerfect: Tavis Ormandy (@taviso) Tweeted: @mkolsek Funny you should mention that, I was recently curious if there are any conso
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by rrdharan 6y ago
That’s because Avis acquired them back in 2013.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
It was theoretically more resource efficient but practically worse and harder to optimize. A state of affairs that VMware has exploited for a couple decades.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
The 80,000 hours folks generally apply this kind of reasoning to explain why it’s better for most people to just focus on a corporate job, stockpile a ton of cash, and donate it all when you die, instead of quitting to join a cause / n
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by rrdharan 6y ago
They tried that already (Persona).
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by rrdharan 6y ago
I think you overestimate the amount of QA resources available to the Ubuntu project. Looks like this was an issue that only happened after repeated use and seems somewhat related to individual systems' font configurations? There's
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by rrdharan 6y ago
I believe you're referring to iAd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd You're being downvoted because they still make money off of advertising: "The iAd App Network was discontinued as of June 30, 2016.[8
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> WoT as realized by PGP seems to me to be a very good tool for manually assessing whether to trust a previously unknown key for someone that a third (untrusted) party sends you. https://inversegravity.net/2019/web-o
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Yeah I think there are economies of scale at work here, similar to how Hollywood designs blockbusters to be globally marketable ( https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53676789 ).
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by rrdharan 6y ago
I was going to say there's no way there's police budget for this kind of enforcement in the US but I would've been wrong: https://gothamist.com/news/undercover-taxi-fare-investigatio...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
This is a pretty good book that should roughly give you what you are looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rest_Is_Noise
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by rrdharan 6y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/07/google-cloud-makes-it-chea...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Do you mean Allo? Duo is very much not discontinued.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> even Wikipedia has struggled to get by with only donations This is not true, they just write their donation pleas to make it seem true because they raise more money that way.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
They didn’t start the ads on day one. Their first big push was the TV ad: https://slate.com/technology/2009/05/google-s-first-ever-tv-... The “try Chrome” ads for other browsers didn’t start for a while later
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Firefox does that too, by that exact same definition (which I think is a silly one): https://smallbusiness.chron.com/turn-autosuggestion-off-mozi...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Chrome (still) does uBlock.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
They're gonna annotate the web though! Any day now...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> Chrome only did better with regular users because 1) it was OS-bundled, What OS bundles Chrome? Do you mean ChromeOS? > and 2) they could shove "try Chrome!" banners at the top of every Google property. That happened way l
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Maybe you’re thinking of the RAMCloud paper? https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/ramcloud.pdf
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Yep, totally. I am fine with concentrating my risk on a big company with a huge target on its back (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon) but with enough money (and enough profit to protect) that they can correspondingly afford to compete effec
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> Google's misuse of private information is well known. The accusations are certainly well known ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_concerns_regarding_G... ). Whether anything here constitutes misuse is a

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