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by rurp 2y ago
Are we really arguing about whether a massively advertised "free" product will distort a market? If a heavily subsidized Google Maps hadn't been dominating the ecosystem for the past decade and a half many more companies woul
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by rurp 2y ago
Google Search gets most of the attention for being ruined by Google, but I think the Maps trajectory is just as bad. It has shown remarkable consistency in getting worse year after year, for a long time now. Basic functionality is regularly
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by rurp 2y ago
Yep this. I was on their signup page about to pay and thought to check how hard it is to unsubscribe. I found the exact same process you outline, and many people with worse horror stories where it took all kinds of time and aggravation to c
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by rurp 2y ago
> I would say there are more people engaging with Instagram and Facebook than there are with basketball. Sure, but I don't see how that equates to more people knowing about Zuck. Lots of Meta users neither know nor care who he is. O
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by rurp 2y ago
I don't know, I'm skeptical that a politics career is less dependent on connections than finance. Not that finance isn't, but a huge portion of successful politicians come from well connected families. The money needed to run
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Behavioral Sink(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by rurp 2y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
This seems weirdly hostile to drinking water. Some people like drinking throughout the day and/or feel better when they are well hydrated. Drinking enough water is one of the easiest healthy habits to pick up and stick with; it takes w
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Ask HN: Is Substacks AI disclaimer valid?
1 points by rurp 2y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
The ration of hyped technologies that turned out to be overhyped, versus ones that turned out to be as impactful as electricity is... I don't even know how many orders of magnitude different, but it's a lot.
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by rurp 2y ago
That might be an argument for acting like Musk, but it sure as heck isn't a reason to invest in or buy from his companies.
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by rurp 2y ago
Self driving cars that can travel across the country on their own should be here by 2017 at the latest.
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by rurp 2y ago
I went to a civil war reenactment as a kid where there were food samples from the era available to try. Who knows how accurate they were, but given how passionate folks can be about that history I imagine a lot of work went into the food. I
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by rurp 2y ago
That is nice to hear, albeit unsurprising. Their public documentation is some of the best that I have worked with. Postgres is such an impressive project overall.
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by rurp 2y ago
A single vote means little and being partisan doesn't mean 0% voting with the other side. By this logic Congress is not a partisan institution given that people from both sides frequently vote together, but anyone who remotely follows
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by rurp 2y ago
I don't know if this comparison was meant to make crypto look better, but it really doesn't. The original pitch of crypto was to revolutionize global finance and replace it with something better. It seems the pitch has now devolve
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by rurp 2y ago
I would assume the reason is money, barring some counter evidence. Some videos must lead to longer sessions with higher engagement on average. Even for a single view session some videos will have more ads and/or more profitable ads in
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by rurp 2y ago
Uber doesn't really have a way to increase profit through messier cars. But they can do things like increase prices after taking over a market, which they have not been at all shy about doing.
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by rurp 2y ago
I would be surprised if the Waymp cars weren't exceptionally nice in this phase, while they're trying hard to gain market share and trust. Google Search was a clean and delightful experience once upon a time. The aspect I'm m
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by rurp 2y ago
That vision-only argument is marketing spin from Tesla. The biggest thing it leaves out is that humans process their vision input with a human brain, which Tesla vehicles very much do not have. If and when we create true AGI they will have
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by rurp 2y ago
Right, just like Elon always pays laid off employees the severence owed to them, and always pays contractors and suppliers promptly and fairly. Oh... wait. The pay package got struck down because it was a corrupt deal to begin with. Nobody
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by rurp 2y ago
He has every right to step down as CEO, but instead he has stayed on and used Tesla as his plaything and piggy bank. Don't forget that shortly before the Delaware court decision he was demanding an additional giant block of equity be h
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by rurp 2y ago
At this point I would be surprised in Elon hadn't sexually harassed an intern at one of his companies, but the parts about Gwynne Shotwell were surprising to me. She gets a lot of credit and respect on HN so I was not expecting to se
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by rurp 2y ago
Free speech absolutism in action.
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by rurp 2y ago
For a similar comparison, wild horses do surprisingly well in some desert regions of the Southwest US. It's a surprising treat to see a healthy herd of horses meandering through Joshua Trees. They can apparently do pretty well on spars
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by rurp 2y ago
This is definitely a factor and applies to regular support help as well. I sent 1Password an email several years ago about an issue and got a prompt and helpful response back. It was a much better experience than I would ever expect from Ap
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by rurp 2y ago
> Being disrupted by an LLM has created a ton of anxiety for me, and this conversion led to investing almost my entire NW into Nvidia. I hope this works out for you, but for anyone else reading I would strongly discourage doing something
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by rurp 2y ago
I don't think the choice of integration really matters for GP's point. Regardless of which model is used, how useful is the ability to rewrite an email in AI Voice really going to be? If I'm struggling over how to word an ema
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Norway's oil fund to vote against Musk's $56B Tesla pay award(marketwatch.com)
24 points by rurp 2y ago|3 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
No, those shiny app icons are still using folders and files, that part is just being hidden from users to where they have less understanding of how things actually work. Phones aren't secretly using Roman numerals or tiny embedded abac
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by rurp 2y ago
This applies to most AI features that have been released recently. It feels like almost every business that wants to think of itself as a tech company has been desperate to throw out as many new features as possible that they can slap an AI

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