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by s3r3nity 7y ago
Curious to hear from those who have been following the details more closely: was there _any_ legal basis to Levandowski's claims? It's easy to write him off as an extremely greedy sociopath, but I wonder if he was walking along so
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You have to be a paid user, and they're rolling it out automatically over the course of a few weeks.
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Only one does now, IIRC. Used to be two, but one was converted to a grad dorm in the past few years.
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> and if you make it too hard for them to get data about you, they'll simply collect data about other people. I strongly disagree, and with all respect, this is a naive view. This might be true when you're looking at the mappin
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As anyone who is, or has, worked in ad-tech would tell you, this is pretty _tame_ in terms of the "offline conversion problem." When there are $billions$ of dollars at stake for this type of information, you can guarantee there wi
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
>The amount of proprietary stuff that has immense impact on global business (with no oversight) is huge... The issue isn't market share alone - it's whether or not the company leverages that in an anti-competitive way. Ex: inst
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
Immediate reason for not giving up documents: Google is worried about leaks involving their search algorithms, which are very closely guarded (and for good reason - it's been their bread & butter up to now.) This is going to be int
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
More accurately, the party is pro free market - which makes sense that a Republican-led government would want to enforce anti-competition or antitrust laws. That said, in theory at least, the US Justice Department is supposed to be unbiased
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Because for >80% of users, they DO know better. I can try to start this conversation with my grandmother, but as soon as I say "throttling," her eyes glaze over - and just says "can you do it for me?" Apple is trying
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
Congrats to the team - I've been an Asana user since day 1 when it looked like a glorified spreadsheet and was essentially a nice wrapper around Facebook Tasks (FB's internal task management tool.) Ultimately I think they have the
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
It's a super tough problem. Even Google Maps messages you that it's a feature in progress (paraphrasing of course), and they've had years of a head start on this.
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This is an odd move, as Microsoft is doubling down on this, as part of their "no-code" push on top of Office Apps + Azure.
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> Google has also crammed the top of its mobile search results with more ads. This has forced many companies, including TripAdvisor, to buy more ads from the search giant to keep online traffic flowing. That seems wild to me: not only do
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I think that's the point - when everything looks like an ad, then nothing looks like an ad. (Read: ads blend in more - so users are probably more likely to click on promoted links.)
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Without doxing myself by giving too much info about myself away, I can say with 99% certainty that this is not happening with Facebook or Apple. The remaining 1% is if policy changed in the past few years (read: < 3 ), or if there was so
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Google to drop third-party cookie support by 2022(arstechnica.com)
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Ask HN: No-Code (Or Low-Code) Email App Templates?
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> I used to let my kid watch YTKids while I supervised. I think this is where you lose me - why is allowing a child access to have un-tethered access to a content portal appropriate? i.e. why is the responsibility on the content portal (
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Lots of AI & robotics companies, as well as FANG + Msft like companies opening offices here.
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Funny enough, Facebook added one for both the camera and microphone on Portal.
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Not sure I quite understand the argument against Facebook here, though I might just be missing something. The market for messaging apps is pretty saturated with competitors at the moment; if I didn't like their WhatsApp and Facebook ac
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
I'd be curious how you're using MSFT Office, but I've been bouncing between a Surface Pro for work and Mac Mini at home, and love the Office 365 suite. Virtually 100% of my clients can open Word / Excel / Powerpoint
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>more opportunities that almost any other place Not true anymore - you can find a great job that probably treats you much better in virtually 48* other states. I understand the tech bubble _wants_ you to think that any/all opportuni
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
Is it "tensions" if 1 or 2 out of 100's of 1000's of employees get fired?
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
WeChat is the #1 application in China, which i think gets > 80% of usage, last I checked. WePay / mobile payments are _incredibly_ popular. Why _wouldn't_ they try to copy what is working in such a hugely popular app? (I'm
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
I hope this gets more attention. Not because I think what Google did breaks HIPAA laws - there are many sub-threads below that can explain that better than I that this doesn't violate HIPAA - but rather the question helps highlight wh
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
> It's clear that social networks create almost no individual utility at all... That's a broad statement. I find a lot of utility in social networks like FB to keep me in close contact with my family on the other side of the co
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
Looking at the data, the best estimates peg student loans to be consolidated to ~10-12% of the US 18+ population. Not saying it _isn't_ part of the story, but I don't think it's as big of a factor as folks might initially (or
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
This is a great opportunity to expose folks to different types of ownership structures for corporations - something that I think gets missed by most folks outside of (decent) MBA programs. As one anecdote/example: a close friend of min
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by s3r3nity 7y ago
I have a similar reaction when I see that there are ~1000 Googlers who submitted a letter protesting X. That's literally 1% of their workforce. I'm sure you can cherry pick 1% of any workforce, especially a company the size of Goo

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