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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Don't know why you're getting down-voted - it's a reasonable hypothesis. Why wouldn't a corporation reinvest those tax benefits? I think that the likely culprit is a more competitive labor market in general, but there&#x
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
"High-end phone market" is a specious market definition, though. When you look at "smartphone market share" or even "smartphone OS market share," it's a top player, sure, but not the dominant one (Android
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Economists / anti-trust lawyers (at least in the US) look at a butt-ton of variables, and there is significant literature on the topic (source: I have a graduate degree in Economics - and love to talk about this type of stuff,) but jus
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
But Apple doesn't have a significant share of the mobile phone industry - Android (Google) does - with I believe Samsung leading the way. So how can it be monopolistic? The comparisons in other posts is not quite apples - to - apples (
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Are you referring to WagWalking.com? Or the wag.com, which Amazon acquired as part of the Quidsi purchase - of which Amazon subsequently shut down? https://consumerist.com/2017/03/29/amazon-will-shut-down-dia.
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
When the expected outcomes are the probabilities of, say, China or Russia knocking out our power grid - yes I think so. Rather than looking at which leads to a better "positive" outcome (as some have done elsewhere in the thread r
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Good point, thanks! Just did a quick search and learned they have a "cybersecurity division." Didn't know that existed. Also edited my comment to reflect that.
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Well, I agree with alottafunchata. Are Google employees an unbiased sample now? Also, regardless of what authority / stature they may have, the "call to authority" fallacy would apply if you use that data-point as the crux of
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Is it far fetched to think that the top technologists / developers in Russia / EU / China / etc. are working for their respective governments & Defense agencies? From a pure game theory perspective, if you accept the
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I worked for a company that was running a pilot with them for a few years to train internal candidates who wanted to go into Software Engineering, almost as a way to 1) outsource employee development 2) satisfy the need to hire lots of devs
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google
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Why is the FB leak getting more attention and momentum that the Equifax hack?
116 points by s3r3nity 9y ago|50 comments
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
After reviewing the report and the associated studies, there are no indicators that this is a causal relationship - just correlations. My immediate reaction is "why are we ruling out the possibility that they are on Instagram / Fb
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I agree with you somewhat, but I imagine the shareholders would revolt against upper-management from the significant loss in revenue + media backlash that would be inevitable ("Google hates the US government!" etc etc.) As a compa
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Didn't Google drop its "Don't be evil" motto a few years ago?
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I can't recommend Strang enough. I tend to learn better when I can visualize math concepts, and had such a hard time understanding Linear Algebra until I finally bought a copy of that book. I love that thing, and it still sits in my bo
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Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project(nytimes.com)
1368 points by s3r3nity 9y ago|1061 comments
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I'd agree with you, but almost every Youtube video I watch comparing iPhones vs. Pixels, or HomePod vs. Google Home, always tend to get to focusing on what Google queries can accomplish vs. Siri queries. It might not be called "AI
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
This is going to be interesting to watch over the next few years, given that Android had a huge setback in the Oracle v Google case [1]. The huge sell of Android over iOS, besides the customization features, was the Google AI superiority ov
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Oracle vs. Google: Android P Is for Poisoned Platform(zdnet.com)
3 points by s3r3nity 9y ago|1 comments
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Again, not trying to go to bat for Facebook by any means, and I think you're well meaning with your point, but I worry think this is a dangerous argument to go down. 1) While they're not perfect, I'm not sure I believe they&#
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I think you're well meaning here, but I have two points in reaction: 1) "...[E]thical to me IFF you don't make stuff up." I think you can have propaganda that uses only facts, but in a disingenuous manner. You just don&#
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Not that I feel strongly either way, but deliberately advocating for a strong, centralized, negative propaganda campaign against a company you don't like doesn't seem ethical to me.
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Google loses Android case against Oracle, and could owe billions(money.cnn.com)
7 points by s3r3nity 9y ago|2 comments
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
If you enjoyed that, I highly recommend Winchester's "The Meaning of Everything," which goes into even more detail on all the historical editors of the OED, and their respective process in approaching the massive project. One
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
As much as I want to agree with you, from a product perspective, it's problematic: do you offer only one option and give Google virtually a monopoly in the navigation market, or do you offer multiple options and potentially confuse use
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
This. If anything, Apple has been guilty of shipping buggy _software_ earlier than it should, _not_ the hardware. And while Tim might be an expert at operations for shipping hardware, software dev is a different ballgame.
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I worry that the "culture" argument has dangerous implications if true, as it can be used to discriminate on so many grounds outside of age: gender ("If I'm with a bunch of my bro's, why mess it up with a girl?&quot
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Yeah I tend to agree with you - if Tim Cook refused China's request and subsequently got all iPhone sales banned in China, the stock would tank and there would be chaos / folks calling for Tim to resign, etc etc.
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I don't know if it's fair to say that they are "randomly" flagging items - I'm guessing they're using a similar set of tools that they use to algorithmically determine if, say, Youtube videos violate their TOS.

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