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Google's “Search on 22” Presentation(searchon.withgoogle.com)
2 points by s3r3nity 4y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
> Increased density is coming to everywhere in California, like it or not. If you're hoping to have a well intentioned, successful argument with NIMBY folks, this is _not_ the way to do so. People who own the land & houses in an
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
Fam - we can’t even make climate change laws without oil lobbies paying lawmakers off…what makes you think that yet another corruptible organization in govt is going to help?
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
I'm old enough to remember when pockets of the Freemind[1] community aspired for that application to reach something of this state. Sadly, development forked and work on the original project stalled pretty hard. Great stuff - thanks fo
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
From the developer's notes, it looks like they took some time to design the UX to better support controllers with this port. From what I read elsewhere, steam deck support was much more limited - meaning the experience should be very d
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
I think you're 85-90% right - but I wouldn't undersell the impact of Apple's proprietary W1 / H1 / H2 chips in their headphones either.
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
Along with the raiding of coffers, because everyone feels like "I need to get mine." Overly generous tax breaks, bailouts, "cancelling debt," etc. etc.
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
And yet, Amazon continues to be a highly ranked employer [1] consistently. Last I checked, these employees don't _have_ to work for Amazon. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/06/amazon-is-the-no-1-company-t
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
> If they know potential dangers, they share at least some responsibility for future damage. This line of thinking was used during the dark ages to argue against the spread of science vs. religion.
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After acquiring Timeful in 2015, Google is shutting down 'goals' in Calendar(support.google.com)
2 points by s3r3nity 4y ago|1 comments
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
I think I’m more intrigued by topics that are suspiciously absent from BOTH sources. E.g. it is surprisingly difficult to find any TV news coverage of the wild macroeconomic trends going on with China’s banking and real-estate sector at the
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
Cue the Ryan Reynolds meme: "...But why??" I've recently started my path towards sobriety (5 months next week) and I feel significantly healthier than I have ever felt over the past few decades of drinking. I feel empathy for
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
Yeah this trend by Spotify / Amazon Music / YouTube Music is why I switched to Apple Music a while back, and never regretted my decision. Podcasts are in a completely different app, and don't intersect with my music search &a
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
> In fact to hear him tell it those capabilities are simply not available elsewhere. This is a huge overlooked factor in all of the debate regarding the supply chain. You can't "just move" manufacturing capabilities from o
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
> In some cases that will mean making a hard choice between accepting the risk of using the third party app store, or accepting that you won't be able to use certain apps. You already have that choice today: I can buy into the walle
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
I would call a group of educated professionals debating all sides / data for a particular hypothesis, coming to a general consensus after rigorous evaluation and debate, essentially what the "market of ideas" is meant to conv
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
> Name one time in the entirety of recorded history when "the decentralized market of ideas" did anything of the sort. This is literally how most scientific progress is made.
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
Based on all of recorded history. For example, we didn't need the Vatican, a king, or some other central committee to tell us that the sun was the center of our solar system - eventually the data and market of ideas exposed the best &a
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
> Social media and mainstream media saw it fit to censor dissenting voices --not those of quacks, we can mostly all agree on minimizing the voices of quacks but shutting down medical professionals and medical academics and so on is very
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
Awesome to watch, and I recommend listening to the technical explanations if you have time. I love some of the YouTube videos coming out recently explaining not just this exploit, but also some of the Zelda: Ocarina of Time applications of
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
> Yahoo played that situation smartly. This is one of the hottest tech takes I've read in the past 10 years. Getting lucky due to an investment in something that is _not_ their core business does not count as "smart" to me
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
> Yes that's not equal work. You have to compare two brand marketers. The devil's in the details here though, as the debate can come under work of "equal value."
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
Ah yes - clearly I have "risk aversion" & "settled for less" because I don't want to live in a city that _literally_ has a problem with human shit on the streets in 2022 vs. other states that are willing to acti
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
> You're paid to create value for your employer. This pretends that there isn't a market for labor, with its own supply curve. For example, the relative value you generate is not enough to value your wages. Else Marketers and S
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
I think what’s _more_ surprising to me is that Samsung dropped to 22%. Turns out that all that “innovation” or being first to market with fold-ables doesn’t mean squat compared to polish and usability.
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
Congratulations to Phil Spencer, who started out leading an upstart team at Microsoft for a new game console called "Xbox" and is now "CEO of Microsoft Gaming" - a Microsoft Senior Leadership position. Oh, and he now lea
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
It's a much better compromise than the pop-up selfie cameras that were a fad for a sec, but then died because of the extra compromises needed for water resistance, battery, extra motor, etc.
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
no one cares
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
Oh I can do this too: "...What if we alcohol and spirits tomorrow, will all these problems disappear?"

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