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Microsoft Q1 Cloud Revenue Bigger Than Amazon and Google, Combined(cloudwars.co)
4 points by s3r3nity 5y ago|3 comments
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
If I drink enough water to kill myself from water poisoning / overhydration, that isn't a good reason to ban water. It's more like "user error." Too much of _anything_ is bad. So it's a strong claim to say &quo
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
> I'm most sad that so many smart humans are working on this of all the important problems in the world. Depends upon values and perspectives of the problem. Part of me agrees with you, and yet part of me is sympathetic to the goals
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
> Facebook daily active users (DAUs) – DAUs were 1.88 billion on average for March 2021, an increase of 8% year-over-year. > Facebook monthly active users (MAUs) – MAUs were 2.85 billion as of March 31, 2021, an increase of 10% year-o
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
> 30% YoY growth and on paper profitability, or 45% YoY growth and an on paper loss, with the ability to flip the switch and move to the first option whenever you want? This sounds suspiciously like a line from the WeWork documentary on
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
>Because it is designed to lose money. Not sure I understand this response, nor do I agree. AWS drove $13.5B in _profit_ for Amazon in 2020, and has been profitable since at least 2014, _8 years_ after its founding.[1] Why isn't rea
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted - it's a reasonable question to ask for a (supposedly) serious competitor to AWS & Azure. E.g. if I'm leading engineering for a startup and thinking about which of the three to invest
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
Nah I'm good - I pay to keep those simple. My more complex workflow needs can stay on my desktop / laptop.
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
> Roku alleges Google has asked it to favor YouTube music results from voice commands made on the Roku remote while the YouTube app is open, even if the user's music preference is set to default to another music app, like Pandora. &
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by s3r3nity 5y ago
Nice to see we've come full circle back to Blackberries =)
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> ...people praise Apple for doing things other people have already done. As Drake once said: "it ain't about who did it first/ It's about who did it right."
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Boeing 737 Maxes grounded (again) due to electrical issue(bloomberg.com)
5 points by s3r3nity 6y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Curious to hear from others more knowledgeable than I: did Oracle's case have _any_ merits here? Are there implications about this decision that could be worrisome? HN threads tend to portray this a bit as "beating an evil cash gr
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
It's a good point, but I think they touch on it a bit with the thread about user churn (which prompted WeWork to kick-out the company that published that analysis based upon some "happiness" clause violation...) Is it "p
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
As long as I keep hearing the BS line from VC's and similar communities that "we're investing in the TEAM, not the Product or idea," we will continue seeing WeWorks / Theranos(es) of the world, with little to learn.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
You cannot prove non-existence - the burden is in fact on proving it _is_ related. https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Proving...
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Google Chat Redesign Looks Like Google Hangouts(9to5google.com)
1 points by s3r3nity 6y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
idk why this is getting downvoted - it's a legitimate criticism of the way Google will enter a market with low prices (or free services,) steal market share, and then boost prices when they have market power and/or significant use
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Google appoints new lead for AI ethics research(blog.google)
2 points by s3r3nity 6y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
You are always going to have crazy extremists on both sides: be it Trump-truthers or socialist “China did nothing wrong in the last 50 years and Venezuela is good for poor people” leftists. Majority of people tend to be more centrist, but t
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
>... I don't propose paying for food with UBI, it should also be supplied. This is the frustrating circular logic here...someone HAS to pick the potatoes! They don’t just show up magically, and you can’t just extrapolate and say tha
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> It's just important to free people from the need to enrich others just to survive. Before I criticize, in full disclosure: I support UBI experiments. I have my concerns, but until we have data they’re just theory. That out of the
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
>... Think about how much time is wasted in middle management, working on ad tech, marketing... While I agree about the prevalence of “bullshit jobs” in general, who are you to decide what jobs are “productive?” I wouldn’t trust any cent
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Google pay-walling photo editing features(theverge.com)
2 points by s3r3nity 6y ago|0 comments
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All MIT authors can now publish in PLOS journals without publishing fees(libraries.mit.edu)
2 points by s3r3nity 6y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Yeah - the man is 57, and at this point does NOT have to work anymore...probably for the rest of his life. Looks like he still intends to run his philanthropies, Blue Origin, and the Post, but after the type of run he has had, he's pro
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
He mentioned a few focus areas: - Day 1 Fund - Bezos Earth Fund - Blue Origin - The Washington Post So a combination of philanthropy, crazy cutting-edge tech, and media. He'll still be pretty busy haha
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
More likely, people losing their minds over what the protagonist in a Star Wars game looks like. [1] https://etcanada.com/news/548672/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order...
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Can confirm - Cyberpunk 2077, along with Doom Eternal and Celeste, have been a blast on Stadia for me for the past few months.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Completely agree, but I would argue that the article is a bit deceptive in that it's trying to build that context without any evidence or data that this is the driver for Instacart's move. correlation <> causation, etc. etc.

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