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by thaway2839 5y ago
There is a fundamental change in Google Search and its purpose. Google Search no longer is a Search Engine. It's now aiming to be an answer engine. That may sound like a distinction without a difference, but in practice the changes are
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by thaway2839 5y ago
Google started occasionally showing me Quora results where I would have expected Stack Overflow ones instead. (There is absolutely no way I'm touching Quora for anything technical. Or anything, for that matter. At most I might use a Qu
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by thaway2839 5y ago
It is indeed a vicious cycle.
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by thaway2839 5y ago
There's a difference between a small city (or even a big city) in the middle of a massive country making a change, and the entire country making the change. The former will almost always lead to more issues, no matter what the change i
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by thaway2839 5y ago
Public space in NYC is covered by actual real video cameras. Speed cameras are not gonna affect surveillance.
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by thaway2839 5y ago
The Not Just Bikes Youtube channel consistently points out how Dutch street design focuses on making driving seem "scarier" to lower driving speeds as a safety measure. These aren't ridiculous measures. These are sensible mea
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by thaway2839 5y ago
The uptick is real. It's an uptick despite reduced driving. A 45% increase in deaths per mile driven is no joke. Further, you're also ignoring advancements in medicine, emergency services, healthcare systems, rules (e.g., cities i
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by thaway2839 5y ago
I have a simple question. Are cryptocurrencies supposed to be good currencies, or good investments? Because you cannot be both. The purpose of a good currency is diametrically opposed to the purpose of a good investment.
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by thaway2839 5y ago
I'm not sure why anyone would draw the conclusion that they are losing Facebook because of an EU mandate, when all other competitors continue to work for them. And if they dig into it even slightly they will probably be even more horri
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by thaway2839 5y ago
Hilarious considering the 2 things are completely different. I'm not paying Adams many thousands of dollars to be Vegan. People are paying Tesla many tens of thousands of dollars to do stuff they claim they will do, haven't yet do
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by thaway2839 5y ago
I'm genuinely surprised Facebook is playing these games. This is disproportionately so much worse for Facebook, than it is for German/French users. 1) Let's assume that German/French users are absolutely shattered to los
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by thaway2839 5y ago
It's really interesting to see certain Apple users justify how Apple's choices are always the right one (even when they are diametrically opposite to Apple's choice from a few months ago, at which point they also defended the
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by thaway2839 5y ago
Yet Google tries really hard to get you to log in, to the point where if you log into the browser to be able to sync your bookmarks and settings, you will be logged into your Google search as well.