tomComb

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by tomComb 7y ago
You've probably noticed that the cynicism is reinforced by a concerted campaign of eg. op-eds, but if you want hard evidence, here's the front page piece I was talking about: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion
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by tomComb 7y ago
As far as I can tell the opposition is driven by Blackberry who want to exclude foreign ocmpanies so they can bid for the contract without any competition. Proof? One of the BB founders got the front page of the Globe (Canada's nation
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Google has already addressed this. If you are going to post about this it seems remis to not include something about their explanation.
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> They could have earned a lot more on than than than they do from me not clicking on the dumbest ads I know about. Then they would have - they are a for-profit company. My assertion that consumers are not willing to pay if they can get
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The impact of the stimulus can only last so long, and eventually you've got to pay it back down. So, the recession had better be cancelled because we've already blown all the money that we would normally use to stimulate ourselves
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Harari is great and I really hope Zuckerberg has read and absorbed some of his stuff. Harari's most recent book got some negativity for promoting meditation, which I think some took as a self indulgent detour but it actually makes sens
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by tomComb 7y ago
Oh, good. Thanks for pointing that out. I used fastmail for many years and am glad to know that it ended up independent.
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> With free email (gmail) the payment is not direct. They are doing something to get money, but what is unknown. I guess you mean something uknown and nefarious. And you are more comfortable with Qihoo 360, the Chinese company that owns
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by tomComb 7y ago
They have G Suite, and they also tried a more consumer oriented version but no one wanted to pay. I would love it if more of the Internet were based on payments and micro-payments but consumers have voted decisively against that. I try to s
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> as Google has beaten Outlook and Yahoo and Mail.ru Microsoft and Verizon are hardly vulnerable timid players.
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by tomComb 7y ago
In his first post (above) he said that he is from Google but he is not acting in any official capacity here. It is not Google support, it is just an employee giving some insight on his own time. What is wrong with that?
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Yup, I've had the same thing. Just kinda amusing and ironic since I didn't happen to care about that event but it makes one nervous about relying on spam filtering. On the other hand, once you train it a bit, it is mostly remarka
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What are you talking about. I never stated that because I am not!
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The main example, of course, is in self-driving where he has most certainly not delivered. And he wasn't just a little off. But also his claims about being able to automate the manufacture of Model 3 turned out to be very wrong and to
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by tomComb 7y ago
Tesla has great products, created and supported by thousands of people who appear to go above and beyond. Kudos to them. And kudos to Musk for the vision and the early execution, but that doesn't mean I have to like him or believe th
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by tomComb 7y ago
I don't think anyone wants to use Lidar - the claim is that they need it to achieve full, safe, autonomy. If it turns out that it isn't needed than Tesla will be in a great position. But only time will tell.
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by tomComb 7y ago
I'm a fan of Tesla, but not Musk. You really can't believe much that comes out of his mouth. If you look at his past claims it becomes clear that he should just be ignored.
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by tomComb 8y ago
The issue was OP's anger (to put it mildly) that Google was creating a walled garden.
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Your only two options on mobile are Apple & Google and he is calling out Google (in fairly extreme terms) on a point where they are easily the better of the two. It shows what a silly contortion he was going through to tell us to hate G
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by tomComb 8y ago
- Yeah, hate that Google walled garden. Much better to go with Apple. - Yeah, that gmail specific stuff is evil, except it isn't gmail specific at all. - Yeah, killing browsers with Chrome. Just like IE6 except it's open source,
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I think their new 'cloud run' product is supposed to be a step towards addressing that (and vendor lock-in).