tomComb

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by tomComb 4y ago
I think you mean that you saw Trump's solution as more effective. It wasn't more nuanced. Trump's solution involved a one off payoff for a supporter (Oracle), whereas the current admin is at least trying to develop a policy
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And Facebook doesn’t sell user data either. I know there are lots of people here knowingly redefining the meaning of sell in this regard, but doing so is really harmful to the privacy cause since most companies do actually sell user data so
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I'm sorry that there isn't a free/cheap tier. I don't mind paying US$8/m when I'm actively using it, but I wouldn't want to continue that if I have a period when I'm just using it a little. So, when&#
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“nuclear power is already virtually free” What? Cost is THE problem with nuclear energy. You must have some bizarre way of framing things to make today statement - you should at least tell us what that is since you must know that you are m
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That was my impression too, so I was surprised to read that they are kinda' giving it away by allowing it to be subsumed by Matter. The casting support in Matter will be a mandatory part of the related profile. But, whatever the expla
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Good question in a way, but I think the answer is that the article misrepresents the issue in order to pander better. The issue is that incognito mode is only for the browser itself - they can’t force the sites/services you use while i
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I like Ben Dickson's stuff, but this article is from 2019! Shouldn't the title reflect that?
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I had a doctor mistakenly up my dosage tenfold when doing a routine renewal. My pharmacist didn’t notice the change and filled it. Surely an algorithm would have flagged this as suspicious (I’d been on the same dose for years).
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Also, targeted ads can be very useful for small businesses trying to reach their target market. Untargetted ads tend to be big companies promoting their brand.
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How can it not be bad for Vulkan?
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Yes, cost is the issue. Everyone assumes that anyone hesitant about Nuclear power is focussed on the environmental or safety concerns, but that is wrong. The costs (and cost overruns) of the construction and maintenance of Nuclear reactors
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Now I’m starting to wonder … perhaps you aren’t aware that all that stuff you are writing about iOS is simply not relevant to your stated goals. I’ll say it again, Apple simply does not allow competing browser engines. Complaining about Go
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Google pushing their product while allowing anyone to easily change default browser on Android is called competition. Somehow though, that is the worst for you, while Apple simply blocking any competition on iOS (everything is Safari under
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But this conversation is about what the US should do about TikTok - it is specifically in the US context. Also, there is a big difference between how US companies operate, and the circumstances in which they share data, and how a Chinese co
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What is the prevailing analysis odd the Sinquefield Cup game that Magnus lost? Did Magnus play badly?
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I'll be pedantic again ... you changed what I wrote from "at least" a year to "more like" a year, which is actually quite different.
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“If you’ve been following the red-hot AI content generation scene, then you’re probably already aware that it’s likely a matter of months before authentic-looking video of newly invented Seinfeld bits like this can be generated by anyone wi
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by tomComb 4y ago
Microsoft bought control of OpenAI so I believe this would all be running on Azure (so would not be using Google TPU's).
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They don’t. As you note, it wouldn’t make any sense for them to do so. It’s one of those perverse things that they are some of the few companies that actually don’t sell user data, and yet they’re the ones that are most frequently accused o
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Oh, no, Microsoft, Brave, and all the other companies that repackage Chrome will have to actually contribute to the base (or a fork). /s
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Gawd yes, thank you. I actually find Chrome to be faster and generally appreciate the contributions that Google has made to try to keep the web competitive with the proprietary platforms, but I can't get past the auto-start video issue
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FBReader is cross-platform and I believe it sync's the way you want.
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People in other countries probably don't understand just how powerful - and depended upon - the big telecoms are here in Canada. They have no presence outside the country - they are so bloated and inefficient they couldn't compete
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Costing more, Yes, but being more deadly, No.
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Interesting, and good to know. The part I don’t get is that Google is listed right next to Yelp, who are the #1 advocates for regulatory action against Google.
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Any evidence that Google pays masnick or techdirt?
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Here we are discussing how to steal content and you make that comment about a developer who is giving you something for free? Wow, some people really have no perspective.
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Request for Ever thinner laptops does seem silly, but weight is quite a different thing - it really does matter IMO.
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It really does sound great, but for some reason I just really hate keyboards with a numpad, so that was a dealbreaker for me. Silly perhaps, but but then again keyboard really is very important.
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Yes, that is all correct. It is a good thing, but it is not a platform, it is an App Store for a mostly open source but still proprietary platform owned by Google.

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