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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
Apple is incredibly profitable, but Lenovo, dell, hp combined ship 60% of the laptops worldwide. Customers overwhelmingly choose non-Apple laptops.
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
Apple is more than willing to milk cash cows with little to no innovation - See iphone/ipad/macos/ios, etc. Its the same with chip foundaries/companies - Intel et al. will just milk their own cash cow with mild increment
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
Its BS to think Apple is the cop that is going to fight your fights. Apple only cares about money, and they're going to obediently abide by local laws - see China. We need more/stronger laws, we don't need to give Apple more
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
Making Apple the cop to fight your fights is not going to solve anything, nor teach anyone anything about privacy. Its the milk bottle that will keep people pacified sucking at the teat of a corporation, while the executives line their pock
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
>Saying that the US is profiteering by providing billions in weapons and aid to Ukraine, which it will never get back, betrays your lack of objectivity or reasonability. Or maybe, you've missed recent developments? https:/&#x2
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
Intent matters, yes. But tell me - If your home was bombed, and your family was dead, would you care?
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
Heh, everyone is hypocritical some of the time, so it doesn't bother me as much. Its just online posturing on HN/Twitter/Facebook. The people shouting the loudest about vaccines or whatever other hot topic often do not have e
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
>The necessary information can't be effectively gathered with electric questionnaires. Your explanation is inadequate. Which systems are you referring to and how do you know it can't be done?
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
>who is responsible when a patient is misdiagnosed by an AI and treated for the wrong condition? Good question, and it has been discussed plenty on the internet: https://aublr.org/2019/10/what-happens-when-ai-un
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
There isn't much to explain. Existing medical data is processed by the AI. New data is collected by means of electronic questionnaires. Questions are chosen in succession based on past responses. People who have learning disabilities,
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
A CEO is also an employee, who works for the owner(s) of the company. They're also going to have to answer for the company's poor performance.
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
In most corporate compensation systems, the executives' bonuses are the most impacted when the company doesn't do well. The employees lower down are only rated based on personal performance, not the company's as they have no
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
Right now rich people in developed countries can afford the best doctors. Most people in the world get shitty healthcare. An AI assisted medical staff can significantly raise the bar. In many low income settings, even access to a medical pr
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
On Windows you can directly access UNC paths (without mounting) with fopen. You can't do this on POSIX platforms. Also, not all API boundaries are fixed width so you're going to be exposed to the ugliness of variable width types.
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
A few people are trying to claim it back! My current favorite - https://github.com/dremin/RetroBar
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
Artists will not have a common answer to "Are there any rules in art?". Personally, I think there are patterns in art, and there are often rules that can describe those patterns. Oddly, I think the word rule works out OK. 'gu
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
I'm curious to know if anyone has accounted for losses from all the prior years? Those still need to be paid back/accounted for. Did they break-even?
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
People on HN used to poke fun at unprofitable social media companies, and about how they're all declining. Its interesting to see from outside the political bubble how the conversations have now shifted to defending Twitters' inco
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
You're right. That response is sufficient for people who provide it in good faith. There are bad faith actors who aren't happy unless you actually respond in detail and convince them otherwise. They're more than happy to rais
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
We have a fundamental disagreement. I don't agree that ad personalization and data collection is similar (in any way) to selling addictive drugs and substances that directly cause physical harm. You implying that I support it is silly.
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
Meta/Google wouldn't exist without their customers paying them money. I don't think you can lay the blame entirely on one entity here. The core problem is that companies who use the tools created by Meta/Google do benefi
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
They also sold bug-fix support contracts for customers who could afford it.
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
Companies paid for support contracts, so they can get the bugs fixed.
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
I don't have anything to counter your points, we're in agreement :) My argument had apriori assumptions for the general audience on HN (VC funded startups, FAANG/MAAMA folks, etc). We can start off with different assumptions,
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
Sure, but it also may be true that remote work is not necessarily better in every situation. I don't assume every manager is a fraud when they're wanting people to work from the office. I don't know their situation, so I woul
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
>My belief is that a lot of the people who get to make these decision like the office, because they don't suffer from the same externalities. In other words, many of the things that make commuting to the office suck ass don't n
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
>Prior to the pandemic, it was the open-office floorplan, and study after study said it was a failure on basically any metric: productivity, spreading of disease, stress… Certainly, I would respect a study that has been replicated multip
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
You're describing marketing, and marketing of an idea is important - I agree. However, you also need to have a population that cares about science, engineering, exploration, etc. I don't believe what gets people into engineering a
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
>Surely, all of this could only be justified if physical presence had a dramatic impact on productivity. Yet, we cannot tell one way or the other if it actually improves outcomes. You can flip that around too - If remote work was so grea
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by trap_goes_hot 4y ago
I agree - 'critical' is sorta meaningless in this context. But the general response is - because organisms adapt for their own survival and our genes are selfish.

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