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by ucaetano 8y ago
> But let's not forget there's a good reason why data centres full of computer servers are often built inside icy mountains or under oceans. Electronics get hot. Gell-Mann amnesia effect applies here. This is pretty bad reporti
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by ucaetano 8y ago
TL;DR: Blogger with a low-readership blog (for internet standards) wants to be included in news carousel at the top of Google results but is rejected. So Google News is broken.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
The core point of the book, that 40% of jobs are bullshit, is pure bullshit, and Graeber is a know bullshitter. https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/-er-is-een-ongeloof... He based his assertion "on the basis
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yep, people don't realize that Grarber is just a refresh of the fashionable nonsense trend, particularly in economics. From the article: ""Those two British and Dutch polls were the only ones I knew when I wrote the book. Si
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by ucaetano 8y ago
The issue is that recording without consent is illegal in many jurisdictions. Auto-transcribing likely falls in a grey zone, because you could argue that it is being recorded before transcription (which is true).
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Google releases Chrome extension that alerts users of breached passwords(blog.google)
16 points by ucaetano 8y ago|5 comments
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> At home, I use Duck Duck Go. It gives good enough results but comes with a better reputation with regards to privacy. The fact that you do so, with no additional effort needed, kinda breaks the entire trust/monopoly argument, does
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> It is currently illegal to build third-party applications once the first party tells you to stop. No, it is illegal to access the data of a third-party with your own app if that third-party doesn't allow you to do so.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yeah, I'm sure you'd love Comcast owning YouTube.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
They don't own. They's recently (in the past 5 years) started taking part in building, but they don't own anything compared to Google and the major telcos.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Someone one else would've bought YouTube Google is probably the only non-telco who owns significant infrastructure. So other than Google, the only other option for YouTube would have been a telco. Are you sure you'd want a te
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Even if that's true (which I doubt), Google is not the only company that owns fiber. Would you rather have Verizon owning YouTube? Every single telco has tried to launch their own YT. They launched, and every single one of them fa
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by ucaetano 8y ago
People already treat them very separately, I'd be surprised if most of the public (not HN) even knows that Google owns YT.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
And the UK will miss out.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Not really, the rise usually happens after years, or even decades, of paying dues and hard work. Sure, but it happens because of your public image, always with a "big break" or a "breakthrough". > At least most d
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by ucaetano 8y ago
A little more context: the article is from 2005, when Vice was still a hipster/edgy/provocative publication focused on shocking and with no political leaning, largely led by Gavin McInnes (of later alt-right Proud Boys fame). Whil
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by ucaetano 8y ago
I'm still hoping that Vice Media will renounce its bigotted past and either remove or address some articles, such as: https://www.vice.com/da/article/9bv7qv/the-vice-guide-to-par... A sneak peak: Here a
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I think the most unsettling thing about this is not the expunging of someone's past achievements as punishment for some terrible act, but the fact that the mere accusation of such can destroy someone. When you live by your public
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yep, IIRC it was confirmed that FB crosses people's contact lists to match profiles to people.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Nah, good old capitalists are rarely trying to create a religion after them, going around the country and taking pictures feeding baby cows. Zuckerberg is indeed a good old capitalist, but one who doesn't want to be seen as a capitalis
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Same here! The two terms I've heard describing the cultists so far are Muskians and Zuckerboys (and we should also include Zurckergals and Zuckerfolks).
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Not just that, the top-down structure is shaped after a cult of personality. Talking to my friends who work at Apple, FB, Google, Amazon and others, facebookers are the only ones who seem to be willing to defend their leader on a personal l
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I'll always be amazed that one of the main weapons in modern times is concrete Oh, not just modern times. It was the same in Roman times as well, and when concrete was not available (either before, or after the Romans), rocks wood
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Tanks began to fire 120-millimeter canister rounds (in essence, shotgun-type rounds that, once fired, open into hundreds of tiny pieces) down streets from their main guns. The canister rounds blew the trash off the streets and, in many
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Given how wrong forward-looking statements by Tesla are, any forward-looking statement is largely irrelevant at this point. So the only thing that actually matters is results: how they performed last quarter.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Those are hardly directly comparable products (as in a commodity product), as a product includes branding, OS, support, etc. You can't just look at hardware specs and think that two consumers would find the products directly comparable
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Cool, thanks for the honest answer!
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by ucaetano 8y ago
How much more would you be willing to pay for reparability? 20%? 40%? And how much more weight/volume would you be willing to accept for reparability? PS: Honest, curious question here, not rhetorical.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I'm pretty sure doctors Doctors have to go through over a decade of accredited education and training to even apply to be a doctor at a hospital. It is a restricted and regulated profession. Software development is nothing of th
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> What is? At the end of the day this just looks like entitlement. I had the same impression, particularly driven by these quotes: From this day on, I was even more disappointed — both with myself and tech hiring process — rejection, re

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