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by wilde 5y ago
I had to turn these off. They were on by default without permission: https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2019/11/04/exclusive-apple-a...
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by wilde 5y ago
Apple also abuses push notifications to sell their services so I don’t see this ending any time soon :(
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by wilde 5y ago
Not for long. The search page by default shows one non-contextual app above their ranked list of apps you might like.
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by wilde 5y ago
TBH that's better than I'd expect on an old laptop with an unoptimized build. Like the hardware they're using is what, 20% faster CPU and 400% faster GPU-wise, and they're developing on Windows?
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by wilde 5y ago
I interpreted this as the downside of competition in the ad network space. Similar to “why do we need 4 cell towers on the top of this building” or “why does Boston have so many hospitals”.
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by wilde 5y ago
Ah, Exxon wasn’t involved in this scandal but you’re ignoring large systemic pushes by oil and car companies (in this case GM and Standard Oil) to increase people’s need for oil. [1] It’s nice to have us all bickering about which cars we ow
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by wilde 5y ago
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, but only one of them has an advertising budget.
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by wilde 5y ago
TBH the title is a bit misleading. Amazon plans to use your internet for API calls related to its devices, similar to Apple’s Find My network. I’m more curious about the location sharing bit.
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by wilde 5y ago
They’re reacting to the new hires who are mad that the stock is currently down.
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by wilde 5y ago
It also doesn’t make sense to have multiple cellular providers building towers in the same place and duplicating spectrum needs, but here we are. But yes, in most areas there isn’t enough demand for internet to deploy fiber multiple times.
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by wilde 5y ago
There are plenty of competing walled gardens on PC that sell video games. They seem to do fine. Apple doesn't even manage to protect its customers all that well with $64B in revenue: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2
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by wilde 5y ago
The current remote buries itself in the couch at the first available opportunity.
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by wilde 6y ago
Don’t worry, you can make a server rendered site slow too. It’s not the tech, it’s that “good enough” is measured in seconds for human willingness to wait.
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by wilde 6y ago
This would be more believable if Dish Network wasn’t squatting on a ton of spectrum.
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by wilde 6y ago
That’s like saying “we should educate the customer” when you have a sales problem. It doesn’t work. We should measure harm and then fine the businesses that spread the harm. It’s very similar to pollution.
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by wilde 6y ago
Spotify doesn’t want to take the risk, but there’s probably money on the table from all the small gyms, coffee shops, etc that should be paying commercial rates.
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by wilde 6y ago
I’m trying in an iPhone 12 Pro Max on Safari.
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by wilde 6y ago
Mobile demo doesn’t work on iOS for me, but the video is sweet.
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by wilde 6y ago
Robinhood created this problem for themselves by not clearly communicating what was going on as it was happening. Plenty of other brokers ran into capital requirements issues and explained what was happening in real time. Robinhood didn’t a
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by wilde 6y ago
TikTok is powered by “yes, and”, which is a perfectly fine form of creativity.
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by wilde 6y ago
I agree with the author’s point that code is read far more often than it is written, and so we should prioritize readability by humans above other things by default. However I think the concrete examples given are misleading. I’m grateful f
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by wilde 6y ago
It’s even worse than that because the bad actors are doing this at scale and will have automation to auto-appeal while normal people will sometimes shrug and decide it’s not worth it. So your appeals queue likely contains a higher flow of b
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by wilde 6y ago
The author is correct that distrust in institutions fuels the demand for disinformation. He conveniently leaves out that this distrust was manufactured, over a period of years, for profit by many of the outlets he is defending.
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by wilde 6y ago
Is this why they restructured as Alphabet? So they could transfer products back and forth between divisions and get promoted without building anything new?
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by wilde 6y ago
All of the ISPs merged with media companies, instituted data caps, and then exempted their in house media from the data caps. So yeah, fairly substantial. https://www.theverge.com/net-neutrality
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by wilde 6y ago
To be fair, there’s a story on here every week about how cloud provider alarms are happy to ping you 24h after the spend.
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by wilde 6y ago
They ignored AWS’s warnings for weeks. It seems unlikely that a grace period would do anything.
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by wilde 6y ago
This is why it was a “bipartisan” position endorsed by both Trump and Biden.
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by wilde 6y ago
Sure we can. Hollywood without unions = gamedev. Looks pretty shitty to me.
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by wilde 6y ago
Impersonation is illegal, but GrubHub would argue that their logos are everywhere on these menus and it’s clear that they’re acting as agent. To resolve this under existing law we’d need to wait for a lawsuit to roll through the courts. The

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