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Essentially I see two competing processes here. Google still has powerful boolean operators. If you use those with intentionality, and pick the hidden 'verbatim' option, you'll hav…

Google is an ad company that produces a search engine, rather than a search engine that features ads. Although it may have been the latter in the olden days

Time is the greatest resource, but energy management is your greatest goal. You will always run out of energy before you run out of time. If you have a life where you pursue autono…

The point is more that it doesn't matter in the way the person wanting to be remembered would want it to be, or in the way the person wanting to be forgotten fears it to be.

Look up the fundamental attribution error

Reference books are the one thing it's a good idea to spend money on, because flipping back and forth through a digital copy is still a miserable experience

If you already know the product you are buying down to the model, Google isn't tailored for you. It's meant for people who have a vague idea and then pick what's at the top of the …

If you provide infrastructure or support for something, and that something is almost exclusively surveillance and data-gathering based, that's not so great either.

If I lay out the reasoning more precisely and in the simplest terms, maybe it would then be easier to identify which part might be the stumbling block here. 1. An employee of Googl…

This is a similar reasoning to claiming that college is not useful because people such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or the Zucc did not need it to do well. It's a form of cargo culti…

The end result of their work is to increase the power and success of a surveillance company, one of the most successful and powerful surveillance companies in the world if not the …

The software just isn't there yet, but we have some inkling of what might be possible in just a few years. Perhaps a closer analogy would be human computers. You would have meeting…

What if you no longer need meetings? Take accounting software for instance. This function will probably go from an entire team of accountants to one of the C-levels just triggering…

If software engineers end up automated away before truck drivers are, (not a completely harebrained concept given that one type of AI is doing better than expected and the other wo…

One thing I notice from the community is that for previous generations (let's say pre-2005) it was significantly easier to make a great living as a programmer without engaging in s…

By news, I didn't mean it had to be political. Much of news is political of course, but far from all. What I'm saying is that looking on the platform and seeing how Zoomers consume…

If someone works for a surveillance company in a non-trivial role, they are furthering the progress of surveillance. They can't wash their hands of it.

There are a ton of profiles I've seen over the years. A few seemed to have lifestyles so independent and idiosyncratic that they'd put the Unabomber to shame. Many were involved in…

I don't have actual stats of course but intuitively if you tally: - All the FAANG/FAANG suppliers - All startups or established projects that involve data gathering, advertising, S…

One aspect I find interesting about HN is that most of the posters there are involved in adtech, data-gathering, FAANGs, or adjacent businesses, whilst reaping very high rewards fo…

By news they mean users who film themselves talking about news topics in a particular way that is adapted to the platform There is a particular "informational" style that these use…

What I mean is that from a hiring company's POV an in-demand candidate who won't submit to nonsense because they can afford to will usually be a liability due to the power imbalanc…

I don't recall where but Adorno specifically wrote about how the concept of a hobby is in itself toxic and enabling the very logic you are criticizing

What I enjoyed about the Long Ships is how the author avoided moral handholding and let the reader make their own appreciation of it. Interestingly, the contrast highlights the con…

On one hand, values could stand to change to great effect. On the other, these characteristics didn't pop out of nowhere. It's a bit like cryptocurrency today: as some have put it,…