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Google clutches pearls and is shocked! Shocked! That anyone would violate its policies (while it pockets 30% of the fraudulent revenue). Shocked! And they would have caught them bu…

> Paper books are just decaying bundles of plant fiber Enjoy notes the way you want! But when I re-read a book I’ve previously annotated, I get a rush of the time and place it happ…

You’re not claiming that most refugees are running from torture are you? Most are economic refugees running TOWARDS a better economic outcome than is available in their home countr…

Perhaps human teachers would model correct grammar? vs "you like dinosaurs! me too!” From the blog post.

So a long article about them being kicked out and all they detail about their own actions is that "we asked him about it"? I'm not sure what "tacitly threatened" means, either. If …

No disrespect for your valuable discovery but this attitude of “it’s possible, if you do these non-obvious steps” feels a lot like victim blaming in UI. If Apple (or anyone else) w…

Thank you for noticing that Tesla's are priced at premium levels, but they still don't know how to make actual quality that is present the models you listed above. I've owned sever…

It broke with "tradition" because this was originally designed for Apple. Ive just recycled his previous Apple Car ideas. This car has nothing to do with Ferrari, except they paid …

>This car is what the Apple Car should have been in the 2010s This is the car apple was working on, slightly modified. Ive just (re)sold previous work, and Ferrari is holding the b…

I'm afraid he has it actually inverted. What if the "sanctity of the prose" is just a old gloss, and the Taboola / Outbrain ads are the reality that don't hide the org's true chara…

I don’t get this comment. Inspection does work but the suggested alternatives don’t. Having the client register their IPs isn’t tenable for most folks. What’s my IP at the shop? (N…

melanzana aka Aubergine aka eggplant

If the author had been paying attention _while it was happening_, rather than looking back at history and re-stating it to fit his mental model, he would have seen something else. …

But ma, look at our stonk price!

I never get the moaning about killing Reader. It was never about popularity or user experience. Reader had to be killed because it [was seen as] a suboptimal ad monetization engine…

When you use Apple Pay, Apple collects ~0.15% (15 bps) from the issuing banks for credit. $1B in transaction volume = $1.5M In 2022 the total volume was estimated at $6T * .15% = $…

Why is collecting all this information suddenly OK as long as it's "only" used for Advertising purposes? Is there a reason we also also forbid Google and FB from gathering this inf…

Second oldest trick in the book: attack the messenger

But it's not "in reality". It's "with the mindsets and experience and architecture and tooling that are prevalent in the industry"...that's what takes more. Any given project might…

Good luck, I can imagine the cognitive dissonance. Many of their contracts dangle cheap / free hardware with expensive services and hidden over-priced processing in a bundled SAAS.…

>a completely seamless order-and-pay-from-your-phone system because it doesn't exist. (disclaimer: founder) Yes, this is literally what Zerocontact does. Contactless waitlist, menu…

17 days ago we heard that 3,330 inmates tested positive, 96% without symptoms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980932 There was much speculation, but many people agreed that…

Here's "Line busting" the drive thru 68+ cars deep. It's astonishing the WiFi goes out that far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIQWyYQ0EYg FWIW, also an edge approach, with Prome…

Thanks for sharing that link. You can see from the product that neither the CEO (Adlink), President (Gannett), Dir or Eng (P&G) have any experience with vehicles. I love that they …