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I believe that distinction still goes to University of Chicago.
Right. There is no Nobel Prize for mathematics, computer science, or engineering, which are Google's primary fields. Although Google deserves an Economics prize for essentially inventing adtech
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I unfortunately agree with you 100%. Theres too much money tied up in advertising for it to ever go away. Google is the greatest conglomeration of Nobel worthy scientists and engineers in the last century. And their entire organization is built on advertising. After creating the best search engine and email system, they created the best web browser and most popular operating system in the world. All of this for the s…
>Google is the greatest conglomeration of Nobel worthy scientists and engineers in the last century. IIRC both Microsoft and IBM produce way more research than Google. Let's keep things in perspective. >And their entire organization is built on advertising. Similarly the entire government is built on taxation, that doesn't mean everyone in the government wants to work on taxation or is good at it. >After creating the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
You'd have a better point if you had pointed to the Linux kernel, the many open source libraries, etc that make it up
> Metrics for this are pretty lame, but even they show this is wrong: https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2016/09/15/in-your-face-goo...
I doubt GP's claim is correct, but that article is terrible. Those counts are any contributors to repos in an org, not number of contributors from those orgs. And you can see the immediate problem with using orgs when you see both Google and Angular are in the top 10.
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U of C has the most people that have won the Nobel prize historically which points toward people part of the university to win more Nobel Prizes.
is that because of the psuedo-nobel for economics? i don't think that should count towards the tally, and in any case i would have guessed it was the manhattan project edit: for those who are downvoting, you might not be aware that the 'nobel' for economics is not issued by the nobel committee but rather the swedish central bank, using the nobel name to appropriate prestige from the better-known prize presented by th…
The article puts a significant emphasis on the idea that bulletproof ad-blocking technology, assuming that's what this turns out to be in practice, will work long-term becuase of legal restrictions imposed by the FTC. If Google, Facebook, or other multi-billion dollar entities detect an existential threat arising from this or any other technology, rest assured that the laws will change as quickly as is necessary to k…
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>Google is the greatest conglomeration of Nobel worthy scientists and engineers in the last century. IIRC both Microsoft and IBM produce way more research than Google. Let's keep things in perspective. >And their entire organization is built on advertising. Similarly the entire government is built on taxation, that doesn't mean everyone in the government wants to work on taxation or is good at it. >After creating the…
> Google didn't create Android, they bought it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus You'd have a better point if you had pointed to the Linux kernel, the many open source libraries, etc that make it up > Metrics for this are pretty lame, but even they show this is wrong: https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2016/09/15/in-your-face-goo... I doubt GP's claim is correct, but that article is terrible. Those counts…
I don't think "unmatched" is unreasonable.
This is not the end of the arms race. At some point we will have AI designing and AI delivering ads, and while we may have AI designed to prevent us from having to watch ads we don't want we will also have AI that watches everything, gathering and filtering information that is too much for us to handle but tuned to our needs since it's "our AI". Then the race will be that one AI wants to trick the consumer AI into gi…
Yeah, "end of the arms race", are you kidding me Vice? I see 13 year olds watching their favorite youtube stars showing off the new products they're being sponsored with this week. How exactly would you block this?
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Website terms of service are not law, no matter how people have abused the CFAA. You can't control how a browser displays content, whether it does so with a browser, screen reader, or musical interpretive dance. I look forward to seeing that battle play out.
It's a felony to access a computer system without authorization, access a computer system to obtain unauthorized computer services, degrade or disrupt a computer system, take data without authorization, or to use data obtained through misuse of a computer system. The law is so vague everyone technically commits a felony every time they load a web page. Did ycombinator give you explicit permission to use this server?…
Did your local supermarket give you explicit permission to walk on to their premises to go shopping? No - they gave you implied licence to enter their premises which is made obvious by the circumstances.
Similarly, a court would almost certainly find that having a web server which is obviously intended to be publicly accessible would result in an implied licence for use of copyrighted material on the site for typical, expected usage of said site.
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I unfortunately agree with you 100%. Theres too much money tied up in advertising for it to ever go away. Google is the greatest conglomeration of Nobel worthy scientists and engineers in the last century. And their entire organization is built on advertising. After creating the best search engine and email system, they created the best web browser and most popular operating system in the world. All of this for the s…
"Nobel worthy scientists and engineers"? You'd never hire one to make you a native ad! Native ads, integrated or disguised as creative content, are impossible to block. Creative professionals, like film directors, visual artists, writers and even ad executives are the main innovators of native advertising. I would argue native advertising is where most of the relevant innovation in ads occurs. Not at Google. Creative…