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They do? I use a Pixel 2 XL and I had no idea about this.
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7535326?hl=en
Neat.
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> This is why minimum wage and other laws exist. This is not a settled question in economics. The idea that minimum wage laws help the poor is at the very least debatable.
I would be interested in a counterargument because I am having trouble coming up with one myself.
Milton Friedman famously put forth an argument against minimum wage in his TV series Free to Choose:
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Taxi drivers were already considered contractors and working for shitty wages. Uber just followed the existing model. In fact, it was worse, as drivers had to pay to work , by renting the cars with medallions, rather than being able to use their own. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/nyregion/driving-a-taxi-d... The change for taxi drivers has only started to come after Uber was already making it big, e.g.: "For wha…
Not all countries have the medallion system (or that system the way it works in parts of the USA), and in some places drivers felt they were paid pretty adequately the way things were, and so they reacted very negatively to Uber drivers showing up and undercutting them.
In places where medallion or similar systems were in place, most of the protesters tended to be medallion owners. Who may or may not themselves be drivers, but even if they were were probably still deriving significant income from non-owner drivers renting their cars and medallions.
They're more like landlords than employees.
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Not quite: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apple+Inc .
This URL only works if you include the period at the end (which HN's URL detector does not).
Too late to edit my original comment but this may work better: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apple+Inc%2E
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I don't mean to take away from Shazam (because I too was amazed when I first used it) but the Pixel phones have Shazam-like ability built in which uses minimal battery and without internet... and it's constantly running any time music plays. Not really "magic" how it works but still pretty amazing that I can pull the phone out of my pocket any time I hear a song I like and immediately see the band/title.
Google used to have song identification via voice search and a widget on all Android phones since Lollipop. Then they killed it for no reason other than to screw over existing users. Widget is still there in Nougat but doesn't do anything.
what, the functionality is still there in Nougat, I access it mostly through the assistant which is good enough to detect a song is playing and suggest What is this song? and has great accuracy
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#216Google has this built right into the assistant now and detects music is playing well enough to suggest "What is this song?" as a query - and it has really really good accuracy in my experience, and I am impressed mostly by it being able to pick out the song in a somewhat noisy room (a bar for example)
Who needs shazam? Apple's just looking for more AI chops. G's already all over it.
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> This is why minimum wage and other laws exist. This is not a settled question in economics. The idea that minimum wage laws help the poor is at the very least debatable.
I would be interested in a counterargument because I am having trouble coming up with one myself.
The Wikipedia article on minimum wage laws [0] has a pretty good overview of some of the most common arguments for and against. Really, though, the whole article is pretty interesting for a Wikipedia piece and illustrates the level of disagreement between economists over the effects these laws actually have.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Debate_over_conse...
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You can bet they will kill integration with Spotify though. And maybe no more Android support. I'll take ads over that.
> You can bet they will kill integration with Spotify though. Will they? Don't forget, the information flow is 2-way here, users get something useful out of it but Shazam (and now Apple) also learns what stuff is trending. If anything I actually lean towards them keeping or even enhancing Spotify and other service integration, at least as long as those services are viable: it effectively creates a direct channel into…
Being able to see trending songs regardless of the platform is definitely a benefit for Apple, but I would also say that another possibility is that Spotify itself cuts off the integration now that Shazam is owned by their competitor.
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I thought Apple only went after big companies that copied their design? I've never heard of Apple threatening individuals in the Open Source community -- am I missing something?
> am I missing something? Not particularly. With conditionals added, we can differentiate any behavior and pretend similarities don't exist.
My, that’s a very narrow out following the exposure of your baseless argument.
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#220I remember feeling that way the first time I used Uber (in SF where getting a taxi was difficult and unreliable). A few taps on my phone and a car shows up to my exact location in 2 minutes?! And that's it? No calling dispatch and hoping they'd show up eventually (sometimes they didn't). No fumbling with cash or tip or anything. It was like magic.
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