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Dunno about you, but easily half the emails I get are advertisements.
Are you sure it's Gmail sending you those advertisements?
My off-gmail account flags it as spam.
Who is going to replace Google for us?
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like Maps?
While I still use Google Maps to look up businesses, I have long preferred Apple Maps for turn-by-turn navigation in the car. The timing of the queues is much better. Google often left me driving with no idea what my next move was until the last minute. Apple Maps tells you right after you make a turn what you need to do next, so you can prepare. It's much more relaxing for me to know what's going on. Apple Maps is a…
I agree that Google Maps navigation is terrible, but Google has Waze for that.
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Another bad source of ideas is sometimes business people without ethics (or just plain short term thinking), who don't understand or care about the technology, and override the people who do care and/or understand how things work.
Yeah, very true, my naive view of G though is that they overvalue tech.
I get the feeling they more just undervalue "everyday" humans.
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Maps has been consistently getting better. Don’t believe the meme.
Last year it took me to a completely different spot for a popular restaurant in SF. That’s like the reddest of the flags.
And last month Google Maps tried to convince me about 12 times to get off the highway and take back roads on a 900mi one-way trip because of hallucinated traffic.
OSM needs more good apps.
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Google also has an outsized influence on the kind of content that's on the web. At some point in the past, from what I remember, they started ranking blog content lower than more "authoritative" sources, hastening the decline of personal blogging. If you're wondering why every recipe on the internet has ten paragraphs on how this recipe is their grandmother's favorite and how it reminds the author of the freshness of…
Time to get back to curated lists of interesting websites.
There is https://curlie.org/ already.
Re: Who is going to replace Google for us?
#227The fallacy of youth is that one of extremes. Things are never as bad as they seem. Likewise they're never really as good as they seem. The latter I think explains a lot of nostalgia and holding onto the first "past" we lived through. At the very least it's easy to view that as our baseline. What's "normal", if you will. I say this because as hard as can be to imagine how something like Google will cease to be domina…
The problem isn't one specific wealthy family, it's that wealth is always concentrated on few people. Just because a king dies and gets replaced by another king doesn't help the peasants.
but nor does redistributing the kings' wealth help the peasants.
Bill Gates's fortune split up among everybody in the US would be about $500 a person. You can't seriously think that would make a wit of difference in people's lives, it would disappear in a blip without lifting anybody over the poverty line, and that's even if it was spent wisely, which it wouldn't be.
What the peasants need are ways they can earn money, because money comes from productivity and the peasants will quickly need more than $500 times the number of billionaires consumed by the revolution. BTW most of Bill Gates's wealth is actually tied up in productive assets that are producing things the peasants need, and providing them jobs.
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Last year it took me to a completely different spot for a popular restaurant in SF. That’s like the reddest of the flags.
And last month Google Maps tried to convince me about 12 times to get off the highway and take back roads on a 900mi one-way trip because of hallucinated traffic. OSM needs more good apps.
Google Maps isn't great for navigation either, but I can easily vouch for Waze (also owned by Google now).
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The problem isn't one specific wealthy family, it's that wealth is always concentrated on few people. Just because a king dies and gets replaced by another king doesn't help the peasants.
but nor does redistributing the kings' wealth help the peasants. Bill Gates's fortune split up among everybody in the US would be about $500 a person. You can't seriously think that would make a wit of difference in people's lives, it would disappear in a blip without lifting anybody over the poverty line, and that's even if it was spent wisely, which it wouldn't be. What the peasants need are ways they can earn mone…
> BTW most of Bill Gates's wealth is actually tied up in productive assets
That's the problem. It's tied up, and it doesn't need to be. Unlike institutional investors those who are in the Forbes 400 don't need to consult shareholders or basically anybody, they are already past that point. In fact a family office is essentially just the billionaire and a couple of accountants...people resent them for not going double or nothing on moonshots.
Bill Gates isn't getting any younger, so is Warren Buffet and Munger. When will they open the floodgates? The Rockefeller foundation is still standing and the founder died almost 100 years ago