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> and Venezuela. Isn't that one past tense now, after the US grabbed their leader?
Sure, rapture the leader with only a hundred civil left dead and this is it, everybody in the country now is hearth supporter of those who launched that raid.
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I paid for Kagi for a bit, but got a weird vibe when I realized they were working pretty hard to paper over the fact that they pay a third party to scrape Google search results for them. The public-facing side of that coin is Kagi's position that Google should make their index available to competitors (see https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search ). All that's to say: when I paid for Kagi, I thought I was investing…
"... didn't realize Kagi had no aspirations to ..." "... I thought their aspirations were higher ..." It sounds like the decision to send search queries (and money) to Kagi was based at least in part on reasons other than the quality of the search results This is interesting psychology What if all (cf. only sum of) the money sent to Kagi was actually invested in an alternative way to search the web without using an i…
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> We live in the dystopia we deserve. We have built it with our own hands and it is here to stay. That's a bit unfair. Not all of us who live in it had a hand in building it. In fact, very few of us had the leverage to fight against it.
Some contributed more than others but few of us are entirely innocent since we keep using the products in question and do our part in supporting their business models. We also have failed to change the laws to prevent all of this. Even if you don't have much power individually, as a society we could stop this any time.
"Their hands are tied!" I have heard so many moderates assert. "The customers demanded it!"
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This is incompetence, not malice. YT devs would skip testing on Chrome if they could get away with it, but are forced to.
Incompetence at scale is malice. We're talking about a mega-corporation gobbling up some of the brightest minds of our generation, not some garage startup that is barely able to keep the lights on.
Also, I don't really understand what your catchy phrase means. Google's management is being malicious by not forcing their employees to not be lazy?