They should have a separate tab for the two of them like YouTube has, I like being able to move quickly between the algorithmic recommended feed and the “subscribed to” one.
Readit Newsajpkco commented on Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed theverge.com/2022/3/10/22... · Posted by u/Yaina
ajpkco commented on Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B reuters.com/technology/am... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
They could have used that $77B to fund fusion research, carbon capture research, build private space stations and put man on Mars, but no they wanted to make their already high share price even higher.
The $77B didn't vanish, it went back to shareholders. Indeed Apple could have used it to fund fusion research, but this seems like a complete stretch of their expertise and capacity to execute on a project like that, the money could just have ended up being wasted on projects that went nowhere. Shareholders can cash out, the government tax the capital gains, and both entities can use the cash in the investments that seems worthy to them
ajpkco commented on Hackers extorted $1.14M from UCSF bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/Pick-A-Hill2019
This article makes the point that law enforcement agencies take the stance that paying a ransom further encourages this behavior from hackers.
In the case of state or public institutions like this, would it be advisable for legislatures to make it illegal for state entities to pay ransoms, and then very publicly announce these laws? I.e. can/should we make credible, public commitments in advance to not pay ransom, or to remove that choice from the organization-level administrators? Would this make these organizations less appealing targets?
"Sorry, we are not authorized to pay you any ransom due to SB-XYZ. If you can get several hundred thousand signatures from CA residents to petition for a referendum to overturn this law, we may be able to pay you a ransom after ... well not the upcoming election but maybe the one after that."
This doesn't work in practice, companies that aren't allowed to pay those ransoms usually use proxies (some other company that doesn't have to follow those restrictions) that will pay the hackers
I've recently switched to using apple maps exclusively as much as possible, and TBH its gotten quite comparable to Google maps.
There are still remote places (e.g an address in a small town) which apple maps struggles to find, but for the most part within cities I find myself reaching more often for apple maps.
I'm also one of those people who struggles to translate navigation instructions on a map to real world turns. So features such as highlighting and Stop signs & Traffic signals go a long way in helping me navigate safely.
Apple Maps displaying stop signs and traffic lights is a killer feature for me. Made me switch from Gmaps.
I really enjoy "Le Monde Diplomatique", it's a french monthly newspaper, mostly about foreign politics. It's translated in more than 25 languages and it started as a newspaper made for diplomatic circles.
ajpkco commented on Fight back against Google AMP (2018) polemicdigital.com/google... · Posted by u/mancerayder
> AMP gives little guys, the ones starting blogs and trying to grow, a shot at freedom of speech
How so?
> AMP is one of Google's most anti establishment services
It looks like the exact opposite of that to me. This is Google's attempt at remaking the web in a way the enhances Google's control and power. That's pretty pro-establishment.
What I think he meant is that, most of the news website became slow and bad user experiences on mobile, pushing users to download wall-gardened native mobile news apps by established News Corporations to experience something fast and kind of pleasant.
This is a problem for Google and for "freedom of speech", because you're not googling for news anymore, you go straight to your established news native application, preventing you to see other competing results (like blogs or smaller news websites for instance)
Pushing them to have cleaner and faster websites makes the user stay on the web. It is a clear benefit for Google, but to his point, to the user too. (At least that was the goal)
ajpkco commented on Blocking via an unsolvable CAPTCHA patents.google.com/patent... · Posted by u/kumarharsh
I'm curious to know why and how you would enforce a patent like that if competition was using the same technique. Am I missing the point entirely? Is it just a mean to say "I got the idea first!"?
ajpkco commented on Why Does Sweden Have So Many Startups? theatlantic.com/business/... · Posted by u/henrik_w
I am Italian, and I live in France.
> Does anyone make better cookies, pastries and desserts overall than the Italians? We don't think so! And bread? Please.
Yes: the French make better bread, cookies, pastries and desserts. French bakeries are just so good.
I am not a self hating Italian: Italian cuisine is vastly superior to French cuisine (really overrated!); Italian wine is on par (if not better) than French wine. But French bread, pastry and desserts just win. Like: hands down. They are just so much better.
I am in Paris since 2012, and I am not yet tired of buying bread every morning: the smell of fresh bread in the morning is like heaven... Nothing is quite like a good French croissant, or croissant aux amandes, or...
The quality of Italians bakeries and pastries is not even half of the French ones. I ignore why Italians totally lack of a "culture" of bread... we can do so much better.
If French cuisine is known as the best cuisine it's because of its gastronomy and its high-end restaurants!
However when going to "regular" restaurants, Italy is simply the best.