What a shitty company. Time and time again they shaft consumers yet people buy into the ecosystem. Marketing works unfortunately.
Readit Newspibechorro commented on Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine sammobile.com/news/samsun... · Posted by u/carlycue
I always thought that Google made a big blunder by not encroaching upon Microsoft's turf more aggressively. They should have tried to make a better desktop OS (just buy Canonical or something) and then eat into Microsoft Office market share by releasing Google Office for Desktop. Wait for an opportunity to emerge and then pounce.
This is precisely what Microsoft did to Google. They had Bing running in the background for years losing truckloads of money. Now that AI has upset the applecart, they can use Bing to choke off Google's airsupply.
One of the reasons for Google getting so good early on was that they had oodles of usage data to test and improve their search functionality forming a positive feedback loop. Now, with deals such as this, Microsoft will have more data to tune their engine while Google is left on the sidelines.
Let's just hope that the AI driven search revolution does not produce a monopoly.
We will only see a monopoly if there is protectionism. Regulations, licensing, do not compete patents, etc.
pibechorro commented on We don’t know enough about the Pornhub acquisition every.to/napkin-math/we-d... · Posted by u/codechicago277
You can not upload to pornhub and associated sites without a constent form. Every video is checked before it goes live.
I am not sure why so many journalists always miss this fact when they claim it's a bed for human trafficking and child pornography
Or am I missing something?
Its called puritan pandering for clicks.
pibechorro commented on The Military-Industrial Stock Buyback Complex mattstoller.substack.com/... · Posted by u/passwordoops
The U.S. military is principally an expeditionary force. It’s designed to travel far distances. Not homeland defense. The PRC is concentrated instead on its own borders. Only recently have they sought more expeditionary capabilities. The PRC is significantly safer from kinetic attacks compared to the U.S. Our military commanders recognize this and note that a conflict with the PRC would likely reach the U.S. homeland…
There is an obvious answer. The military needs to be mainly focused on Homeland defense, as it was intended. Being world police is stupid and wastefull. Its bankrupted us just like every empire that over extends itself (and debases its currency).
It's humorous how incompetent US intelligence is that they give this access to a 21 year old, don't notice any data exfiltration by someone with presumably 0 technical skills, and take (weeks?) to catch the guy only after the leaks are made incredibly public.
Incompetence or happy to let it happen.
It's weird and extremely dishonest how they try to blame the platform instead of them hiring a knob (or I guess under-training them in the first place). I fear it will cause for more push for government spying on their people
This is exactly what this is about. They are trying to make legal mass drag net surveillance and censorship. The key here is legal, they are already doing it covertly. There are plenty of murmurs this was done on purpose to set the excuse in place for restrict act, etc. Do you use a vpn? 20 years or a million dollar fine. Do you use tor? How about encrypted email? Signal? Crypto currency?
We look more like china everyday.
Most of the other teachings of the church, however, are.
This. While there are benefits to most religions (community being the biggest) it comes along with insane and very often deadly noise, be it ignorant, purposely wrong or errors in translations or lost information through time, editors, gatekeepers.
The closest path to god is reality, from personal observation ad questions.
I've always thought that the Fed gets too much blame for the economy going badly, when all they can control is the interest rate and QE/QT. It's like an inverted pendulum PID problem[0] but with an unfathomable number of variables and stakes.
They introduce top down decisions on what is a bottom up complex emergent system. Beyond being an exercise in futility to control it that way, it introduces irrationality to the whole thing as it becomes a politically driven thing. That irrationality makes everything else behave that way and we loose any sense of "natural" trends and predictability. The bailouts are a perfect example, we are now surrounded by zombie companies and uninteted consequences which are making the whole thing more fragile and unstable.
pibechorro commented on Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk pluralistic.net/2023/04/0... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
> Passing a federal privacy law would end surveillance advertising at the stroke of a pen
Unlikely—breaking the laws would likely just become a business cost, and make everything even more expensive for everyone.
This. People like slapping laws on issues when the outcome is usually higher costs in the form of never shrinking burocrazys, little to no actual enforcement (unless you are rich or connected) and the red tape involved in compliance will likely make it worse.
The answer is by adopting different behavior on our end. Add blockers avoiding services litterer in ads (its why i no longer use Instagram, google search, etc)
There is no fuel pump to break (or weight the bike down), I could run the carb with a soda bottle if I had to. There are no complex computers to break and brick the bike.
Beyond the reliability, the real value of the carbs is the FEEL. This bike is analog, the rumbling sounds, the brilliant popping and gurgle on deceleration. Its a motorcycle, mechanical gear changes, cable operated throttle, controlled explosions.
We loose something with tft displays, riding modes, non analog throttles, and every granny safety algorithm in between our brains and the rear tire.