FernandoMax

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To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model(economist.com)
2 points by FernandoMax 1y ago|1 comments
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by FernandoMax 1y ago
If nothing changes, the risk is of a modern-day tragedy of the commons. The shared resource of the open web will be over-exploited, leading to its eventual exhaustion. If that process is not stopped, one of the great common properties of hu
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by FernandoMax 2y ago
Minute 3:30 University of Toronto Press Conference - Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
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The horror of being a Meta content moderator(english.elpais.com)
47 points by FernandoMax 3y ago|14 comments
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by FernandoMax 3y ago
Yes, they are testing autonomous driving, but still legally is mandatory to have a real driver, and probably what they are doing now is training the AI and testing it against real driving conditions. They specify their (very logical by the
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VW is testing MOIA, autonomous mini-bus rides in the city of Hamburg (Germany)(moia.io)
2 points by FernandoMax 3y ago|3 comments
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by FernandoMax 3y ago
I've been in Hamburg and found these mini-bus. They are kind of passenger vans, but with specific interiors for easy operations for a bus-like usability. They are autonomous, but with a driver for test-legal-security reasons. Routes
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A forgotten lighter in a pocket causes an explosion in the laundry(youtube.com)
17 points by FernandoMax 3y ago|8 comments
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by FernandoMax 3y ago
A man in Galicia (Spain) forgot a lighter in a pocket, filled with gas. When in the dryer it caused an incredible explosion that would have killed him, saving his life by seconds.
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
Thanks Thomas!
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
Which tool is used to create the circle distribution? I was trying to find a tool to create something like this one https://cdn.howmuch.net/content/images/1600/world-gdp-update... which is similar in the sens
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
Spanish Competition Commission fines with 10.25 million to the pharmaceutical company that multiplied by 1,000 the price of an essential medicine
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In Spain a pharmaceutical company who overcharges money for a drug is fined(elpais.com)
6 points by FernandoMax 4y ago|1 comments
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
I also like it.
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
Stripe provides SCA as a standalone product. They connect with the bank issuer of the CC, prompts the Challenge asked by the bank, and then Stripes sends if it's ok or not.
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
Question: Wouldn't create that noise for others, while cancelling most of the noise for you? The sound waves you create for cancelling cancels sound at one point, but keeps moving and creates noise beyond that. Isn't it?
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
specially because it is asymmetric.
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
Great technique to push people for selling houses, so accepting down price deals. So maffia can buy the properties for the cheap and then do whatever to make a profit. Step two: Repeat at next neighbourhood. Solution: Noise isolation window
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
And I think this is the main reason Google Killed Google Reader. It was controversial (or illegal or ugly) to put ads over the third party content. And it was way better to have Adsense on the websites directly. Such "spring cleaning
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
I loved blogs, I loved the vibe (like newsletters today) and I loved RSS (way better than email for receiving information. IN fact I am creating a project, and It will have updates by RSS. Why? Because I f**ing love it.
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
Apple shows products, including new OSs, that ship just around the corner or that very same day or week. I was surprised how many "products" presented by Google were merely "concepts" or has a 2023 "estimated"
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
It seems more like "free sub-domains" not domains. EU.org is not endorsed to any European Union initiative. These things are quite unstable. I've seen URL shorteners (even one from goo.gl) and URL "redirectioners" a
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Leak shows Google appetite for your location, 747 times per day in USA(minifeednews.com)
2 points by FernandoMax 4y ago|3 comments
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
Google checks Spaniards an average of 426 times a day to get information about their location and online activity. This is evidenced by an investigation by the Irish association Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) based on the leak, wh
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
To add insult to injury, they coined the "Don't be evil" mantra. Good for hiring, for onboarding users... And then the daughter of Eric Smith, from all the companies in the world, she chose Cambridge Analytica for the interns
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by FernandoMax 4y ago
From the authors of Google Reader, it-was-free-for-a-decade-but-now-pay-or you'll-lose-all-your-domain.com-emails-handled-by-previously-free-workspace-product, the secret agreement with Facebook for limiting competition in programatic
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by FernandoMax 5y ago
100% I agree. Makes non-sense the eInk (low consumption) but power cord.