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by asr 21d ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/bill-gates-ai-...
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by asr 29d ago
Would you, while shopping for a car, decide to buy very expensive concert tickets? Neither would I. So this campaign would have very low CTR and would perform poorly. It would only perform well if you identified some actual source of latent
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by asr 29d ago
These are creative, but you haven’t thought them through. Do you really want brands to own trademarks on their keywords? So that when, to pick a random example, you search the internet for “1-800 Contacts,” nobody else is allowed to show an
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by asr 7mo ago
I use lights every day, but I know way less about electricity than my grandparents, two of whom who could remember when their town was electrified as children and who therefore treated it as the marvel it truly is. And also because we'
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by asr 1y ago
Exactly the right attitude. If you're dealing with an employer that thinks everything should be transactional and that it's no issue if they nickle and dime you on small things, it gets tiring (ask me how I know). When your employ
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by asr 2y ago
GoDaddy will have known of this investigation since it began—probably for years. So it’s 90 days from now(ish), but they (should) have gotten a head start.
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Ask HN: who are the great new writers about programming and startups?
6 points by asr 2y ago|2 comments
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by asr 2y ago
Hah! But if you say “on holiday,” I would have expected you to know “lift.” (or is there a region in the US where this is common? Everyone I know would say “on vacation,” but the US is very regional.)
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by asr 2y ago
Not MSFT’s fault: https://stratechery.com/2024/crashes-and-competition/
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by asr 2y ago
> in the olden days Microsoft wasn't allowed to add APIs to Windows that could only be used by IE This is not true.
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by asr 2y ago
Worth caring about why?? Because you think Google shouldn’t be allowed to make things better for their users? Like I said, you are so concerned about fairness you’re missing the point.
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by asr 2y ago
So the concern is that Google is making Hangouts better in a way that is hard for competitors to replicate? (And by "hard," I mean, "competitors have to ask users to install something," not hard in any HN-relevant sense
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by asr 3y ago
Four years ago, Altman’s mentor, Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, flew from the United Kingdom to San Francisco to give his protégé the boot, according to three people familiar with the incident, which has not been previously reported.
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Sam Altman Was Fired from YC(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by asr 3y ago|1 comments
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by asr 7y ago
This makes no sense. Phishing comes from phreak + fishing, but the "ph" in phreak is already from the word phone (phone + freak) -- so the ph in "phishing" already comes from the word phone! The telephone version of ph
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by asr 7y ago
Your question is worded to suggest you are not actually open to the answer, but I will try anyway: in antitrust law. You cannot create an open App Store ecosystem, invite in outside developers, and then pivot and kill them all off by steer
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by asr 7y ago
Actually the US and the EU both target anticompetitive behavior. The US law is older and so is call antitrust for historical reasons, not because of a legal difference.
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by asr 7y ago
This is basically how Texas sells electricity.[1] I'm not an expert on it but it makes a ton of sense. Of course, it may be easier to do this for electricity, where the fundamental technology doesn't change quickly anymore (as far
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by asr 7y ago
Not only is this not "entirely" true--it's not at all true. The author is disguising a (hotly contested) opinion/minority position as a well-accepted fact. The mainstream position in the antitrust world, even among liber
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How Gamergate Created a Playbook for a Culture War(nytimes.com)
4 points by asr 7y ago|0 comments
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by asr 7y ago
On the one hand, this seems like a real missed opportunity by Mozilla. As Chrome reigns in extensions that conflict with Google's business model, this is a reason to use Firefox. BUT - extensions are also often the cause of a slow and
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by asr 7y ago
Quorum rules are to make sure you're not holding a sneaky midnight vote with two councilors asleep. Councilors who are present but recused should count toward a quorum. You might still have a rule that at least two votes are required
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by asr 7y ago
Yes, this seems like a critical part of the story. I take it the actual vote was 2-1 in favor of the permit, but you need at least 3 votes to pass something in San Bruno, no matter what? If so, the city council's rules don't deal
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by asr 7y ago
My (uninformed and possibly wrong) guess is that YouTube wanted to maintain the fiction that, to the best of their knowledge, everyone using the service was the person who signed up, so that it could argue it was not intentionally showing v
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by asr 7y ago
There’s nobody to like here. Your eye doctor can make a bunch of money selling you contacts and therefore doctors will say lots of dumb things about how dangerous Hubble is. Were the same doctors also talking about how dangerous contacts
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by asr 7y ago
Your doctor was (is) required to give you a copy or your prescription if you ask.[1] Next time, make sure they give you one and you can use that to verify when shopping around. [1] https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/rules
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by asr 7y ago
“Correct” here was not supposed to mean you must agree. As others have pointed out “loophole” is often in the eye of the beholder. But I mean to say that it’s not inaccurate to use the word loophole in such a way that a mod should chang
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by asr 7y ago
The New York Times headline uses the word “loophole.” It’s not appropriate to rewrite that headline simply because you don’t like it. If “loophole” were an incorrect choice of words it would not be in the headline. EDIT to add I understan
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by asr 7y ago
Congrats on building the country! Oh wait, you didn’t, it was your ancestors. Not sure why you think you deserve something based on your lineage—that’s an unamerican idea if I’ve ever heard one. Your idea that there is some deep conflict
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by asr 7y ago
Normally the point of an IPO is to raise cash.

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