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by guyzero 6y ago
From the article: "Consumers who aren’t exposed to price risk have no fundamental incentives to conserve energy in times of need." But, at the same time, consumers that have no visibility into their current electricity prices are
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by guyzero 6y ago
Arguably this is a sign of an Israeli tendency to complain about things and arrogance. Maybe they were right, maybe they weren't.
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by guyzero 6y ago
At the risk of being not politically correct myself, I think there are significant cultural gaps between the west coast American standard and people from Israel (Bardin is Isralei). With the caveat that this is my experience only, Israelis
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by guyzero 6y ago
People complain about Google but Taboola is a hundred times more toxic with their garbage ads cluttering up the bottom half of so many media sites' pages. Being shown the same ad for shoes a hundred times the day after I bought them is
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by guyzero 6y ago
I meant the article comments as you discovered.
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by guyzero 6y ago
a) the comments on this are unhinged b) why can't the ships go to Oakland or Seattle? There's probably a reason, but it seems like an obvious alternative.
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by guyzero 6y ago
It's not that. WideVine and PlayReady and FairPlay don't exist because tech companies want them, they exist because movie studios want them - or to be more precise, they demand them. Chrome plays non-DRM video just fine. No studio
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by guyzero 6y ago
You may not like hate speech laws, but they're explicitly coded in to plenty of legal systems, like Canada. https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/Resear...
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by guyzero 6y ago
Shunning is a perfectly valid means of social expression.
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by guyzero 6y ago
That said, this article: https://betakit.com/narwhal-list-2020-tracks-a-year-of-massi... seems to think Canada is on track to produce a lot of unicorns in the next few years. Seems like pretty good work for a country 1&#x2F
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by guyzero 6y ago
Yes and yes.
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by guyzero 6y ago
IMO the conclusion isn't that the scene "doesn't work" but that it's not producing a lot of "moon shots" and tends to focus on "roof shots". There is nothing inherently wrong with this strategy a
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by guyzero 6y ago
I think the comparison of a house vs other investments is a bad comparison - you need to live somewhere. You need to compare buying a house to renting a house or apartment or whatever. People do view houses as investments, sure, but I think
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by guyzero 6y ago
eh, I'm not sure this really spells the end of anything - Bay Area growth has been extremely high for years, decades even. And yes, California has a huge problem with building homes & infrastructure, but even so, it's been gro
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by guyzero 6y ago
13 years ago ads was roughly $14B annual revenue for Google. Was it a "hose" back then?
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by guyzero 6y ago
A $36B revenue business makes Google's non-ad business roughly the 94th largest company in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_t...
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by guyzero 6y ago
Non-ad revenues are a $36B business (annualized based on Q3 revenue). What's the threshold for something being a "hose"? A $36B business is a pretty big business!
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by guyzero 6y ago
To quote the OP, "There is no second hose." My statement is that yes, there is a second hose. I've never said they're not primarily an ad company.
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by guyzero 6y ago
A decade ago when the OP was an intern it was 100%! Non-ad revenue source have grown by infinity percent! I made a very specific claim and I'm not sure what everyone's problem is. Google has found other sources of revenue and is a
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by guyzero 6y ago
Come on, anyone can read GOOG financial statements. https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/20201030_alphabet_10Q.pd... Q3 2019, ads were 84% of revenue Q3 2020, ads were 81% of revenue It's not a massive ch
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by guyzero 6y ago
Google's revenue is more diversified today than it's ever been. This is a facile take.
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by guyzero 6y ago
The article says there were over a thousand applicants but not how many were approved to get the money. Anyway, with an average income of just over $27K per year in Tulsa, a handful of tech people relocating there probably makes a bigger di
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by guyzero 6y ago
I love this luddism-light. Blogs are not necessarily well indexed or well optimized for search engines. Newsgroups are a mess and people abandoned them for many good reasons. Private blogs? I guess those would be fine if actually had any f
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by guyzero 6y ago
I find it odd that he heads with the least defensible of all these examples: You've probably noticed things no longer work as well as they once did. For example, the store's online inventory says something is in stock and when yo
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by guyzero 6y ago
Sure, but on the other hand, the empirical proof of what labour unions have accomplished. Flying seems impossible too, but yet planes take off every day.
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by guyzero 6y ago
it was actually pretty shocking how good my high school CS program was - this was Ontario in the mid-80's. I learned boolean logic and basic CS theory as well as getting to work on a full-fledged UNIX system (QNX). I even figured out h
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by guyzero 6y ago
So while I learned to program BASIC at 10 or so on a Commodore PET, there were plenty of adults who were also learning BASIC for the first time in that same wave of early home computers. I had a friend whose dad (an optometrist) was very in
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by guyzero 6y ago
Yeah, as many others have pointed out this analysis is facile verging on just wrong. Do universities not compete for students? Why have costs gone up so much faster than inflation? It's not just a question of there being a huge pool of
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by guyzero 6y ago
I'm sure someone discussed it once, but Pentagon war planners don't set urban planning policy. People like single family homes, people like yards, people want racist neighbourhood segregation, people really hated urban centers for
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by guyzero 6y ago
Well this is more than a good-old-days argument. Highly homogenized architecture nationwide really took off in the 80's as did the prevalence of franchises and the consolidation of department and grocery stores.

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