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by istillwritecode 5y ago
Search is hard. Let's go marketing.
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
Google: hold my beer
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
As a matter of fact, I have been studying the economics of open access publishing. It's important to distinguish the price of open access publishing from the cost of open access publishing. Commercial publishers are hopeless becaus
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
Money is less of a motivator than the preservation of a lifestyle.
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
Android does not require an account. It only requires an account to use the play store.
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
I fully expect that Google will someday require you to login before you do a search. Disclaimer: I worked at Google for 12 years.
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
The solution to the housing affordability problem is relatively simple. All we have to do is ... stop building houses, and start building hospitals instead. I’m certain that all sides of the political spectrum have had a passing thought abo
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
Oddly light rail in silicon valley uses more BTUs per passenger-mile than cars do. Of course that is caused by the fact that light rail has so few passengers (and the number has been falling even pre-covid).
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
This really resonated with me. > No one wants to move, no one wants to change. A large percentage of the people living in my R-1 neighborhood are retired now. They could sell their houses and "cash out", but what would be the p
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
I'm one of them.
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Another thing that will reduce prices is to reduce desirability. Growing the population by another 30% might be good for bar crowd, but will degrade the value of the bay area's natural areas for many. The increased traffic in the bay a
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
I don't buy the "just build more" approach. More market rate housing isn't guaranteed to make it affordable, and there is even evidence to suggest otherwise. The principle of induced demand seems to occur here. One way t
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
For many advertising-based websites, the value of the user is often proportional to their bandwidth.
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
Let's be clear. Google insists on https because it keeps ISPs from intruding on their ads business. The other threats are small potatoes.
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
As a Google of many years and a long-term gmail user, I have refused to give my phone number to Google. Their hunger for data has absolutely no bounds, and the security blather is just a convenient way to demand everyone's phone number
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by istillwritecode 5y ago
Evidently some professional societies know what today is. ACM just wastes theirs with a post about the Turing Award.
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Iacr.org Website Taken over by Satoshi(iacr.org)
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by istillwritecode 6y ago
I have the opposite opinion. I prefer the entertainment system in my cars because they are not crippled by the network and they understand local media. They also know how to spell the word privacy, unlike Google.
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by istillwritecode 6y ago
As a long term resident of the bay area, I'm happy to see companies relocate elsewhere. The unbridled growth of companies here without improvements to infrastructure like housing and transportation are what caused many of the problems.
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by istillwritecode 6y ago
I was a Google employee from 2005 to 2018. I HATED inbox, and I certainly wasn't alone. It divided users into two pieces, and the real issue was Google tried to force it on users rather than make it an option.
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by istillwritecode 6y ago
The title should be "Your apple computer isn't yours".
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by istillwritecode 6y ago
We have been using Twilio and we're sending them hundreds of dollars a month. I'm about to drop it because of their 2FA requirement. Either they accept customers that know how to manage passwords or they don't. I don't g
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by istillwritecode 6y ago
here's the deal. if I give you an email for a transaction, that doesn't mean I want your future marketing. That is spam and that is how I mark it. If you want to keep sending me marketing, then ask permission.
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by istillwritecode 7y ago
Under SB50, people could convert their single family home to a four-unit condo complex. The value of such a structure is likely to be twice as much as a single family home (4 units at half the price of the original house). People don't
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by istillwritecode 7y ago
Len Adleman was listed as an advisor in the credits of the movie "Sneakers". Is that a connection from the math world to the Bacon world?
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by istillwritecode 7y ago
Mycroft does not do on-device speech recognition. That is currently infeasible.
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by istillwritecode 7y ago
I don't use MFA because it requires me to provide a phone number. SMS is not a reliable authentication method anyway - it's only an improvement for people who can't manage passwords.
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by istillwritecode 7y ago
I dropped my paid Dropbox account when they instituted "two factor authentication" because it broke the use case of file transfer between trusted parties using a single account. Now I'm going to drop my OneDrive account for t
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by istillwritecode 7y ago
I had several Google Home devices, and you could not even boot them up unless you had a phone with an account that was opted into location history, web history, search history, and youtube watch history. Google has completely lost any conce
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by istillwritecode 7y ago
I will no longer install apps on my phone to pair devices. The reason is that then everyone wants to link my phone number to the device and create an account. There is nothing that intrinsically says they have to, but companies cannot resis

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