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> Google partially remains a search monopoly because of its search patents

According to this piece on Google's patent strategy, big tech benefits when the value of patents decreases anyway, which cuts against your argument[0].

Google gets pretty much everything it wants anyway, the gist of this piece is that individual patent holders that sue tech companies get a lot more value out of patents than the big companies do. Big companies benefit as the value of patents decrease, which is what you're calling for here.

One huge reason for this is the network effect advantages that big tech companies have. Anyone can build a Facebook clone that copies most of the primary functionality, but it'll never gain traction because why would anyone leave the already-established social media network? All of their friends are already on there.

In Google's case, numerous search engine alternatives have existed for years and yet Google remains pretty strong. I cannot find a case of Google asserting patent authority over a competing search engine, which tells me that it's doing just fine maintaining it's hold over the search market "naturally".

Consumer technology use is notoriously habitual and cannot achieve market equilibrium when patents are removed. Sorry, but this is an oversimplified argument that doesn't reflect how Google's technology functions in the search market.

0: https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/03/21/how-google-and-big-tec...
Because they are faster and easier to use. Using them is like using an application, rather than like using a website.

I think a good rule of thumb is: am I mostly clicking or mostly scrolling? If I'm mostly clicking - say, something like AirBnB or Zillow or Discord - where I'm exploring things and interacting a bunch, that feels better to me as a rich client-side application. If I'm mostly scrolling, like a blog or substack or a newspaper or even twitter, that feels better as a website.

I thought of a good concrete comparison: Vanguard vs. Coinbase Pro. Vanguard is a website, and it basically works for them because their business model is very passive, but you wouldn't want to do active trading there. Coinbase Pro is a web application where you can do lots of exploration and take actions quickly, and for me, it would be a major hindrance if they implemented it in a traditional page-based way.
depends on what part of the internet you inhabit, apparently.

it was definitely notorious on twitter for a while, but i think it's being forgotten.
There's also the perceived seriousness of a treatment. A nasal spray is harmless, a capsule is more substantial, an injection is serious business. You see the same thing with placebos, with saline injections being more "effective" than sugar tablets. And a vaccine is not just an injection, it's some kind of miracle thing that cures an infection you don't even have yet.

It's not surprising people are far more willing to try out sprays and tablets than injections, even if there wasn't any misinformation and tribal politics
If a rocket explodes, the astronauts die.

If a pair of goggles fails, the soldier takes them off.

These are the same people who equipped soldiers in Vietnam with a rifle that jams due to mud. The idea that military hardware has to be many times more reliable than space hardware is absurd.
Activision make a killing from selling DLC & Season Passes from their games like Call of Duty. Not sure why they'd give up free money from a single toggle switch with no extra work.

Unless out of spite, like when Snapchat banned third-party clients for Windows Phone (like 6snap) and accounts using it (I'm still raging that my 'benbristow' username got banned and now I'm using 'benbristow1' because of that).

Fun fact: The guy that made 6snap (and other 6 prefixed apps like 6tin (Tinder)) (Rudy Huyn) was hired by Microsoft and is now one of the leads behind the updated Windows 11 Store app
The presence of a computer in the home is not the only measure of the prevalence of computers in society at large. I'm not ignoring anything. I was there, I lived it. And I know that being 66 is no excuse for lacking technical knowledge. It's willful ignorance, not a byproduct of happenstance.

Younger people tend to be more open to new things and less set in their ways

Even if that were true - and that's a pretty dubious claim, IMO - it does not necessarily follow that

... certainly makes a difference in this case.
They are just avoiding legal liability when crooks inevitably use these games as scams and laundering. They probably don’t need this hassle.

Good opportunity for another company to make a crypto based platform for gamers.
No. It was wonderful when the person who worked the deli at a customer site where I worked for a few weeks learned my face and remembered what I liked to order. If I wanted privacy, though, I could get it.

However, scale matters. An action being condoned between two individuals does not imply that it's acceptable when repeated millions of times.

It shouldn't generate any outrage if a police officer tailed a suspect from a vehicle description and (publicly visible!) license plate number. It should generate outrage if the police department installs automated license plate readers at intersections throughout the city, and it becomes impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked.
Financial services are already all over open source software. What even is this article?

AWS heavy open source base: https://aws.amazon.com/financial-services/
Gcp, same story: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/financial-services
Every system of overt oppression has its limits, no matter how seemly compliant the population is or how iron fisted the current regime may be.

The displays you mention are just that, displays. For population scale control you really do need to be more subtle and pervasive. Which is what makes this type of surveillance so much more insidious.
Have you ever heard of "The Narcissist's Prayer"? It goes like this:

That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did...

You deserved it.

Tether defenders are really working their way through the steps here.

18 months ago, it was "That didn't happen." (Tether is 100% backed by USD cash.)

6 months ago, it "wasn't that bad." (It might not be 100% USD cash, but it's cash-equivalent assets like short-term commercial paper.)

Now that there's strong evidence the commercial paper is just fake money shuffling between Tether/Binfinex/other shady crypto investments we get "that's not a big deal." (Look at the way banks work! They only need 4% collateral! Tether's probably got at least that much...)

Next step is finding out that their actual liquidity isn't capable of holding up under a real-life stress test, and the defenders will be talking about "not my fault." (This was a once-in-a-lifetime crash, they couldn't have foreseen it, crypto's still way better than the fiat banking system!)

When thousands of people lose their retirements in a gigantic defi crash, it'll be "you deserved it." (Everyone knows crypto is risky, you shouldn't have believed Tether was the same as USD.)
Few vignettes about paying for Moscow Metro

During my childhood in 1980ies the cost to ride was 5 kopecks (0.05 rouble), payable via hefty, sizeable, incredibly pleasant to hold 5 kopecks coin (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%8C_%D0%B...).

With hyperinflation in the late 80ies the costs quickly went up by lots of powers of 10 to first roubles, then tens, hundreds and eventually thousands of roubles. For a while the entry fee was paid via tokens that you bought with money at kiosks, and the tokens were identical in weight and size to 5 kopecks, so same old machines could be used. Some people who had old soviet coin stashes could and did ride for free.

Machines that didn't like the coins would slam you sideways hard. I still am instinctively afraid of those that look like one that smashed me when I was about 5.

Fast forward to late 90ies and early 2000s, there were single use magnetic stripe and rfid tag tickets that were discarded by people all over the ground, really messy and likely unenvironmental.

Haven't been there in a while but seems like an Oyster (London)/Opal (Sydney)/Ventra (Chicago) payment cards would likely be what I'd want to use, just as much tracking but without the creepy factor of face recognition
Wouldn't invalidating the patents of companies that are too powerful and abusive in the market just be another "trust busting" tactic?

I don't see how that is separate from "trust busting", but rather just another way to bust trusts?
Only years will tell whether FB will evolve to become a humanity+ or a humanity- company.
It is as true as the parent version in the sense that neither are absolutely true and both contain a core of truth. Also, there are more than "two sides", it is actually part of the problem that people keep on insisting that everyone who is not "with my side" is "on the other side". The SARS2-related rhetoric has largely been turned into a live role playing version of Twitter with two camps shouting at each other.
Back-end routing is very solid. My experience is that front-end routing is complex and is hard to maintain. Multi SPA allows you to modularize your application into different concerns.

Most of the time, an SPA can be limited to one action or group of actions. For example one SPA to manage the user's preference, another for managing a list of objects, so on and so forth.
Amazon does leverage their position as market maker to undercut competition with anti-competitive practices though. They run data analytics to figure out what goods are the most profitable, then launch competing products and promote their own over the originals in their listings. Their monopoly gives them the ability to take over nearly any market they want at any time, with no consequences.
I just removed the registration wall. Feel free to use the site without signing up
Hey how about this? Legislation to block Senators from prioritizing their own political gains over the benefits of their constituents?
Kubuntu Linux 21.10 “Impish Indri”
Yep exactly this. I even just used Coinbase Pro vs. Vanguard in another thread as a concrete example of application vs. website where the Vanguard approach would really suck for an actual trading application.
Agreed. We've been to space, understand the risks, and have a decent understanding that X dollars pays for Y in LEO. This is an almost entirely greenfield project, so who knows if the deliverables will even be useful.
Ultimately, yes. That problem is unsolvable. There will always be more of us than there is stuff to sustain us (unless you get rid of the people ;) ). Our survival—and arguably, sense of meaning—is dependent on our ability to produce value for others in exchange for money.

What Bitcoin solves is removing the ability for that money to be manipulated. For example, in the U.S., if I'm at a bank or a large enough company, I can get 0% interest loans from the Federal Reserve. That would be fine if the money was backed by something, but it isn't. As the Federal Reserve, I can print more and more money ad infinitum and then give it away at 0% interest. This is literally money that is not backed by a commensurate amount of value (e.g., gold or some other precious asset like my time/labor). In this model, I can take resources of the table without replacing them rendering me, effectively, a parasite.

The U.S. dollar (or any fiat currency) is not _real_ in the sense that it functions within a set of fixed, well-defined laws.

Bitcoin on the other hand functions based on the laws of mathematics and its own, publicly exposed source code (which can only be changed via majority network consensus). It has a fixed supply that is doled out on a predictable schedule in exchange for creating value (a miner processing transactions). Because of this and its inherent decentralization—meaning it can't be controlled by one or a few small players—its value exists in it being incorruptible.

In laymen terms, it means that what you make is _yours_ and can only be taken by force (and that's _if_ they can get access to your private keys). You can actually build savings and invest in the future. You can predictably plan for your business without having to constantly adjust for inflation. You can live without the boot of government on your chest.

This, inherently, will make the world more peaceful in time. The more peace we have, the more our minds function properly (a mind in a state of fear is easily controlled and limited). The more our minds function properly, the more creative we are. The more creative we are, the more we can invent solutions to our problems, etc.
> If side-effects like those were at all common it would come out

What do you think of slide 11 from https://www.skirsch.com/covid/All.pdf ? VAERS is known to be vastly underreported. Kirsch calculates using various conservative methods that the underreporting factor for the COVID vaccines may be about 41.

But everyone hates guesswork like that, for good reason. VAERS is undoubtedly very noisy. So what do you think of slide 27 from that same presentation, in which Peter Schirmacher says 30-40% of the 40 people he autopsied died of the vaccine? https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/wissenschaft-heidelberg-c...
A sibling comment clarified Norway, but I'd like to add a caveat to that. Tax records don't necessarily tell you enough to be able to deduce the compensation package. It only shows the total. You could have switched jobs in june, there's likely no way to tell.
I just removed the registration wall, feel free to use the product as you would like!
I don't see much of an issue with any company having lots of entry points into different industries. I see more of the problem being tight control over vertically integrated aspects of the supply chain.

I'd prefer to see rules limiting companies from creating products in 2 consecutive/complementary components of a supply chain unless one of the products is completely open for 'swapping' out with something else. This allows companies to still benefit from vertical integration if they don't commercialize one side of things. But as you said, it's hard to draw the lines, cause you could define a supply chain in a ton of different ways.
Or why outright lying that every Tether was backed by a U.S. dollar is termed “misleading”.

It’s incredible - they had 4x as much Tether as dollars backing it and lied about audits taking place that never happened.
Isn't it great that you can defend any bad analogy with a reply that no analogy is perfect? Your analogy makes no sense at all.
It specifically causes non-viable mutations. Therefore, the concern isn't currently that it'll cause mutations in the virus and create new strains, but rather that we have to be very confident that it isn't resulting in mutagenicity in mammalian cells.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8136050/
Postgraphile turns your database into a GraphQL API: https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/
You’re leaving of a crucial part of that sentence: “…during an internal investigation”

With that, and “work phone” (presumably) implying the phone is Apple’s, she may have given Apple a reason to fire her, even if she deleted the app not to hide that she leaked info, but for other reasons.

But of course, that all depends on what exactly happened. Did she know Apple was investigating, did they tell her to hand in here phone for that investigation, etc.
>I wonder whether there is a math-object to describe this?

Here is how I would phrase it: there is a probability distribution in the higher-dimensional space that expresses P(this image | given that it's a natural image). The level sets of the probability distribution are manifolds.
> The solution for sure involves preventing these corporations from having surveillance power, in part by using government regulation

Well, certainly it is necessary to prevent those corporations from having surveillance power, because you're right that it's irresistible for governments to abuse it; but I suggest you find a strategy that doesn't rely on your opponent surrendering while he is in a superior strategic position.

(While I disagree with your comment, I think it adds to the discussion, so I deplore the vandals who are downvoting it as if it were spam.)

Historically, the motto has been, "Cypherpunks write code." Today, that's not enough; we need hardware.
Why would the planet be destroyed or have it's course altered ? The Star's mass remains the same and so does the gravity. Wouldn't the planet's own gravity hold it up when it's engulfed, and retrain shape when the star becomes a white dwarf ?
as someone born and educated in Canada, I must say that as a nation they are some of the most feeble-minded people on Earth

"being Canadian" has devolved down to a pathetic fake-smugness predicated on cherry-picked comparisons with the US. there is NOTHING else to being a Canadian in 2021.

Canada is already the worst choice for businesses in the age of NAFTA. Zuck should just pull FB out of Canada entirely and leave Canadians with the CBC...the net impact on profits will be negligible at best, and long term it will benefit FB to be rid of these crybabies

as for everyone else, if you don't have the willpower to log out of FB, you're just pathetic on so many levels and you deserve degraded mental health
It's one thing to feel joy when others do. But when everything's joy, then it's just normalcy. But when you know it isn't really the case that everything's joy, then the appearance of it comes off as fake. Because it is fake. Then you feel jaded. But we also can't help but have a part of us that thinks "no, this is normal."

There's also the asynchronous nature. If you're out with friends and hear about their engagement after the fact (among other catching up), that's one thing. But when you're sitting on the couch lonely and see photos from moments after the engagement (and nothing else), it's just that much more of a gap.

Then throw in everyone's highlights with their outrage and some random shared clickbait (fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd:You won't believe what this evil politician did!), and it's just toxic.
Hahaha - funny coincidence but I used to be really passionate about ProRep, to the point I even annoyed political science majors.

I’ve noticed Canadian democracy has an interesting trait and at this point, I don’t know whether it’s a bug or a feature. Our political parties are in favour of ProRep when they’re in opposition, but the second they’re in power, ProRep is one of those really bad swears they just can’t repeat. This is utterly baffling…
I didn't assume anything, I just pointed out what in my opinion is a flaw. And subsequently I point out that the 'assume good faith' guideline in the HN guidelines is for comments, not articles.

Would it be wise to always assume good faith in articles? I don't think so.

Finally I expect better from a newspaper as the Guardian.
Out of curiosity, has anyone here used Nomad for a home server? Right now my home "server" is six NVidia Jetsons running Docker Swarm, which works but I feel like Swarm isn't getting the same priority from Docker as some of the other orchestration things out there.

I tried using Kubernetes, but that was a lot of work for a home server, and so I went back to Swarm. Is Nomad appreciably easier to set up?
Did you check your desk? Get a second pair of eyes, it's always in front of you and you don't realize it.

If you're going to state opinions as facts, you can't then come back and tell people "oh so you know my own opinions better than me?!".
Industry Standard isn't marketed specifically to people with ADHD at the exclusion of everyone else. At the point where a product is targeted at people who struggle with this, and it's still not putting thought into how they'll react, something has gone very wrong.

Industry standards for media often don't included content warnings. However, if someone posts on HN that they're building a streaming service designed primarily for people with trauma, and they don't include content warnings in front of their shows, you'd probably have some questions -- because you expect them to know their audience. To me, this launch suggests that the founders either haven't spent much time thinking about how their process actually will work with their target audience or (much worse) that they did think about it and still decided that it would be OK.

It's just really tone-deaf to have a launch HN that spends all this time talking about how the intake process for people with ADHD is thoughtless or needlessly difficult, when their app's funding model is making the same mistakes and lacking the same affordances.
I don’t think Json was designed, it is just JavaScript objects plus Douglas Crockford spec. Having said that, HCL really doesn’t click with me
Thank you!

I have more questions if you don't mind.

Is the experience alright? Are there any gotchas that I would need to know?
They had no authorization to convert and decode the code
This is the problem

>for experienced frontend software engineers

web development skill varies wildly. Much more so than in any other branch of software development.

btw, "backend SPA"? That web world has officially jumped the shark. "page" has no meaning outside of a web browser. backend single string application makes more sense than backend single page application.
> suggests that you're going for an "exit" strategy

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here? An exit strategy isn't, like, a particular type of business model that some businesses use. It's just a word for the founders' strategy with respect to exiting the business.
One of the things that my most recent job really highlighted was - speed matters, but you need to know how it matters. In my particular niche essentially there were cliffs. If you were faster than x, you got y, if you were faster than x2 you got y2. Basically, you could halve the latency of your system for 0 benefit. You could decrease the latency of your system by 5ns and the benefits would be amazing. You could gain 5ns and it'd be nothing.

Speed does matter, but first, you need to know now.
Looks like Canada is playing this game with “number of doses administered” instead of “number of people actually vaccinated” too. I just don’t understand the propensity to try to mislead people, at least in such obvious ways. Most of these vaccines require two doses. Reporting adverse events on a per-dose basis effectively cuts the actual adverse reaction rate per person, which is all anyone cares about, in half.

FYI I am vaccinated. The statistics lean toward the benefits outweighing the risks for many groups of adults. I just wish these official agencies wouldn’t lie/mislead. They should lay out the actual facts and let people decide on their own. They undermine their own message and cause more of the very problem they are trying to solve.
Moreover, 50% of published results in the medical field can't be replicated, and recent studies of non-replicable results show they spread faster and are cited more than robust results. Science incentives are all kinds of messed up right now, so it's no wonder people's trust in science is pretty low.
It's the Web what Tim Berners Lee envisioned it to be, a web of "dumb" hypertext used to disseminate information or a web of interlinked apps which happen to run in the browser instead of desktop or mobile?

In the 2000 it was clear: if you wanted to find informations, you went on the www. If you wanted to chat, you used an IRC app. If you wanted to type a document, you opened a text processor. If you wanted to see a movie, you used a movie player. If you wanted to listen to music, you opened a music player. If you wanted to game, you fired a game. Now all this are on the web.

It's not clear to me if I am a web developer or an app developer because the borders are erased day by day.