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  • Elective surgery though...

  • GNU Steve Irwin

  • Banks will use progressively less energy per capita as bulk data processing becomes more energy efficient, assuming they donʼt transition to using proof-of-work.

  • See List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet for the graveyard list. Sorting by Price helps. Some other notable companies that Google acquired rather than compete with:

    • Nest Labs (home automation)
    • DropCam (home automation)
    • DoubleClick (advertisement)
    • FitBit (wearables)
    • Waze (GPS navigation)
    • Skybox Imaging (satellite mapping)
    • Like.com (shopping)
    • Meebo (social network)
    • GrandCentral (VOIP)
    • Picasa (photographry)
    • Tenor (GIF search)
    • PhotoMath (LLM; became Bard)
  • I can't pinpoint exactly when the fall started.

    In my opinion, it was when anti-trust laws did not trigger upon Google acquiring YouTube because Google Video couldn't compete. That meant it was open season on start-ups that otherwise might have grown to kill Google or other big tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.

  • Donate to Mozilla Thunderbird. Free software isn't free.

  • Cuda

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  • Nvidia: I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further.

  • I hear it likes the girls.

  • Duolingo, the dominant player, can simply buy competition like busuu, bypassing the need they'd otherwise have to improve their software.

  • A “Deez nuts” joke involving two nuts (fasteners) welded together to resemble two testes.

  • Amazon Prime is meant to invoke the sunk cost fallacy in your mind. Why shop around when you've already sunk over 100 USD per year into “free” shipping? This mental bias towards shopping with Amazon is the cost and is part of an overall anti-competitive strategy. See “The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program”. Jeff Bezos has been explicitly anti-competitive on this point:

    “I want to draw a moat around our best customers.”

    You don't leave a moated walled garden unless the Lord who maintains the moat permits you. And even then, they'll strip you of your DRM'd digital goods (TV shows, movies, audiobooks, ebooks) as soon as you cross the drawbridge. The strongest supporters of Amazon are the ones who have thousands of USD of such digital goods locked up with them since they can't leave without being stripped of things they bought.

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  • Can we have space settlement without the war and genocide? It's not like killing Indians and robbing trains is a fundamental requirement.

  • Keyboards were so nice when you wanted to accurately input characters without putting your faith in auto-correct. God help you if you need to input something not in its dictionary like someone's name.

  • Also, ISO 8601 has some handy rules for expressing time lengths and periodicities.