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I think I disagree about the nature of the "hype cycle." Too often it's portrayed as a negative thing, or some kind of grift pulled on the hapless public. More optimistically it's like a period of brainstorming. Not all the ideas work out, not all the promises are delivered on (world peace is a big ask), but eventually the good ideas survive and come to fruition.

It's easy to be cynical about new technology in a world of nonstop bullshit marketing and incremental improvements sold as the Next Big Thing. But in the long run I don't feel like I've ever been truly let down by a "hyped" technology. Even Segway, the textbook example of reality distortion, eventually produced descendant technologies that found their way into a number of widely-used PEVs.

> The "People also searched for" popup causes layout shifts nearly every time you go back to the search page

I've also noticed that particular bit of irony. In fact it's the longest-running CLS issue I've seen anywhere.

Adding voice control to lights is surprisingly handy.

It doesn't. The authors don't seem to know the difference between an RFID tag and a microchip.

Yeah this kind of makes it sound like the EA should be running the company. The only work the CEO admits to actually doing when she's not taking cooking classes or surfing is "showing up and doing my thing" at pitch meetings.

Such value!

This seems like the only remotely plausible outcome. Everyone would reinvent the internet on a smaller scale, then eventually reconnect them.

Exactly. Focusing on capability gives you a very myopic view of the situation. Capabilities are a moving target, with very few truly revolutionary leaps between the first film-based spy satellites and whatever we've got today.

Proliferation is huge. I can buy a high-resolution satellite photo of my neighbor's property every day if I feel like spending the money. That's something that wouldn't have been available at any cost a decade or two ago.

I feel like that's a critical detail that's missing from the headline. He didn't just say "these guys are a bunch of jerkbags and you shouldn't do business with them" he said "this company is operating a scam." That's not an opinion, it's a specific accusation like saying "I went in and they beat me with a pipe."

Seems like taking a moment to think about monetization before beginning would have saved some trouble.

When you run a service that provides information you either make money through ads or direct subscriptions. And if it's B, you better have an airtight value proposition and an intimate understanding of your competition.

Same, late 80s/early 90s. I had one altercation in 2nd (?) grade where we mostly just pushed each other around and then wrestled on the ground. I can think of a couple times people got in each others faces in high school, but no knock-down-drag-out fights to speak of.

It's so weird that someone would say they didn't go to a violent school, but there were constant fights. Violence doesn't mean "weekly school shootings."

The M1 Mac Mini also supports two displays, one of them just needs to be through HDMI.

That squares pretty well with the old rule of thumb for the cost of opening a restaurant or bar: Figure out what you think it will cost, then triple it and add a third.

Criticism of Soylent does often seem to imply that the alternative is a home-cooked meal of leafy greens.

I do like to point out that whatever shenanigans YouTube is doing with their discoverability and promotion features, they still provide unlimited lifetime 8K video hosting for free. And that's a pretty good deal.

I agree with your assessment. My point is just that search volume or user volume is an indicator of the size of the ad market, which is what any antitrust litigation will mostly be about.

They're not concerned with the user experience under these companies, they're concerned about economic impact, which is mostly felt by people doing marketing on their platforms. Facebook is a social media company the way the Yellow Pages was a book publisher - it may be the most visible product they make, but it's not how they actually make money.

And what would you go after Facebook for? The same thing as google - advertising. But their market share is smaller than Google's.

I think you missed that it's third parties offering to perform these services. They target Yelp because it's one of the more prominent review sites, but I've gotten calls from people claiming to be able to manipulate Google reviews as well.

This issue is complicated by the fact that there's a thriving ecosystem of marketers and scammers who operate around Yelp, and will call and tell you they work for Yelp and can have negative reviews removed and other things. So people really are getting these calls, it's just that it's a scam.

The "reach" gesture was actually introduced with the iPhone 6 Plus, due to its larger size.

Another way of looking at it is that 1 in 10 people who were alerted to a potential health issue ended up needing medical assistance. That's actually pretty good for a basic non-medical screening.

> "Nuclear fusion. 30 years away since 1950"

Those projections usually include the caveat "if properly funded" - https://i.imgur.com/3vYLQmm.png

DJI in fact advertises the fact that they'll happily broadcast your information to law enforcement in realtime - https://www.dji.com/aeroscope

It's a little scary.

The difference is 2-day versus 1-day.

Which doesn't sound that compelling to me.

I think that's the deal breaker for me. If I order $35 worth of stuff I already get free 2-day shipping. I use Prime because I don't have to think about order totals or shipping - it just shows up the next day.

I would say "hard pass" on this, but at some point in the future, it will no doubt be significantly more expensive to acquire car insurance without this kind of oversight. Ideally there would be some legislation in place that precludes charging people extra for retaining their privacy, but I'm not holding my breath.

Exactly. The counterpart to this is walking up to a touchscreen credit card reader ten years ago and going "uhh..." while looking for physical buttons to push.

If only the US were in dire need of massive infrastructure refurbishment projects.

The article then goes on to completely miss the point of that statement.

Someone upthread was talking about how, as a Salesman, you have to read the room and know how to talk to clients. I did that for awhile, and always got a lot of mileage out of asking the customer what they ultimately wanted to accomplish, which usually revealed that what they were asking for was a solution to a self-made problem, and there was a better alternative altogether.

My boss refused to use UPSs for years because he bought one once and couldn't get it to stop beeping.