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Or create a new partnership with various like minded organizations and create a new index that each can use in their own way (perhaps those you mention plus DuckDuckGo and others that my brain isn't bringing to mind right now [maybe Wikipedia, EFF, internet archive, maybe Nebius would help...]).

I know this wouldn't be easy but maybe such an arrangement would be possible where there is some shared index and then the partners can each use it, extend it... in their own way.

I agree that Apple (and probably Anthropic) don't hold to the expectations some have. But I wouldn't say they are "just another company." I care about privacy more than Apple. But I think Apple does more to help privacy than any other huge company (and I can't think of another huge tech business to consumer company that does less to invade privacy, but I would be open to evidence I am wrong on that).

Apple is far from perfect but that doesn't mean they don't have a position (say privacy) that they care about and give a lot of weight to when making decisions. But as a huge company they also have many competing priorities.

Caring about privacy or potential abuses of LLM/AI services does not mean that a huge company is going to perform on those areas the way those that want maximum privacy or... want.

I do also believe Apple's marketing reasons to promote their focus on privacy make sense. And even if they don't do as much as I would want they do make a big difference (on privacy) it seems to me. And I believe long term there is big value to Apple building systems to stop users private data from being abused.

Good thoughts.

The last sentence doesn't make that much sense to me though. An agreement with Apple to be the lead AI partner would likely juice the IPO a great deal. The financial details wouldn't matter much for the IPO (as the initial financial commitments are going to be small but the halo effect would be real - I think it would in the market anyway).

I think Anthropic has real commitment to their way of doing things which can cause short term issues (and hurt the IPO). And they seem willing to keep those values rather than just making deals to pump the IPO. As you say Apple also sticks to their way of doing things even if it frustrates their partners.

I think not being the lead partner with Apple may well be good for Anthropic long term. But if all you cared about was the IPO just agreeing to Apple's terms likely would have been the best option.

These SpaceX, Anthropic and Open AI possible IPOs are so extreme it is hard to make judgements about them; so maybe there are Anthropic IPO issues to an Apple agreement that I don't appreciate.

Enamelon Toothpaste from the 1990s:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/127083185095

"proven to strengthen tooth enamel" I remember researching the stock and deciding not to buy.

Patents from the 1990s https://patents.justia.com/assignee/enamelon-inc

It seems the company is still around https://www.enamelon.com

Actually it was a huge tax addition in 2024 (from Europe over dispute about how Ireland had taxed Apple for many years). In 2024 Apple added 14.4 billion in additional taxes accrued over many years.

Car insurance costs more if you have bad credit score. My guess is that they have data to justify that. I think some states may have disallowed this practice.

Anyway that lends some credence to your beliefs.

Interesting, good job.

Minor suggestion: I would make the home page feed show popular stocks (so that it is more interesting to new visitors and also engaging to regular visitors). You could just pick 100 stock symbols or combine that with something like what you are seeing people search for (I would manually check the popular search ones - some may not make sense to add to the home page feed).

It could offer a couple options. One being the main view is like you are there. You see the court in a huge view in your main view. Then, similar, but way better than in person, you have several big views off to the side, for replays, stats, maybe following a view of your favorite player... I would think they we have a way to make it so your view (switches as the action on the court switches to the other basket). That will have to be a good design but just the idea of something like teleporting from your seat with a great view of this half of the court to now having it on the other half.

And for other sports even better I think. With say soccer/football and football (USA) you can have a big overview (like you are sitting at midfield) but then camera angles for closer view of the action...

I think sports viewing could really be incredible. Figuring out exactly how to do it well will take awhile. But it seems to me the kind of thing Apple could do very well.

Is there an app that monitors your apps to see if any have been sold to such unethical companies to alert you to delete your accounts with those apps?

That would seem like a useful app.

Frankly Apple and Alphabet should offer such a service but I don't have much confidence that they will.

I looked into subscribing because I don't mind paying to avoid the ads.

I don't like the spying that will go along with paying, given that it is Alphabet/Google. If they offered a plan to pay without the spying I would have signed up years ago.

I didn't try so I could be wrong but my guess is your payment will be tied directly to your login and so you need to have that login on the browser at all times to view the videos (without ads) and given all the decline of "do no evil" I don't trust them at all.

I also don't trust they wouldn't mess things up. I travel a lot. I paid for YouTube TV and the ludicrous junk they do to try and verify you are able to view things was a huge pain and failed quite a lot until it failed nearly always I and dropped it.

I imagine if they push me I will pay and then have to copy and paste every YouTube url into a sanitized browser instance only used for YouTube. But I don't trust Alphabet/Google to not constantly be attempting to use that subscription to improve and deepen their spying which annoys me quite a bit. I just trust them a tiny bit more than Microsoft (and I ditched using anything by Microsoft decades ago - other than my use of LinkedIn continuing after they bought it and very occasional uses of Bing to check on it).

A higher savings rate directed toward retirement-savings/pension and increasing immigration are two.

https://www.icarusinvestmentgroup.com/ :-)

From the article: "Buying land is a major shift for Amazon, which historically relied on a handful of developers to find property, build fairly simple warehouses and rent them back to the company."

That is the news in my opinion. They were renting before, in the last 2 years they started buying a lot of land (they still rent a lot too).

They mentioned in the conference call they anticipate $4 to $8 billion in supply chain related lost business in this quarter.

At 33% profit margin and using the mid-point of $6 billion that would cost them $2 billion in missed profit this quarter.

The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog https://deming.org/blog/

Deming on various management topics https://deming.org/category/deming-on-management/

More resources on Deming's ideas https://deming.org/online-resources-on-w-edwards-demings-man...

Here are some online resources on Deming's ideas

  https://curiouscat.com/management/deming/online

I really like what you have done.

One easy improvement "Showing results 16 — 30 out of 26 results" :-) showing below search results...

> Hope to include more curated signals, like "won a paper > prize", "journal in DOAJ and other reviewed indices", etc. This would be a great addition.

Online Deming resources: https://deming.org/online-resources-for-w-edwards-demings-ma...

How about a tax on paying bounties that is used solely to fund agencies that track down and put those engaging in criminal activity online in jail. In order to be allowed to deduct the expense require paying the tax.

You can set it up so you renew up to 10 full years (from the remaining 9) every year. That way you have 9 chances to fail before it becomes an issue.

Also for a fairly small organization you can have all the domains listed in one place with the renewal dates and review that every 6 months or year (to make sure all the new ones were added, the contacts are still all valid [hopefully you setup things like [domains]@[companyname].com or something but..., you have noted any that you no longer want or were transferred away...

Online resources on applying Deming's ideas https://blog.deming.org/online-deming-resources/

And a psychological impact. It would have been a very welcome distraction for me. I realize there are many people who won't notice it is missing but quite a few people would have had a nice way to distract themselves while socially isolating themselves at home. It is a shame we waited so long to take action to prevent the spread of covid19 in the USA that this became necessary given the risks we face.

Those areas will get it. The virus has spread too far throughout Italy to stop it but reacting late, now, to how far it has already spread can slow down how quickly it continues to spread.

I was expecting some pent up MBP demand to buy, so I am surprised sales declined. I still do expect that pent up demand to buy, though I am less confident.

Now I am just guessing while the new 16" made people more willing to buy a new MBP it wasn't getting them to rush and buy one. That is my case, I will likely buy this year, without the new 16" I think it was under 50% chance I bought a MBP (and a bit more likely I got some laptop I could run Ubuntu on).

The interaction between statistical methods (algorithms and data analysis) and actual work is critical and fairly obviously important. But articles like this show how it is still something we need to focus on.

My father, William Hunter, and George Box worked on these ideas and applied statistics decades ago.

Related: Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity. https://williamghunter.net/articles/managing_our_way_to_econ...

The Scientific Context of Quality Improvement

https://williamghunter.net/george-box-articles/the-scientifi...

Police departments could do this as they have done with "bait cars" to catch those who engage in this behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_car

Thanks, keep up the good work.

I agree with the other user that mentioned it would be nice to have some indication of hard or soft blocks. I realize that wouldn't be easy, especially to be completely accurate with, but even if it was done for a subset of sites that often appear it would be a nice feature.

The Truth About Homework Needless Assignments Persist Because of Widespread Misconceptions About Learning By Alfie Kohn https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/truth-homework/

Research-Based Guidelines for Homework https://effectiveforall.blogspot.com/2019/06/4-research-base...

Different classes of stock with different voting privileges could at least prevent some abuses by speculators that buy up shares and seek to force through actions that benefit speculators but harm all the other stakeholders (long term investors, customers, employees...).

There are certainly questions about if a long term exchange can make a difference. But it seems to me possible that it could. It does seem to me the voting rights on the shares would have to be different for it to have much of an affect. It seems to me it makes sense to have voting rights largely vest with those interested in the long term success of the company.

I agree, you might enjoy the Deming subreddit

  https://www.reddit.com/r/Deming/

with links to applying his ideas on management.