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I see Google search decline in three stages:

- When they became ad obsessed where entire search results are filled with ads or YouTube recommendations

- Developed recency bias, aka if it's new it must be better, which has incentivized frequent content regurgitation rather than originality

- They became Woke, disappearing results that apparently aren't passing the Woke Filter and/or that don't align with political ideology/objectives

As for reddit, does anyone really trust reddit? Reddit is absolutely inundated with crap, spam, blatant marketing campaigns, political bias, and all sorts of screwy stuff. It's also highly manipulated, and no more trustworthy than Yelp, slightly more than Yahoo Answers.

Search is ripe for disruption but it's a tall order, and user/marketer generated crap like reddit certainly isn't it.

What are the odds that crypto miners will start picking up M1 Max MacBook Pro's? Not cost effective, presumably.

A little surprised nobody is sharing focus-centric Spotify playlists!

Similar arguments were made with why factories, tech support, customer service, etc couldn't possibly leave the USA.

And they did anyway.

Yes, people who don't see this coming are in for a potentially rude awakening.

The US tech worker is about to get NAFTA'd.

Now the developed world will compete with the developing world to lower wages in the developed world. The high salaries and perks for many USA tech jobs may not last much longer.

No need for companies to pay more for premium locations / perk offices.

No need for companies to deal with the hassle of H1B visas.

From a company perspective, why pay someone in the USA $165k/year to work from home in Trendyville when an Indian engineer is $35k/year in Bangalore?

DuckDuckGo is often a superior search engine to alternatives, certainly less human bias, but their name does not help them. Who says "DuckDuckGo it?" They need to shorten the name considerably, either to Duck, or pick a different one entirely.

Interesting idea but the search matches aren't great.

Also the UI is not easy to scan, the list view of search results has been standardized for decades now for a reason.

I'm skeptical of the Apple Car project as a casual observer, are the employees too?

Yea yea west coast states are a disaster. But why is this on hacker news?

I suspect many people would leave many jobs if offered a comparable payout, particularly if their skills are valuable

Guessing nearly 1/3 of employees at many companies would leave immediately if offered 6 months salary.

Or maybe it's because those people were upset that discussing politics was not part of their job description?

>All hospitalized patients received as best available therapy the same standard care, (per hospital protocol), of a combination of hydroxychloroquine (400 mg every 12 hours on the first day, and 200 mg every 12 hours for the following 5 days), azithromycin (500 mg orally for 5 days.

Fascinating how hydroxychloroquine is routinely used and considered standard of care in most countries where the drug has not been politicized.

You can experience this directly yourself on a near daily basis right now, here's all you need to do.

- Go on social media and find the endless streams of videos showing mayhem and violence at many of the protests / riots going on throughout the country

- Read the 'news' stories about those events, which rarely describe anything resembling what you see in the videos

Do you believe the regurgitator who likely wasn't at the scene and probably has bias, or your lying eyes?

Weight gain and loss is simple physics. If you want to reduce obesity, focus on the dietary input. Virtually nobody is active enough to burn the extreme number of excess calories consumed that leads to obesity and the maintenance of obesity.

Wikipedia is not a reliable source for anything, let alone medical information or studies

Sidecar would be a lot more interesting if you could use it without Catalina.

My tax bill went up, as did many other people I know. I assume a large number of people in high tax states had a higher bill due to SALT changes amongst others.

> The perception that they only benefit the 1% is propaganda. It’s also patently false.

The primary benefit went to the ultra wealthy, not surprising given lobbying. You can write off the cost of a private jet, for example.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/03/07/private-jets-re...

https://www.businessinsider.com/private-jet-trump-tax-bill-d...

But what did you save? $500?

Throw in the towel on the 737 Max and go back to the drawing board.

That's certainly possible if for no other reason than grinding global supply chains to a halt. If Chinese are being forced to self-quarantine or avoid work, factories will not be producing goods. That could cause considerable consumer inflation, too.

Seems unlikely for cultural reasons. Consuming obscure, rare, and endangered species is a significant component of traditional Chinese medicine (which is also widely practiced elsewhere in Asia) regardless of efficacy.

I believe this has been known a very long time. That's why most tooth brushes are full of fecal coliform.

But given how nasty c-diff is, perhaps this will lead to some change in behavior or environment.

Zerohedge? Their primary product is fear porn for clicks, how reliable of a source do you think that is?

> The data suggests that deplatforming works.

And how will you feel when whatever you personally have interest in gets deplatformed because someone else finds it to be disagreeable?

If you don't think power will eventually be applied against you, you haven't read enough history.

It's far beyond the web, polarization/toxicity is now all over politics, media, outrage mobs, protests, etc. It's growingly reminiscent of cultural revolutions and other negative historical events, which is not a good thing.

To start:

- Stop using social media

- Don't use services that have public digital scorekeeping and other vanity metrics centered around ego and narcissism

- Recall that the 1st Amendment is the first amendment for a very good reason

- Recall that it's perfectly OK to disagree with others, no matter the subject

- Recall that the more difficult a subject often the more nuance is required

- Reject divisive political and social movements

- Reject identity politics

- End outrage mobs

- End PC policing nonsense

- End cancel culture

- Don't engage in 'call out culture' or 'woke' nonsense which incentivizes toxicity, division, and mob behavior both online and offline.

As for future generations, perhaps k8-12 schools should have mandatory studies of inquisitions, mob mentalities, lynchings, witch burnings, and cultural revolutions, and the tremendously negative outcomes associated with those types of behaviors.

> We have much better medicine now, thankfully.

Do we? Against a deadly and virulent flu virus causing viral pneumonia? Not really without development of a highly effective vaccine.

You have better life support, but that's about it. Something like ECMO is extremely invasive and limited to maybe a few per ICU.

Or someone/group/agency who was able to compromise MBS phone or WhatsApp account.

There are a lot of possibilities here, what a wild story.

Presumably because the attacker(s) assumption was that Bezos would open a message coming directly from someone he trusted and had direct communication with, in this case being MBS?

That brings a lot more questions though; who actually sent the message? Was it a man-in-the-middle situation? Was MBS's WhatsApp account compromised? Did someone else use MBS physical phone to do this? Was it a third party?

Interesting and strange story all around.

Is anyone surprised by this?

It could be for many reasons too, including average people forgetting iCloud passwords and wanting their data back. Does Apple unlock an iCloud backup in that situation?

Perhaps a pro-privacy compromise would be for Apple to offer the feature but have it turned off by default, which means 99.99% of users won't ever change that.

Suddenly favicon optimization is going to be the hot new trend, and some nonsense far will impress us all with an atrocious one that catches the eye. Bright red arrows, green arrows, red stars? Hmm what will it be!