Agree with all your points. I am wondering what justification Sergey,Larry will give for this. If they took good ethical decisions, they would gain more respect from people. I read the book The Google Guys when I was 13 (now 20). Larry,Sergey were the first 2 people i sorta idolized. Been a Google fanboy mainly due to their incredibe R&D,STEM focus. Now, i feel sad. Obviously, not gonna defend bad actions but it's difficult to overcome that bias,fanboyism cultivated over the years.
I also wonder why Larry,Sergey are so out of action. They should have at least been more public till they're about 50 years old.
Weird thought: maybe somehow Google will help overthrow the communist govt in China in the future.
The fact that this news makes so many people sad is evidence of the fact that we expect better from Google.
History will also judge Alphabet with a positive mindset (T&C apply!). Google did to web what Apple,MS did to computing. Google files patents but doesn't extract royalty from it unlike MS. I think next 10 years will be really crucial to Alphabet( not talking about Google here). The work Calico, Verily,Loon, Dandelion Energy are doing takes time to create impact. I think Google, Calico,Verily are going to make considerable contributions to healthcare.
Though, the report of apps which dupe users have been there for iOS too,much less, probably due to various factors like: low % marketshare, better vetting process as you said.
How is the app-uploading mechanism different for iOS, Android? Is it too do with the fact that Android has a more open system.
Exactly, people lovw to give a negative spin to 'rent','bid'. I see it as an exchange of value. Data, money both serve same purpose: we give them vakue,they give back. My data helps them improve their systems, make recommendation engine etc. and they give me services in return. Making sense of vast troves of data is their main competency or of any internet service. Would YouTube be relevant without recommendations? Just open incognito mode in YouTube and find out! One thing they could do in future is maybe allow users to store their data somewhere locally,and which gets updated with new recommendations,profilinf info; but that'll involve losts of code changes, engineering challenges i suppose.
All major OS have gone kernel changes over time. Windows,MacOS,now Android. Simple. Of course, lots of other factors as well like Oracle lawsuit.
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I don't think it will be "starting over," just a major platform change. Imagine Fuchsia being Android 13.0. Every OS maker does a major platform rewrite along these lines eventually.
Windows moved from DOS to the NT kernel.
Apple moved from the classic Mac OS nanokernel (is this the right name?) to the Unix-like XNU kernel with OS X.
Google could trade Linux for Fuchsia's kernel.
These projects are always codenamed something else at first. They always come with big compatibility problems that are overcome with time or emulation layers. Sometimes there are major UI changes, sometimes the UI is built to closely replicate the old OS, but everyone does a huge "reboot" transition like this eventually.
Yes. There's an option to download sections . It shows how much space it will take. Expires in 1 month I think and gives a notification to update it to reflect latest changes.
I am seeing a trend in this thread, that people think that Google Assistant doesn't have something whereas in reality it has already implemented all and more than what Apple did this year. Either, they are biased and are making assumptions, or they use Siri and are again making assumptions . Partly, another reason might be that Routines is within the Assistant Settings so people haven't discovered. Still, seems odd at a site like this. Frustrating.
Siri Shortcuts is same as Google Assistant routines. Only they didn't make an extra app for it. Say" I'm Home" and a lo of Assistant Actions will get triggered.
yeah. Even that head of rocket company seems to be a bit inspired by Blue Origins/SpaceX. Neal has worked for Blue Origins in some capacity. Also, TV series would be much better because it's spread over a number of episodes giving a sense of time.
Well, i haven't read Snow Crash. I read about it on wiki and decided to skip it. But i admit, while I was reading i got bored in between because pace had slowed down and then I skipped a few dozen pages , read a few lines and skipped way more and read more because wanted to know about the end as I was becoming really impatient. Anyways after reaching the end, i felt guilty that I skipped through a lot. A few days later I started reading again from the point I began skipping and in the later parts , i got to know that I had misunderstood some parts while skipping, so it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Also, some space stuff would have been better explained with a rough diagram.
I guess, I got bored in between because I was reading a novel after a really long time. also, I got to know about Neal and this novel via Bill Gates' summer reading list a few years ago.
Yeah. They should have gone for 5-10. I remember on one podcast, Kara Swisher was light-heartedly making fun if Kevin, saying "..He was crying..". Sort of like that. I believe it was a recode podcast
Probably, a discounted tier for Youtube Premium subscribers. Honestly, I don't think this channel sub feature will get much traction, depends on what a channel can offer. Channels have the onus of being creative with this feature.
Another long-term negative consequence would be the kind of mindset/ thought process they'll develop as they grow up. or eg: right now there's lot of debate over use of computer vision, AI etc and Amazon,Google have already faced backlash. Google corrected their stance at least for the time-being. No such action at Amazon, also I never really got the impression that Amazon had a employee driven culture. Google much better at that.
Coming back to the point, when these kids grow up to be 20-40 years old adult, they might not see the negative consequences of state-wide surveillance IF they didn't face any negative consequence/disadvantage due to cams in school. The reverse might also happen,i.e, they face negative consequence/disadvantage at school and so they are cautious about the tech when they grow up.
Personally, as a 20 year old, I am in a dilemma. On one side, cameras, vision have a lot of security benefits etc. They seem to be inevitable. Bad actors are always there, it's about how the safeguards which are put in place. what happens to the data and who does what? That's the question. Maybe if there was some large-scale audit system by non-profits, citizen groups etc , it would be better.
Yeah. Like Craig Silverstein at Google ( now at khan academy,last I heard). Even for Tesla, Straubel deserves much more recognition, but I think he himself doesn't appear much in public. IMO, Larry and Sergey are also seldom in public for the past few years.
I think this will take some time. Right now, for a few years Prime, Netflix ,Apple etc are already putting in money for their own Originals. I don't exactly know the solution, but these players won't bundle right now for sure, nobody wants to lose leverage. I think Google might be playing smart or maybe they've lost already. They have already conceded that Netflix is far ahead. And, now they're bundling their premium shows with Youtube Music for additional 2-3 bucks a month. Their content strategy has been really poor. Frankly, Video is a sort of leverage tool for Apple, Amazon. But for Netflix, it's bread and butter. Also, read this article:
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/7/13/content-is...
Okay, noted. My bad. English isn't my first language, but I am well aware of all grammatical rules. I was in a hurry, so just ranted off. It won't happen next time.
Read about different kind of biases. When thinking about something controversial, political or maming a decision, try to evaluate the biases affecting your mind.
I feel bias training should be done at colleges or schools especially in this post truth,fake news world.
I see this happening a lot. For eg, on youtube I often see Casey neistat buying candies,marshmallow candy for his daughter. Now i am not targeting him.just pointing out what i notice.(he has made great videos on actual calory content in butgers etc).He also has some juice many a times after runs, i dunno whether that's healthy juice without sugar. But, basically parents give in to kid's demands. Also, lack of suitable choices. I am in India, and even see poor mothers,kids purchasing chips or eating some refined flour item on roadside coz it's easily available.
Also, a while ago i read that in Brazil ,Nestle has these agents who sell nestle food poducts door2door, also obesity has risen due to high consumption of cheap ,packaged products like Nestle's. Big Food,Big Oil are the most prime corporate evils whose actions will be felt for many decades to come. I guess there are food startups trying to make good products, but haven't heard of a lot. I dunno whether their low sugar initiatives aee actually good, i mean it's obvious that after a cetain time they will have to change or perish but the question is how long.
Is it wrong for me to trust Google? I think they have really great secure systems. Their security is the best, imo. Privacy is a bit of concern. I wish they came up with a win-win solution fir that. I dont have prob woth data collection, i provide data for making their systems better,ad targeting, they give me great services, and my data doesn't get sold. Plus, indirectly even Apple and other product users do benefit from it coz google is ahead of others in ML due to the vast data analysis they can do, and when they publish their results and papers, other researchers look at them and kearn from it. But i guess, the last part of my reasoning ( just thought if it right now) is somewhat dipshit coz this is quite obvious. But i think contrary to other's beliefs Google's impact on internet had been very positive. I mean they open sourced so many web standards without taking royalty. Had it been MS,apple they would not have hesitated. I read the book The Google Guys when I was 13, since then have been a G fan, tho I am rational, acknowledge their mistakes,which is difficult to do. Also, as a STEM enthusiast Google's research culture has always attracted me. Larry,sergey were the first 2 people I sorta idolized. Also, Google services like Youtube, Google have benefited me a lot as a student. Due to all tgese reasons, i am a bit biased towards Google. Tho, i try to filter out buas whenever I can.
Dude, google has been doing diff. privacy earlier than apple. Even now, their researchers( one of them the great Ian Goodfellow-inventor of GANs) is working on federated learning. Heck google had even open sourced their diff. privacy system. Apple just made a big deal put of it when they started diff privacy.
Exactly. Personally, i widh larry,sergey came out in public more often. I think Alphabet is getting hurt coz of their absence. Google gets really less appreciated. I guess people forget the Good when even a little bad is committed.
How has Kaggle fared under Google? Just asking. Also, ms has been focusing on open source quite a bit. Largest contributor on Github. Makes sense. It'll also send a message to the tech community. Mostly Google hogs the limelight for open source stuff.