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Nothing, because then you are on google sites all the time and google gets all the ad dollars.

For some reasons, google wants to become AOoL, introducing the A with their AMP service (or with Applied Semantics).

This rises the question: Will content owners create their own content network? If Google steals your content on the internet, why put your content on the internet? Why not have an app that delivers content to paying customers? Now each content provider tries this on his own with his own app. why not combine the efforts and just offer a browser for their closed network or embrace the Brave browser? If all content producers pull this off together, the audience will be there.

Facebook could offer a Facebook content network on their own because they already have the audience, and Genius and all those Recipe sites could publish their content in a secure way. Maybe Instagram with its text pictures is already the predecessor.

It seems like Google was taken over by Applied Semantics in the same way that Boeing was taken over by McDonnell Douglas because in the long run, nobody offers up his content for search if it is ripped off.

How about a Hippocratic Oath for business leaders? This is shifting the responsibility from management towards the engineers. It's not the engineers who pulled the trigger at Facebook - or Microsoft. They build the weapons. Management fires them.

This is a hypocritic ode. If somebody is acting unethically at MS then it is management. All the innovation that is not happening because MS is abusing their position. Two times they have killed a universal software platform to preserve theirs: Java and websites. Ironically they are pushing websites now that the platform has shifted to mobile with objective c and Google's variation of Java.

>According to Brad Smith, just like it is the Pope’s job to bring religion closer to today’s technology, it is the software developer’s job to bring technology closer to the humanities.

The Pope is to religion as is the President of the biggest software company to software development. It is his responsibility, not theirs. Or does he see himself as that software developer? I guess it is more a Balmer developer and he means software engineers.

He could start by handing out software licenses / EULAS that take full responsibility for any damage the software does cause, like any other sold product has to do. Then, by business processes, management will take care of the ethical issues to minimize risks.

>Regular double quoted strings can have newlines.

This doesn't feel right. There are already ` for multi-line comments. Why not use them? Changing the meaning of " breaks the ability to copy paste an rjson file into regular sourcecode.

Do helmets significantly reduce casualities or are they more like a courage device that makes the wearer feel less vulnerable?

Isn't this the reason why it is called Rome? In JavaScript history, we are past Babel (and the Greek city states) and a centralized tooling will allow for an unprecedented language economy?

Constantinople and Moscow are waiting, as well as Venice and London. A plugin system that wants to incorporate everything will risk having to maintain Byzantine diplomatic relations. On the other hand, restricting the plugin system to its core will create a local powerhouse that will utterly fail to adapt once new ventures become available.

I am waiting for the TypeScript / JavaScript split.

Because they like milk. You can justify anything if you want it to be true.

Where does this end? Industrial farming kills insects. We obviously don't have the same amount of love for insects as we have for cows. But why should cows live and insects die?

This comes back to killing humans, one way or the other. How many insects are a foetus? Are poor people not allowed to have children so that insects can keep on living?

Apple has always been like that: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

Of course they will relive their desktop experience because some other environment will at some point be better due to fierce competition. It's kind of their omen that the company with the bitten apple from paradise has to created a walled garden. The difference will be that there is no Steve to rescue them again.

Funny thing is, their first logo was Newton's apple. Imagine the difference.

Must be rain water, that comes from above.

Other participants: https://renderman.pixar.com/news/renderman-shipshape-art-cha...

Long-term, the only valuable resource is attention. Content is accumulating, faster and faster due to automation, thus its value is declining.

Artists can make money with concerts so they will pay you to become part of your life. Even now, youtube is already playing entire songs as advertisement. Why should it stop there?

Maybe because Bezos stops being involved and there is nobody inside the company who dares to change whatever Bezos has implemented?

Reading the tweets, it seems like Bezos made all the important decisions. If he is not around because he is focussed on other projects, who could do it instead? Judging by the story that Bezos didn't allow any pixel to be changed on the Amazon homepage, I can imagine that this is a pattern and whoever tried to implement a change doesn't dare to try it again.

What can you do, what do you know? If there were a clever answer that fits everybody, all the banks would already have poured all available money into it.

You maximize your returns by beating the market. You beat the market by being more clever than the market. Where do you have the resources to beat the market?

If you have an orchestra with 100 musicians who receive something like $10^5 per year, you pay $10^7 per year. You need several years to practice and to form the orchestra into a team with a repertoire. If it takes 10 years, then that is $10^8.

As you say, it is orthogonal. Why not have both? You pay for the fraud with higher fees compared to a system where fraud is prevented by additional security.

The meaning of all words changes. It would be ironic if the meaning of the word hacker would be unchangeable, impenetrable.

Seems like they have enough resources to train their translation NN and speech-to-text NN. I don't think google has introduced those features for the users in the first place but they were a means to get training data.

It's a crisis because it is happening abruptly. The price for hydrocarbons will rise much slower, like the increased consumption of the growing population of the world. Meanwhile, more renewable energy will be installed.

There will be energy in the future, even if there is not the abundance of nuclear fusion. So I don't see why there is a looming crisis.

However, will it lead to a crisis? The hunger for new things simply dies down if they are not affordable. It's already happening. Energy is much more expensive than it used to be. Resources are more expensive so that new products have tighter margins and waste less materials.

People buy as much as they can. If they get less energy for their money, they buy less. Everybody had had-made clothes and ate organic food. Those times passed with hardly anybody complaining about receiving less.

>looming energy crisis

Where do you see the crisis? Unless you want to provide everybody with an abundance of energy, people need food and shelter, some electricity for electronics and some transportation once in a while.

Of course, any amount of energy can be burned for simulations and bitcoins but that's simply limited by supply. There will be a crisis when bitcoins and simulations are more valuable than human lives, but that's not changed by offering more energy.

You also can't guarantee that you won't be hit by a meteorite and yet you leave your house.

If you worry about the signal not being received and the inability of air traffic control to spot the irregularity, then only initiate safety landing when the plane receives an answer-signal. Otherwise, let the plane fly however it wants and let it crash somewhere randomly because most places are better equipped to handle a random plane landing than a regular airport.

That happens if everything goes wrong but you cannot create that situation intentionally. Usually, pushing the emergency button would send an emergency signal, and air traffic control would clear the airport. Landing on top of another plane is an emergency within the emergency - very, very unlikely.

Surviving cannot be the ambition of IBM.

You will have a hard time creating a situation where pushing the button for an emergency landing creates a disaster.

How do you create planetary structures but with super-companies and rich people?

People don't innovate by themselves. The workers and/or engineers of the US or the world could have pooled their money and built AWS or space rockets, or electric cars. But they haven't. It takes money and actions from few people to get stuff done.

What happens if they fly into a building because they don't have the button? It's a management of risks.

Besides, there can be a back-link and information updates for the landing box to manage situations with two or more planes in emergency mode.

Was it? It could have been IBM who invented the smartphone or hardware as a service.

Google can beat them by also offering a paid-for search engine. People trust Google with their mail and phones, they will also trust google with privacy-respecting search.

On the other hand, how come Cliqz has been shut down instead of being sold?[1] Are there no companies with deep pockets who are interested in containing Google's revenue besides MS? E.g. since Cliqz was so privacy focussed, wouldn't that have been a great start for Apple to have a privacy respecting search engine?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23909484

With low interest rates, and an ever increasing complexity of the state of the art, won't this balance tip to the other side soon?

There is more money than can be invested, and since economies don't grow fast enough, even more will be printed. On the other hand, founders don't grow on trees. So if you have a good idea and a good team, why should it be difficult to rise money?

>[1]The name "Ozymandias" is a rendering in Greek of a part of Ramesses II's throne name, User-maat-re Setep-en-re. The poems paraphrase the inscription on the base of the statue, given by Diodorus Siculus in his Bibliotheca historica as:

>>King of Kings am I, Osymandyas. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias#Hubris

Have we checked the quote? There seems to be just the upper half in the museum but the other half should be lying somewhere.

Hilly terrain with ice and snow. How do you get to work in a snow-storm? Possible in a car, but something else in an "air taxi".