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>One upside of this looming economic and intellectual depression is that the media is beginning to recognise gate keepers are no longer the hand that feeds them.

In what world is "the media" not an integral, tightly-bound part of the ratchet mechanism that seeks to suppress all distinction?


>Canadian courts are hamstrung at obvious human rights issues

Huh?


I've received many compliments for my Rolexes, and only ever a question about my Pebble. Nobody has ever expressed any interest in my Apple Watch.

A rolex is jewelry, meant to be flashy and catch the eye. Pebbles and apple watches are some of the least interesting things you could put in your wrist lol

My watch monitors my long-term heart rate trends across lifestyle and medication changes. I get enough compliments and interest from my wife.

And think about it. EVERY SINGLE person that died before 2015 never wore an apple watch. Coincidence? I dont think so.

Strangely: "Searches are, unexpectedly, more expensive for us to serve than AI. A user that does only traditional searches (not using Assistant) will cost more on our end than someone using AI + search."

https://kagifeedback.org/d/1338-provide-a-plan-without-ai-fu...


> A user that does only traditional searches (not using Assistant) will cost more on our end than someone using AI + search.

Unless I am missing something, that appears to be a mathematically impossible claim. They are saying A > A+B, where both A and B are positive values. I suppose it could be that non-AI users do more total searches, and the extras add up. Hmm.


I think their point is that an AI user makes fewer searches on average because AI helps ttem find what they’re looking for faster.


They're likely saying that at equal usage, the user with mixed usage will cost less because the cost of B is lower than A.


how do you quantify equal usage?

How can this be true? Should I not worry about margin compression at Google due to heavy cap-ex requirements anymore? Is this temporary because Kagi got a good deal for tokens? Are they paying through their noses for the Google search API calls? I don't get it.


Because they pay API costs to send the search to SerpApi. I forget exactly what the cost was for them per-search and I'm having little luck finding it, but I know they've published that cost before and I know it's more than a whole cent. By comparison, running a good but not top-tier model to answer the same question might run a small fraction of a cent. Cheaper than a follow up query by the user.


Yeah, that reply is a mildly infuriating, in view of what they're planning.


Golang is also "unmaintained" so you're in good company.


I had to go check. You're right: https://gitclassic.com/golang/go Made me chuckle. Then when I click it it doesn't explain why it is declaring it unmaintained. Pretty insulting. Not a good user experience at all.


Your bank's insurer trusts Google's security more than yours, and they must surely (and rightfully) believe that while Google would spy on you, they wouldn't steal your bank account.


That's a much more precise and accurate way to describe the situation.


Oh no, Iran, please don't destroy our giant public-private surveillance apparatus!


I've seen another headline today suggesting the UK might drop to a 3-day workweek to conserve fuel.

Like damn, between reduced work-weeks and the prospect of wrecking our government-entwined spyvertising parasites, maybe the war was a good idea...


I wouldn't be satisfied with my share of UBI. I'd want yours, too.


People would probably still steal but without real world data we can only speculate on whether crime would increase or decrease. My bet is still on decrease.


Was Stuxnet a part of this effort?


Nope. The left explicitly supports the policies that lead to the direct concentration of wealth and power and rise of communism. If the left constantly sides with the oppressors, they are the oppressors. This should be trivial to see just by looking at voting records. It's all very public and you've got decades of history worth of it to review. Both sides are not the same. The left chooses to align with the top 0.01% making them firmly part of the problem.


Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://qht.co/newsguidelines.html


This is good satire


There is a real argument about the rise of fascism and the equivalent about the rise of communism is too silly for the bit to work


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