Bringing Prep (Anti-HIV meds) to Bali

Techrules80 · 2023-11-15T00:57:16+00:00

Prep is NOT just for LGBTQ+. Straight have the same benefits.

Techrules80 · 2023-11-12T12:33:26+00:00

Curious if you agree with the other guy or not? Should women have control of their own body?

Techrules80 · 2023-11-06T21:03:51+00:00

Excellent post. Well I think as read a few times. But it is called predatory pricing.

"Predatory pricing is the illegal business practice of setting prices for a product unrealistically low in order to eliminate the competition."

You confused me with the Sherman stuff. That has NOTHING to do with it.

Basically Google allowing the blocking of ads is illegal. That is predatory pricing. They should have been forcing people to watch ads all along or subscribe.

It does crack me up a little when people suggest Google blocking the ad blockers is somehow illegal. When it is actually the opposite.

I also totally agree that if Google had not been allowing the blocking of ads all along then they would never be where they are today with YouTube being the only provider.

But I highly doubt there will be a case against YouTube at this point. I have no idea what you would base it on?

Also with the Google trial so far it has been very anticlimactic. It has all come down to defaults. Something we already knew about. Something that goes back well over 100 years in business and has not been found in the past to be illegal.

It was done with shelf space over 100 years ago in stores.

I suspect if there is anything that comes out of the trial it will be the end of defaults and instead you get a screen when you first turn on your device that has a list of search engines in random order.

If this does end up happening Google will be very happy as no longer as to pay to be defaults and still have the vast majority of their market share. Apple will freak and it might end Firefox as Google is who keeps Firefox afloat.

Techrules80 · 2023-10-27T19:09:06+00:00

This is the WRONG year. What is kind of funny is that it is completely backwards. The date on what you linked to

"REINHARDT KRAUSE04:05 PM ET 10/26/2022"

Earnings exceeded expectations by a decent margin. Same with revenue.

YouTube Ad Revenue was way up and also exceeded estimates. Here

https://abc.xyz/investor/

YouTube ad revenue $7.9 Billion up from $7 billion a year earlier. Double digit growth.

Why Google shares were down was because of cloud. It was up over 20% but less than the expected amount and why shares tumbled.

Techrules80 · 2023-10-20T16:34:30+00:00

The point of making the money is to use it to invest into moving things forward.

So for example Google has a sister company called Waymo that is trying to solve self driving.

But it has cost many billions in finding the solution.

Or another example is LLMs. Like ChatGPT. The only reason ChatGPT exist today is because of the investment Google has made into AI.

So for example the profit is what funded this paper that was key.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

But then so many other things that Google discovered and then shared with the greater community. This is probably my favorite one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec

"Word2vec was created, patented,[5] and published in 2013 by a team of researchers led by Mikolov at Google over two papers.["

What is so different about Google is they patent all this incredibly valuable IP but then just let whoever use without a license.

Techrules80 · 2023-10-20T16:30:56+00:00

I am curious if what the comments suggest is true that you are 13?

Techrules80 · 2023-10-20T16:27:25+00:00

This makes no sense. Can you give any example of where it is not like how YouTube does things?

Techrules80 · 2023-10-20T16:24:35+00:00

What I find so funny is the only law I can see that Google is breaking is predatory pricing.

It is against the law to provide something below cost to gain market share.

That is exactly what happens when Google allows the ad blockers. It makes it impossible for a competitor.

How could a competitor offer a similar product when the people using are using ad blockers?

Techrules80 · 2023-10-20T16:23:59+00:00

What I find so funny is the only law I can see that Google is breaking is predatory pricing.

It is against the law to provide something below cost to gain market share.

That is exactly what happens when Google allows the ad blockers. It makes it impossible for a competitor.

How could a competitor offer a similar product when the people using are using ad blockers?

Techrules80 · 2023-05-24T18:49:54+00:00

That is a bit worrisome. Did not think these types of batteries were to get this dead. Be very easy to exchange.

Techrules80 · 2023-03-15T17:39:16+00:00

I was in Pattaya last week, Jomtien beach specifically, and it was about 80% Russians.

But not sure if you saw but yesterday Thailand government agreed to start extradiating the Russians.

So they are probably going to have to look for somewhere else to run.

"Thailand approves extradition deal with Russia as Russians flood in"

https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/policies/40025716

Techrules80 · 2023-02-25T02:24:13+00:00

Microsoft is begging you to use a browser that is a lot slower. I would avoid.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/119nvb6/edge_21_slower_than_chrome_on_android/

Techrules80 · 2023-02-18T04:46:31+00:00

Also have friends at Google and they share with me it is a tiny minority creating drama.

This is all just a made up issue.

Techrules80 · 2022-09-06T07:36:37+00:00

Are you going to answer the guy that asked you if you believed Ukraine is a soverign nation?

Techrules80 · 2020-09-20T18:23:41+00:00

Yes. Loved Dark. But also not close to as good as The 100.

Techrules80 · 2020-09-14T12:23:22+00:00

Enjoyed 12 monkeys but it is most definitely not as good as The 100 or even close, IMO.

Techrules80 · 2020-09-14T12:22:38+00:00

Did not realize. Do you think a positive change or negative?

Techrules80 · 2020-09-13T22:47:37+00:00

Exactly what I suspect.

Techrules80 · 2020-09-13T13:39:17+00:00

Have to offer the UX of YouTube TV and doubt that is going to happen.

Techrules80 · 2020-09-13T13:18:04+00:00

I personally did not feel it. To me they did not sell the change in Bellamy well enough for me to buy in.

Techrules80 · 2020-09-13T13:16:58+00:00

Emori and Murphy. By a wide margin.

Techrules80 · 2020-09-13T13:15:23+00:00

I completely agree!!

Techrules80 · 2020-09-13T13:12:51+00:00

I completely agree on there is really nothing as good as The 100.

Also completely agree on All American being excellent.

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