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  • I use Kagi too, it’s great.

    The other commenter corrected your index note.

    What I found most illuminating was a comment by the CEO in an interview, perhaps The Verge? The TLDR of it was that Google makes money when you dwell on their site (so they want the highest ad serves per search), and a paid search engine loses money every page they have to serve you (so they want to give you your answer fast).

    So, the user and Google are at odds, and the user and Kagi have the same goal.





  • Both are reasonable, though I understand why Google is pushing back against it.

    The assistant angle simply is saying that they have to expose APIs that they are already using and that they can’t lock away those features, especially on an open-source operating system.

    On the second point, it’s just mitigating the first-mover advantage — just because Google existed before something else, potentially before an inventor-of-a-competitor was even born, doesn’t mean that they should be immune to competitive pressure.


    1. It’s very hard to improve things, hard to keep the status quo in the face of those trying to tear it down, and really really easy to take a blowtorch to it. “Not regressing” is fucking huge, and if you doubt that, you need to read more history (the Renaissance started by just getting back to where the Greeks were thousands of years prior)

    2. If every day you push fascism off till the next day, you’ll never have fascism .

    3. 1% of what you want is literally infinitely more than zero percent. If you don’t think 1% matters, I suggest you look up “compound interest”.

    Blue no matter who.







  • given the source of the energy most EVs use :/

    What? This is hilariously wrong.

    A profoundly filthy coal power plant has multimillion dollar filtration the size of your damn apartment. That gross coal is scrubbed more than the gasoline from any vehicle possibly could be.

    In a first world country it’s not possible to have an electric car as dirty per joule as a gas vehicle.

    Further, the powertrain is direct and therefore dramatically more efficient, so on a distance basis you get an additional multiplier. That’s where the EPA MPGe comes from - total energy content of 1 gallon of gasoline, converted to range on the electric vehicle.

    That’s about 33 kWh in one gallon, which is about half the total storage capacity of my Bolt EUV 2023 (65 kWh) which has about 240mi of range on a full charge, which is why the MPGe is ~120mi/gal, which for an equally polluting power source as a personal gas vehicle, is 5-6x cleaner. Public DC fast chargers are frequently exclusively renewably powered.

    It’s impressive because literally every possible angle of your statement is hilariously incorrect.