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The article is not about Project Sidewalk or smart cities, it's about opening an office campus.
by KerrickStaley 8y ago
The article is not about Project Sidewalk or smart cities, it's about opening an office campus.
- patcon 8y agoI recognize that. But it's plainly a big connected operation, at least until we break it up. They operate via succession -- one subsidiary moves in and helps create space for the next. fwiw, you do people a disservice when you assume they don't know what they're talking about, just because you don't see the connection. If you took a second to offer me good faith and maybe presumed I'd read the article, then you could have responded with substance or asked a question, like a curious person might. Or not -- I wouldn't particular mind if you passed by. But your response was condescending and silly. What you said was obvious, and so the implication for others to follow was that I'd simply read the title and you were "calling me out". Basically, I feel very hackernews'd through our small interaction :/ Disclaimer: I've spent months on a civic research fellowship in Taipei. I live in Toronto. I've done community organizing in both. I work in tech. I have tons of experience with both places and topics -- not just an article.
- KerrickStaley 8y agoI downvoted the comment because you didn't connect what you were saying to the article, and so the comment reads as off-topic. Google has offices in dozens (if not hundreds) of cities around the world and has only launched Sidewalk in one of them, so it's not clear that a new Taipei office would lead to a Sidewalk launch there. I hope this makes sense. I unfortunately cannot remove the downvote at this point.