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by 40acres 7y ago
Honestly, glass simply seems too early. We know that Apple is also working on AR glasses, even Intel came out with a AR glasses platform but quickly had to kill it because the market is simply not mature. I think Google is betting that clou
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by 40acres 7y ago
I do understand that this is an old idea. My TV actually has a steaming service for games built in but I have never used it because I doubt the performance would be up to standard. The innovation is not necessarily in the product but in the
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by 40acres 7y ago
Realistically, there is little incentive for China to cut back on coal usage. In an ideal world China would use the funds directed to Belt and Road to green infrastructure but in terms of its own ambition and growth prospects coal is the on
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by 40acres 7y ago
I understand the cynicism of this community to Stadia but implore you all to think a little broader. Stadia is different, with this product Google is trying something really innovative. For one, the fact that Stadia actually costs money sho
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by 40acres 7y ago
There is this constant hope out there that somehow someway workers will move away from cities at a critical enough mass to reach an equilibrium regarding affordability. Why? Humans converge on cities for many, many reasons. Even if remote w
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by 40acres 7y ago
Traditional banks have a consumer tech problem. This has led to the rise of Robinhood, Venmo, etc. Partnering with tech players like Apple and Google allows them access to their customers. Big tech wants access to financial services for a f
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by 40acres 7y ago
Sounds like Googlers spoiled the well. I'm not sure exactly why but Google employees always seem to be in the news about something and have leaked conversations that management had with them. In some instances the controversy is warran
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by 40acres 7y ago
Education is such a winner take all system that people get really crazy about it. Desegregation busing was a huge issue in the 70s, Harvard is getting sued by students and parents for not letting them in. It's an emotional thing.
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by 40acres 7y ago
I think this is totally wrong. Americans of all levels highly value education. Babies are put on wait list for daycare as soon as pregnancy is confirmed. Parents have had their kids move in with distant relatives to be qualified for a bette
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by 40acres 7y ago
Like all things in life "it depends". I rarely practiced TDD until I started working on a piece of software that could take anywhere from under a minute to an hour to finish running. This means I must be able to isolate the specif
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by 40acres 7y ago
Is it introducing bias or is it introducing appropriate weighting? The most crime filled neighborhood in America may not be the inner city you have pictured in your mind but Lower Manhattan.
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by 40acres 7y ago
This is exactly the problem. An AI classifier without sufficient context is simply a very efficient discrimination machine. We must make sure that AI systems have enough context and protection from human bias before large scale deployment.
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by 40acres 7y ago
We know that boys and girls are conditioned by society to be more interested in certain fields than others. It's why my cousin asked me to get a robot for her son's birthday as opposed to a dress for her daughter. Do we want our b
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by 40acres 7y ago
I was a dinner party when the topic of vacation homes comes came up. We were all young professionals in tech so a vacation home in middle age was not out of the question. When I mentioned my reluctance to invest in beach front property ever
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by 40acres 7y ago
One of the advantages of being a software engineer is that almost every industry needs software. One of the scariest things about a potential software monopoly is that every industry needs software.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Good. I hope that AI can be used as a mirror for the engineers working with it. AI allows amplification of the subtle assumptions we make in design and hopefully that amplification leads to better understand and appropriate measures to redu
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by 40acres 7y ago
Doubt it. For devs there still isn't a great alternative. No one has the build quality of Apple and the XPS has been disappointing. Can't speak much for other pros but I'd imagine that they held off on an upgrade rather than
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by 40acres 7y ago
A major antitrust issue is that too much competition is annoying for users. I'm not going to check every airline carrier when booking a flight, I will use an aggregator. Same thing for hotels, restaurants, etc. Look at the current stre
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by 40acres 7y ago
I work about 5 hours a day and love it. I've left work multiple days at 2-3pm and that's okay because on those days I'm usually in the office at 7-8. Scrum allows my teammates to know what I'm up to and as long as work i
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by 40acres 7y ago
Tether sounds like the Federal Reserve's interface to Bitcoin.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Art is subjective. I get Scorsese's point and in many ways agree. In regards to risk -- superhero movies have few. The plot is very structured and a substantial part of the plot is adapted.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Seems like the right move. Personally, I think we are reaching the edges of what we can reasonably expect from social media companies. If a politician is lying in their ads, is it up to a social media company to decide the truth or well inf
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by 40acres 7y ago
Just turned 28 and can say I easily fit the bill for 3/4 of these descriptions. I've been chalking it up to a quarter life crisis and am desperate for a geographic move to add some new experiences to my life.
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by 40acres 7y ago
I don't understand why Zuckerberg doesn't just cut his losses and remove political ads. It does not seem worth it financially or non-financially.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Please post the income share agreement.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Interesting. If I remember correctly when the contract was initially made public there was a lot of critism as it seemed tailor made for Amazon. Microsoft has pulled a great coup but I have to wonder -- President Trump has brought up this c
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by 40acres 7y ago
How many offshore wind farms are there in the US? I heard a radio story a while back about some homeowners in New England pushing back against a proposed wind farm for aesthetic reasons -- not a surprising development but I must say I didn&
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by 40acres 7y ago
I can only speak for America society, but in my experience after a certain age general novelty seeking is discouraged. We've all experienced the feeling of being bombarded by questions from a toddler, but after a certain age we restric
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by 40acres 7y ago
I won't be surprised if WeWork comes out of this mess relatively strong. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste and I still believe that the idea of WeWork can be valuable. A lot of ink has been spilled about how cooky Adam and his wife
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by 40acres 7y ago
Just rewatched the series now that it's out on Netflix, I really loved the aesthetic of NERV HQ digital screens. A nice mix of digital and older style fonts.

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