AJ007

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by AJ007 10y ago
You may not have a choice, if everyone's phones are doing it. Wikipedia leak today claims hacks for Smart TVs. Perhaps in the future, basic things like light bulbs aren't even usable without an Echo-like device. Bet on everything
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by AJ007 10y ago
I did something similar with Netflix after their streaming/DVD debacle. Bought a bunch low, and then quickly sold it after the recovery. I sure missed out on a massive return!
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by AJ007 10y ago
Agreed, this is not the quality of journalism a paid periodical like FT should be publishing. If there is evidence, print it, but this sounds like someone was fed an article title from a trending meme machine.
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by AJ007 10y ago
If the owners are paying property tax on (very expensive) homes then the extra revenue should be very beneficial to poor people who use city services and contribute little to no tax revenue. If there is no property tax, or it is abated (NYC
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by AJ007 10y ago
It is advantageous to be in a business everyone else thinks isn't worth being in. Whether it is because the business model is terrible (they make all of their money on ads) or the app can't possible have users (it looks horrible a
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by AJ007 10y ago
The key to success with Facebook advertising is making ads which get more attention than all of the other potential ads that could be shown to the user at that time. Because it is an auction system that requires only a very tiny advantage o
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by AJ007 10y ago
My guess is more along the lines of subsidiaries or licensees being set up within the political boundaries in which their users exist. That means some users will have to receive lower quality or higher priced service depending on local infr
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by AJ007 10y ago
It is also possible the tunnels could be privately financed and owned, which could have long term advantages for Tesla.
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by AJ007 10y ago
Watch a busy street at night during heavy traffic. You can see from the light shining off driver's faces that 40%~ of them are either using their phones or another system while driving. Given the proliferation of front-facing cameras a
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by AJ007 10y ago
Which government agencies can detain agents of other government agencies?
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by AJ007 10y ago
Making machines learn, applying machine learning to successfully solve problems, and positioning business assets to benefit from machine learning are three very different pieces of the "learn machine learning" puzzle. I don't
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by AJ007 10y ago
IBM is in the process of selling off its assets and returning capital to its executives and shareholders. The service thing is probably smoke and mirrors to prevent a run on the stock.
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by AJ007 10y ago
Thanks for posting this. When I saw the original FTC story I recalled reading about this once or twice in the past but couldn't think of any key phrases or sources. In response to some of the other comments here, basically what they ar
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by AJ007 10y ago
I saw one other comment mentioning healthcare, so I'll both to share my opinion as of 2017. The next (or after the next) Microsoft-Google-Apple-Facebook size tech company will be a healthcare company. There is no reason access to healt
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by AJ007 10y ago
A great deal of (US) income consumption goes toward people bidding against each other just on where to live. Take out wildly overpriced education, healthcare, and housing, and you can get by with barely working. 40% of Americans over 16 don
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by AJ007 10y ago
Best looking monitor I've ever owned, no problems yet. $1000 (after tax) is a great deal compared to the long dark years where the LCDs weren't as good as the CRTs which they had totally replaced.
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by AJ007 10y ago
The US has had continuous bombing/droning of Muslim countries for 15 years now. Most recently, UN estimates of civilians killed in Yemen, many by US-made bombs ( https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/12/08/y
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by AJ007 10y ago
It could be controversial to investors who are hoping for an IPO in the next 4 years. Is it controversial to anyone else? Even someone who supports Trump's executive order may consider it reasonable that refugees should be housed somew
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by AJ007 10y ago
Happy to finally hear someone that agrees with me. The 12" Macbook replaced my triple-27" Windows desktop & Surface Pros (Windows user since Win3.1 here.) The high DPI screen makes all of the difference. Just got the new Macbo
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by AJ007 10y ago
I would venture to guess that once a few people are inadvertently sprayed by paint while walking to work in the morning, destroying the bikes in public will be applauded.
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by AJ007 10y ago
It is pretty silly to basically leave money laying on the ground with an alarm that calls police when someone takes it. A better approach would be to have locks which open for the users. If the user does not lock up the bike and it is stole
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by AJ007 10y ago
I think you are partly correct. With a Clinton Presidency there would be no protests or opposition. The danger is that, just like Obama, the President after Trump will decry what their predecessor did and then as soon as entering office ext
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by AJ007 10y ago
Maybe I am wrong but I really don't like the forced to wake up idea. I spent most of my pre-adult life very tired and it may have been partly due to interrupted REM cycles in the morning. For the past few years I've been starting
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by AJ007 10y ago
I'm not sure why a Level 3 needs to be a person in the vehicle? Uber may time their IPO just before they start having growth problems. That seems to have a high probability. The contrarian side of me thinks that the more negative peopl
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by AJ007 10y ago
I will tell you what I tried when I was 22, and what I wish I had been told instead. I was doing weight lifting and ended up developing really bad RSI. Most likely from a combination of a few things including excessive computer use. I stopp
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by AJ007 10y ago
I wonder how many commonly utilized tools in startups actually reduce the overall chance of the companies success? Not sure high stress and wacky work environments are very productive outside of sales. I'll leave it at that.
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by AJ007 10y ago
To the contrary, Basic Income means consumers will have to spend their money purchasing things from for-profit entities which were previously provided by the government. Except for the corporations which are government suppliers for existin
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by AJ007 10y ago
The mental abstraction layer primitive graphics provides may communicate more value than we gain from a near accurate simulation. I'm not sure if this is because realism in a game contains mostly unnecessary information and our brains
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by AJ007 10y ago
American politics is good cop - bad cop, which one is good or bad depends on political affiliations. Both have the exact same goals with minimal deviation besides what words are being read from the teleprompter. Political hardliners cancel
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by AJ007 10y ago
I think the existence of speed cameras and red light cameras are because it was the problem that could be automated easily. Automatically detecting a car failing to yield to pedestrians, backing up on freeways, etc, until recently was too

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