Breza

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by Breza 5y ago
"Where'd you go?" "Babe I'm right here, what's wrong?" YOUR CREDIT CARD HAS EXPIRED, PLEASE UPDATE YOUR PAYMENT INFORMATION TO CONTINUE YOUR EYESEEU PLUS SUBSCRIPTION
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by Breza 5y ago
How would that work? "Please enter your Gmail password to continue placing an order"?
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by Breza 5y ago
I attended an aviation camp when I was 15 and I couldn't believe that the FAA allowed any pilot to fly VFR next to an airport. (Then I moved to Washington DC where you can't fly VFR anywhere.)
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by Breza 5y ago
I don't think anybody is going to break into my house because they surveilled the place with a drone. I do worry about feeling less secure on my property because someone keeps watching me in the backyard with a drone and I have no way
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by Breza 5y ago
You also can't drive your car onto my property without permission. There are valid reasons for a drone to do exactly that, and I'd like to know who is looking at my house. It would be nice to Google a drone ID and realize that it&
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by Breza 5y ago
Shouldn't the public know who's flying drones over their property? I wish the drone IDs were publicly listed, just like N numbers.
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by Breza 5y ago
I really don't mind if people can trace my drone back to me. I'm a licensed ham radio operator and my call sign is linked to my real identity. And I want to know who is flying drones over my property. The two police departments th
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by Breza 5y ago
What are you working on?
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by Breza 5y ago
My wife's employer shut down their office and my employer did the same. It really helps build trust that they're not about to make us go back to an office.
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by Breza 5y ago
The best coworker I've ever had was a CTO who was well known for being grumpy. He leaned into it, with a Darth Vader head on his desk, an internal email signature identifying him as "CTO, Grumpiness," etc. When I actually sta
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by Breza 5y ago
There's the idea in the business world that you can just throw money at programmatic advertising and trust the ad tech to put your message in front of the right audience at the right time. Your example shows that there's a lot of
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by Breza 5y ago
Yeah, if I search for "Sephora" and the first result is titled "Top quality makeup" and links to a no-name site with knockoff products, that's not competing on product.
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by Breza 5y ago
Even then you may not know if you had a positive return from your ad campaign. I've worked with many professional ad buyers who couldn't prove that their campaigns have had good returns.
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by Breza 5y ago
This is exactly right. I saw one ad tech company advertising the ability to target Congressional staff members at their homes. I wondered how they did this and read my ISP's privacy policy. I hadn't realized they sold my personal
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by Breza 5y ago
"I can't even imagine how the Founders would react to things like the PATRIOT Act." That might not be the best argument. Remember that the First Amendment passed only a few years before the awful Sedition Act, which would nev
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by Breza 5y ago
Well said. Judging historical figures by modern standards isn't fair. We should look at each person as a flawed human being and take away lessons from what they did right and what they did wrong.
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by Breza 5y ago
Russia has lots of people with access to technology and it also has wildly repressive speech laws. That combination makes it great for this example.
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by Breza 5y ago
I don't think they're a monopoly. If Twitter vanished tomorrow, people would quickly move on to a host of other platforms. That's the sad truth about network effects: they can unravel shockingly quickly. My mayor tweets, but
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by Breza 5y ago
Modern cars have gotten so hard to steal that we're seeing more car jackings.
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by Breza 5y ago
Regarding the door locks, I live in a part of a city where some owners of older cars keep their doors unlocked so thieves won't break a window getting in.
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by Breza 5y ago
When I was 14, a family friend from church decided he needed help around his sizable property. He figured the easiest approach would be to teach me to operate his machinery and come over on weekends to work with him. He got brush cleared an
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by Breza 5y ago
This is really cool! Could be a great training tool for first responders sitting around the firehouse waiting for a call. FFs/EMTs enjoy any chance to earn bragging rights over each other.
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by Breza 5y ago
It's wild that they didn't have human appraisers review at least a sample of the houses to groundtruth the algorithm.
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by Breza 5y ago
I have the opposite experience. I love my house but if Redfin offered to pay me what the say my house is worth, I might sell and buy the bigger house next door.
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by Breza 5y ago
Same here! We ended up with a house that had been on the market for a long time. Turns out the biggest problem was its terrible listing.
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by Breza 5y ago
Python has a big advantage in deep learning but R still has an edge in classical statistics.
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by Breza 5y ago
I feel the exact same way! I've used R for the past decade. Once you learn the philosophy behind it, it just works. Yesterday my boss asked me a question about a dataset and I wrote code to analyze it while talking through the problem
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by Breza 5y ago
Agreed on both fronts. I like both algorithms as teaching tools. When I'm using clustering in a project, I reach for something else.
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by Breza 5y ago
I highly recommend the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications. It talks at length about different complex data systems and then warns readers that they should only use them if absolutely necessary.
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by Breza 5y ago
At best, it's a bad practice to collect personal information without a privacy policy. IANAL so I can't say much beyond that.

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