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by alephnan 7y ago
That suggests there is demand for what they have to sell. Surely if they stood to profit, they would build it. They still have the Magic Leap listed for sale on their website. The real issue is likely consumers don't demand their produ
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by alephnan 7y ago
Nintendo's never competed with other gaming platforms on a technology basis, and they've shown novel experiences can be adapted from less edge bleeding technology. Thread from earlier this month: https://news.ycombinato
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by alephnan 7y ago
My point is that the Magic Leap CEO made it seem like there is a lack of consumer demand for gaming / entertainment products, due to a lack of job / financial prospects during Covid-19.
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From the article: > Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. So maybe similar reasons to WeWork.
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by alephnan 7y ago
> Citing COVID-19, CEO Rony Abovitz wrote in a blog post that the company needed to shift focus Right... because of Covid-19. As a counter example, Animal Crossing on the Nintendo Switch is doing phenomenal right now, in part due to Covi
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by alephnan 7y ago
Hong Kong has a large financial sector. IIRC, Vietnam did not have a derivatives market until a few years ago, and a few months in only had $20 million in trading volume.
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Actually, they were an industry researcher coming in as a guest lecturer.
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by alephnan 7y ago
For people who don't care about privacy, what would be the motivation for making the switch? Chrome is good enough. The interface is still streamlined. Microsoft didn't just lose interest in IE, but it became bloated with the tool
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by alephnan 7y ago
Right. I did not mean this as knock against Firefox. At one of the FAANG I previously worked at, it took an hour to compile JavaScript.
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> How do you reconcile the two? This sounds like a riddle / koan. Business analysts pulled these metrics from a data warehouse and the semantics don't line up. I've worked on growth and data science teams, and there ought
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We had an "open-ended" project in an undergraduate Computer Security course to discover a 0-day in Firefox. The professor (a researcher, not lecturer, by trade) didn't really have a curriculum, and said this artifact accounte
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by alephnan 7y ago
> within Google are looking at their “rivals” for inspiration, rather than the fundamental problems Google is rewarded for solving (Search, targeted advertising, IT infrastructure). Most of my cloud experience has been with GCP, but I tr
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> who is left to build? The people who are now unemployed
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Then again, JavaScript can be thought of as the language of the distributed web...
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What are you suggesting? Corporations exist to shield the owners from the company's liabilities to a limited extent.
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> Decentralized social networks have been tried before, the two most well known are Diaspora and Mastadon. With these services there [is still moderation]... Scuttlebutt is how I believe the social web should function in the future. Even
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by alephnan 7y ago
> Disney has no assets One of the largest private land owners in Florida. Also land in Europe, Japan, California? Intellectual property and brand value? Marvel. Merchandising rights for toys. Broadway shows. Before Disney+, there was Dis
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by alephnan 7y ago
These individuals spoke at a news conference apparently
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> Are banks greedy And Western Union. *I've worked at one of the major remittance companies.
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Sounds like the Zara model. To catch up with fashion trends fast, avoid the latency of cargo ships, and localize
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It’s rigged insofar that maybe people have insider information we don’t
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Was this data not publicly available ? Were there not army of analysts? I thought with Machine Learning being all the rage and hype, we’d have more people and machine keeping tabs on all kinds of trends, this included. Good that we have the
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Kind of weird title to quantify as “some”
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One of the requirements for unemployment is to show proof of actively applying for jobs. If workers are not interested in actually resuming work for the time being, they would apply jobs for which they would not qualify for, preferably ones
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I guess my question would be: why have the orchestration problem to begin with See, Apple is big and I’m sure they have a plethora of internal products too. At least on the consumer front, it’s not so confusing.
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What I would like to see from Google's leaders: First, put a halt to launching new products. Two, take a cold hard look at existing products and prune them in one fell swoop, rather than this distributed system where projects scale up
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by alephnan 7y ago
Seems like many corporations, executives, politicians are blatantly contradicting themselves in the past few weeks
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Would it be illegal for Amazon’s competitors to extend job offers to those who are at risk of being fired for going on strike? (If the fear is being fired as retaliation)
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> Like all businesses grappling with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, we are working hard to keep employees safe while serving communities and the most vulnerable Because people who can afford Amazon prime and prices are the most vulner
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Ask HN: Research on different search box UIs?
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