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by anbop 7y ago
The problem with SaaS alternatives to Excel business processes is the difficulty of linking data between apps. Let’s say you want to answer some topical question, like “are code reviews for women and men written with a different tone?” You
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by anbop 7y ago
Why? Apple doesn’t vet apps for privacy or security. The API surface is what affects these.
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And being done by Apple, most services can’t just reject these the way they do with Mailinator addresses, since it would be throwing away a giant chunk of their revenue. Apps with huge consumer demand like Uber or Facebook could get away wi
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by anbop 7y ago
on EBS, not on S3. EBS has much lower durability guarantees
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by anbop 7y ago
I use the voice activated services a lot. It helps turn off the lights in the house while I am watching my kid so I don’t have to drag her up and down the stairs. It helps maintain lots of timers, and grocery lists, and play music when I’ve
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by anbop 7y ago
One thing to note here is that India has massive credential over demand. An international hotel can require Master’s degrees in English for its front desk staff. So it doesn’t matter that these PhDs can’t do original research because 99% of
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by anbop 7y ago
Don’t know why we get excited about subsidizing the poor choices of the 40th percentile income earner instead of the 5th percentile earner.
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Why can’t Josef Stalin just be a standup defender of the arts that has issues with killing people in specific circumstances?
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by anbop 7y ago
Sure there is selective enforcement. But selling a car to someone you know will commit a crime with it is a crime itself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Holle
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Tort law. Because everyone has to carry huge liability insurance, everyone needs to go through tons of CYA process, which drives up cost and slows down work at every single transactional point in the entire economy. Hence the success of meg
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These guys were actually shipping phones to cartel bosses. It’s a bit different than just offering a phone in a general purpose retail store.
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You could have onboard acceleration and depth sensors on the camera to make the fake costlier to produce.
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Play deepfake on a TV, point signed camera at it.
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One thing that’s important to do in a discussion of regulating Facebook is to separate the conversation from personal evaluations of its founders and managers. A person does not need to be evil or even ill-intentioned to invent something de
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The advantages of having a big customer base are tremendous. If you build an amazing exercise tracker iOS app, for example, you'll have to go convince every user from scratch to start using your product. Doesn't matter if it'
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by anbop 7y ago
Can it shoot coarse sand?
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by anbop 7y ago
It’s a different leader of Ecuador. Assuming a consistent position is like assuming consistency between the Obama and Trump administrations. Unrealistic expectation from a past that no longer exists.
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I use 28 gallons of fuel in a week. Not going to be super concerned with my cremation.
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Advance image processing AI by 1000x (which could happen in 10 years) and the images are much more dangerous.
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by anbop 7y ago
As soon as you have the ML model you have the method to train a fraud bot. Just keep iterating on it until it fools the model.
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Hopefully the Fed can inflate away >50% of real pension liabilities.
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What is the equivalent video for Trump? The situations are not parallel.
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Might be just me, but I think that if a serious medical condition like this is discovered in utero, the more humane approach is to abort the pregnancy.
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Microsoft is perhaps the single company that has changed the most since 1997.
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I have a bunch of devices and like to have some files available on all of them. If I import photos to my desktop, they’re on my laptop and phone automatically. When I download PDFs and things I put them in Dropbox and can read them from the
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That’s actually worse.
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Try those companies' sync apps and you'll be back to Dropbox in a hot minute. I once tried to use the OneDrive app and it said my files would take 9 hours to back up, after an hour I gave up and tried Dropbox and it did it in an h
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by anbop 7y ago
I don’t get what you’re trying to express. Is there anyone at Apple who works only on Mac OS? The senior most such person is the de facto boss of Mac OS.
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Tell that to those few thousand parents.
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Sure, there is one exec, but there must be someone under him who is responsible for OS X.

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