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by aylmao 9y ago
If they're going to be replaced by robots soon, isn't that a good reason to not fear spending on them, since they are a short-term cost?
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by aylmao 9y ago
Thing is they don't need to. They could just tap a bit into their huge revenues before re-investing them in making planes or making huge acquisitions.
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by aylmao 9y ago
> which you could just turn around and buy stocks with. Which just benefits the company even further? Edit: if you downvote please reply. How will I correct my stance if I get no feedback? I'm not sure why I'm getting down vote
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by aylmao 9y ago
I'm pretty sure they could still offer this service and treat employees well. Implying Amazon _needs_ to be like this is largely turning a blind eye to the problem.
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by aylmao 9y ago
Exactly. If there's money to re-invest, there should be money to treat employees at least decently.
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by aylmao 9y ago
This assumes a lot of technical aspects. I'd like to learn more about the actual capabilities of the network before making assumptions like this.
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by aylmao 9y ago
Would be interesting if they built something like SMS/iMessage, where within the ecosystem emails were encrypted but when sent outside they weren't. Of course, hopefully PGP, and not some custom, private API like iMessage.
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by aylmao 9y ago
Thought: it might be "state backed and protected interests" there, but it has historically been "vc/wall st backed investor interests" here. Here the big tech business is ads and data collection, but other creative
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by aylmao 9y ago
My info wasn't leaked-- if it had been, I'm not sure if it would tell you how it was leaked (wether it was you who gave access to "This Is Your Digital Life" or a friend). If you're actually very curious, all I can
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by aylmao 9y ago
Name, email, friend list sounds reasonable, but how do you know they've got your photos? Curious; has it been revealed what information they collected?
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by aylmao 9y ago
I think the reason this isn't being reported much on is because it wasn't a leak. It sounds like it was just a scrape of data from the site. Scraping websites to collect public information is nothing new. Malicious actors do it al
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by aylmao 9y ago
> I still like it and am glad I opted for it, but it is far from earning its namesake. I trust the intelligence of drivers, but this brings up a good point. Could calling it "autopilot" be perhaps a bit much right now? I'm
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by aylmao 9y ago
People have back-ends. Of course I know "back-end" is very broad, I just thought we were in the same page here, talking about a web back-ends, that is all. Under that broad definition of the term, sure, go ahead and rant.
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by aylmao 9y ago
> FB may require you to login to view content It's available without login, at least on The Verge's page https://www.facebook.com/verge/videos/1779024592133876/ > IMO YouTube is a little more
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by aylmao 9y ago
Fair comment, thought something similar when I first read this, but ML falls into its own category IMO because it's not part of the "application" most of the time. It's back-end in that it's not front-end, but it&#x
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by aylmao 9y ago
Also better for the engineer-- if something is unclear or not working they can just talk to the guy on the next desk
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by aylmao 9y ago
I think the key would be to embed it to some existing appliance; like a router, game console, or other "always-on" and connected device. I don't see the home server being the prime selling point. Everyone needs a router, so i
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by aylmao 9y ago
> An average poor man in the US probably lives better than kings lived in the past. IMO very far from truth. An average poor man today _has more valuable stuff_ than a king in the past, but this doesn't translate into _living better
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by aylmao 9y ago
It's not a _complete_ explanation, but I agree with @grecy and have to expand on your response. > the workers have a drive for increasing profits too Whereas companies tend to have increasing profits as their only and primary goal,
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by aylmao 9y ago
Which ones?
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by aylmao 9y ago
Ah, true I guess. Good point.
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by aylmao 9y ago
That's besides the point of the original comment though. I'd assume even if they know stuff about you they can't make money off of you since you're not watching ads.
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by aylmao 9y ago
I guess what the previous comment was getting at is that it at least has _some_ value outside of being a financial tool. Bitcoins aren't even physical so they are not even useful as paperweights.
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by aylmao 9y ago
> Facebook is in trouble because it sold political influence at a price that previously non-mainstream actors could afford. Data is incidental to that scandal. Would you care to elaborate? I'm curious and not entirely sure what you
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by aylmao 9y ago
Tech companies are changing the world by building tools. What people use these tools for should be discussed on the context of the people. Discrimination didn't start because of Facebook and won't stop if/after it leaves. Thi
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by aylmao 9y ago
Facebook is the medium, not the publisher though. The people who built the radio didn't get called before an international criminal tribunal; it was the broadcasters who did.
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by aylmao 9y ago
Exactly. Which is what scares me. News lately have scared a lot of people into this censorship-supporting mentality and the idea of some sort of thought police. To have a healthy public discourse we need to strive for is educating people so
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by aylmao 9y ago
> Facebook is not only bad for Democracy I'd argue TV and broadcast media is worse for democracy. Facebook at least allows two-way communication and some degree of customization, whereas TV it's just CNN, Fox News, etc telling
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by aylmao 9y ago
> Tech has two sides I'd argue tech doesn't have two sides, but rather _we_ have two sides. If you make it about "tech" it implies it's somehow external to us, inherent to tech, and independent of what we do, whe

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