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by balozi 9y ago
Probably not a popular opinion but this Tesla business feels like what I imagine being cult or Ponzi scheme would feel like.
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by balozi 9y ago
Just in time for quarterly earnings report.
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by balozi 9y ago
I have always wondered how much of what I see on Hacker News is "sponsored content." Not that there is anything wrong with it.
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by balozi 9y ago
Well, the AI did such a bang–up job sorting out the mess in comment section that it got promoted to sorting out the videos themselves.
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by balozi 9y ago
Even Gates doesn't trust the government with his money. If he did he would render unto Caesar and have him build roads and fund foreign despots. Like the the rest of us.
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by balozi 9y ago
I guess this would be the opposite of a diversity program since they are going out to hire a very specific type of employee. It appears that they want a mono-personality in their halls.
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by balozi 9y ago
I predict t'will be 21 straight quarters of declining revenues.
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by balozi 9y ago
I guess that when the vehicle isn't helping deliver communications to areas impacted by natural disasters or other emergencies, the Air Force will strap an AGM-114 Hellfire package on it and have it linger over combat zones for days. I
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by balozi 9y ago
Nothing Amazon does makes sense immediately. Only in hindsight does the strategy emerge. What would be also helpful would be for Amazon to disrupt the wine and liquor sector.
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by balozi 9y ago
Well...isn't Whole Foods brick and mortar?
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by balozi 9y ago
There was a time when Microsoft was deemed too powerful, with incessant calls from pundits for antitrust authorities to step in and break up the company. I believe it is widely accepted now that the pundits/regulators were dead wrong t
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by balozi 9y ago
"Tesla added that Vandermeyden had been granted numerous positions over other more qualified candidates and was given special treatment and opportunities for advancement that were unwarranted based on her qualifications”. Its amazing t
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by balozi 9y ago
Does it really matter who is on the board of a privately held company?
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by balozi 10y ago
Maybe the idea of an everlasting supply of stable white-collar and well-paying blue-collar work was a mirage in the first place.
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by balozi 10y ago
One likely outcome from this is that Google Search and News will be now be perceived as partisan by the Hoi polloi. Same reason why the old media gatekeeper fell by the wayside.
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by balozi 10y ago
Are there jobs at any skill level that are immune to automation?
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by balozi 10y ago
I will hazard a guess that the popular answer in these parts will industry gentrification.
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by balozi 10y ago
As I see it the #1 impediment to the success of the machine-owned enterprise is that in the real world said machine would be forced into transacting with inherently irrational actors (humans). Well...unless the intention is to ...you know..
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by balozi 10y ago
Yup! At this rate we will have AWS SHA1 Collision as a Web Service by tomorrow morning.
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by balozi 10y ago
If I was Ms. Rometty, I would spend my time playing up the fact that A.I. will lead to a vastly improved quality of life for everyone. Advancements in knowledge always tend to do that and A.I. is a great leap forward in tech knowledge.
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by balozi 11y ago
Maybe Yahoo! should build a smartphone. That'll solve all their problems. Hey, I'm just trying to help.
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by balozi 11y ago
Reading this thread, I get the sense that most comments are from twenty-something guys. There is no way they would understand what the 40-something rusty programmer is talking about. It's call the invincibility of naive youth. You will
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by balozi 12y ago
What the heck is a Feminist Hacker anyway?
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by balozi 13y ago
The only victims here were the other poor employees that had put up with this nonsense from this crazy cast of characters.
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by balozi 13y ago
"The average techie is a male who has spent a lot more time interacting with his computer than he has interacting with women. He does not understand women, he fears women, and what he fears, he hates" I think this is unhelpful pop
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by balozi 13y ago
IBM still has their usual business of building questionable enterprise applications to fall back on. That or continue building $200-million supercomputers for the NSA. Eh...Sorry, I meant Department of Energy.
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by balozi 13y ago
Looks like IBM might be trying to buy good press. Plus, it's just over a week till Q4 earnings report. I bet Rometty has seen the numbers.
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by balozi 13y ago
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