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by beambot 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words.
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by beambot 6y ago
I heard through the grapevine that SoftBank sold something like 22,000 Pepper robots at $12k each. I never understood the utility -- I only ever saw them used as chintzy marketing gimmicks. I could easily see 1000 qty sales of SpotMini for
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by beambot 6y ago
Article talks a lot about policy violations, but very little about the policy itself. Anyone know: what is the policy?
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by beambot 6y ago
I'm highly skeptical of their area coverage claims. The amount of UV-C insolation required to effectively disinfect a surface is substantial. The UVD Robots require 10-15 minutes to disinfect a single hospital room [1]; SmartGuardUV c
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by beambot 6y ago
Exactly. And VC is tiny relative to other asset classes. It's important to match the company's model & expectations with its financing. VC isn't the only game in town: Private Equity, Debt, Bootstrapping, etc. are all
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by beambot 6y ago
That sounds awesome. Do we know of any photos or videos of this event?
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by beambot 6y ago
IIRC, Zoox was out fundraising. From the employee perspective, a guaranteed gig at Amazon is better than being laid off. Equity value was probably a sunk cost at this point.
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by beambot 6y ago
I suspect that computing (generally), computer-aided advances (generally), and access to information (specifically) have substantially improved average quality of life -- with major improvements on a large number of axes, even if other axes
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by beambot 6y ago
I don't buy the unsubstantiated argument that computing is the root cause of people's willful ignorance -- if anything, we have more unfettered access to information, and that appears to have a substantial impact on reducing extre
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by beambot 6y ago
> They (family members, parents included) don't know how to cook, how to learn, how to grow as humans. Guessing about their age, your parents' development likely predated mass computing. Their inability to do these things is n
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by beambot 6y ago
In many places, it's the "fees because we can" rise.
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by beambot 6y ago
Oracle (i.e. Java) & "reasonable cost" is a surprising pairing.
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by beambot 6y ago
If you like that, you'll get a kick out of fluidic logic -- used in old-school ICBMs, oscillators for spraying wiper fluid, etc https://hackaday.io/project/45555/gallery#5233f682e2114006e2... https:/&#x
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by beambot 6y ago
When you hypothesize the existence of new particles, people spend large sums of money building accelerators like the Large Hadron. Fwiw, if you're going to call out communism, then you also have to include representative democracies.
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by beambot 6y ago
I wasn't referring to basic updates such as minor UI/UX, security, etc. I specifically said, "substantially innovate."
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by beambot 6y ago
If anyone from Google is reading: Please disregard this comment. We like our Gmail exactly how it is. If you want to substantially "innovate" on email, please consider a new, independent product -- one that you can safely shutte
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by beambot 6y ago
> Google should be applauded if they make these wasteful developers suffer monetarily until they shape up. So you want Google to use their dominant position to force webmasters into a new paradigm that probably(?) benefits Google more th
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by beambot 6y ago
Comparing the test rig to a full rocket is more like comparing 4 liters to 3 inches. They're simply not comparable.
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by beambot 6y ago
Wat? It's totally meaningful to compare two length measurements, Even if expressed in different units. I get what you're trying to say (and you are right!), but that's a bad analogy.
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by beambot 6y ago
Where do you draw the distinction between a drone (presumably unarmed) vs a police helicopter?
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by beambot 6y ago
Zoox has a hell of a liquidation preference overhang. The common stock options could very well be worthless -- a lot of factors at play here, all of them well outside the purview of non-executives.
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by beambot 6y ago
People don't have eyes in the back of their heads. Self-driving cars don't get drunk or distracted by cell phones. Comparing humans with AVs is apples & oranges. The only meaningful comparison is in output metrics such as A
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by beambot 6y ago
The article seems to confirm your recollection of a macrotized "master": > Each of the assembly source files contains a header stating This translation created 10-Feb-83 by Version 4.3 > Since the Instruction Set Architectur
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by beambot 6y ago
And the dark patterns of opening accounts without your permission, burying fee information in the fine print, etc etc...? It's not just business; it's predatory.
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by beambot 6y ago
Give NewsBlur a try.
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by beambot 6y ago
Perhaps it's not about the nominal operation as a 5G tower; rather, a bunch of powerful software-defined radios that could interfere upon command is a pretty reasonable attack vector.
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by beambot 6y ago
The outbound relocation effect went from 57% to 90%. I suspect that 1200 samples is more than enough to demonstrate strong statistical confidence intervals. (Though I haven't run the numbers.)
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by beambot 7y ago
By your logic, I literally cannot think of a single candidate for a Black Swan event. I've seen examples floated: World Wars, Rise of PCs or Internet, Chernobyl, September 11th, etc, etc. All of these possibilities were posited by sma
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by beambot 7y ago
Events like the Carrington & Covid seem to fit: high profile, hard to predict and rare. IMO, both qualify as Black swan. At some point, you have to pick a threshold on the probabilities involved... These events are likely independent &a
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by beambot 7y ago
According to Wikipedia, the Federal Reserve was established in 1913 -- 106 years ago. It's a relative infant as far as societal structures go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve

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