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by bearcobra 5y ago
The SnazzyLabs was interesting to me, particularly because of Quinn’s experience as a Tesla owner and the flack he got about excusing their build quality. https://youtu.be/KS1HdnKG0YY Ben Sullins also had a video I enjoyed
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by bearcobra 5y ago
Several YouTubers got to participate in a press event recently, and I found many of their first impressions to be quiet interesting. I’m trying to talk my wife into letting me put in a pre-order
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by bearcobra 5y ago
I mean location based smoking bans definitely do reduce smoking rates.
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by bearcobra 5y ago
Alex Stamos twitter thread on the original ProPublica story has some interesting points about the tradeoffs when building these kinds of systems. https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1435285445336715265 I don&#x
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by bearcobra 5y ago
Over 40% of Canadians are partially vaccinated
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by bearcobra 5y ago
I wonder how things would have gone had Microsoft been successful in its acquisition of Yahoo. The value of the Altaba assets don't make the offered price seem quite so crazy in retrospect.
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by bearcobra 6y ago
Defender is a good example of why we might not want regulators to decide product categories. To me it seems perfectly reasonable that an operating system would offer a malware protection feature. Just because a feature wasn't included
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by bearcobra 6y ago
I mean, there are plenty of stories about Google, Amazon, Apple behaving in ways that could lead someone to that conclusion. Microsoft has the best reputation to me, but I'm young enough that the EEE days don't hold much resonance
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by bearcobra 6y ago
But isn't the "gotcha" part the fact that the ads are displayed in the Facebook/Instragram apps? There isn't a real world transaction taking place like your other examples. It's more akin to being able to buy a
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by bearcobra 6y ago
I don't think this project will happen, but it has some similar characteristics. Two cities with metro populations over 1 million that are separated by approximately 300kms of flat, sparsely populated land seems like a perfect test cas
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by bearcobra 6y ago
Given that analogy, I'm curious how a VC would view this kind of exit. Is breaking "even" seen as some kind of success given the higher failure rate for venture backed companies?
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Tesla sues Rivian over ‘disturbing pattern’ of alleged trade secret theft(theverge.com)
4 points by bearcobra 6y ago|0 comments
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by bearcobra 6y ago
To clarify, is Zoom or DTEN the company you are referring to?
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by bearcobra 6y ago
Starbucks spent close to $100 million advertising with Facebook
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by bearcobra 6y ago
Pretty genius move to get Apple to approve version 1.0 but not 1.0.1 to allow him to manufacture the controversy.
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by bearcobra 6y ago
Before the pandemic hit, I had planned a trip to Europe that included a stop in Porto based almost entirely on enjoying this channel.
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by bearcobra 6y ago
> There's a clear curfew order to stay inside The curfew order clearly says that people do NOT need to stay inside. https://dps.mn.gov/macc/Pages/faq.aspx
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by bearcobra 6y ago
It's part of a series they've been doing for years highlighting the history of physical controls across all kinds of devices. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/1/31/18205570/b...
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by bearcobra 6y ago
100% not related is probably too strong, but reports say they've broken readership records and have added ~90,000 subscribers since March. It seems much more plausible that the collapse of the events and ad businesses due to current ec
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by bearcobra 6y ago
All those services don't encrypt connections if they include PTSN phone calls or other features. Example: https://help.webex.com/en-us/WBX44739/What-Does-End-to-End-E...
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by bearcobra 6y ago
My understanding is that they already use AWS and Azure, so this probably isn't the case, but I wonder if the fact that the other major vendors have competing services influenced this decision.
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by bearcobra 6y ago
In a previous role all front line support were given instructions to add similar information at the start of conversations. Seemed silly until the data showed that customer satisfaction with the support team went up by something like 4% and
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by bearcobra 6y ago
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/mark-zuckerber... has the full interview the story is based on
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by bearcobra 6y ago
They did raise $200 million from NBCU in 2015. Now probably wouldn't be a great time to try to raise money given that their revenue streams (ads, events, etc.) are under extreme pressure.
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by bearcobra 7y ago
COVID-19 is obviously very scary and I fully understand why we'd want to lessen some restrictions to allow novel treatments to be tried. But as bad as things are, I think people underestimate how much worse they could be if aren't
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by bearcobra 7y ago
The YouTube channel Real Engineering has a great video breaking down why that might not actually be true. The possibility that makeshift devices could cause barotrauma and make things worse seems quite significant. You can check it out here
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by bearcobra 7y ago
One of the problems that creates is only certain types of people can afford to go into politics. Improving the pay for staffers might go a long way to reduce some of the revolving door cycles that many people find so distasteful
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by bearcobra 7y ago
Recruiting and retaining employees is quite expensive. Creating a reputation as a place that doesn't treat it's workers well only increases that cost. Not to mention the reputation risk with your customer base.
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by bearcobra 7y ago
The Weather Company (which no longer owns The Weather Channel) is part of IBM and also owns WeatherUnderground which has a pretty extensive personal weather station network. I'm skeptical that DarkSky's data is that much higher qu
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by bearcobra 7y ago
It should be noted that the city came out and denied that this was actually happening or that they've received any data [Paywalled] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-toronto-may...

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