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901.
by devoply 8y ago
> collect all your data, making their marketing platform even more valuable I think the oily rags metaphor applies. They collect all your data but it's not worth much individually. But yet they want all of it ignoring your needs and
902.
by devoply 8y ago
I guess the step after this is greater representation of minorities in the board room. In general there does need to be greater representation of minorities in upper management. That does not happen as much as it should.
903.
by devoply 8y ago
Perfectly balanced.
904.
by devoply 8y ago
Give the Brawndo, it's what plants crave. Seriously give them what they like to eat. Make it addictive like we do for fast food. Not only will you have birds that do your bidding, but they'll be nice and fat so you can catch &#x27
905.
by devoply 8y ago
Machine learning to the rescue. Actually do a image analysis on each piece of rubbish deposited. You can use machine learning to induce learning in crows. Just imagine this sort of thing being in every park, it could significantly cut down
906.
by devoply 8y ago
> Medtronic’s latest FDA-approved product can now do most of the things the Farnsworths’ system can—for $7,000 Considering the price is affordable for most people I can see why people might object to instead relying on a $250 DIY unit.
907.
by devoply 8y ago
Can you elaborate on the sort of work and what you would be paying locally for the same sort of work... i.e. is it something that requires quite a bit of specialization, etc.
908.
by devoply 8y ago
I wonder if anyone in developed countries can actually make a living from something like Upwork. It seemed to me whenever I have looked at it, that it's mostly people and companies from the developing world who work for less than minim
909.
by devoply 8y ago
I am almost certain we have laws on the books to deal with that. The point is identifying that before they do anything.
910.
by devoply 8y ago
Okay I guess then we should do something about all them guns. Point there being that guns are readily available and this seems to be maybe slightly more dangerous in certain cases.
911.
by devoply 8y ago
The fact that most people value their freedom and are not looking to commit crimes. There are many many things that could be done, but if done mean essentially destroying your life. Most people don't want to destroy their lives.
912.
by devoply 8y ago
Some of them do, there are geosynchronous spy satellites. https://www.popsci.com/gaofen-4-worlds-most-powerful-geo-spy... "It may also have a lower resolution video streaming capacity."
913.
by devoply 8y ago
Now imagine doing this with a high res satellite anywhere on earth.
914.
by devoply 8y ago
> dangerously useful Ah yes danger to the profit motive. I would say the real danger is third party using other people's research to pocket billions and denying legitimate access of the research to millions and billions of people. T
915.
by devoply 8y ago
In Canada, salaries for tech seem to normally max out around 100k for developers (with exceptions for working for big US/multinational companies like Amazon, MSFT, etc.). Even 80k is pretty common for senior developers... In Canadian d
916.
by devoply 8y ago
> "it was concerned that a large increase in the number of women posed a serious problem for the future of the university hospital, because female doctors tend to quit after marrying or starting families."
917.
by devoply 8y ago
NSA: et tu, Princeton?
918.
by devoply 8y ago
Ontario recently cancelled their experiment with universal income. Which points me to the fact that even if UBI becomes reality at some point, it's only one government away at any time from being cancelled or adjusted. So your liveliho
919.
by devoply 8y ago
> over the $90 billion they pay in swipe fees every year. > Kroger's revenue was 122.7 billion USD in 2017 That makes little sense and makes me wonder why Kroger does not issue its own credit card. Credit cards are a rent-seekin
920.
by devoply 8y ago
Costs are negligible. Plenty of free journals around.
921.
by devoply 8y ago
$3M seems way excessive for a company that owns 15 properties. However it seems this is a big company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriton
922.
by devoply 8y ago
Expect China to get involved in social media meddling and election engineering in the 2020 US election.
923.
by devoply 8y ago
Media does not get AI wrong... media wants to create sensationalism that drives clicks so it publishes stories to that effect. It happens for every topic people fear which these days includes terror and AI...
924.
by devoply 8y ago
I think the round about point is that since no one is tuning into the mass media which might build the collective mass culture (or that mass media is changing to target advertising that directly targets individual dreams and desires), that
925.
by devoply 8y ago
The opposite of innovation. The ordinary license plate works fine and we do not need anything like these.
926.
by devoply 8y ago
It is necessary that there should be a common global language that everyone speaks, in addition to their native tongue. It might as well as be English rather than any other language. The other options are Spanish, French, Hindi, Chinese, or
927.
by devoply 8y ago
True. However these days pretty much everyone is colluding so there is that. Data bonanza.
928.
by devoply 8y ago
> “The fact that some air strikes are described in detail, particularly those that seem the most palatable, makes the absence of detail in others difficult to understand. It is not suggested that the MOD include detail on the legal analy
929.
by devoply 8y ago
"In games without frontiers, war without tears. If looks could kill, they probably will."
930.
by devoply 8y ago
And we have a billion ways to go extinct long before then. I would be surprised if humanity is around in a million years, heck even 1,000 seems doubtful these days. Very surprised.

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