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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Owning a fleet is mostly a problem when they are laying around depreciating without being used. Higher capacity factor of self-driving cars will make the economics a lot better. The main issue would be if one player owns the self-driving IP
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
What makes you think they are even trying to make a profit? Uber has investors willing to throw billions at them to spend on growth, why wouldn’t they take it?
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Facebook disseminates propaganda: war crime! Facebook deletes evidence of atrocities: war crime!
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
>Instead, this article should have focused less on the decisions of AI systems and neural networks, which can be difficult to decipher and interpret, and more on the decisions of the humans behind these tech companies. The latter is much
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Facebook’s mistake was making an enemy of the media by demoting their status in the news feed. This has led to many reporters and their friends being put out of a job. Now everyone thinks Facebook is public enemy #1 for selling ads when oth
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
So does the phone company, right? This seems like something everybody should know before they send a text message.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Do you believe you are being force-fed thoughts any time you hear or read anything anyone else expresses? Seems to be just as much the case whether on not that expression is part of an ad. I personally have a pretty strong desire for agency
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
I’m not saying it’s ok, just trying to answer the question. California is a place people love to live that’s been glorified by the media for decades, and is the seat of power of the ascendant tech industry. Of course people are going to bas
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Punching up?
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
You might like the RASP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_stored-program...
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
The big tech companies are US-based and haven’t had as much time to build deep political connections like older industries. This makes them a natural target.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
This probably reveals how out of touch I am... but I always assumed people in the back could just get free food. Is the manager watching? Would fellow employees narc on you?
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
We will have to pass regulations to keep those evil tech companies under control, and those regulations will conveniently create huge barriers to entry in the robot construction business.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
If they have such rules, I wonder how many votes they require to use...
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
I think the solution is clear. Legalize tall buildings. Requiring someone to own or rent thousands of square feet of land to get access to hundreds of square feet of housing is guaranteed to lead to shortages.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
By renting a home, I can let somebody else tie up a million dollars in capital and all I have to pay them is a few thousand a month. This seems like a great deal for me, why do you want to ban me from engaging in this transaction?
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Why don’t you take the money from the dividends and spend it on Netflix shares? If Tim Cook went and spent all that cash on some company you don’t like, wouldn’t you be mad? If there’s one company Apple shareholders can agree is a good idea
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
It’s good for investors that the company can provide a sure return. If they don’t want to sell in/after a buyback, they can enjoy their more concentrated ownership. The investors can use the cash value of this increased equity to inves
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
A power-hungry CEO would rather hold on to the cash and use it to build a bigger empire. But it’s often in the best interest of shareholders to return cash via a dividend or buyback (buyback is preferred for tax reasons). It’s good that the
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Let’s remember that a job is an arrangement where you are paid for work on an ongoing basis. If you choose to work for a startup, you assume the risk that this work opportunity will go away. But if that happens, the salary you already earne
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
I can’t help but feel Nadella is playing catch-up, and winning at it. It’s almost like Microsoft had a lost decade under Ballmer.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Sure, make a careful decision when buying your car. But after you buy it, like it! You made a big commitment, and switching costs are high, so you’ll be happier if you feel you made the right decision. After watching a movie, critically ana
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
I’m American, and I frequently notice that most people are always talking about how much everything sucks. If somebody sees a movie, there is a 50/50 chance they will be talking about how they didn’t like it because they thought the wr
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Every big company that went bankrupt made it for years without going bankrupt.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
This fine is not for everything unethical Facebook ever did. This fine is for Facebook giving data to Cambridge Analytica. I don’t think Facebook got paid for that at all. When trying to google around for what people paid CA for the use of
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
I think if you were talking about such a large speeding ticket, you wouldn’t use a speeding ticket as a metaphor for a small fine...
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Yeah, I don’t think my whiteboarding skills are particularly useful at work, but the personality type that makes me obsessively practice whiteboarding for weeks before a job interview tour also makes me effective at work.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Why do we need a social credit score when we already have money?
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
It’s also possible for someone to become a child’s guardian if their parents lose the ability to fill that role. I don’t know how widespread this is across cultures, but in my family, parents of newborn children name a “godfather” and/
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
I think if they wanted to go into more detail about that, they would have done so.

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