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by ebbv 9y ago
Ok I will reword; there's something very wrong in the tech investment world. I'll edit the post.
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by ebbv 9y ago
An $8 Billion valuation on a company that: - Has no products. - Has done no public, verifiable demos of real tech even. - Has no verified technical innovations even as far as I know. Something is seriously, seriously wrong
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by ebbv 9y ago
That kind of thinking can be used to justify just about anything. That's nonsensical. The issue I have is that they seem to be deliberately misleading investors based on what has leaked out. They are certainly trying to mislead the pub
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by ebbv 9y ago
I started teaching myself to program when I was about 10 years old in 1988. Back then I learned from books. I went through books to learn languages and to learn frameworks or big applications (like X Windows.) As someone else said, Google w
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by ebbv 9y ago
If they had just advertised it as "a heavy blanket" do you think it would have gotten funding? It got funding because they made unsubstantiated medical claims, which is illegal for good reason. Otherwise I could sell you "ant
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by ebbv 9y ago
Why is it an either or scenario? We should do both. We have a duty to do both. Life on earth will one day end regardless, though. While we have the chance we should be doing everything we can to distribute it as widely as we can.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Forget about human beings. As far as we know, Earth is the only source of life in the galaxy or even universe. There is no guarantee it exists anywhere else, or that it will continue to exist here. In fact it is certain one day life will ce
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by ebbv 9y ago
Big difference between that and outright firing. Behind the scenes pressure is politics as usual.
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by ebbv 9y ago
I have mild dyslexia myself and I think any kind of notation is going to be a problem for us. The good news is you don't need musical notation to play music. You can play by ear. Don't let it stop you if you're really interes
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by ebbv 9y ago
Yeah it is what the Turing Test is all about and it's why I (like a lot of people) have always believed the Turing Test is insufficient as a test for AI.
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by ebbv 9y ago
> I guess you're one of the people to whom there is no "real" AI below general purpos, human-level intelligence. I don't think we need human level intelligence to have a more real intelligence. After all there is not
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by ebbv 9y ago
Except Watson, Siri, Alexa, etc aren't real AI. They are very specific applications for a specific task. The idea that they are AI has been great for marketing and creating another "Strong AI is around the corner bubble." But
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by ebbv 9y ago
If Soylent were a good idea it wouldn't need a $50M funding round at this point. People know about it. Most people I know who've tried it after a while didn't like it any more and abandoned it. And now they've brought ou
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by ebbv 9y ago
Yes tremendously. Even if we just burn gasoline at power plants they are still much more efficient. When you start to add in renewables as a source of power for EVs the environmental impact is tremendous. Buy an EV for your next car if you
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by ebbv 9y ago
This is baloney. The workings of any machine learning algorithm is not beyond our understanding. Even on an intuitive level, it is easy to watch what it is doing and derive theories about what is going on. If you spend the time to investiga
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by ebbv 9y ago
Title is extremely misleading. It is starting a funding round, it has not received the funding as the title states. After Theranos I would expect any rational investor to approach this with extreme caution.
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by ebbv 9y ago
> Anyone can get it. Please get me a couple billion dollars if it's so easy. Thanks.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Republicans talk a big game of fiscal responsibility but when given the chance they do irresponsible things like this and Bush's extensive tax cuts for the wealthy that cost the rest of us billions by running up debt.
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by ebbv 9y ago
What do you think they're going to do at a McDonald's if you say that? They're going to throw it away and make you a new one. The reality is most of the food McDonald's serves nowadays is served cold. It's an unfort
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by ebbv 9y ago
Considering Google's main business is selling ads I'm guessing they are only going to block ads from competitors. Who will then have very solid ground for a lawsuit for anti-competitive behavior. This seems like a bad idea.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Unfortunately which data they choose to show and how they frame it makes a big difference. There are objective facts but we all color them intentionally or unintentionally despite our best efforts.
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by ebbv 9y ago
I'm actually more suspicious of anything claiming to be "non-partisan" than something that wears its foundational beliefs on its sleeves. At least if something says "We are a Libertarian non-profit" or "We are
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by ebbv 10y ago
It's true but I would wager independent farmers are more likely to repair and keep old tractors around, or buy used when they do have to buy one. I bet the biggest buyer of new tractors are the farming conglomerates, and I wonder if th
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by ebbv 10y ago
I've had the same thought. It's such a niche issue and really it's incredibly standard for any kind of business hardware, which is what tractors are. Also nobody's being forced to buy new tractors, there's tons of o
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by ebbv 10y ago
1. Apple's telemetry is anonymize and not as invasive. 2. It's one option clearly in the setup and system preferences and easily disabled. Neither of those is true for Windows 10.
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by ebbv 10y ago
It's enabled by default and it will be re-enabled by patches even if you turn it off. But nice try attempting to blame the user for Microsoft being awful. Even if someone chose to enable telemetry, it is not reasonable to expect them t
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by ebbv 10y ago
> I guess this means we can officially stop hating on Microsoft for having such a lax attitude towards security, considering their last OS to suffer from that attitude was released 16 years ago What? That is complete nonsense. Yes Window
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by ebbv 10y ago
> it works great until those times it doesn't work and you get stuck somewhere waiting hours to charge If you run out of charge and get stuck somewhere that's no more the Leaf's fault than it is a gasoline car's fault
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by ebbv 10y ago
This article is really bad. On the one hand it says government is unreliable and therefore it's hopeless to regulate. Then it immediately argues we need to break the ISP monopolies (which is true.) But why are there monopolies? It is b
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by ebbv 10y ago
> If electric really displaces gasoline/petrol, we are going to need a lot more charging stations. This is true but not to the degree you might assume. I've had a LEAF for almost 3 years now and it has been charged outside of m

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