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by freyir 9y ago
> Is this actually the case? I think it's vastly more likely that this will do little more than sharply increase the demand for people that actually have the bodies that other individuals were being photoshopped to have. It's
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by freyir 9y ago
Bad analogy: people stay in dysfunctional relationships with awful people all the time. Companies do too.
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by freyir 9y ago
They found out that Japanese Twitter users don’t run up against the character limit, and are less frustrated as a result. The point is to make everybody else less frustrated, not to make the Japanese as frustrated as everybody else.
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by freyir 9y ago
In this context, a "buggier" algorithm is one that is more prone to bugs.
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by freyir 9y ago
> it tried to read the people setting the phones up on the podium. This sounds annoying. With Touch ID, unlocking the phone is a deliberate action. With Face ID, it sounds less predictable.
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by freyir 9y ago
Regardless of Uber or United, what's your point? If everybody else turns a blind eye to bad behavior, we might as well abandon our own principles out of convenience?
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by freyir 9y ago
> Free Basics and Internet.org were two of the most disgusting moves They're still disgusting moves. India prohibited Internet.org, but Facebook is actively pushing it in many other countries (Nigeria, Indonesia, South Africa, Bol
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by freyir 9y ago
The message during the demo said "Your passcode is required to enable Face ID" This indicates an error. When you have too many failed Touch ID attempts, the iPhone says "Your passcode is required to enable Touch ID"
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by freyir 9y ago
You're backtracking. You claimed an engineer's work is deterministic and fully under his or her control. That may be true for a very limited subset of jobs, where engineers are doing essentially trivial tasks, but more generally,
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by freyir 9y ago
> By comparison, an engineer's work is "deterministic" in that is fully under his or her control to complete the goal. It sounds like you only have a single perspective, which is fine, but having more perspectives would
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by freyir 9y ago
The danger in this contrived scenario is still the human driver, who is distracted and careening down the road. If all the cars were autonomous, it would more likely to be a matter of frustration than safety: the gnome causes a traffic jam
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by freyir 9y ago
If Whole Foods becomes anything like Amazon, their locally-sourced grass-fed beef could become commingled meat product from various fly-by-night suppliers that's just "fulfilled by Whole Foods." Amazon's inability or ind
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by freyir 9y ago
It's an Initial Coin Offering, a unregulated way for a company to raise funds, but which has also been associated with scams and Ponzi schemes recently.
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by freyir 9y ago
> Technology companies must be willing to disrupt themselves before the competition does Kalanick described autonomous driving as existential to the company. He didn't see autonomous vehicles as a disruption, but as the natural
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by freyir 9y ago
After ten years
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by freyir 9y ago
We could call it Python 3.
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by freyir 9y ago
> However, Andrew Wiles... Grigori Perelman also comes to mind.
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by freyir 9y ago
The question was why a PL developer has seemingly turned away from the domain in which he's prominent, to work on machine learning, where he has no prominence to my knowledge. His resume does not explain it very well, or at all.
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by freyir 9y ago
If the Saudis were misled in their $3.5B investment? IANAL, but individuals might be held accountable.
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by freyir 9y ago
> There is an obvious overlap between programming languages and machine learning at Google This doesn't explain his very brief stint at Tesla as head of AutoPilot.
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by freyir 9y ago
> "They are really good engineers, really indispensable. And then they start to pull 9-5 days" Worthless slackers.
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by freyir 9y ago
You sound like a real high performer.
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by freyir 9y ago
> With billions in free marketing from every media site on the planet, Apple would be pretty much irrelevant already So you think the media collectively conspired to prop up Apple, and their subpar, irrelevant products that nobody ac
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by freyir 9y ago
In the context, it's obvious he's talking about NFL players. Offensive line annual salaries: http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/average/offensive-line/
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by freyir 9y ago
Every wifi chipset has working drivers Every existing Wi-Fi chipset has working drivers. A startup begins from scratch, which is one more barrier to entry.
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by freyir 9y ago
> Competitors have more than enough know how to determine if you're infringing a patent How do you figure? The detectability of infringement is a key factor in deciding whether to file a patent. Regardless, copyright infringement
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by freyir 9y ago
> I find the normal life exceptionally frustrating, so I must be exceptional Isn't this just the mantra of the millennial?
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by freyir 9y ago
Is it presumptuous if it's true with high probability?
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by freyir 9y ago
That's how it seems, but OP suggested it was written by a communications department. I'm not sure. Why leave out the authors' names?
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by freyir 9y ago
> It is not an anonymous publication! So who wrote this? You say it's "based on a paper" written by known authors, but did they write this publication? Why not put their names not on it? Or did a representative write it,

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