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by freyr 7y ago
I'm not understanding your position. Could you clarify what you're actually advocating we do? Are you suggesting we make a massive investment in Ericsson/Nokia 5G equipment and roll it out nationwide? That's costing us b
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by freyr 7y ago
Conceivably, if 5G increased network capacity and lowered operating costs, Verizon could charge consumers less per GB. Usage costs are tied, at least somewhat, to their operating costs and their supply of network capacity. And even if the c
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by freyr 7y ago
Sorry, but this "study" is fluff. I've worked in telecom and for the DOD. There are many people in these organizations whose careers depend on continual telecom infrastructure upgrades, and so they spend their days writing re
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by freyr 7y ago
We've reached the point where faster last-mile speeds have diminishing returns. In the past, faster transfer speeds have always been a bottleneck for emerging technologies (supporting a progression from text, to images, to audio, to vi
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by freyr 7y ago
> Is that really what you want? Yes, exactly that, since they've proven to be so utterly inept (or complicit) when it comes to regulating counterfeit products.
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by freyr 7y ago
Doesn’t it. It does depend or it doesn’t depend.
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by freyr 7y ago
They're use products, I just wouldn't call them "technology." The technology is everything that enables these apps (GPS, mobile chipsets, cellular technology, mobile OS, etc.).
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by freyr 7y ago
Can someone tell me where the older software engineers in the Bay Area have gone? I recently moved into the software industry (after years in the telecom industry), and the lack of older software engineers is disconcerting in a Soylent Gree
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by freyr 7y ago
Allow me to present the world’s smallest violin. We’ve forgotten what “good technology” means.
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by freyr 7y ago
Google is rolling out on-device voice recognition too. They’ve integrated it into Gboard: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-sp...
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by freyr 7y ago
Wouldn't this only be true if we were talking only about total market indexes? But most index funds aren’t total market funds.
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by freyr 7y ago
This is very nice, but why would I choose it over Trello?
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by freyr 7y ago
They're not "thought" to be non-ionizing. They are non-ionizing. Could there be some other mechanism that we don't understand yet and haven't observed yet that could be harmful? Yes, of course. But nobody has been
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by freyr 7y ago
Cellular radiation is tested very thoroughly. So far, the only observed effect is a slight thermal effect at very high received power, as we'd expect. We can't prove it's completely safe, but nobody yet has been able to dem
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by freyr 7y ago
> But those mmWaves for 5G are much higher frequency, and they get absorbed by more materials 4G is on the order of 10^9 Hz (1 GHz), and 5G is on the order of 10^10 - 10^11 Hz. Both are non-ionizing radiation, and in the overall scheme
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by freyr 7y ago
> "Marketing people dying to have something new to sell people" Not just marketing people. Everyone at companies making the equipment (Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei), the chipsets (Qualcomm), and rolling out the networks (e.g., AT&am
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by freyr 7y ago
> what a poor use of the CEOs time! Not if it keeps him off Twitter.
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by freyr 7y ago
Again, the Monster partnership ended pre-acquisition . I’m not criticizing Google or defending Apple. I’m just saying, your examples weren’t very convincing. If that’s the worst of Apple’s product cancellations (including one claim which w
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by freyr 7y ago
That’s because there’s currently a queue of many hundreds of thousands of Indians applying for green cards and citizenship. It’s not inefficiency, it’s the system working as designed: controlled flow of immigration, and a chance for people
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by freyr 7y ago
Very weak examples. Monster and Beats ended their partnership in 2012, and Apple didn't acquire Beats till 2014. Airport had a long run, and even when discontinued, Apple offered to service Airport products for five years. Yes, Ping go
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by freyr 7y ago
I’ve been buying from Target’s website lately. They’ve reduced shipping times a lot, and you don’t need to deal with shady third-party sellers or commingled counterfeits.
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by freyr 7y ago
Yes, but why does the creditor play along?
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by freyr 7y ago
He’s explaining the reality of the situation. But he’s also disregarding the fact that things people have done, historically, things that have been persecuted, but may only be “wrong” according to shifting cultural temperaments (e.g., lovin
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by freyr 7y ago
The best textbooks, the ones considered classic gems in their field, are careful about what they say and what they leave out. You get the sense that every word is in its right place. By comparison, Goodfellow and his co-authors seemed to ju
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by freyr 7y ago
There's making money, and there's making enough money to justify an $84B valuation.
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by freyr 7y ago
My impression was the opposite. You're given a problem, there are usually a few clear-cut ways to solve it. You're expected to find an optimal or near optimal solution fairly quickly, and explain your approach clearly. That's
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by freyr 7y ago
Your comment doesn’t even come close to addressing what he said. The patents are broad enough that a functional, standards-compliant modem can not be made without paying royalties to Qualcomm. And it’s their patent and licensing policy that
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by freyr 7y ago
Why is storage at a (space-limited) cell tower more interesting than storage/compute at the ISP or packet core (or whatever's at the other end of the backhaul)? How much latency do you think is incurred between the ISP and cell to
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by freyr 8y ago
Have a non-CS PhD and “made it” in my field, but joined FANG to make 2X as much money. I mean, why not? You should have an upper hand though with a CS degree. I had to learn everything on my own, and there are still areas that I don’t know
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by freyr 8y ago
Wouldn't hurt to put chess in the title.

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