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by gfo 8y ago
I'd really prefer any company working on self-driving technology collaborate anyway. I don't see it as important for getting users on the platforms as suggested in the article or even as a 'business' decision. As we begi
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by gfo 8y ago
> It is not unreasonable to argue that fiat currencies around the world are not stable because of inflationary monetary policies. If you're comparing the stability of the major currencies to Bitcoin you really need to look at the p
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by gfo 8y ago
Comments about the substance of the article aside, there's always going to be some risk of bias in AI which is why I'd argue one should never vote for an AI like this, especially if it takes the normal route of a politician and st
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by gfo 8y ago
This is a feature available to enterprises in Exchange server and it works quite well, especially for messages with sensitive content. The key difference is that emails are typically intended for those the message has been sent to and not f
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by gfo 8y ago
A sign of the times perhaps? It makes sense given the repository, but of course, it does make it challenging to verify the authenticity of the request when, for all we know by looking at the messages, they could be random users.
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by gfo 9y ago
> People who work in abrasive environments sometimes without proper protection often temporarily have no fingerprints as they are "warn off". Do they come back in the same form as they previously were?
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by gfo 9y ago
I've heard anecdotes of people who delete posts from Instagram if they don't get enough likes - some figures included a minimum of 100 likes. I can absolutely see where the mental health problems come into play from that.
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by gfo 9y ago
That's a great take, didn't think of that. Thanks for your response.
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by gfo 9y ago
I agree with most of the sentiments, except for one key statement: > "Just about any computer you can buy today is going to have some kind of non-trivial boot time. It probably will require a whole ecosystem of crazy things to make
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by gfo 9y ago
Was just thinking this. This would be especially useful with plagiarism detection.
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by gfo 9y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by gfo 9y ago
Why must an intruder, who may be there just to steal something and not harm others, immediately have to pay for their actions with their life? Do gun owners truly believe that they can band together and stop the entirety of the United State
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by gfo 9y ago
Obviously the content of these young girls' entrepreneurial pursuits don't appeal to you. They don't appeal to me either, the target audience is 8-14 year-olds. It's celebrating a new generation of girls who are interest
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by gfo 9y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of this immediately after reading the article. You mentioned another point that's worth investigating with this technology - some places see excessive rainfall to the point where it d
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by gfo 9y ago
"Embrace, extend, extinguish" -Microsoft's old motto. This is exactly how they previously did business and still do, frankly. Facebook's core business functions purely on user data though and that's how they use the
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by gfo 9y ago
Microsoft is coming back in a big way though. Sure, it may not have the dominance it used to have but they've learned from the problems of the Ballmer era. Satya Nadella seems to be a huge proponent of meeting customers where they are
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by gfo 9y ago
I'm curious about how many people were on the internet at Myspace's peak though. Seems a lot of the online world is on Facebook now, but technology does make it very easy to switch platforms at a moment's notice when the new
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by gfo 9y ago
I don't want Tesla to fail because I like what Elon Musk is doing for the world. However, the production timeline issues combined with the poor quality of Model 3 cars which have already been released is a big concern of mine, to the p
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by gfo 9y ago
I've been wondering what kind of collapse would happen when something like this happened to a business where the majority of their revenue comes from monetizing their consumers. Of course, a collapse would only be possible if: * The FT
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by gfo 9y ago
I wonder how this applies to humans now that photographs are so common. At a young age we might not recognize ourselves, but anymore, especially with social media, we're constantly surrounded by pictures of ourselves in different situa
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by gfo 10y ago
To preface my comment, I don't like the idea of providing government-issued ID either. I'd like to see their privacy policy regarding the storage of the ID and if they collect the info from it. Having said that, I'm almost gl
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by gfo 10y ago
True, but given that they're moving towards 'Windows as a Service' it's not hard to imagine that happening someday. Except for the Server OS. That's already built to be pretty standalone (aside from updates and coll
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by gfo 10y ago
Agreed. If they go as far as randomly disabling AWS nodes to test their own resilience I'd be shocked if they didn't have some sort of contingency for if AWS went completely belly-up. Who knows, they could even have Azure nodes on
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by gfo 10y ago
> We ended up solving the problem by not continously pushing the button down when turning. The further the wheel is turned to the left or right, the greater amount of time the button stays down and the further the car turns. I'm a l
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by gfo 10y ago
Putting this in the category of "almost seems like common sense, but I never connected the thoughts to come up with this". Let's look at house pets for example - many dogs still exist because of their friendliness towards hum
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by gfo 10y ago
I'm curious... what has this done to the job market for those who aren't in tech? Where do the nurses, garbagemen, policemen, etc. live? Their salaries are not nearly that of those in tech so I can't imagine these prices woul
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by gfo 10y ago
I'm in the same boat right now - I'm paying >$2k/mo in rent. I could certainly wait to get the full 20% down payment, but it makes more sense to me if I buy a condo now, build the equity, and down the road I can keep savin
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by gfo 10y ago
It's an interesting point that they're using a Class A address space for the country, but it's also North Korea... are we really expecting all of its citizens to be on this? Either way they'll probably run into issues do
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by gfo 10y ago
Why do CPUs and GPUs run hotter when doing more intensive tasks? In your last statement I could see it making sense where the CPU actually halts, but did prior CPUs always run at about the same temperature? Or do these idle processes throw
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by gfo 10y ago
Are things seriously that bad right now that you've actually left everything behind and left?

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