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by grizzles 9y ago
That characterization seems imprecise. I believe some parts of Google's social strategy are growing organically (eg. Gmail, Hangouts). My understanding is that a big part of G+ was rebuilding their entire product backend around global
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by grizzles 9y ago
> Not sure why you're being down-voted so harshly. Lyft employees? So far, there are not really any substantive counter arguments being posted. It's pretty rational to down-vote my comments if you have stock options that vest o
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by grizzles 9y ago
They didn't make a pixel perfect copy of Facebook. Instead they made their own thing, because vanity, ego, pride, etc. If they did that before 2007, we'd be talking about Facebook like it was MySpace right now.
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by grizzles 9y ago
With Google's warchest? Without a doubt. Google could run these guys over with their unsold inventory alone. Though I imagine that's probably used to prop up the CPAs of their big buyers. They could also snap their fingers and ad
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by grizzles 9y ago
Alphabet has too much money syndrome. It's a nice problem to have; they obviously don't have enough good stuff to invest in. Lyft/Uber have no special sauce. They have a quickly growing revenue stream with dubious profit pote
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by grizzles 9y ago
Total garbage. There will need to be some laws put in place soon to stop this type of thing by companies, otherwise we're going pure Gattaca. The nearest term risk for AI making your life suck is basically encoding people's biases
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by grizzles 9y ago
Pretty sure that's a big doughnut for all of them. They are pretty U.S. centric.
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by grizzles 9y ago
I hope Detroit gets it. Metro Detroit would be just perfect for it. It's on the East Coast. It has ridiculous transport infrastructure. There is a ton of cheap labor nearby. They can probably acquire an absolutely massive plot of land
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by grizzles 9y ago
Fertility is dropping so fast in western countries that within 50 years they will probably be showing pornos in high school.
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by grizzles 9y ago
Yep. I play with deep learning pretty much every day and I'm way more scared that we don't invent AI. In medicine alone, there is just an incredible opportunity to improve the human condition. A consequence of humanity establishin
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by grizzles 9y ago
This will probably slow down the ICOs. Smuggling money out of China is one of the main functions of crypto currencies these days. Edit: Bloomberg just reported Bitcoin has dropped 11% on the news, so far.
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by grizzles 9y ago
I'm looking for a new project to sink my teeth into. I'm keen to see what's out there. I like working with teams, or lone wolfing it is fine too. Location: Australia (I'm an expat w/American accent, so no comms prob
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by grizzles 9y ago
I don't like it because it's bad for the environment. Eventually someone like Vanguard will come along and offer a blockchain with real value behind it. After this, all the hype around bitcoin will just look embarrassing in the af
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by grizzles 9y ago
It's kinda cool to be living in a tulip era like this. I wish there was some way I could make a long term bet against the the price of bitcoin, say it's price 10 years from now. Of course, this is impossible. If there is anything
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by grizzles 9y ago
Two thoughts: I bet it wouldn't be that hard to make a canvas version of the android view library. Also, I wish the projects would agree on a univeral browser api facade that worked across jsweet, teavm, gwt, doppio, etc. That would be
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by grizzles 9y ago
Anything construction related. Personally I'd love to take on the challenge of building a stonemason bot.
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by grizzles 9y ago
1kg Payload is just a little too low for me. The robot Alphabet's Meka Robotics made to sell but didn't sell (damn them) could lift a 5kg payload. For my interest as a hobbyist roboticist, 5kg is kind of the tipping point where yo
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by grizzles 9y ago
I tweeted about this. For $100M they could have bought a Chinese phone manufacturer and still had more than enough budget ($60M) left over to easily pay wages and produce the phones. I'm not joking. As an entrepreneur, I find these typ
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by grizzles 9y ago
I usually buy extra virgin from the grocery store. I look for the CAAE mark. I personally can't see myself buying a subscription for a one grocery item from a single vendor. You might have more luck with another product that's not
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by grizzles 9y ago
I've flown SYD,BNE<->SFO,LAX,LAS,YYZ an uncountable number of times. I want Boom or some other supersonic flight much more than this. I'd happily pay the extra $$ for it, even if it's twice as dangerous as standard jets
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by grizzles 9y ago
This won't be more user friendly than android. Google has invested a ton in ui r&d. They will have done very well if it doesn't crash frequently and you don't have to endure long waits to do stuff.
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by grizzles 9y ago
You can run debian on android today. You can make android look however you want it to look. What they are losing is doze, app standby, the compiler tech, they will have to redo wakelocks, the resource manager, etc. In android, nothing is ev
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by grizzles 9y ago
I wish these guys would just use android from the get go. It's already running on i.mx6, so by switching now they would at least have a chance of making a decent product. They are literally throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars
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by grizzles 9y ago
Lab grown meat seems more plausible to me than trying to talk people into become vegetarians. But if you do figure out how to change cultures you could sell that recipe for big money to lots of folks (eg. the U.S. military)
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by grizzles 9y ago
Lab grown meat is the industry I'd pick if I had to pick where the next rags to world's richest person will come from. Can it be scaled & beat conventional slaughter economically? I'm betting that it can. And it will dis
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by grizzles 9y ago
This is cool. I periodically have a related idea that coincides with my isp downtime. I once had 3 straight weeks of downtime. It's an app to monitor a connection for downtime and give exact reports for when the connection is down. The
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by grizzles 9y ago
Since Facebook grants a license, the worst case scenario is you sue Facebook for infringing your "X" patent, and then they search your website and find a react ui, and then you say oh we bought that off WebKidCo. IANAL but it seem
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by grizzles 9y ago
Facebook's position on this is weird. Any company that wants to use react and avoid liability arising from Facebook's terms can do so easily by incorporating a subsidiary or wholly separate company and paying that company $1 to li
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by grizzles 9y ago
This is cool. How come I can't add/remove arbitrary handles?
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by grizzles 9y ago
Nah, this sort of hardball shit happens all the time. It's called greenmail. What's unusual is that it doesn't usually in companies of this size & success. For a company like Uber that has nothing proprietary & well f

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