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by habosa 9y ago
[warning: unfinished thoughts] On the far end of the "technological unemployment" worry spectrum are those who really believe that AI techniques will yield robots that can do essentially all human work better/faster/chea
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by habosa 9y ago
When I saw the AMP for email announcement I was not excited, but I did not get the online dread until I read this post. The immutability of my email has saved me so many times. I also have this feeling (which may be unfounded) that emails
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by habosa 9y ago
As I remember, Instacart's main business was Whole Foods delivery. When Amazon bought Whole Foods they obviously lost that market, but there was some optimism presented because now suddenly every store has to compete with Amazon and w
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by habosa 9y ago
I'm 25, so right on the edge of the demographic mentioned here. I have been using Facebook for 10+ years now, and I was pretty closed to quitting entirely about 2 months ago. And then suddenly ... my Facebook has been fixed. I had re
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by habosa 9y ago
So what is Lewandowski's final status here? I know he doesn't work at Uber anymore, but did he keep all the money? Seems like he got a pretty good deal if so, he's retired with hundreds of millions.
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by habosa 9y ago
Most of the comments in here are along the lines of "are we expected to protect the outdated taxi driver? Let them drive for Uber or get a new job!" In a vacuum, that logic holds. But remember that the government has made taxi dr
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by habosa 9y ago
I have lived in San Francisco for only four years. Am I not deserving of the city's full services in hard times? I agree that the federal government needs to do a lot more, but cities can solve their own problems too. These people
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by habosa 9y ago
http://sfist.com/2016/02/11/71_of_sf_homeless_once_had_homes... 70%+ of homeless people in SF were previously housed in SF. Yes they are attracted to SF but it's in the same way that you and I may be at
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by habosa 9y ago
http://sfist.com/2016/02/11/71_of_sf_homeless_once_had_homes... That's a common myth. 7/10 homeless people in SF were previously people with homes in SF.
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by habosa 9y ago
Justify it to tourists? How to we justify it to ourselves. Richest city in the richest state in the richest country in the world and we can't even provide a place for people to live. It's a failure at every level, there are too
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by habosa 9y ago
I honestly hope every single concert goes this way. I go to a lot of concerts (~15 concerts and a big festival in a normal year). I have noticed that there is so little real connection between the musician and the audience anymore. Every
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by habosa 9y ago
I always notice there are a TON of people working at every In N Out. Like maybe 10 people behind the counter versus 3 at a McDonalds. Anyone know what's up with that?
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by habosa 9y ago
Here are some thoughts on how it could work. Not completely thought out, but something: Before we had electronic bank records, banks could print "bank notes" which were as good as money if you trusted the bank. Now that we have e
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by habosa 9y ago
That has nothing to do with net neutrality. These companies are free under any form of the law to offer you a small-cap low-speed plan for a small fee but they don't bother. If they restricted the services you could access or their re
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by habosa 9y ago
Many people here are pining for the old days of Google search where if you knew the operators and some tricks you could develop very specific queries and get a page that matches exactly. I remember those days too. It did feel like Google se
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by habosa 9y ago
I've got a pretty good ($100) TPLink router and a 100Mbps Comcast connection in my 1BR apartment. I can almost never find the 5Ghz channel and get constant drops on my laptop, particularly the Linux one. I've got a 1st Gen Chrome
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by habosa 9y ago
They did attempt to make good later by converting some of those options to RSUs but some options remain. Note: I am basing this from one person who shared financial details with me, there may be a large variance in offers to different emplo
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by habosa 9y ago
I know some people who joined Dropbox as new grads in 2014. The company had <1000 employees and seemed like it had a lot of upside. The options given out at that time were priced at a $10B and have been basically under water since. So
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by habosa 9y ago
Just looking at the patterns I'd guess they have a huge amount of usage from school-age kids. In the summer months you see higher engagement per user. You also see a compression of the weekday-weekend cycle. Both imply that something
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by habosa 9y ago
Holy crap. The stats about social media. > It’s not only time spent that’s the issue, however. On average, we check in on social media sites 14 times per workday, or nearly 3 times an hour during our 5-hour digital day. We're checki
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by habosa 9y ago
I think I might be the only person I know that doesn't mind regular TV commercials. They're actually 100x less annoying than your average online commercial. When I'm watching casual TV (not a serious drama or a movie) I don&
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by habosa 9y ago
This implies I could fix all my old phones with a new battery ... Could that possibly be true?
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by habosa 9y ago
Efficient transit goes hand in hand with density. Stupidly simple example: Let' imagine we had a network of autonomous Teslas that drive everyone at 200mph for $0.05. We'd still end up putting two people in each Tesla, because it
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by habosa 9y ago
Can someone explain to me why (outside of this one issue) phones get so slow over time? As a professional programmer I though I understood computers but I clearly don't. What's going on my phone that it grinds to a halt? Why doe
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by habosa 9y ago
You'll notice the entire Bitcoin community has changed tone. It used to be "this is the currency of the future, down with cash/Visa!" but now you hear "Bitcoin is not a currency, it's a store of value". T
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by habosa 9y ago
I don't play many games. I played my share of Xbox One but the last console I bought myself was an Xbox 360 on launch day. I just got a Switch and ... wow. What a fantastic piece of tech that's unique in every way. Every design
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by habosa 9y ago
Dislcaimer: I work at Google but not on this team. And I'm a Sonos owner, so I think my feedback is relatively unbiased. I got a demo of two of these in my friend's house the other day. The sound quality is exceptional. In a st
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by habosa 9y ago
If you can point to any blog post that shows how one would implement Shazam, I'd love to read it. I read somewhere that the Pixel 2's on-device index of 10,000 popular songs was only ~60MB. That blew my mind.
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by habosa 9y ago
Can someone help me out here? Last year I paid 5-figure state income taxes (CA) which, as far as I understand, is no longer deductible from my federal income. So if my federal income taxes are ~30% then I'd expect to have a $3000+ ta
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by habosa 9y ago
On the one hand, yes that's late. On the other hand it's sort of insane how you need to start putting money away for a child's education when they're only seven years old! You have no idea if the child will even want t

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