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by iiiggglll 10y ago
No argument with any of that, but I think that the theme of the movie in question was merely using a population crash as a proxy to explore what happens to society when it has lost all hope for the future. I don't believe it was actual
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
> The one aspect of the film that doesn’t seem to be coming true is its central premise. The idea is that no human beings have been born in the last 18 years, so when Theo meets Kee, an African woman who is miraculously pregnant, he has
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13103774
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
This whole thing is ridiculous. It only works because it piggybacks on the hard work of engineers at major manufacturers who put front-facing radar into their vehicles, plus a little bit of image recognition based lane keeping running on a
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
> Maybe Americans value their rights more than anything else I certainly do, but sadly not every American agrees. There are many "law and order" types who would have that person arrested and beaten if they could. Fortunately ou
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
It's likely that the Castro regime's defenders will dismiss any sources I provide as "western propaganda", but these are a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba#Cont
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
> He believed in freedom > I detest the hypocrisy I see in many (not all) western commentators. A counterexample: this photo was taken in NYC after the most recent US presidential election: http://i.imgur.com/DcVbqAm.j
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Remember a few weeks ago when it was a headline that the "going rate" for talented engineers working on self-driving cars was $10 million per head?[1] Meanwhile, comma.ai the company only got $3.1 million from a big-name investor?
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Good grief, that's nothing. I've seen security review questionnaires for enterprise SaaS contracts that were longer than that. If George Hotz or one of his employees really couldn't produce a response like the one Honda gave,
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
> I've never met someone who was extremely good at these questions who turned out to be a dud after hiring. I have. More than once I've brought on folks who aced algorithm questions but turned out couldn't handle complex b
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Highly illustrative example of privilege. Over and over we're told that Kelli Peters is the perfect victim, that anyone else would not have been believed, yet nowhere other than that one sentence does anyone even come close to pointing
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
There's the classic joke where someone goes to the doctor and says "it hurts when I do this", and the doctor says "well don't do that then". Cognitive behavioral therapy is basically the same thing but it boils
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Smartphones. Blackberry, Symbian, Palm, and Windows were the leaders just a few years ago, but now iOS & Android pretty much own it all.[1][2] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013&#x2
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Travis is unbeatable because he's good at Wii Tennis, or something: https://medium.com/@sacca/why-i-would-never-want-to-compete-...
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
It's "find my phone" for your car.
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Long commutes? Once vehicles are self-driving, there will be whole swaths of the population who will simply live in their cars and not have another home. Imagine reddit's "vandwellers" times ten. Then there will be political
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Kodak and Apple already collaborated on a camera, back in the early 1990s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
I think that both major mobile platforms need to revamp their photo flows to adapt to all the buckets mentioned in this article, along with a "private" bucket for things like naked photos and other pictures not everyone would want
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
> So: help! I've genuinely spent weeks on this but it's a massive job. I'd love to help, but how? Is the only option for people to go driving all these "roads" in person to see which ones are actually roads, or i
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
> Speaking conservatively, a 25% difference in performance would turn an 8 hour wedding edit into 10 hours. That's only true if all 8 hours are 100% spent waiting on the machine, which doesn't seem likely. This doesn't see
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
> The fact that Sam Altman is turning this into a public spectacle is further evidence that he knows YC fucked up badly, and probably doesn't have a legal case. The only reason to write what he wrote is if you're out of actual
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
> $20B+ business There is no way it's worth that much. As we saw from the Square IPO ("valued" at $6B+ in their last round of private funding; current post-IPO market cap about half that), the valuations of the past few
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
Man, I feel sorry for anyone who actually buys into the "flat meritocracy" myth.
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
Not to mention the size of stitches and seams will be greatly magnified on a very small clothing mannequin (which is what Barbie is ultimately -- it's all about the outfits). This means that places where the clothing should hang and fl
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
His tone might seem unnecessarily harsh at first, but when taken in context of the amount of ass-kissing that goes on here, it starts to seem more like an appropriate counterweight.
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
San Francisco's budget is vastly less efficient than other comparable US cities: http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/the-worst-run-big-city-... As for people living vs. working in SF, this comment does an excelle
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
> They also tend to believe, rightly or wrongly, that "density" would just mean lots of high end expensive apartments that nobody in the "middle class" can afford. That would be wrongly. Supply and demand are real. Th
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
> But robots totally flip the market on head. Yeah, as in people will be able to mod their existing cars to be self-driving and then rent them out AirBnB-style when they aren't using them. There's even a distributed storage sys
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
Similar experience at my company. Lots of mistakes, almost certainly due to things being done by hand behind the scenes. We stopped using them after too many mistakes involving people's paychecks.
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
It's also weird that this is on Medium and not Amazon's own website. If this is an official company response to the article in question, shouldn't appear more that way?

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