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by jbob2000 8y ago
Is an articulating cordless drill a robot? Because that’s all this thing is. It’s still an electronic, but it’s not a robot. If this thing could learn and sense which movements produced the best effects, then it would be a robot. But it’s n
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by jbob2000 8y ago
It takes energy to process soya into an edible patty. It does for meat patties as well, so I am curious about the comparison (eg. a soy patty takes x Kw to make, a beef one takes y Kw). Where I think meat has an advantage is that &quo
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Reading this, it makes it seem that Sears died because the middle class died. Why did people ditch this middle-of-the-road experience for the cheaper one? Because they were forced to .
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I kinda want to know what's going through the minds of the engineers pictured. If we could just remove all the marketing BS on that page and just have a 1 pager typed up by them I think we'd have a much better understanding of wha
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by jbob2000 8y ago
In many cases, technology is no different than those people who run conferences for "real estate advice" - the advice is incredibly simple and straightforward, but I don't get to charge you $2000 a ticket if I can explain it
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Haha, fair criticism, but don't miss the forest for trees. My point was about simplicity - I don't need to worry about this when making a website, but there's this new language and now I have to worry about this? It just feel
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This assumes that paying tax makes the world a better place. I am sure Bill Gates has played similar accounting tricks and look, he's about to rid the world of Malaria. Yes tax dollars are used for social good, but they also fund the m
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Cosmetics are a billion dollar industry, why do you write it off so quickly? People pay money to make their face look different from others, why wouldn't they pay money to make their digital self different?
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by jbob2000 8y ago
And there is no such thing as a slow Java app? Or a slow Objective-C app? Just because it's compiled, doesn't mean it's better. Some websites turn your phone into a space heater because the developer is shit, not because the
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Because what's "required" for the job is way too complex for the perceived payoff. That's why the JS/HTML is winning - the time investment to "do something" matches the outcome.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Most apps/websites show some text and a few pictures, why is this a benefit?
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This is a zoning issue, not a marijuana issue. Why did the government allow a greenhouse which was zoned for daises swap to marijuana? Yes, marijuana stinks. So do slaughter houses and landfills. There's a reason we don't zone the
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by jbob2000 8y ago
We just defunded the College of Midwives in Ontario. $800,000 a year to support a professional organization of 900 people. Somehow, the midwifery profession was able to exist for thousands of years before this professional organization ex
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Why? Why would you build a piece of software for free for a near-trillion dollar company? If Apple wanted Apple Music on Linux, they could absolutely build something themselves. But they haven't and they won't, they don't wan
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by jbob2000 8y ago
That’s a system that’s impossible to build. You’re describing something that can perfectly predict human behavior. If we built a system like this, it would not be used to sell me Tide Pods.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Yes, but I think that this is too shallow. You have to do deep dives (as if you were actually interested in the product/service) for it to really work. Like the OP said, you have to go to review sites, watch youtube videos, etc.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Right! But I will not click on those ads because I am not part of that demographic. The whole point of doing this is to shift you to a demographic where the ads become irrelevant and you aren't tempted to click them.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Or we could all just start googling and searching for things that are completely irrelevant to us. This would fuck up the advertising models and marketers would be forced to change their practices. So I say to you all: go and google some ra
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I am happy that you found some use for it. Have you asked your devs how they use it? I do understand that mockups aren't just for developers, but you might be going to all that expense and effort for nothing. When I joined my team, aft
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> Is it easy for frontend devs to recreate the designers' prototype in code? No. The designers have to build the designs in a very particular way in order to get anything useful from invision. Good luck telling your design team that
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> My bank locked me out of my account because they didn't approve of the way I was using it (crypto whitdrawal). How much did you withdraw? You may have hit an anti-money laundering trigger. Nobody cares if you withdraw small sums o
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> What am I missing? The word Bitcoin.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
With a strong Microsoft voice on the Chromium project, it will probably act as a counter to the Google voice. And Quantum and WebKit are nowhere close to Chromium, they're picky to a fault about HTML and CSS, it's just annoying to
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Yes, I agree that I don't have enough data. But previous to this article, I was really supportive of Waymo. When I read the headline about "next steps", I thought we'd hear about some great new systems being rolled out o
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by jbob2000 8y ago
No, that's part of the strategy of shifting the messaging: Use both phrases together so people associate them, and then slowly drop the phrase that you want to go away.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Doesn't matter, it's not self-driving if you need a driver. And when that driver takes control of the vehicle away from the AI, it's going to be at a startling and dangerous moment when the AI makes a really bad decision, lik
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by jbob2000 8y ago
The news would be different. This news item is focused around the driver and safety. They are slowly changing their messaging from being about self-driving to being about safe-driving. They can't come out right away and say "guys
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Mark these words, "At the start", because we'll be hearing them for the next 10 years until Waymo closes up shop. That they are going to market with drivers in the car means that the business has pivoted from "can we do
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by jbob2000 8y ago
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by jbob2000 8y ago
And herein lies the problem with #MeToo. NDT thought he was being curious and pointing something out, the woman thought she was being sexually harassed. This is the problem, that any action can be construed as sexual harassment.

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