jonknee

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811.
by jonknee 9y ago
Perhaps, but the pedestrian also did not react at all to the car. Even though she knew she was crossing a street and should look for cars, see the headlights, hear the engine, etc.
812.
by jonknee 9y ago
I suppose we'll need to wait for some standardization in the sensor department, but it would be great if autonomous car makers could share the sensor data for collisions so that everyone can learn from the mistakes. Test data is great,
813.
by jonknee 9y ago
> there is no such thing as a too reflective vest for bicyclists And to not jaywalk a bike across a street in the dark!
814.
by jonknee 9y ago
With all the logged sensor data this should be the best documented fatal collision in history and will be able to be replayed again and again with different software to see if it was avoidable with the current hardware configuration. Obviou
815.
by jonknee 9y ago
> so they would have to push leaves out of the way to tell visually via color if they were ripe That's also what people do, seems to work OK (I grew up in Florida and did lots of u-pick strawberries).
816.
by jonknee 9y ago
FWIW American Girl is owned by Mattel and Mattel is not doing well at all, in large part because American Girl is dying. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mattel-shares-plunge-as-no...
817.
by jonknee 9y ago
It's a little easier than getting everyone to sign up, back at the time this app was circulating if you gave it access to your data the app would also gain access to all of your friends' data. That's why a relatively small nu
818.
by jonknee 9y ago
> and pay close to $40 billion in penalties That's a funny way to pronounce lowered taxes.
819.
by jonknee 9y ago
Merrill Lynch insiders who supplied information for a 2016 case against Bank of America. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-19/two-whist...
820.
by jonknee 9y ago
AAPL also has $285b in cash, so in some respects the market already values AMZN more than AAPL.
821.
by jonknee 9y ago
That outrageous $5-10 probably helps the average person make money in the long run by not overtrading.
822.
by jonknee 9y ago
Walmart is one of the largest ecommerce businesses in the world...
823.
by jonknee 9y ago
Typo on my part, the discussion is about the CIO.
824.
by jonknee 9y ago
Did you not read the press release? They have texts showing he was aware and knew it was bad. > On Friday, August 25, 2017, Ying texted a co-worker that the breach they were working on “Sounds bad. We may be the one breached.” The foll
825.
by jonknee 9y ago
> Why else should people do it? Only for fun or altruistic reasons? Well the OP I was responding to suggested that people were doing it because "it's a powerful idea and because the underlying technology has a lot of legitimacy
826.
by jonknee 9y ago
A $700,000,000 fraud and no criminal charges... Amazing. Besides the money, Theranos also messed with people's health by giving out unreliable test results. Shkreli is in jail for 7 years and his defrauded investors actually all made m
827.
by jonknee 9y ago
Either the CEO is incompetent and didn't know about a huge failure of his organization or he's a criminal, either way the verdict of public opinion is not going to be kind.
828.
by jonknee 9y ago
> People latch onto it because it's a powerful idea and because the underlying technology has a lot of legitimacy to it. A few, but the vast majority have latched onto it because they think it will make them rich. Almost no one buyi
829.
by jonknee 9y ago
Sure, but Alexa does it much better. It just works. With voice platforms the biggest hurdle is not trusting it will work (like with Siri) which means you stop trying. When I drop pasta in while watching over a saute pan I don't want
830.
by jonknee 9y ago
The customer reviews are across the board overwhelmingly positive. 4.3/5 with over 100,000 reviews of the Echo Dot for example. Also the facts that they keep bringing out new devices and are hiring extremely heavily would lead you to b
831.
by jonknee 9y ago
> Do others find it useful? They have sold tens of millions of Alexa devices, is it really surprising that people find them useful?
832.
by jonknee 9y ago
There are a lot of ways to transfer money between countries and Bitcoin is one of the worst (sketchy exchanges, slow, huge spreads, etc). If you want easy try something like TransferWise.
833.
by jonknee 9y ago
What useful service? Scams as a service?
834.
by jonknee 9y ago
Yes, but in reality you'd have to adjust +/- 4 hours to keep waking up at the same time... All to have the sunset at a radically different time. I don't see what benefit that gives you and it would involve a ton of work/
835.
by jonknee 9y ago
... Read the article, they aren't really changing anything (they don't have the power!).
836.
by jonknee 9y ago
> The ideal daylight savings would be to synchronize clocks with sunrise, so that sunrise always occurs when it's time to get up (7 AM or whatever). Here in Sweden, where the length of the day varies from 6 to 18 hours, DST is reall
837.
by jonknee 9y ago
It's the tilt of the Earth's fault, not the timezones. All of main is North of Detroit and more timezones isn't going to change that.
838.
by jonknee 9y ago
Well it was a two bedroom apartment...
839.
by jonknee 9y ago
> The reason why many cryptocurrencies are considered securities is because there's a certain group of people promoting them as in investment If by "certain group" you mean nearly all users then you are correct.
840.
by jonknee 9y ago
One person getting the job of two people done is indeed a [giant] productivity boost. Compensation will surely change along with the industry, but there's not a reason to suspect drivers will be the winners in this.

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