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by kanobo 6y ago
He was so brazen in using identical schematic and suppliers. It amazing to think all this is a result of the supplier getting confused from having two clients with identical schematics and accidently cc'ing the wrong engineers.
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by kanobo 6y ago
https://medium.com/waymo/a-note-on-our-lawsuit-against-otto-... - 14,000 highly confidential and proprietary design files for Waymo’s various hardware systems, including designs of Waymo’s LiDAR and circuit board - 9.
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by kanobo 6y ago
Uber was gonna cover the cost but only right before judgement did they renege. I'm guessing he still has enough for the bankruptcy court to disperse.
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by kanobo 6y ago
How many people at a company are typically involved in writing those CEO prepared statements to the House? If anybody has done it before, I'm very curious to learn the process.
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by kanobo 6y ago
Can you say something is a vaccine before it's verified to work? A better title might be 'Around 20 scientists of various quality are using themselves as COVID-19 vaccination guinea pigs'
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by kanobo 6y ago
Europe seems to me to have good intentioned laws and norms that stifle computer related companies. 1) Very strong privacy laws and culture that make it difficult for startups to thrive 2) Business and bankruptcy structures that aren't
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by kanobo 6y ago
I'll like to know why there's a Koala behind the triangle!
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by kanobo 6y ago
There's lots of different takes on why it failed, you can search 'olpc criticisms' on google and you'll find many articles with endless takes. To me they had many 'great' and inspiring design ideas that were co
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Realistic Roman Empire Portraits from Statues Using a GAN Neural Net(twitter.com)
13 points by kanobo 6y ago|1 comments
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by kanobo 6y ago
That's highly unusual unless you were employed on an open source project. Most employers would wipe your memory if they could.
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by kanobo 6y ago
What city do you live in? I've never heard of 1099 tax collection on a city level before, is that common?
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by kanobo 6y ago
I don't think quitting is necessary to work on an unrelated side project. Many of the companies on the list ask you to do a either a take home project, test, or tele-coding - real work that doesn't guarantee a job - how does getti
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by kanobo 6y ago
All large companies already have large contractor workforces that work on the non-critical products, I don't really see how that's different from employing highly qualified candidates with probably better resumes and referrals tha
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by kanobo 6y ago
I didn't mean to suggest Bret's projects and his output will literally manifest as-is in the future. I don't want paper dots or 80's style dynabooks in my living room. My intention was to say that I hope his ideas are ca
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by kanobo 6y ago
Suggestions on the website itself: - The case studies should have before/after analysis of what the design sprints actually achieved. Or at least have photos of your design sprints. - The site looks cool and I like the animated paint t
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by kanobo 6y ago
Bret Victor is the modern day equivalent of Alan Kay. Hopefully in a decade we will see the fruits of his ideas everywhere in tomorrow's software and machines.
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by kanobo 6y ago
Oh, that would nice to include in the README - changes my entire perception of this project. Thanks for the context!
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by kanobo 6y ago
True, true. In my poor defense I was imagining all candidates as identical versions of myself in a bubble and never considered taxes or anybody else's lifestyle.
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by kanobo 6y ago
Yea, I didn't consider that. My thinking was that the hiring process is such a time suck that the applicant should at least paid for those 'take home tests' and 'in person interviews' everywhere in that list ... but
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by kanobo 6y ago
If I were a large company with money I would simply ask all qualified applicants if they would be willing to work on a small part of a real project as a contractor with the possibility of getting hired. Applicants get paid for their time, p
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by kanobo 6y ago
Projects like these remind me that there are people in this world live in a different intellectual plane than us. For them, time probably moves slowly and the average person's intellect must surely amuse them. Because how is it possibl
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by kanobo 6y ago
"Turn up your nose at good ideas. You must work on great ideas, not good ones" - I admire Alan Kay deeply and love reading his writings and philosophy. I respect how he inspired the early generations to do incredible things - but
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by kanobo 6y ago
The problem with humans is that we like to take things to the extremes when we find out new information. Microbes are bad? Let's use anti-bacterial soap everywhere. Microbes are good? Let's not use soap anymore. The best advice is
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by kanobo 6y ago
Thanks for the site! For us upvoting your site it'll only be fair if you share with us how you duplicated those 7 bottles.
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by kanobo 6y ago
The obvious explanation is we're living in a simulation and the modellers are just having some fun. Very interesting article btw!
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by kanobo 6y ago
Some offices employ white noise privacy machines, you can find them on amazon. And the Japanese have the Sound Princess for flush noise privacy at the toilet. I have yet to find a product where you don't notice that it's on though
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by kanobo 6y ago
Would it be possible to use the tech in noise-cancelling headphones and put a tiny speaker that phase-cancels audio it hears to solve this issue? I'm asking as someone who knows very little about this.
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by kanobo 6y ago
I'm going to put on my pop-science-fiction hat on and revise the Privacy Bulb to include a geiger–müller vibrating tube and a dollop of uranium for random vibrations. I was a fan of spy vs. spy as a child and I am full of bad ideas rig
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by kanobo 6y ago
Tomorrow's news: Privacy Lightbulbs that vibrate pre-recorded messages to throw these pesky spies off their trail is invented.
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by kanobo 6y ago
It'll be a nice tradition if everybody who turns 100 publish a short letter for the next generation documenting lessons they've learned and advice they would give. RIP Havilland.

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