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by kbos87 7y ago
It feels like Cuomo is on the wrong side of this. Like it or not, national and state boundaries are the only boundaries we can reliably use to segment the general population right now, and while it may be rudimentary, it’s one way of identi
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by kbos87 7y ago
Armchair civil libertarians pontificating about whether or not it is technically legal are doing nothing other than distracting. I want and need the full force of the government in a time like this to see us through this, as do a lot of peo
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by kbos87 7y ago
I’ve seen the headline that “masks won’t help you so don’t bother buying them” about a million times over the past month. But when you start to dig into the justification behind that, it’s loaded with assumptions - that I, the layperson, wo
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by kbos87 7y ago
I’ve been waiting to see this story and this company show up. It has felt inevitable and it’s sad that it’s being allowed to happen. How long will it be before the Ring cameras on every block feed into a real-time database where anyone can
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by kbos87 7y ago
It’s also very insulting to imply that all some group of people is likely doing all day is throwing heaps of coal into a furnace. Even most seemingly simple blue collar jobs are usually pretty detailed and complex in their own way.
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by kbos87 7y ago
I believe that Patagonia cares about the environment and wishes there was more they could do, but I think they are absolutely driven by the forces of capitalism, whether they like it or not, and it’s visible in their current practices. They
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by kbos87 7y ago
I wonder if Cats really deserved the fait it wrought. You have to wonder if it was universally seen to be terrible, or if a couple of early opinions led a wave of negative opinions. Tough to really know.
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by kbos87 7y ago
I can appreciate the sentiment behind not saying that something “isn’t my job.” But that’s also a quick road to people shaming and guilting one another into doing work they think needs to be done, regardless of what the hierarchy thinks sho
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by kbos87 7y ago
Any entry level UX designer would tell you that you can’t pack more and more control into an opaque and confusing system and still lay all the responsibility on the user when something breaks down. I really wonder, what does UX testing and
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by kbos87 7y ago
As someone who doesn’t have and doesn’t plan to have kids, I have a lot of respect for parents. They have made decisions and trade-offs and now have responsibilities that I will never have. The one thing I will say is that the modern world
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by kbos87 7y ago
I don’t see a problem here. It isn’t free for Honda to staff the call center and maintain the tech that allows them to do this.
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by kbos87 7y ago
As a drone owner I think it’s only a matter of time until enough stupid and reckless things like this happen before it’s ruined for everyone who is safe and thoughtful about their drone use. DJI has gotten better as has the FAA in making it
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by kbos87 7y ago
Everything mentioned here applies to any professional discipline. In my role, I consider it to be my responsibility to both myself and my employer to figure out how to stay up to speed on my own time. That way when a particular skill or are
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by kbos87 7y ago
You don’t live in a disaster zone until you do. I’m sure you think you would have had the foresight to see that this was coming a decade ago, but I sincerely doubt you did. Hindsight is 20/20.
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by kbos87 7y ago
Wow, that lets everyone at Uber off the hook for the self driving car incident. The safety operator certainly isn’t blameless, but I’d argue that her eventual complacency should have been predicted and mitigated against by Uber.
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by kbos87 7y ago
I’d rather focus not on the legality of this (which should of course be fixed) but instead the people who played a direct role in this happening. They shouldn’t be able to drop their kids off at school, pick up a coffee at Starbucks, or sho
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by kbos87 7y ago
Another avid outdoorsperson here. The industry is full of good people and great brands - we don’t have to put up with this. I’m done with them, even if they apologize.
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by kbos87 7y ago
Like most people who think they are influencing when they are actually entertaining.
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by kbos87 7y ago
Reminds me of my inept in-law who just can’t help himself but to say whatever is on his mind on Twitter. If Elon follows a similar trajectory he’ll be back in a month.
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by kbos87 7y ago
Thank you! The error rate of facial recognition and similar technologies is a completely moot point and a very easy one for anyone to talk their way out of. The scariest thing isn’t the case where this technology gets it wrong, it’s when it
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by kbos87 7y ago
Yeah, it’s really going to suck as we come to the collective realization that the impact modern life has on the environment is going to encroach on - modern life. PG&E’s actions are the leading edge of what will be a growing trend of in
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by kbos87 7y ago
When you get to a certain size, there is no shortage of ideas flowing in your direction - everything from minuscule and niche optimizations to big, audacious concepts. The challenge for the product folks at Apple is identifying market succe
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by kbos87 7y ago
Judging by the performance of Grubhub’s stock today, this headline was spot on, and seeing it here on HN is utterly ironic :)
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by kbos87 7y ago
I just don’t see how the pieces of this logically fit together. If you still need last mile drivers in an area, you’ll need to keep them busy... which means you’ll need a lot of demand in that area... which means you might as well just prod
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by kbos87 7y ago
I had seen and passed this book over a number of times because I never experienced what I thought was true trauma. It was only after evidence of past trauma came out in some neuropsych testing I recently did to see if I had ADHD that I reco
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by kbos87 7y ago
This whole thread is a bunch of people reading into a situation we know nothing about. The truth of corporate structures is that they vary widely, and we can’t really read much about NYT’s commitment to infosec through this move, especially
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by kbos87 7y ago
This feels like an important distinction between a platform that contractors can come and offer their services on and a business that has full fledged employees. When Lyft controls pricing and all of the information about pricing, it’s laug
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by kbos87 7y ago
> “ The thought that these guys might be trying to get my liver for someone else did cross my mind. I let it go.” ...but the thought that carelessness on your part may mean you take a liver from someone waiting for a long time on the tra
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by kbos87 7y ago
> “As Mr Osterloh points out, its Nest cameras shine an LED light when they are in record mode, which cannot be overridden.“ Yeah, as of about a month ago it can’t be overridden. The changes they’ve made to Nest devices recently just con
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by kbos87 7y ago
You lost me at” Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau“, Tim

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