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by kbos87 7y ago
Amazon is only unstoppable if we let them be. The world would be a much more interesting place for founders and employees if amazon were limited to being 1/100th its size.
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by kbos87 7y ago
Agree completely - Eyesight impresses me on a regular basis on the complexity of scenarios it seems to be able to react to, both when it comes to collision alerts / automatic breaking and when used for assisted cruise control. I haven’
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by kbos87 7y ago
Use TikTok for a few days and I can now imagine a world where people are kidnapped or exploited while singularly focused on and distracted by a screen. It’s scary. The fact that it’s a Chinese owned company is even scarier.
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by kbos87 7y ago
I live in a very walkable area. Partly because it’s walkable, it’s also desirable and thus expensive, and tends to attract people who are either wealthy or at the start of their upward mobility - young people from families with means who ar
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by kbos87 7y ago
I’m honestly curious and not trying to be contrarian - what does your code produce if not more consumption in some way?
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by kbos87 7y ago
Oh my god, talk about bad energy. I don’t think I’ve seen a purer example of inept “leadership”. This sounds like a human and a company to stay away from.
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by kbos87 7y ago
I have a lot of empathy for what happened to this person. It’s something that obviously nobody should have to go through. But I also have a hard time defining what the ideal would look like here. If Lyft were to immediately act on any accus
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by kbos87 7y ago
When you tell an app you explicitly don’t want to share your location with it and they do something like this, how can you say that is anything other than a gross breach of trust? Someone deserves jail time. This also says so much about the
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by kbos87 7y ago
Agree - that’s a total cop out. Whether or not they are a novelty product or creating a category is a separate issue and isn’t as important in this context once it’s clear that they have strong product market fit. What matters to the market
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by kbos87 7y ago
Of course you (and I!) do - we are HN readers. While I think there’s a change afoot in the direction of not minding ordering or receiving goods without the help of a human, there’s still a large swath of the population who wants a consultat
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by kbos87 7y ago
Google wants to get out ahead of the shift in consumer sentiment on data privacy and ad targeting. No doubt they only have their own best interests in mind. They shouldn’t have a seat at the table when the legislation is being written.
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by kbos87 7y ago
The fact that you think they’ll keep your password safe is a terrible reason to support a monopoly that is bad for society in so many other ways. But hey, it’s more convenient I guess.
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by kbos87 7y ago
If WeWork could figure out how to do what it’s doing without actually owning real estate or holding long term leases, it might be closer to a tech company. That isn’t the case, though. Their network are their own buildings and their financi
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by kbos87 7y ago
This sounds so similar to the engineering of the notifications UI they have done over the past few years. When they say they’ve “given users more control”, yes, they’ve added toggles to that screen, but they’ve engineered the whole thing to
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by kbos87 7y ago
Airbnb and hotels are just for two different purposes. When I’m traveling for business and need a quick in and out in a downtown location, hotels win. When I’m looking for a place for 6 friends to stay together on vacation, a hotel just doe
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by kbos87 7y ago
My Subaru (not Tesla) can manage itself on the highway pretty well with me, a safety driver, behind the wheel checking in on it periodically.
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by kbos87 7y ago
So, who gets to climb into the ball that gets dropped through the gyroscope thing?
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by kbos87 7y ago
I’ve been thinking about this a lot too. It seems like anxiety, paranoia, hyper vigilance, and obsessive behavior are unintentionally encouraged and rewarded in the workplace. At least most of the people who have risen quickly around me hav
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by kbos87 7y ago
That isn’t a false premise though - look at what a few tech companies trying to undercut one another did to the music industry. Not that artists were making the money before Spotify, but there was a lot more money in the system then than th
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by kbos87 7y ago
I think that’s fair and there’s definitely something to be said for having some courtesy and decency, especially in a crowded place.
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by kbos87 7y ago
It’s easy to hate on people for wanting to go to a place they’ve seen in a photo and to focus on the fact that they want the same photo there... I think that’s a casual knee-jerk reaction. The impulse to have a destination while traveling i
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by kbos87 7y ago
Facial recognition technology has all sorts of situations where one can imagine where it would be useful. Unfortunately all of the ways you could use it to suppress, discriminate, silence, and intimidate people outweigh any upsides by miles
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by kbos87 7y ago
“>> Have you been to the bus? >> I have not. I've only been as far as the river. I went to the river to see it for myself when I was reporting on this whole pilgrimage phenomenon a few years ago and I watched a group of hi
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by kbos87 7y ago
Neither of those are insurmountable challenges for TikTok should they want to solve for them. The hardest part is becoming the destination people think of when they think video. TikTok looks like it’s getting some traction here.
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by kbos87 7y ago
Duh. This feels like a topic that the scientific community has a bizarre and self serving view of. There’s no reason to think insects don’t feel pain, which is a basic evolutionary mechanism. So why the need to scrutinize the topic? Because
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by kbos87 7y ago
I actually agree and don’t have a problem with it, just speaking from the perspective of what is probably popular opinion.
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by kbos87 7y ago
There’s a less palatable side of this. It’s now very common to see people openly offering to exchange money for sex, at least in the LGBT community. On Grindr, it’s an everyday occurrence to see people seeking Venmo “donations” with the imp
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by kbos87 7y ago
Quick, find another reason why humans are superior to animals!
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by kbos87 7y ago
I can completely get on board with “reorienting leadership away from risk-taking, growth-oriented styles of leadership”, but injecting gender into something that isn’t about gender leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This sort of “activism” pro
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by kbos87 7y ago
“Until we have evidence that facial recognition is accurate and reliable—as opposed to simply convenient—travelers should avoid the technology where they can.” No, no, no! The possibility that this technology may occasionally be wrong pales

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