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lalos
9y ago
Things like this make me want to have a VR cartoon tour of the meeting or round table that produced this train wreck. Wonder what their expectations were.
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9y ago
I actually had a similar device called Narrative which went down some months ago. It was weird having a camera all day and when I did want to go back and check a specific moment the photo was almost always blurry. I did use it to create tim
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lalos
9y ago
That would be a founder solving a specific problem by providing a service.
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lalos
9y ago
Alan Watts said it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHAoQGoQic worrying about worrying about worrying
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lalos
9y ago
PIA has a kill switch on its client. That makes it for me. Lose the VPN connection and you lose the internet connection.
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9y ago
It's a reasonable worry. Your average investor is not tech savvy and definitely not the target age for most tech companies. Will an investor know the difference between FB, Twitter and Snap? Or will he come to a sell conclusion after s
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lalos
9y ago
Scummy but most probably legal since its a form of speech. One could restrict this with the ToS and enforcing it.
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lalos
10y ago
Here is a podcast that had some insights in this topic [0]. Found it interesting yet I believe its hard to encompass something that works gender wide. [0] https://thewomenintechshow.com/2016/08/23/retaining-wo
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10y ago
The Photos app makes requests to some concerning endpoints that I wish they could add a way to disable those features, like "FaceRecognition" or the like. Which it is implied that the iPhone photos app probably does it too. Not su
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lalos
10y ago
When you talk with somebody proven dishonest, you expect dishonesty so you are on your toes. When you talk with somebody with no dirt and 'honest' the question still remains if they are honest or you are being played. He could be
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10y ago
Sort of related, have people noticed or have they officially announced that they are tagging photos on the alt html field with a description of the actual photo? It's pretty accurate with texts like "two people smiling, with baby&
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10y ago
Makes me think on how much is Google using open source just as a gimmick or a marketing term and win over engineers when in reality they know that is next to impossible to achieve something with the code they publish and the dependencies on
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lalos
10y ago
Makes sense, language is a key aspect of a community if you speak the language you feel identified and usually the community welcomes you.
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10y ago
The laws of physics are not centralized as governments, currency or google code / github, that aside they can and most probably are incomplete or expressed in a way that only applies to certain constraints (size, time, theory of relati
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lalos
10y ago
That's what happens with centralized systems it is inevitable, from the Roman Empire to Google Code nothing is permanent.
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lalos
10y ago
Relevant project to train a model that generates Bach music http://bachbot.com/
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lalos
10y ago
In theory this could be illegal in certain states, right? You have to notify all parties that they are being recorded.
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lalos
10y ago
Depends on if their top employees get poached by some of the other companies. In that way, it could happen.
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10y ago
Pretty nice commit history, this actually could be used to learn.
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lalos
10y ago
It's a common hustle/business tactic. Read up on how Microsoft was made into the giant it is today[1], similar trick. You are basically validating your idea, if you have a lot of orders coming in you have what I call a positive pr
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10y ago
I used it two weeks ago for the first time, got a hotel reservation two hours before arriving at 2 am for a fair price. Paid with Apple Pay and avoided thinking about currency exchange rates, etc. Very convenient iOS app.
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10y ago
I believe this is widely known as 'dark profiles' can't seem to find that many articles but here is one: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2165543/Faceb... Also they keep track of that
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10y ago
Rolls Royce (common engine for most airplanes) are also working on it. http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-azure-iot-takes-to-t...
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10y ago
Even plants have cancer, from what I understand if it has some kind of cell tissue it can deviate to cancer.
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10y ago
Might as well include > Meanwhile, setbacks were piling up. Trucks and metal were stolen from the Mexico facility, slowing deliveries, former Aluminicaste employees say. The company failed to obtain Nafta benefits after U.S. authorities
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10y ago
Does Apple have metrics on which apps are used and how frequently or they only have metrics on installations and updates? That would be an easy way to filter which apps deserve another review.
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lalos
10y ago
Sounds like a communist utopia, just replace the big corps like Walmart and Safeway with GovMart and GovWay. Maybe Marx was unto something on how capitalism would evolve, just got some parts wrongs.
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10y ago
Enjoyed 'but also pigeonholes you into “talking about being a woman in tech”, instead of “woman who knows her tech”.' Subtle difference, I believe that's the purpose of this up and coming podcast show that I've been foll
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10y ago
They know it's one of the ways to differentiate from the other big companies, by offering privacy and marketing in such a way that it's impossible for the other big players to do the classic "me too" approach.
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10y ago
This has a ton of implications. First people 'tagging' profiles as depressive and probably training an algorithm behind the scenes, so now if you behave a certain way you the chances you are depressed are 94%. Second, who owns thi
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