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by moxious 10y ago
What's the relevance of the ratio between engineers and sales people? Seems the point you're making is that it takes 57,000+ people to make google run. You'd think they'd want to automate those sales reps, except that&
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> It's not "the new machine can gin cotton" or "the new machine can weave cloth", it's "the new machine can handle an extremely wide range of problems, and we're moving from having to teach it each
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by moxious 10y ago
> Are 20 years a "near-term timeline"? Because all it takes is for self-driving cars to be approved for market, and today they are under heavy testing, and we even have some (Tesla etc) where while not "self-driving"
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by moxious 10y ago
That has been true for at least 400 years. Humans have generally adapted by inventing new things to be done that didn't exist previously. (The app industry was very small 20 years ago. ;) The interesting question is why people think
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by moxious 10y ago
> I think the industry will have the safety numbers to back up any policy decision Why are you then confident that safety numbers will carry the day? When someone is killed by a driverless car, that's going to be an emotional issue
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by moxious 10y ago
> Some trends will always hold true; cost of hardware goes down, capabilities of software goes up. That's not at all true, or at the very least, it requires a raft of other assumptions which may not hold, to all stay true, in order
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by moxious 10y ago
> If we had solid safety nets, this wouldn't happen. People wouldn't be worried about being homeless, hungry, and without a support system. People would embrace automation. But that's the problem. The Technologist's L
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by moxious 10y ago
I have read many monad tutorials. I acknowledge the elegance. Would someone meet me halfway though and describe to me a specific pragmatic task that a monad accomplishes...and, most crucially, why it is better than the dozens of other opti
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by moxious 10y ago
"Bloodbath" seems a bit hyperbolic...
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by moxious 10y ago
A lot of the fear that comes from tech unemployment is based on predictions of the future, which are notoriously horrible. You give the example of trucking jobs which will be 90% wiped out. This hews to the conventional wisdom you find on
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by moxious 10y ago
I just don't trust general, high level descriptions. People have been going at this goal for decades without much proveable success on general intelligence. So when I read generalities I think they're not any further, just still
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by moxious 10y ago
The Haskell community identifies "no documentation" as a key flaw of their own community? I was going to ask why there hasn't been more uptake of Haskell for all of the apparently cool ideas that are there, but nevermind, I
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by moxious 10y ago
Are you sure all of your communications are so critical? There are also people who will chase others to the dog park to tell them that a CI build passed...
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Article said no, because the traffic was symmetrical and not lopsided. If this had been part of an attack you'd expect to see far more outgoing bandwidth than incoming.
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by moxious 10y ago
There's been a lot of discussion over years about open source communities, and how curating the community is an important part about that. If people aren't paid in cash, they need to be paid in other things, like egoboo, kind word
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by moxious 10y ago
Does anyone see it within 2 years? Even if the tech were ready in 100% of situations (it isn't), just working out the legal / regulatory stuff could take that long.
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by moxious 10y ago
I use Uber. I like cheap rides. Probably not going to invest, but maybe we shouldn't speak too loudly about this.
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by moxious 10y ago
Would it be fair to call it a Hail Mary if a technology that isn't ready for the mass market is a potential savior for a company losing $2 billion per year?
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by moxious 10y ago
So others in this thread are calling it venture capital subsidized transportation. Why does the idea of venture capital charity seem so hilariously backwards?
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by moxious 10y ago
That's a good question. As far as I know these losses are pretty epic, so it's somewhat uncharted territory. They're also not directly comparable to previous unicorns because of their cost structure. They also can't e
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by moxious 10y ago
Wow, those are some great articles with interesting points. That paints a very grim and brutal picture for Uber.
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by moxious 10y ago
Well this article makes it clear that Uber isn't shafting the drivers for their profit. It seems no one is making a profit and Uber has figured out how to have drivers help them fund their growth.
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by moxious 10y ago
What makes you think that working and playing golf all day are even different things? Larry Ellison was renowned for doing massive sales deals of Oracle on golf courses. If you get in 18 holes and leave with $10 million, were you not worki
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by moxious 10y ago
This comment reads like a HipsterHacker tweet
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by moxious 10y ago
Yeesh. In fairness it's a fine list, but you can be an excellent JavaScript developer and know less than one third of what's on that list. Ambitious JS lifers maybe can get to most of that, but for people who value some breadth
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by moxious 10y ago
The premise of the headline is immediately flawed. He promised a lot of things. And like Obama before him and every other challenger, more than half of those promises will be moot since they won't be delivered. And it's hard to
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I thought it was a fair distillation. Any distillation of a field is bound to be incomplete, but what do you think it was missing?
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That's the thing...part of their identity as a fashion accessory means that a low price would be a bad thing, like wearing a timex instead of a Rolex. It's a bit self-limiting.
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by moxious 10y ago
I think of smart watches as a product that is 2/3rds of a smartphone, targeted at people who don't want to take a smartphone out of their pocket, with an affinity towards people who are fashion conscious, for whom the form factor
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by moxious 10y ago
Yes, no matter how big or complex the problem, there will always be someone promising a quick and easy fix. And there will always be those in enough pain that they want to buy the quick fix. I'm not a big fan of magic beans though, be

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