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Facial Recognition for the Public: Yandex(nelsonslog.wordpress.com)
2 points by ng7j5d9 7y ago|0 comments
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
I think to offer a differentiated product in this space, you have to be hostile towards the airlines. I know that Skiplagged will show me hidden city tickets that I won't find elsewhere. I know that Scott's Cheap Flights will al
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Really disappointed to click on the article and see that her official job title was "VP & Head of New Mobility". "Chief of Scooters" sounds way more fun.
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Agreed, I remember trying BeOS in the late 90s and I felt the way Tesla fans report feeling about their cars - "it just feels like the future". The responsiveness of the UI was like nothing I'd ever seen before. Unfortunatel
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Yeah, the whole concept of a modern corporation that restricts ownership to members of a certain ethnic background feels backward in this day and age. Yes, I know the actual requirement to be a shareholder is tribal membership and as Eliza
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
ASRC is a fun case. The Alaska Native corporations were set up in the 70s to settle land claim lawsuits and to provide Alaska Natives a way to a better economic future. From what I understand, the federal government sets aside contracts fo
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
I wonder if GitLab's policy is actually more bizarrely micromanaged than most large companies, or if we just get to see it since GitLab defaults to everything being open. I mean, I'm sure Apple has had countless debates about how
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
> Milking your customers is not good for business Maybe that's true in high-choice, low-stakes consumer situations, like "where should I eat dinner tonight?", but is it true in industries with high barriers of entry? If I
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
I've looked at Gitlab's calculator and decided not to apply for a job there as a result. As a potential employee it does feel quite unfair that someone else doing the same job might make twice as much money. If you put yourself i
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Affordable probably being the key word there.
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
I don't think it's just the size of the population, but the characterization of it. In the USA there's a rather vast underclass compared to other prosperous countries. I'm not sure about the size in general, but in man
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
> Our 2010 decision to stop cooperating with Chinese government censorship on Search results was the first time a non-Chinese corporation stood up to the Chinese government. I didn't bother reading the rest of the post after that cl
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Saw this mentioned in a recent article about an Instragrammer who claims to be the youngest woman to visit every country. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-13/ingenious... > You can—and shoul
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
That's a great point. Air travel has gotten measurably safer and people survive car accidents at much greater rates. I guess there's just something more "understandable" about a plane crashing due to an engine failure r
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Does France not allow a citizen to hold multiple passports at once? I know the US allows this. Say you travel often, including to places where you need to send your passport to a foreign embassy to get a visa. You can request a second pa
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Does anyone else miss the days when a single person could grok the design of a plane? Or a piece of software, or a car, or whatever? Now every new car needs to have adaptive cruise control and anti-lock brakes and stability control and App
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Yeah, and doctors have always been at war with disease. Good for them.
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
FTFA: Under current US case law, Amazon is not liable when third-party products sold on its site directly infringe on intellectual property or have safety defects. The liability lies with the third-party seller. This is fundamentally differ
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Why Photographer David Burnett Shot 4×5 Film at Impeachment Hearing(pdnpulse.pdnonline.com)
19 points by ng7j5d9 7y ago|4 comments
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
I'm waiting for instant decisions about my service worthiness based on algorithmic analysis of my data points. If the data know that I live in a nice neighborhood and commute every day to a office park job then Facebook will expend com
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I saw Norsemen mentioned elsewhere in the thread ... Norsemen was filmed simultaneously in Norwegian and English (the actors did each scene in one language and then the other). That way Norwegian audiences can enjoy
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
I think the ability of Americans to drive privately-owned cars in terrible states of repair will prevent this future. I've known folks who limp along old cars for years, dealing with potentially dangerous issues with the transmission o
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Pedantic question: When a company says they are 100% remote, do they mean even for HQ/executive-type stuff? Say GitLab was entertaining acquisition offers, would the CEO just ask the lawyers to come hang out in his living room? Or do t
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
>Women define male attractivness based on his socio-economic status. Of course if you don't want your wife (and other females and society at large) to look down at you, you will eventually go back to work and work your ass off. Yike
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
How would that even work? I imagine GitHub has a pretty typical sales department right now, with salesfolks who try to make deals selling licenses to anyone willing to buy (with perhaps a handful of well-understood exceptions, like no sale
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
It would be interesting to see a dollar value next to each signature to indicate how much money GitHub stands to lose if the signatory were to take their business elsewhere.
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Amazon doesn't own the overwhelmingly pervasive marketplace in which all retail products, including theirs, are sold. They do own a website that accounts for something like 4% of retail sales.
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Stop the presses ... I asked a Ford salesman what the best Black Friday car deal was and he recommended a Ford!
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
It looks like radar detectors are legal in most US states and territories. Virginia and the District of Columbia are the two exceptions and the NYC->LA route wouldn't pass through either. https://drivinglaws.aaa.com&#x2F
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Can't imagine it would be. If you were a member of say, the Utah State Police, and you saw this article, what would you do? Ok, a photo claims these guys drove cross-country averaging 103mph with a top speed of 193mph. Can you prove

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