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by objclxt 9y ago
It's no more sensationalist than Tesla's own claims about how many Model 3s they could get off their production line, claims they have completely failed to hit.
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by objclxt 9y ago
> These steep fees also fund (a) vast extension of consumer credit, (b) massive card distribution programs, and (c) the downsides of a generally frictionless payment method (occasional fraud losses), all of which together yields higher s
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by objclxt 9y ago
Isn’t this the intent, if not the implementation, of GDPR? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regu...
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by objclxt 9y ago
> What I don't see anyone saying is that the fact that if Amazon were to rip someone off, their reputation would be tarnished. Studios screw over writers all the time. There's a reason that screenwriting is strongly unionized
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by objclxt 9y ago
Never saw or heard anything about my performance being tied to the number of radars I fixed or closed, and I never heard anyone else I worked with say that either. Doesn't mean it didn't happen, like every big company there are ma
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by objclxt 9y ago
I think it's both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand it makes it very easy for teams to find an approach that works for them, and does away with a lot of bureaucracy. On the other, it promotes a lot of inefficiencies (I knew of a
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by objclxt 9y ago
I have a slightly different perspective (I worked on iOS 7 - 11). One of the things about Apple that's different to many of the other tech conglomerates is that engineering teams are given huge freedom to work the way they want (for be
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Lewandowski risked and it paid off. Levandowski was fired from Uber, is still in arbitration with Waymo, and possibly has a federal investigation pending against him (which is why he has, and was planning to, take the fifth amendment).
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by objclxt 9y ago
You don't necessarily need better FPS from the pose tracking, because you can use optical flow to interpolate and predict movement. These sort of techniques are already commonly used for VR positional tracking off camera input.
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by objclxt 9y ago
Out of the FAANG's neither Apple nor Amazon provide free lunch (although Apple's on-site cafes are very good. You pay $5-10 for an entree, depending on what you get). Going by Glassdoor, Netflix doesn't universally provide fr
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by objclxt 9y ago
Gold and diamonds both have industrial applications. They have intrinsic properties outside of their scarcity that also give them worth (for gold, their corrosion resistance, for diamonds their hardness). Even if they had no aesthetic value
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Until cable companies wise up (which is probably never), Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Video will continue printing money. Hulu lost over $600 million last year, so they must have a conveyor belt from the printer directly to the toilet. We&
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by objclxt 9y ago
> there is already a large base of pre-existing users of Telegram The base is 180 million MAUs as of December 2017, and they're not growing as fast as other messaging services have in the past (in Feb 2016 they had 100 million MAUs,
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by objclxt 9y ago
Although corporate insurance for companies the size of AT&T is generally self funded, rather than insured, so the state of the insurance market doesn’t always reflect their premiums.
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by objclxt 9y ago
I think you've fundamentally misunderstood how courts and civil justice works.
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by objclxt 9y ago
Most of Shazam's engineering is in London. Going rates for engineers in London are way below the valley. Facebook/Google/Apple pay UK engineers about 30-40% less than their US counterparts.
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by objclxt 9y ago
> The value of an engineer's work doesn't magically adjust downward because of the circumstance of his or her location Yes it does! It's only absurd if you assume every person is able, willing, and has no barriers to reloc
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by objclxt 9y ago
> then listen in through ANY one of the apps you have installed If there was some third party ad library that was installed across multiple apps that streamed audio and/or performed local speech recognition on everything you said do
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by objclxt 9y ago
> It's hard to imagine a less sinister explanation for this phenomena. You just forget all the other signal you've giving. Funnily enough, last week somebody was trying to convince me that Facebook was recording their every wor
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by objclxt 9y ago
Regardless, it’s easy enough to dump HTTPS traffic (pinned or otherwise) if you have root access to the client, which in the case of Android is not difficult to get.
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Why would we do that when are bodies are specifically evolved for eating both vegetables and meat? Our bodies specifically evolved for reproduction, but that doesn't stop us from using contraception when we have sex. Evolution als
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by objclxt 9y ago
> I'll go back when it's safe, but not before then. BART is already exceedingly safe. Even with robberies rising 45% this year the overall robbery rate is projected to be 1.7 per million trips[1]. To put it another way, if ever
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by objclxt 9y ago
> for the reputation of going to one of the better ones. > as someone approaching middle-age, I would be taking my classes more seriously than many students 10 years younger than me. I've been to the CS departments at Stanford, H
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by objclxt 9y ago
> My professional network is also weak. Nobody I know is looking to hire software developers. I think my reputation works against applying to large companies. Being honest, I don't know if the degree itself is going to help you. Wha
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by objclxt 9y ago
I will admit it can be very difficult to get out of the echo chamber, be it on the right or the left. People like Louise Mensch going around shouting "impeachment is coming!" to anyone who will listen isn't helping. But I thi
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by objclxt 9y ago
Why? Google would love nothing more than to get YouTube onto as much hardware as possible. They'd also love to have their ad revenue, and the Echo Show integration didn't show any ads. Is it anti-competitive to say "please sh
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by objclxt 9y ago
Didn't bother reading the article, did we? > Acid attacks in the U.K. actually date back to before Victorian times. > Most of the attacks in the U.K. are random > The man who attacked him, 29-year-old Michael McPherson Damn th
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by objclxt 9y ago
> I think that, with killer features like breaking out of DRM, the market share could change. That's not a killer feature to the market: I bet 99/100 people don't know what DRM is or what it stands for. They just care that
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by objclxt 9y ago
> I would suggest not underestimating Mozilla's market influence. They have no market influence. They have maybe ~10% of the market globally (I've seen figures between 5-15%), and that's primarily desktop - which is decrea
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Furthermore, the fraud exposure presented by this API will be difficult to be accepted by processors. I'm confused by what you mean. The API doesn't have any additional fraud exposure. It uses existing payment instruments and

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