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by ojosilva 10y ago
I think Tesla screwed up by hyping it like they have an autonomous driving system. Mercedes, BMW, etc. did not make that mistake with similar technology. Just google "tesla autopilot" and you'll see the phenomena: people slee
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Obviously Drivers Are Already Abusing Tesla's Autopilot (2015)(wired.com)
1 points by ojosilva 10y ago|0 comments
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by ojosilva 10y ago
Actually, I find the bouncing around of fees and payments behind these internet companies very complex, and maybe even justified to some extent. The value-add that generates the taxable income is almost entirely elsewhere. Let's say Go
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by ojosilva 10y ago
I wonder too if there are some good data on user disengagement. Lately there seems to be a spike of autoplay videos in the sites I visit frequently. I just immediately hit the Back button as my silent "protest", but I can't h
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by ojosilva 10y ago
Wouldn't it be easy to just... var iframe = document.createElement('iframe'); iframe.src = '(ad url here)'; document.body.appendChild(iframe); For every new ad?
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by ojosilva 10y ago
Following companies is a "pull" method that would not generate significant revenue. Facebook corporate customers want to be able to push, and that's why we have ads. I firmly believe product placement, and the information exc
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by ojosilva 10y ago
I wonder if good E2E encryption of the WhatsApp message rules out the app sending, in parallel, an indexed list of juicy keywords (encrypted or not) to FB servers for the purpose of targeting ads.
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The Two-Month Hello World(devops.com)
2 points by ojosilva 11y ago|0 comments
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by ojosilva 11y ago
I agree, warmth in the morning hours is the number one incentive to get out of bed for me. I do a slight variation of the same concept: I've set the a/c timer to raise temperature to an almost tropical heat 20 minutes before alar
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Google Drive Down(twitter.com)
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by ojosilva 11y ago
I found it more Bolaño than anything. 2666 is an awesome book that parallels academic research and a journey of the self, in many way similar to the OP's account.
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India's Forgotten Stepwells(thisiscolossal.com)
1 points by ojosilva 11y ago|0 comments
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Huygens synchronization of two clocks(nature.com)
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by ojosilva 11y ago
My wife is a musician and we have this argument all the time. She's not a recording artist or anything, but she does complain of abuse in the deals her different bands and groups get at venues. And I say, that's supply-demand, tha
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by ojosilva 11y ago
It's also worth noting a counteracting event: the inflation caused by the switch to the euro in many European countries like Italy [1], Spain [2] and Finland [3]. These were sometimes actual inflation and sometimes more a matter of per
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by ojosilva 11y ago
Santos-Dumont was so enthusiastic about aviation that he made the drawings of the Demoiselle available free of charge, thinking that aviation would lead to a new prosperous era for mankind. I've always admi
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Accel Renews Commitment to Brazilian Startups(techcrunch.com)
1 points by ojosilva 11y ago|0 comments
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The Struggle to Adopt DevOps(wired.com)
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by ojosilva 12y ago
This is so in line with French philosopher Baudrillard and his discourse on hyperreality. Baudrillard also mentions Disneyland in his work (can't recall in which one). Many of his ideas are tightly related to the Matrix saga and, to so
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The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time (1982)(vm.ibm.com)
5 points by ojosilva 12y ago|0 comments
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Breakthrough in brain-to-brain communication using a video game(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by ojosilva 12y ago|0 comments
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by ojosilva 12y ago
How about a single-founder startup list? I wish I had one so I could show it to the VCs who we're closing a round with. They insist I get a co-founder for the business side (I'm a techie), with lot's of contacts. I said I pre
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by ojosilva 12y ago
IBM signs juicy hardware + software contacts with large corporations and government around the globe. They don't have a (serious) mobile offering, something their customers are asking for more and more every day to be thrown into deals
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by ojosilva 12y ago
Great addition to be able to read through them "Shows". Rant: I find it really distracting that, at the moment, half of the front page titles bear the prefix. Makes it harder to skim through, adds up to annoying visual cruft.
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Dollars Invested in Software Companies Reaches Q4 2000 levels(pwcmoneytree.com)
1 points by ojosilva 12y ago|0 comments
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Brazilians welcome genetically-modified mosquito to help fight dengue fever(pri.org)
139 points by ojosilva 13y ago|86 comments
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by ojosilva 13y ago
It's a product business bootstrapped with consulting. If we were not profitable, we would not be able to hire them or pay salaries etc. so most of them would probably leave or sue. The resillient ones that stay behind would be given IO
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by ojosilva 13y ago
My startup does not fit well with Joel's model of employee layered risk. I've bootstrapped early and every layer the last 3 years got payed a normal, market salary, and on time every month. We also payed bonuses and the CTO even d
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Computer maps 21 distinct emotional expressions(m.phys.org)
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by ojosilva 13y ago
And reimplement it from a closed source spec, which only adds to the legend.

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