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by pavs 8y ago
Because talking to robocall like that is annoying as hell. Not to mention fail rate is high (at least for my voice).
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by pavs 8y ago
I have never used eBay to buy anything. Though visited the site several times to look up random items. Regarding "Collections", I just visited their websites out of curiosity and looks like it's right on the front page and ve
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by pavs 8y ago
Are you saying that bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize the world economy, create trillions of dollars worth of industry across many fields? Create 100s of millions of jobs. Create new forms of arts, new ways of communications, help
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by pavs 8y ago
Youtube is anything but centralized, they literally pioneered distributed video content with their GGC nodes, with at least 10s of thousands of nodes all over the world. They may not be the first, but almost definitely the largest. I don&#x
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by pavs 8y ago
If only things were so simple. This reminds me how not too long ago, how everyone was trying to make a clone of HN and Reddit within 24 hours in x programming language. It's one thing make a service for few 100 users, it's a diffe
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by pavs 8y ago
How were you burned by google wave? It was never a finished product and for the longest time (probably forever before being canceled) was a beta product.
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by pavs 8y ago
Tesla does have plans, they mentioned it many times, but they don't have the product.
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by pavs 8y ago
Tesla has driver-assist, it's like comparing a bicycle to a motorcycle. Tesla autopilot is doing a lot of harm to its brand and self-driving industry by using half-baked driver-assist on a production car and implying that it's sel
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by pavs 8y ago
Unless I have missed something they are getting the cars over several years. A modified car (presumably during the manufacturing process), over several years, is very much reasonable. Radar and camera is part of the production of the modifi
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by pavs 8y ago
No matter how much money Alphabet has lying around, 6B is a ridiculous amount of money to spend on credibility. They are confident in their product and confident in return of their investment. Tesla is doing a great job at screwing up publi
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by pavs 8y ago
Then something is wrong with their setup. It's just not me. I have seen many comments on Reddit on how horrible their video platform is, it takes forever to load.
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by pavs 8y ago
Most likely, but Amazon's reputation with customer service they will do a piss poor job at it. I don't see Amazon doing it. To be fair I don't see any reasonably sane company going after Youtube, there is no market, there is
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by pavs 8y ago
I don't know what low-tier BW means (I own an ISP), I think they problem reddit video is that their video infrastructure is most likely not geographically distributed and also not have peering with major telcos, which gives you high la
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by pavs 8y ago
A general understanding on how to scale massive video platform is well understood now more than ever, but it still remains a very efficient way to burn cash. To give you an example: I own an ISP and about 2 years ago, we got first GGC node
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by pavs 8y ago
You highly underestimate what it would take to run Youtube competition. The technical infrastructure and the amount of money that needs to be thrown at it is truly out of reach for 99.9% of the company out there. There are literally a handf
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by pavs 8y ago
imgur was never open source unless I am missing something. A very early version of Reddit was open source, in the sense, the source code was periodically released minus some secret sauce, they kept to themselves. Last time I checked they st
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by pavs 8y ago
The cost of LiDar has been falling for a while now: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/01/driving-around-without-... Waymo LiDAR is custom made and they cost a lot less than what is available in the market. h
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by pavs 8y ago
> If we can, cameras can too. A camera is not a replacement of how our eyes work, how our brain distinguishes between objects and understand from prior experience and can make independent decisions on the fly. But neither does LiDAR, but
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by pavs 8y ago
The thing is Tesla will never be an autonomous car or a reliable semi-autonomous car with its current hardware. Elon needs to admit it (he insist, this isn't the case) and he needs to reliably convince his customers this isn't the
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by pavs 8y ago
> Turn the thing off if hands aren't on the wheel, end of story. To make things even worse, there have been several instances (mentioned on Reddit and other forums) where Tesla doesn't register you having your hand on the car.
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by pavs 8y ago
Its neither a driver assist or an autonomous car, it's somewhere in between. Which makes it even worse, because the driver is not aware of the limitation unless it's too late. Ramming into stationary Red Firetruck TWICE is not an
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by pavs 8y ago
This is not even the first time they hit a giant red stationary fire truck.
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by pavs 8y ago
how about a way to randomly visit Reddit/r/all links with the press of a button without having to deal with registration/participation/comments. or make comments optional. Similar to Stumbleupon iframe bar. Similar to Di
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by pavs 8y ago
I think that it had less to do with apple and more to do with steve jobs. I can't think of any product from Apple after Steve Jobs died, that had any mass market effect. Either with new product or evolution of the existing product. The
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by pavs 8y ago
Another point that I don't see that is often discussed. I think future of cars are autonomous cars that you pay monthly subscription fees to drive you around. Yes, autonomous cars still have some way to go. But since we are talking abo
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by pavs 8y ago
Another angle to look at it, I had netflix subscription for a long time, but I would very rarely use it but I also didn't want to cancel just incase I wanted to see something that might be interesting. Its an irrational way of thinking
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by pavs 8y ago
When tenants go out of business you can rent your property to other tenants. If we work goes out of business, how will it hurt the owner of the property any more than it would hurt anyone else who would be the owner of the property? Unless
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by pavs 8y ago
Constantly reducing is not the same as less expensive. Independent video streaming is still very expensive, both in hardware cost and bandwidth cost, and if you have a global audience, then you will have to rely on CDN, which for video is n
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by pavs 8y ago
This is why context is important. The traditional definition of a personal computer has changed from Bulky PC to tablets or phones, which for most is more than good enough for their daily use case. Since tablets and phones have built in 4g
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by pavs 8y ago
> People are moving to wireless in droves Some source would be nice. Are you saying they are moving to 4g or satellite? Both seem highly unlikely, considering 4g internet is billed on usage. Wireless connectivity has read QOS issues, I d

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