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by pmyjavec 10y ago
Yes but the way it seems to have panned out is we need to constantly feed the machine? Thing is, I just don't need AI for everyday things. AI to help solve big engineering, medical problems, great, but to help me schedule my life, not
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
This is a great point, people didn't imagine a world where we became the product.
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
You really have to wonder who truly needs / wants AI in their lives? It's really just being pushed on. Google should be careful not to make themselves irrelevant. I've been experimenting spending less time with my devices and
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
No it's not like that at all, cities are for people, freeways are for cars. Delivery trucks and trade people, sure, everyone else should have to park on outskirts and get bus / train / bike in. I bet most planners who let car
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
Stick to understand fundamentals and the cruft on the top layer is easy to grok. Getting good jobs is about who you know most of the time, so just keep a network happening. Don't read too much hacker news, it kind of becomes stressful
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
I still don't see how the cars are going to entirely solve the problem of everyone needing to be in the same place at the same time, they still have to cope with each others presence, unless they can fly. In my opinion a good public tr
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
What happened was; an auto-industry was born and lobbied the government to tear down a lot of the tram, bike and rail infrastructure you guys had. Especially in LA. A similar thing happened in Sydney, Australia, the city had one of the larg
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
Thanks for the response and totally agree with the sitting in traffic, wasted time thing ,but with all due respect it still seems inefficient, wouldn't public transport and telecommuting be better options in a connected world? How will
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
What is it about self-driving cars that has HN readers so incredibly excited? Sorry if it's a little off-topic. The reason I ask is there are plenty of other countries in the world where cars just aren't that important, let's
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
How intelligent is a spider, truly ? I mean, creating a machine that beats us at a game we invented ourselves is one thing, but how does that compare to a species that has survived much longer on this earth than us? I mean most people are m
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
Disclaimer: I've had an anxiety disorder most of my life and I already have had some professional CBT training to help with difficult times. I think if anyone reading this is really down / troubled, then seeing a professional wou
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
It's hard to challenge with the 'downvote' button available ;)
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One friend I made is studying sociology, he runs Linux and it's very important to him to run open source software. I wouldn't call him a geek, just a really conscientious person.
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
Funnily enough I was in Berlin not so long ago, and I stayed with some students who don't even own smart phones and they live very happy, healthy lives. They believe smart phones are a major threat to their privacy and wallet so they j
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
As far as corruption goes, I don't think it has a lot to do with Indonesia and Brazil. These are large places and it's hard to police every square inch of it without pretty good technology and money, once someone gets away with bu
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
Deforestation is so serious, I visited Indonesia last year and all I could see from the plane was smoke from illegal burning of forests for palm oil plantations and cheap mass animal agriculture. It was the worst fire in known history and a
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
I've thought about the strike thing for sometime also, why do we keep propping these people up? The kind of action you're describing is inevitable IMO. Humans may have to go on mass strike until we get the correct Government act
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
Rooftop solar is on average a $25,000 - $35,000 investment, and that's not even counting energy storage required to actually be off-grid. I don't think that only the rich should have reliable energy, and the poor should suffer br
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
Do you really think it's fair to say that people who lose their jobs their jobs won't notice? I hope Uber pay their taxes.
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
This is awesome, thank you!
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
I think you make some good points, but I think I need to agree with the previous poster, it seems mostly like marketing jargon. I come to this conclusion because these people, who market themselves as "data-scientists", really se
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
What exactly does a company like Evernote have to do with machine learning ? Do they have a targeted advertising platform? I can see how it might be good for things like image recognition but what else are they doing with it? I am Genuinely
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
You've been watching too much Donald Trump! It's ironic that Wall Street, where a great amount of money would've been invested in fossil fuel projects that caused the problem may soon be under water. Unfortunately all the emi
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
Yeah this kind of validates my experiences lately. I recently moved to Europe form Australia, I was a successful tribesman but voluntarily left my tribe because I liked the idea of relocation/traveling. I was awarded an decent paying j
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The overwhelming majority of jobs in the technology industry do not go to people who cold apply via jobs pages. This is important for you to know and operationalize. A little off topic, but why is this? I don't doubt what he is sayin
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
If you've ever traveled to Japan and stayed with a "Salaryman", it might help explain why some people have trouble "adjusting to work life". This guy I stayed with got about 5, maybe 6 hours sleep a night, worked 12
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
So other countries probably have a lot to learn from this by the sound of it?
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"Me first" stuff like this won't get you real far IMO. I went as far as Tromsø, Norway late last year and was shocked that most of their produce comes from the kind of place you might try flee from. Most of the fruit and veg
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by pmyjavec 10y ago
Those photos really look like something out of a science movie, hard to believe we've let it get to this point.
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To be honest if the solution is that women or men need to stay at home, maybe the whole of western society just needs a rethink. I've been a stay at home partner (male) for a few months and it's pretty lonely to be honest. On the

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