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by pow_pp_-1_v 6y ago
Wouldn't it be better to pay police/firefighters/teachers more? If it means a little bit more in taxes for getting well trained (in dealing with the public), empathetic police officers, I am all for it.
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by pow_pp_-1_v 6y ago
The solution for it is, sadly, more data. So I imagine if Google or Apple can listen, "see" and has access to your every electronic communication do. They could eventually build a model that "knows" everything about you.
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by pow_pp_-1_v 7y ago
I wonder how people with a terrible sense of direction (like me) handle this roundabout. Seems like a nightmare.
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by pow_pp_-1_v 7y ago
I am probably extremely naive but I have a feeling I am going to hear a lot about this in the future and that I am witnessing the start of something great. All the best!
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
I apologize not adding anything new the discussion but just wanted to thank you both for a nice and reasoned discussion. Wish everybody (including myself) talked like this.
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
Well that's not how representative democracy works. You voted-in your representatives. Now they will make the decisions for you. If you don't like their decisions, vote them out the next time.
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
> I don't know how to take this - one way to look at it is democracy won and people spoke Democracy failed here. People elect representatives for a reason. Normal people shouldn't be expected to understand the complexities and
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
Seems like GM just doesn't care about the Bolt. They are not available at all places and they do very little marketing for the Bolt. And finally, I guess it's for cutting costs, the insides of the car seems too "plastic-y&quo
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
Well, a couple of weeks back, I bought a car. I would have bought if 35K Model 3, if one was available. Why? Because I didn't want to burn gas when there might be other options available; because I wanted to do my part in keeping an el
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Ask HN: Places where good engineering is done?
1 points by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago|0 comments
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
Thank you!
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
I like Turkish food a lot too. Do you have suggestions/tips/pointer on where to get good Turkish food; authentic recipes etc.? Thanks!
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
Very true. How people learn depends on different factors like past knowledge, interest in the subject material etc. etc. But these lists do help in decreasing the search space when trying to find material to learn a new subject.
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
Reading the comments here a persistent theme seems to be that the documentation is lacking. Something that might help is creating a "dog-fooding" team mostly filled with interns. This team will be responsible for creating samples
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First space, then auto–now Elon Musk quietly tinkers with education(arstechnica.com)
10 points by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago|5 comments
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
I would guess that the acquisition will not affect Github in any detrimental way. I would argue that developer good-will is a more valuable commodity to Microsoft now than in the years past. More happy users of Github => more happy devel
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
A nice, safe introduction. There's a lot of talk about people leaving github for other platforms. If there are actually doing it, it seems like a short-sighted move. I understand why people who lived through the earlier years of Micros
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
Interesting. The whole thing is so simple. A government wants to get their message out quickly and efficiently before negative stories get too much attention. So, how to do it cost effectively? Simple, ask normal government employees to wri
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by pow_pp_-1_v 8y ago
I haven't read through all the comments here but so far I haven't seen anyone give credit to Kim Jong Un. He's probably a pretty smart dude and has been planning these moves ever since he was a kid. At the end of all this, he
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by pow_pp_-1_v 9y ago
> ...but it's an invaluable service subsidized by taxpayer dollars ... No, they are not subsidized by tax payer dollars. From[0] - "The Postal Service receives NO tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of pos
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by pow_pp_-1_v 9y ago
As a way to discourage Facebook and other companies from doing this in future, a fine per person per data item shared must be imposed. Since the data that's leaked is more or less permanent, all the people affected should get a recurr
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by pow_pp_-1_v 9y ago
Yes, I considered the problem of who programs the automaton. But I was hoping by the time we cede control to the machine, our species will be enlightened enough to come up with a set of rules that are "reasonable" enough. The impo
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by pow_pp_-1_v 9y ago
I think the ultimate ideal that humans should strive to is to learn to live without a ruler. If that's impossible then learn to live under the rule of an automaton. I guess what I am trying to say is that we need to move away from our
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by pow_pp_-1_v 9y ago
Customer feedback should be just one of the data points a product planner/owner uses when deciding on what to do in the next version of a product. Sadly, in an effort to become "customer-focused" many people forget this fac
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by pow_pp_-1_v 9y ago
Being that it is the 10th anniversary, I was hoping they will come out with something ground-breaking. iPhone X seems like a good phone. But it's just a better iPhone 7.
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by pow_pp_-1_v 9y ago
> There's also evidence that in lethal force situations, police are more likely to shoot whites than blacks ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/why-a... ) From the ab
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by pow_pp_-1_v 9y ago
> In the 60s/70s it was about knowing your bank manager, so he knew you'd be able to pay. You do recognize how terribly inefficient that is, right? In this day and age its all about scale. Expecting a bank manger to have financ
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by pow_pp_-1_v 9y ago
I just don't understand why politicians don't take this seriously[1]. A smart and savvy politician could build presidency reaching career if they spent time talking about this and trying to find solutions. [1] I could be wrong.
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US House of Representatives passes bill paving the way for driverless cars(thehill.com)
2 points by pow_pp_-1_v 9y ago|0 comments
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by pow_pp_-1_v 9y ago
FWIW, Delphi has a cross platform UI library called FireMonkey[1]. It supports Windows, OSX, iOS and Android. [1]: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Supported_...

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