rfdub

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by rfdub 9y ago
Chinese AI "rewiring" the world is a terrifying notion, as I'm sure by mandatory design, China's version of Asimov's laws would basically put obeisance to the party and big daddy XI as their primary tenets.
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by rfdub 9y ago
You could not be more right. At least from my personal experience. I mean, try and buy a phone case on Amazon right now. Literally every single listing on their top two pages of results when filtered by "best rated" is stuffed wit
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by rfdub 9y ago
I'm only interested in owning one of these devices when I actually own it. That is when the device is actually working for me, not the corporation who sold it to me. I'd be very interested in a personal assistant/ daemon that
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by rfdub 9y ago
As soon as I tried to sense it I could and now I can't stop.
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by rfdub 9y ago
The fact that they're doing this and the fact they're actively trying to export their political ideology via their Confucius institutes, etc. terrifies me. As China's influence grows, I worry they may make implementing simila
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by rfdub 9y ago
The thing I really, really don't get about modern media companies (IE. YouTube, Facebook, etc.) and their approach to advertising is their almost universally puritanical policies. I mean I get it to a point, they're trying to miti
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by rfdub 9y ago
One of the prevailing theories about the extinction of Megalodons (60 foot great whites essentially) is that Orca's out competed them for their primary food sources. So thanks Orcas. Without you we'd be living in a world with 60 f
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by rfdub 9y ago
Not to mention that most so called "Reviews" these days are just a rote listing of the products features from company press releases. I can't count the number of laptop / smartphone reviews I've seen the last couple
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by rfdub 9y ago
Easily. I know a few people from my agency days who had sub 100K followers made $50K+ annually (and got a bunch of free trips) through paid promotion. Personally I find it kind of depressing that bikini babes and comedy bros are making that
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by rfdub 9y ago
I work in post secondary administration, so I think I have some perspective here. Part of the problem, at least in the US & Canada (Where I live) is that post secondary institutions are positioning themselves less and less and places to
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by rfdub 9y ago
Our selection process is as follows: "Does your daddy have money?"
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by rfdub 9y ago
I am perennially amazed at the ire of sellers who build businesses on someone else's platform, and then complain when the purveyor of said platform changes the rules. If you want to get to determine the rules of the game, you have to b
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by rfdub 9y ago
I live in Vancouver, can confirm. Maybe after a significant liquidity event or two pumps some capital into the local ecosystem, but at present there are few (if any) world class tech companies here and despite the incredibly high and fast r
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by rfdub 9y ago
Trader Joes doesn't have a goddamn peg-leg to stand on in this dispute. If Trader Joes had made any indication whatsoever they were seeking to satisfy the clearly substantial demand for their products in Vancouver I might better be abl
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by rfdub 9y ago
Misjudged is an understatement. There is no appetite for these over-priced "Connected" bikes. They are essentially taking a $1000 Chinese carbon bike and selling it for $1500 with the extra cost attributed to an integrated, non-up
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by rfdub 9y ago
I don't really think "innovation" can be defined as replicating manufacturing processes developed 100 years ago. This is simply playing catch up in terms of manufacturing processes and quality control.
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by rfdub 10y ago
Hope these "micro farmers" enjoy the good times while they last as their days are numbered. Sensors, automation and intelligent, intensive and most importantly organic, vertical farming is going to ultimately decimate the small pr
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by rfdub 10y ago
Racial discrimination is completely legal in China. Why the hell would anyone want to move to a country where they can legally be discriminated against?