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691.
by sib 6y ago
That's great for you (no sarcasm!) Where I live - in the city of Los Angeles, hardly distant, rural America - AT&T is happy to provide me "broadband" internet at speeds of up to 10mbps for the low, low price of $45 &#x2
692.
by sib 6y ago
By those numbers, the average US driver (or passenger, I suppose) would die more than once per year... ;)
693.
by sib 6y ago
I think coming in to the office 1x / week would let you live quite a bit further away than coming in 5x / week. At least for me, I could do a 60-90-minute drive to work 1 day per week, but would not want to 5 days.
694.
by sib 6y ago
It depends on the category and retailer. My source (which I understand may not be satisfactory) comes from working at two of the biggest US retailers for a total of almost 9 years.
695.
by sib 6y ago
Yes, there are multiple different wake words and they can be updated / reprogrammed via firmware updates.
696.
by sib 6y ago
>> To my understanding, these smart speakers only phone home when you say the keyword, right? They aren't storing or sending everything they hear throughout the day. This is the intended behavior. But - there is a non-zero rate o
697.
by sib 6y ago
Perhaps, but Walmart (and many other retailers) do not pre-buy all the products that they sell.
698.
by sib 6y ago
Of course, if you read that literally, none of those things ("phone has a dead battery, or is lost or stolen") happened, and Tesla's screwup still caused a problem. (Note, both my wife and I own Model 3's and I own $TSLA
699.
by sib 6y ago
I hate induction stoves (cooktops) because they seem to hit intermediate temperatures by cycling the power on and off rather than having a continuous intermediate setting. (It's possible I've only ever encountered crappy induction
700.
by sib 6y ago
While it's true that funders should perform due diligence, diligence for fundraising still relies on an underlying need for the entity raising funds to be truthful. As an example, if you apply for a bank loan and falsify the applicatio
701.
by sib 6y ago
Android, YouTube, Google Maps, DoubleClick, Applied Semantics (became AdSense), DeepMind, Urchin, ITA Software, etc. I think Google has done ok.
702.
by sib 6y ago
Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/address
703.
by sib 6y ago
Address (n): "a place where a person or organization may be communicated with"
704.
The Next Exit (Like Google Maps and Local in a Book)(amazon.com)
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705.
by sib 6y ago
"And gas-powered leafblowers. Oh man, those are the worst." Gas-powered leafblowers pretty much define negative externalities: >> Pollution >> Noise >> The actual leaves being blown onto neighboring properties Wo
706.
by sib 6y ago
Agreed. I worked on the first Echo and was one of the participants in the conversations about what became the Echo Show in 2012/2013.
707.
by sib 6y ago
Smart companies optimize something more like "percent of calls resolved on first contact" (or "1 - percent of calls requiring the customer to call back").
708.
by sib 6y ago
I live in LA now, used to live in Sunnyvale (right next to San Jose), and have made that drive both directions. In my Model 3, it takes 1 stop, for 25-30 minutes, at the Kettleman City Supercharger. Good time to grab a snack, use the restro
709.
by sib 6y ago
But "squatters rights" are in fact the law... So a party "squatting" and thereby becoming the new owner is not a counterexample to the statement that "Unlawful acts, performed long enough and with sufficient vigor,
710.
by sib 6y ago
Except that her experiment changed three variables: her husband is male and Asian and an ex-Google engineer, while she is none of those. So it's not possible to draw the conclusion that the difference in response comes only from race.
711.
by sib 6y ago
> the false-positive rate remarkably low given how high the accuracy is for the wake-word This was a major focus of the speech science team... product team and leadership identified very early that the bias had to be in this direction to
712.
by sib 6y ago
Well... i haven't read the book, but it is widely cited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00505UZ4G/ The author claims the average adults commits three Federal crimes a day.
713.
by sib 6y ago
That's exactly my point. The station owners mostly aren't stupid. If it were a great deal (measuring by NPV), you'd see companies formed to raised capital and install charging stations at gas stations in some sort of revenue
714.
by sib 6y ago
If it were the case that allowing charging was an economic benefit to the owners of gas stations, I guess they'd already be doing it. Since so few of them are, I assume that it's not beneficial. If the government wants this, it sh
715.
by sib 6y ago
As someone who thought that that was exactly the reason I'd "never" by a Model 3, but then bought one and now daily drive it... I'll say that those things (speed, temps, trip odometer) rarely seem driver-critical to me.
716.
by sib 6y ago
> Why can't we just hold a button and unlock the phone directly into the camera? My iPhone has a "camera" button right on the lock screen that launches the camera app without needing to unlock the phone. It takes well unde
717.
by sib 6y ago
If, for example, you go on a voyage to the North Pole, you will travel on a Soviet / Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Let_Pobedy You'll also end up with a lot less $$ in yo
718.
by sib 6y ago
A (high school) student who's unwilling to use Safari because of privacy concerns but would be ok using Chrome? That sounds like a serious edge case.
719.
by sib 6y ago
Amazon has over 800,000 employees. 1/100,000 is not a high rate compared to general population. (Not trivializing deaths.)
720.
by sib 6y ago
Yes, but they are not representing the results as actually being the competitor.

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