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by somethoughts 4mo ago
It would seem like such an obvious win-win if these cleaning robotics companies just won a couple of contracts with some tech forward hotel chains. - Faster R&D since hotel rooms are regular/familiar - Cost center for hotels
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by somethoughts 7mo ago
My hot take for Japan is that hybrids make the most sense until one the major markets (US or all of EU) has significant traction with respect to ubiquitous EV charger infrastructure. Tesla can fund the project of making EV chargers ubiquito
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by somethoughts 7mo ago
I don't think its quite so easy anymore that I can tell, with parental tools today - on a properly provisioned device you can require parental permission for app installs such as VPN, etc.
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by somethoughts 7mo ago
Yes it doesn't show up probably because you were able to pretty easily mindlessly click through the part where you were asked if this is being provisioned as a child's computer. When you provision a Windows, Mac or Chromebook thes
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by somethoughts 7mo ago
From a parent's perspective, that's the great part about bubbling it up to the OS user account level. Its trivially easy to see if the user (child) has indeed created multiple OS level user accounts with different permission level
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by somethoughts 7mo ago
It was mostly in response to the secwar tweet: "Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic," If this tweet is ta
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by somethoughts 7mo ago
Sorry I was a bit unclear - this was referencing the Administration not Anthropic. The United States Department of Justice under the Trump administration, supported Phillips.[20][5] While the Department asserts that anti-discrimination laws
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by somethoughts 7mo ago
While not exactly parallel, it seems slightly hypocritical that this is coming from the party of "a baker should not be forced to bake a wedding cake for a customer that they ideologically/morally disagree with." I guess the
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by somethoughts 8mo ago
My hot take as some one who follows the space is that traditionally a big blocker of factory built housing has been unionized trades people who lived in the area of the housing developments. These trades people had purchased their homes pr
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by somethoughts 8mo ago
I think this is the issue - if the NIMBYs want to protest things they should really start when the office space gets built. The filled office space full of white collar jobs paying $200K is what triggers the eye of the residential developer
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by somethoughts 11mo ago
Interestingly it's popularity or unpopularity would prove out two things - both of which are somewhat of a win win for Apple: 1.) If MacPhone/MacPad is popular then it would prove that there does exist a currently untapped, unaddr
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by somethoughts 11mo ago
I think the reverse offering on the Apple device roadmap would be interesting. A MacPad and a MacPhone. Given its eventually going to be completely the same silicon this would enable them to offer a non App Store experience for people who
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by somethoughts 11mo ago
Pretty cool! My hot take is that there are seem to be really two markets here: 1.) Candy crush type board games targeting kids with well-off parents. Basically really focused on immersive and interactive visuals like effects and cutscenes.
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by somethoughts 11mo ago
I feel like they should target commercial applications first before worrying about trying to get into people's homes. It would seem like the ideal target for this would be say a hotel operator. A team of these could clean a large numb
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by somethoughts 11mo ago
There was/is a pretty interesting board game roughly based on Python Turtles created by a middle schooler a while back. Instead of a turtle you control a bunny and instead of lines of code with commands you collect up and then use sequ
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by somethoughts 1y ago
The burrito ballistic tech seems like it could probably handle the last 10 yards problem and enable drive by delivery. Postmates - How we built a Burrito Cannon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br_KqzLWunM Burrito Cannon Dem
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by somethoughts 1y ago
My hot take is that it will probably follow the Netflix model of pricing once the VC money wants to turn on the profit switch. Originally Netflix was a single tier at $9.99 with no ads. As ZIRP ended and investors told Netflix its VC-like h
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by somethoughts 1y ago
I feel like it'd be perfect if all these school replacements (home-school, charter school, online only schools) went after replacing the dearth of quality after school options. Really the only options for after school activities after
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by somethoughts 1y ago
It feels a better strategy for all parties involved to have transitioned these shows to ABC's streaming properties (i.e. Hulu) and made them "exclusive" content for these platforms. This would have put them out of the reach o
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by somethoughts 1y ago
I think there could be a case for a fixed amount of annual tax credit for each US citizen that is employed by a company - since presumably that person is not on the government payroll or on benefits so the US government is saving money. The
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by somethoughts 1y ago
Looking at this from a glass half full mindset, a decade from now we should have a pretty interesting data set from a public health policy perspective. Prior to this, to get such a large subset of children to not take vaccines for an epidem
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by somethoughts 1y ago
I think a line up of specifically branded Android Phones and Chromebook that are locked into (at least initially) using Google Family Link and perhaps more importantly - a marketing campaign on educating parents on how to setup/use it
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by somethoughts 1y ago
haha - yes - sometimes when you look at all the Web 2.0 and beyond startups, all of the startups seems to be at least original founded to solve problems single people think need solving: * finding good looking people in college * sending dm
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by somethoughts 1y ago
A fun theory I have is that once you start seeing industry trade group sponsored lobbyists and influence marketing campaigns matching the level of spending of entrenched industries, you can probably start lowering the subsidies for said ind
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by somethoughts 1y ago
Clip of an interview with Ed Smylie by the Smithsonian Channel How Duct Tape Saved the Lives of the Apollo 13 Crew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeEM_IBUv70
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by somethoughts 1y ago
Food for thought - originally Netflix was a single tier at $9.99 with no ads. As ZIRP ended and investors told Netflix its VC-like honeymoon period was over - ads were introduced at $6.99 and the basic no ad tier went to $15.99 and the Pre
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by somethoughts 1y ago
Interestingly in Asia there are services that drive by hotels and pick up laundry bags and bring them back the next day washed and folded. Perhaps someone here on HN will read this here, make an app out of it, get funding and set up such a
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by somethoughts 1y ago
Actually interestingly the primary benefit of doing this would actually be trucking companies. The AI software could probably work way better and have less liability if not having to deal with corner cases of irrational human drivers. Unfet
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by somethoughts 1y ago
Agree -but the alternative is that at no point does anyone get to chose to opt out of driving amongst a sea of 10 ton self driving trucks.
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by somethoughts 1y ago
Quite the opposite - right now (or at least in the future unless interventions are added) poor people have no option but to submit themselves to driving sandwiched amongst with 10 ton trucks driven by who knows what, vibe coded, beta tested

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