stevenAthompson

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   by stevenAthompson 9y ago

   That was my first thought as well. My second thought was the Cory Doctorow story which predicted that the first true AI will be the result of a machine learning spambot and a machine learning antispam bot getting stuck in an arms race. This
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   by stevenAthompson 9y ago

   You might be surprised. For instance, almost every emergency vehicle has a 4G modem of some sort in it now. Also, there are tons of vending machines and assorted manufacturing or mining equipment that use similar devices. Often it's ni
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   by stevenAthompson 9y ago

   They can't get UPS WorldShip to print a label properly (after decades of development). I certainly wouldn't want to ride in any vehicle they designed.
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   by stevenAthompson 9y ago

   Very true. Verizon has been 6 only for ages, but they use NAT64 so most non-nerds never noticed. I believe that at the time of the rollout they were the largest IP6 network on the planet. They may still be. It works because smartphone users
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   by stevenAthompson 9y ago

   The whole idea isn't broken, and it can be fixed pretty cheaply. I think the most fundamental problem is that Amazon hasn't realized that they're operating one of the worlds largest search engines yet. Ditto for other compani