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   by throwaway40483 10y ago

   I concur. In fact, I find the podcast better than articles. I'm not sure why though. I think the conversational tone of the podcast is better. They attack the problem from different area and then hone in on the main point.
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   by throwaway40483 10y ago

   With automation, it's very rare (never?) to go from white collar to blue collar. I think you can safely assume that it's white collar.
3. 63.▲
   by throwaway40483 10y ago

   It looks like they're scaling down their car project (Project Titan): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/how-apple...
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   by throwaway40483 10y ago

   When I see these rewrites, I'm always left wondering about the speedup achieved. How much was due to: 1) Going from programming language X to Y 2) Rewriting the algorithm in language Y I suspect (without any proof) that too much is att
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   by throwaway40483 10y ago

   Nothing. This is just a tactic to "silence" critics.
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   by throwaway40483 10y ago

   I think this can be boiled down to (hopefully without offending anyone): AR = gaming "nerds" VR = "real" people Apple has always targeted "real" people. It's very similar to Android vs. iPhone, where Andro
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   Alphabet Pushes Out Leaders of Drone-Delivery Project(wsj.com)

   2 points by throwaway40483 10y ago|0 comments
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   by throwaway40483 10y ago

   I think the article makes it the correlation between education attainment (a proxy for income) and net loss. So, it isn't that millenials are aging. It's whether they get credentials as they age.
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   by throwaway40483 10y ago

   This quote stuck out to me: "Abovitz wants Magic Leap to stay in Florida; one of the benefits of manufacturing there is that it allows the company to keep its secrets. If it were headquartered in Northern California, that would be near
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    by throwaway40483 10y ago

    Everytime this issue comes up, this post deserves a link: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/ Probably the best written summary of the SF housing shortage.
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    by throwaway40483 10y ago

    This is a reference to the Twitter blue bird logo. But yeah, it also caught me by surprise at first.
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    by throwaway40483 10y ago

    This "we must protect our brand" is really weird. If you look at the sentiment here on HN, it's pretty much "Oh great, Google is in the news again. I wonder which product they're sunsetting today". Maybe Google
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    by throwaway40483 10y ago

    For the uninitiated: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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    by throwaway40483 10y ago

    Facebook = people you (grudgingly) know Twitter = people you want to know
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    by throwaway40483 10y ago

    Definitely one of the better (high wonkish/entertainment ratio) podcasts.
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    by throwaway40483 10y ago

    I think she addressed this by saying that the judges usually end up being more racist than the baked in racism in the algorithms.
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    The O-1: A Visa for People Officially Deemed Extraordinary(theatlantic.com)

    4 points by throwaway40483 10y ago|0 comments
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    by throwaway40483 10y ago

    Yes
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    by throwaway40483 10y ago

    Here' the correct link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_...
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    by throwaway40483 10y ago

    I think you should be careful with this claim. This is what got Twitter into trouble.