tomkarlo

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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It's not paranoid when you include the caveats, as you do here. But to simply say that "Privacy could cease to exist while you're wearing Google Glass" is fear mongering, or paranoia. That statement is both staggerly broad in nature and at
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Recording alone is doesn't equate to a loss of privacy. If you kept detailed written notes on everywhere you go, as long as those notes don't get disclosed to anyone else, you haven't lost any privacy. Taking a paranoid and oversimplified a
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
So you're taking the current state of the prototype, and projecting it out five-odd years to the capabilities of the final projection model? Google can make the sensors on the car better in each iteration, but our eyes aren't going to be ch
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
"...Google CEO Sergey Brin said on Tuesday." It doesn't say great things about the reporting or fact checking here that they got the CEO of Google wrong in a publication entitled "Computerworld".
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
A robotic car can adjust to inclement conditions more effectively than a human will - not only can it use detection systems that are less hampered by rain than our vision, it also can adjust its driving to account for the change in braking
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
How is it "passive-aggressive douchebaggery" for Schmidt to say that Google would have preferred if Apple stayed with their mapping solution, but Apple had a right to make their own decision? Seems like a relatively straightforward statemen
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It's not as if you're forgetting that you're uploading those images - you're getting hit with all kinds of notifications about it every time it happens. If anything, I wish there was less engagement involved.
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
"Data issues can be quickly solved, specially when there are so many users to report problems." That depends on the size of the dataset, and the quality of the reports. It's not obvious that this is true in this case.
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
"When you take a picture on your Android phone, you have likely become an active G+ user as it uploads the picture to your G+ account." Unless you have installed & turned on G+ Instant Upload, this statement is untrue. If you have decid
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Unlike FB or Twitter, it's relatively difficult to post content to Google+. They only recently opened up APIs to some third-party social media management tools like Hootsuite, and they're still not just open to anyone.
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Consumers don't want to do this on desktop systems (how many people ever change OS from whatever their hardware came with? 2%? 4%?). Imagine dealing with hardware drivers, etc on your mobile device, plus the risk of bricking it if you try t
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
More than ever. The capital investment necessary to start a "tech company" (admittedly that's a very vague term) has dropped fairly steadily over the past 40 years. Think about it - back then you probably had to actually manufacturer and sh
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
If that was easy, it wouldn't be standard practice at corporations to disallow it. In most large companies, if you are in a relationship with someone in your reporting line, one of you has to transfer or leave. Even if the reality is that t
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I was referring to the external bandwidth. Even if pulling down a request takes hours, forcing them to start off peak will significantly shift the impact of the incremental demand. I'm guessing that most download requests won't be for your
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I'm not talking load so much as network traffic. Companies like Amazon and Google have huge peak hour outbound traffic during US waking hours, and then a huge dip during off hours. If they can push more of the traffic into those off hours t
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Fair enough, as long as you're going into this with open eyes. It's not like most risks that startups take; inherently, most people wildly underestimate the risk that a personal relationship will go sour down the road. (If we didn't, a lot
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Having a multi-hour delay in retrieval lets them move it into their off-peak hours. Since their bandwidth costs are probably calculated off their peak usage, a service that operates entirely in the shadow of that peak has little to no incre
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Did the team contemplate in making this offer that if something went sour in that relationship, you'd end up with a CEO who has both personal drama and potentially a very difficult situation in the office, given that she'd be reporting to h
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Large companies aren't the same as individuals when it comes to insurance. If you have enough employees, and you're covering an relatively small risk, you don't need to /buy/ anything at all. You just self-insure and you save a ton of money
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It's not in lieu of normal life insurance. It's an additional benefit.
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
How is a company buying life insurance policies on employees that pays out to the company (and not their families) in any way comparable to this? Yes, that's common practice. This is not.
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
There's lots of companies already doing this. Every morning in SF you have hundreds of buses filling with young folks commuting to work down at Apple or Google or Facebook. Uniformly, the age range on the bus is 22-35. The larger tech compa
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Well, that's meaningless, given that they're in that US. By that logic, the working conditions at most white-collar jobs in the US would also be below your standards, as many EU countries require more vacation, shorter hours (France) and ot
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Selling mimosas requires a liquor license, which isn't easy to get. It's unlikely that a hole-in-the wall waffle joint would have one. Since when is $2 undercharging for a coffee? Even starbuck's doesn't charge that much. The guy should hav
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It's a lot easier to attract top college tech talent to a company that's already ranked #1 by some as the most desired employer for college grads. It's something else to get them to go to Yahoo, in a market where Google, Apple, Amazon, Face
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I agree that sucks, but there's lots of apps out there with bugs that should be fixed and won't ever be, even though their makers weren't bought by anyone. If someone sells you software with bugs that make it unusable, you should get your m
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It's never a good idea to buy a software product (or hardware product) for what it's "going to be." You have to buy or not buy it based on what it is today, because they may or may not go down the path you expect in the future. What happene
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
GAAP earnings are not necessarily the same as earnings for taxes. IANA tax lawyer, but I don't think you get a tax break on the write down unless you shut down the acquired business entirely. Otherwise it would be too easy to game your taxe
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Given how large a portion of business users are now buying / owning Mac laptops and/or iPads, pulling Office from OSX would probably do more to damage that very profitable business than hurt OSX. It would just push more people onto the lowe
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
So what, you just let them hang around the office for while? Maybe poach a few employees? It might not prevent any damage that's already occurred, but there's no reason to allow more damage.

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