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by ucaetano 8y ago
> If it wasn't a viable business model, Google wouldn't move into the space. Wrong, maybe that "space" (feature or product) goes well with Google's business model, but wouldn't support a viable business mode
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Which most likely meant the startup was a feature or a product, not a company with a viable business model.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Ha, that was me! Thanks for the bump!
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by ucaetano 8y ago
"Not having any evidence to corroborate" is logical reason enough not to make a claim.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Why can't you? Because you have no information to make that conclusion. But if you want to make a wild guess, sure, go ahead.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Quietly? The entire development has been public, hasn't it?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> But isn’t this reasonable since Samsung bringing up this lawsuit could be disastrous in harming their partnership with Google. Sure, but you can't make the claim that Samsung is then being screwed over by Google. > Not really t
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Israeli parliament passes bill defining it as a Jewish nation(usatoday.com)
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> This is an AliBaba product localized to mainland China. Nope, massively popular in India.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> There is nothing that stops a manufacturer from providing microG instead of Play Services and hence cutting Google out. Except that microG doesn't work. It is even far behind Amazon's own implementation of GMS, and Amazon has
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Sure, and both Malibu and Skid Row are in the Greater LA Area.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
For reference, until Nov 2017, Zoox drove a cumulative 2200 autonomous miles driven in public CA roads, with a ridiculously high disengagement rate of 1/430 miles. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect&#x2
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by ucaetano 8y ago
No. And even if you take in account those factors, the resulting number is irrelevant on an individual basis due to huge variation between individuals.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
"In my eyes, FriendlyChemist is a liability and I wouldn't mind if he was executed, but then you'd be out your $700k." "I understand, and that is great news about Xin [being kidnapped]. If I understand the situation
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Silicon Valley is about 40 miles south of San Francisco :)
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> if interpreted But that's the point. He doesn't claim that, he makes a vague claim with ambiguous terms that could be interpreted in any way, even if he's qualified enough to know the precise terms. That's the healt
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yep, time to start eating sugar and stop exercising. And endless coconut oil!
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> People are more rational when the cost to them of being irrational is larger. This isn't strictly true, and I'd love to see you provide extensive data on such a exceptional claim. There is a lot of evidence showing that harsh
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Actually it worked very well for many companies. The Amazon Kindle came out of Lab 126, Amazon's innovation program. The idea isn't just to remain dynamic, but to allow for new products and services to be developed despite posing
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by ucaetano 8y ago
The problem is scale. Indians use 10kg of plastic per person per year, so 13M tons per year. If India were to pave 10 thousand km of roads per year with this tar/plastic combinations (completely unrealistic), it would use up only 10 th
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Oh, I'm not doubting that the method exists. I'm doubting that it is as efficient as portrayed in the article, a good solution for using plastic, and as widely used.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
While I applaud the change in perspective into looking at plastic as a resource, not a curse, this article smells of BS: > He received a patent for the process in 2006. Since then, almost 10,000km of Indian roads have been paved using hi
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yeah, I'm genuinely surprised and sad when I see posts like these make it to Hacker News, it just show how ignorant most people are about fundamentals of economics.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
This is a stupid comparison. It is comparing flow vs. storage. This is comparing Joules to Watts. It isn't even wrong. The Mexican economy generates $1 trillion of value per year. The Norway Sovereign Wealth fund has $1 trillion in cap
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by ucaetano 8y ago
There used to be a search engine switcher view, but google needed to make money.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
America is still paying the price of Robert Moses' folly.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
No idea, the product wasn't launched yet, but that seems like the most obvious use case to address.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Google is impossible to talk to Talking costs money, a lot of money, far more than computers. It seems that Google One will have paid support, so your problem is solved!
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by ucaetano 8y ago
You didn't read the article, did you?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> It’s rapidly becoming clear that once you give your data to third parties in unencrypted form, all bets are off. Wait, what did you expect? You're giving someone access to all your information, what were you expecting? If you give

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