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by vl 6y ago
The irony, of course, is that FB bans users left and right for the most mundane things. I follow blog of a poet who stopped publishing on Facebook because his poems get suspended all the time when they mention any issues.
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by vl 6y ago
This is of course is incorrect. I worked at Google as well, and I can tell you that for text-based ML services 90 days often is not enough.
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by vl 6y ago
>will request FB to fire him... (which thankfully won't happen) Corporations don't fire this fast, give it couple weeks and he will move to other position "for personal reasons", where he will rest-and-vest for the fe
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by vl 6y ago
I know, my network can be busy, so I don’t want to deal with potential latency issues and I don’t want to bother with side-loading.
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by vl 6y ago
Discussed in detail here today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23620374 Short answer: Oculus Quest
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by vl 6y ago
For 15ft you kinda want light cable. Also you want L-shaped connector on one end. From the speed test it does during setup it kinda looks like it needs USB 3 speeds, so USB2 presumably won’t cut it. Anyway, I was going to get one of the che
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by vl 6y ago
Quest is better just because you can buy it relatively quickly, and for Valve Index you have to wait many weeks in line. Valve Index (or Rift, for example) is lighter, because it doesn’t have battery, and has better tracking (pros), but is
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by vl 6y ago
It’s just a screw which is better for machines. They don’t really care if you can open it or not, since it’s hard enough with any screw. But they do care if assembly robot makes less mistakes.
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by vl 6y ago
Google developed VR headset internally for years, but in typical Google fashion this seems to be half-assed effort that didn’t go anywhere.
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by vl 6y ago
They made a mistake because they didn’t ship anything. It would be much better to ship something and iterate then to wait and miss the boat. Look at HomePod, market share and mind share is minuscule.
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by vl 6y ago
I can’t recommend Feynman’s “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter” highly enough. It gives description of Quantum Mechanics in simple terms (while math is oversimplified for my taste, still better than other books, where math is too
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by vl 6y ago
But in the Standard Model each “generation” of particles is so much heavier than the previous one, and in practice there is a limit on the power of the accelerator we can build. Even then there is no reason to believe that there is infinite
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by vl 6y ago
So you are saying that search results were manipulated (cards were added) inequitably (added for one campaign and not other). Notice that is doesn’t matter why it happened. End result is the same: campaigns were inequitably represented in s
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by vl 6y ago
Yes, and I described to you what and when.
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by vl 6y ago
Well, you need to acquire video of TGIF meeting from 2016 dedicated to search support for election. In question and answer section one of employees asks why for many questions instant answer card is shown for Hilary and for same question no
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by vl 6y ago
This is exactly what I have to do, but why am I forced to? While Kindle is locked in, it seems to be a love child of Amazon and works extremely well. The difference between Kindle and iPhone is that Kindle is a single-purpose device, and iP
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by vl 6y ago
FYI, Karl Marx never livid in Russia (he preferred London) and was dead a century ago.
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by vl 6y ago
It’s one thing to have power and another one is to exercise it. Back then Google actually claimed to “provide equal access”, but instant answers is just visible and minor example where they slipped. But they will be dismembered by politicia
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by vl 6y ago
While I don’t care about evolution of the company, I’m really pissed that I can’t buy Kindle book on a $1000 dollar device I’ve paid for.
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by vl 6y ago
The irony, of course, that in pre-Obama times situation was somewhat reverse. Notice that Trump is outsider. Establishment got too complacent and detached (first right, then left, which is mostly indistinguishable from centrist traditional
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by vl 6y ago
Whoever controls Google search, Facebook and Twitter feeds controls the election. Politicians already realized that, and Facebook got the taste of what is coming. Once there is more unity in the office, congress and senate, they will return
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by vl 6y ago
Orwell was afraid of censorship by the government. In his wildest dreams he couldn’t envision that we’ll voluntarily out-source censorship to the private corporation. Reality stranger than fiction.
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by vl 6y ago
There are so few clouds, that it doesn’t work like this. When I saw it first hand the way it was done is prices were set to match competition. Occasionally somebody would reduce the prices, and others would match it. Since offerings are not
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by vl 6y ago
(To clarify, Disney owns ESPN, which has exclusive distribution deal with UFC.)
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by vl 6y ago
What’s wrong with Sandisk?
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by vl 6y ago
Disney owns extremely diversified portfolio of companies, including, for example UFC and ESPN. They would manage Twitter just fine.
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by vl 6y ago
Even this doesn’t stress how heavily HN is moderated. You can see it occasionally when there is some news cycle and you look an HN and everything is “Rust is cool. How we raised a round for a product we don’t have (yet). Tips for thinking e
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by vl 6y ago
In US liberals have this idea that police will protect them, but in all documented severe crisis events police was first to run away. Which basically means that everyone is on their own, or at least with their friends/neighbors. Anyway
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by vl 6y ago
>hasn't really happened yet 23 states deployed national guard in response to protests.
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by vl 6y ago
> he realised he couldn't make a product that will disrupt the market at a reasonable price Most likely because of batteries. He doesn’t have volume to build his own battery factories, but buying in small quantities makes his cars e

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