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by wdr1 9y ago
Is it better for self driving cars to have a flawless record & low adoption, or to have a 100x improvement over human drivers & broad adoption? Creating the perfect self-driving car, with redundant systems, safety everything & s
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by wdr1 9y ago
This is one of the things I really liked about moving from Mountain View to Los Angeles. Not only breaking out of your company's bubble, but the tech bubble all together.
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by wdr1 9y ago
> Likewise there was a time they would never publish software with the embarrassing bugs we have seen through macOS and iOS. As someone who's been an Apple fanboy since the 80s, that's just bullshit.
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by wdr1 9y ago
> Facebook lets companies bid for ads to show you, based on Facebook’s data about your interests and demographics. If you never engage with the ads there is no information leakage. That's not true.
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by wdr1 9y ago
Keep in mind Microsoft had to some extent nerfed the non-Windows version of Excel, Word, & Powerpoint. The hope was to keep people on Windows, but as people started to shift away from Windows, it makes it much easier for them to jump fr
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by wdr1 9y ago
The first sentence in the article states the restrictions are "for up to a year". Where does your "always restricted" come from? Not to be rude, but did you read the article or just the headline?
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by wdr1 9y ago
> My rant was more against the whole cheap plastic toy industry. Honestly, I don't have a problem with cheap, plastic toys. This is something my wife & I don't see eye-to-eye on. She favors things made from wood, tend to b
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by wdr1 9y ago
I like the intent, but given the obvious loopholes, I'm doubtful this has the desired effect. It'll be interesting to see if this provision is actually doing anything in a year or so.
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by wdr1 9y ago
> Two: Google is a massive corporation with few or no competitors. Sorry, you're saying Amazon isn't competition in ecommerce?
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by wdr1 9y ago
Sounds similar to Edit with Emacs https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/edit-with-emacs/lj...
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by wdr1 9y ago
> Just yesterday, I spoke to someone who mentioned Usenet as a means of pirating movies. I cry a little inside whenever I hear that people only know of the once great decentralized discussion system as a dumb pipe. To be fair, this was t
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by wdr1 9y ago
> As long as she's not employed/paid by snapchat and trades on her account - no, not illegal at all I'll go out on a limb & say you're not a lawyer.
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Microsoft Edge: ACG Bypass Using UnmapViewOfFile(bugs.chromium.org)
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by wdr1 9y ago
Not to be a dick, but you get a slew of sources with a cursory Google search. https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/2/9439281/amazon-ban-apple-... https://www.wired.com/2015/10/amazo
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by wdr1 9y ago
Out of curiosity, is there a good reason for Netflix to do this? I.e., why would they be interested in providing 1080p to Safari but not Chrome, even if Chrome can do 1080p?
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by wdr1 9y ago
Repeated collision of your skull, even if it doesn't result in concussion. Linemen are the most prone. https://www.forbes.com/sites/leighsteinberg/2017/07/25/cte-s...
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by wdr1 9y ago
> Are we in an advertising bubble? Unlikely. Online still has a fairly small share of overall advertising dollars. User behavior continues to shift from traditional advertising venues (e.g., TV) to digital. Spend continues to lag that sh
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by wdr1 9y ago
I loved his Diablo postmortem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc
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by wdr1 9y ago
> where there is even less real social interaction Good? I'm an introvert. I don't value random, superficial interactions with people I'll never talk to again. In fact, they cause me anxiety & I dislike them. I do
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by wdr1 9y ago
If he's learned. Therein is a key responsibility of the manager: if they've learned, you're 100% right. If they haven't, don't care, don't get it or whatever, then you also need to take responsibility &
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by wdr1 9y ago
> The bill also does not preclude zero-rating I know I'm in the minority, but I've never seen zero rating as part of NN. What I worry about is people playing games where services are slowed or blocked.
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by wdr1 9y ago
I've worked with many dicks I never want to work with again who proudly call themselves dicks.
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by wdr1 9y ago
Google isn't setting the standard, nor are Google Ads immune from being blocked. The Microsoft comparison doesn't apply at all. The standard is defined here: https://www.betterads.org/standards/ The committe
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by wdr1 9y ago
Is the author (Justin O'Beirne) really Apple's Head of Cartography? https://www.crunchbase.com/person/justin-o-beirne
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by wdr1 9y ago
> What is the success metric for these playlist companies? Well, if the goal is to pick trending music before it trends, I imagine it's largely a matter of letting time pass to see what % of music popped with the desired demographic
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http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
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by wdr1 9y ago
> Unfortunately I have to fault your reporting too. Treaties don't take effect domestically until they are ratified by the involved countries legislatures, not are merely signed. Not always. Obama didn't take the Paris climate
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by wdr1 9y ago
This doesn't eliminate all loans. It eliminates loans as a component of a financial aid packages. If you did not qualify for aid & need loans, those will still exist. I feel there's an "uncanny valley" when it comes
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by wdr1 9y ago
Any chance you have a link handy?
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by wdr1 9y ago
I remember those times. You're missing a key element on how different the world was then. 90%+ of people used a Windows machine exclusively. By making IE the default & forcing OEMs to install it, they were using that that monopol

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