wonder_bread

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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Is anybody else confused by the spate of articles on Snap's decline as a direct result of 'stories' through Insta the last 6 months yet Snapchat still seems to invariably sit on/near the top of the Play Store/App st
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
It’s amazing to watch all this happen on the consumer end but how many more industries can they really do this to? Is Bezos not essentially setting up his successor for failure by turning Amazon into a conglomerate with razor margins in so
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Not really seeing a material difference between this and just using one of the available machine learning AMI's on EC2. Relatively anticlimactic
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
That's very interesting, among my social circle (low 20's Northeast New England Area) Venmo has an implicit monopoly on the service. I doubt any of my non-cs friends have even heard of Square's offering.
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
'Venmo' itself has become a verb rather than just a service so I doubt either of them have the necessary momentum to take these services to anything more than nominal levels of volume relative to the market lead
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
If they still owned 51% of the company their respective net worth would make even Bezos seem paltry
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Headline is pretty clickbaity
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
So a Squarespace/Wix replacement?
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Definitely a provocative comment that might not be correct but I don't think it deserved to be down-voted. Just because he's Elon doesn't mean he doesn't play his own manipulation games
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Do you think they would still be doing this if TF hadn't become the near de-facto ML software? Seems like more of a response to its rise than an actual research project
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Is this as much of a collusion attempt against TensorFlow as it seems? Or has this been a long time coming?
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Pretty hilariously bad report. When they first came out with it the URL path said 'Spotify' instead of 'Shopify'
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Almost has to be a troll in the system who decided to prove a point
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
It's unfortunate the amazing advances Google's been making with its ml software are being packaged up into a bunch of happenstance hardware offerings.
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
I had the exact same thought as you two minutes ago if I'm honest and apparently that's on the way with the new pixel phone. http://www.droid-life.com/2017/09/19/google-home-mini-exclus...
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
You don't think they should be worried at all about the Echo platform?
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Glass was innovative and ahead of it's time but that being said it feels like Google (and Apple for that matter) are falling into the risky playbook of mirroring other companies' ideas and assuming their scale will take care of th
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Serious Question; Is Google ever going to get out of catch-up mode in this department?
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
What are some of the open source options?
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Yes they are still using AWS entirely (as far as I've seen) in fact they've doubled down on their AWS commitment it seems by integrating with Lex and Connect. Their stock isn't so hot right now but that's not terribly ou
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Doesn't bode well for Twilio that Amazon keeps rolling out these ecosystem-enhancing SMS features. They're still a standout solution for anybody who doesn't use AWS IMP but these features are getting a little too close for co
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
This is almost certainly a pro on the consumer end of things but ultimately how much of a win is this really? Facebook and Google will still be fine so if anything this further consolidates the information monopoly. I'm happy Apple did
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Same thing I've noticed, and even beyond that people still seem to feel the need to put a final layer of effort into their insta stories relative to Snap stories, I'd say Snap still has a definite role
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Were the Specs ever meant to be more than a hype vehicle though? Obv. if it had blown up into an international phenomenon Spiegel & Co. would have taken it but I feel like it was more just a power strut en route to their IPO to show tha
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
I would argue most of Alexa's most import features are not free, doubleclick is still a cloak around the entire digital advertising industry that gives them access to actionable metrics of how websites are doing (i.e. maybe why they&#x
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
Sounds a lot like Amazon owning Alexa (the website service), Google owning double click, etc.
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
If Tesla 'merged' with SpaceX and Boring Co. on the public market you're talking about a company that could have a $100B mkt cap as soon as next year, the slight and continuing unofficial convergence of all of his companies i
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
I still find that at least a quarter of the stories my friends post on Instagram are just their Snapchat usernames
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
The general point seems to be "large corporation doesn't pay its fair share of taxes". Something that seems to be more of a hot-button issue in Europe
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by wonder_bread 9y ago
I don't like being rude in comments sections but that's a pretty dumb comment to make, to be honest. I don't think the writer needs any help understanding how tax bills are formulated, it's just meant to state a point. (

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