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by zghst 9y ago
I worked in Oakland and had friends their. The vibe is much lighter than Saint Louis (where I’m from also) or Chicago. It’s more laid back but more crazy than SF (which is already a crazy city). All of Oakland has an artist vibe, the magic
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by zghst 9y ago
Chinese citizens shouldn’t trust American products too much and vice versa. At least your homeland will protect you and you know your people.
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by zghst 9y ago
The Chinese gov’t is a mafia. Let’s not pretend otherwise. It’s citizens are kick ass and intelligent, under the grip of the FBI or Chinese govt? The two evils are incomparable
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by zghst 9y ago
What I usually do is keep in touch with mainstream news and then go to opposing news and a variety of blogs/social media commentators trying to cover all sides. MSM is garbage. Interesting journalism happens at ProPublica, The Intercep
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by zghst 9y ago
The thing is that technology and society has progressed much further than our social and economical structures. I think the sharing economy is a great insight into one aspect of where we are going, but it isn't enough.
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by zghst 9y ago
It’s not front and center. This kind of activity should be part of another app
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by zghst 9y ago
AR is coming back in a big way, maybe not through the glasses at first, Google’s miscalculation was not seeing the phone as the starting point in this technical evolution. As soon as the phone platform gets good enough, its time to jump to
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by zghst 9y ago
To he able to deeply understand a science and be credentialed makes me internationally valuable, as opposed to having limits in just a single market. Sure I could just hop over to a big corp, but long term wise, I’m not sure if it’s sustain
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by zghst 9y ago
I have been on nearly every end of the economical scale, especially the lower end. I know what it can be like to have suffered, but one solution to a problem does not mean it is the best solution
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by zghst 9y ago
That is also why Amazon is playing hard. The game is heating up, they're taking proactive action to not be at the mercy of these companies
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by zghst 9y ago
This is a really bad tactic, even if it's just a rumor, it'd devastating. Exerting a level of control only breeds contempt, Amazon now has free leeway to gain more partners and give more AWS credits. Not to mention Walmart already
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by zghst 9y ago
An app to embarrasses an existing industry
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by zghst 9y ago
But what kind of indoors, up-to-code Western kinds of indoors, or simple grass or adobe huts that the existing people are more than happy to live in? Time and time again, we Westerners look at other cultures as savage and depraved for not h
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by zghst 9y ago
Before the invention of modern washing and drying machines, sure. But today many people in big cities don't even have an washer and dryer in their home or may not have one in the building, this problem spans many different use cases of
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by zghst 9y ago
So you're saying thousands of years of societies all over the world, uninterrupted by Western intervention, were all useless until their coming payday by benevolent overlords?
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by zghst 9y ago
Even if those entrenched in power are more benevolent in economy and access, they still control the game, forming an addicted consumer dedicated to spreading their decadent cause around the world. In a game now where the most vociferous and
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by zghst 9y ago
But every culture lives differently, some people see the world that isn't represented in Western society or technologies. Just by introducing our technologies and economy, we bend these people towards our ideals and history, we erase w
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by zghst 9y ago
What is that really compared to? More people have cars and couches? More concrete and trash men cleaning up the streets Were the past lives of people so destitute that we needed to deliver an economic and social epiphany?
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by zghst 9y ago
Increasing wealth and standard of living means more consumers, more people not living off of the land. More people taking deals from the US or China, losing their sovereignty and self determination, becoming more politically unstable due to
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by zghst 9y ago
More people that are educated buying more products for their bigger homes use more gasoline for their bigger cars going to bigger parties doing more things advertised to them. It's all set up to thrive from these destructive economics
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by zghst 9y ago
At that level, people also consume more than people at lower levels, using more water, releasing more Greenhouse gasses, etc. Your generalization assumes that people of lower classes has no consideration for the environment, which I think i
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by zghst 9y ago
Yes that is the worst case for me, but also I really really do not want to kill my dream. I like work but I will live in the park with my laptop if it comes down to keep going (no joke).
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by zghst 9y ago
Oh that is very tough! I'm only in my early 20s, but I worry so much about retirement, probably one of my most deep fears! I figure the only way for me to get ahead is to be financially successful, either my startup makes it or I go to
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by zghst 9y ago
I am 2 months into doing this, it feels a lot like when I moved to SF, lot of things up in the air but very promising. I had a 6 month financial plan but it was hard to adapt to the lack of income and seeing my savings decrease month by mon
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by zghst 9y ago
Laundry bot would make no money, I think. People are happy to do this task on their own or via a maid.
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by zghst 9y ago
The car is a legitimate next step with AI, computers and sensors are already integrated and have been doing basic functions like parking, whereas computers are not integrated into manual laundry task, this market has decided computers are n
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by zghst 9y ago
If I fail at startup life, this is an obvious next step in my career.
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I’m afraid that most of this audience has an affinity for the noble business model Instacart has, but our morality does not guide markets. I’m extremely concerned for what this means for Instacart. They are now in a cloud for four years. Do
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by zghst 9y ago
I think Instacart has to provide more to retailers. At any moment intense competition could spring from TaskRabbit, Google, Postmates, Uber or Amazon. They aren’t providing a service that has a uniquely broad appeal or combining their niche
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by zghst 9y ago
The external diagnosis of a situation must always be minted in racism, misogyny or struggle. You are not allowed to criticize without starting there

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