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The better question to be asking is who's gonna fill the self driving trucks with gas?
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2016 02:13 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 08:34 |
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Not gonna lie, this is creepy as gently caress.
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2016 06:28 |
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Claverjoe posted:Not knowing much about the current techie Jesus beyond Paypal, SpaceX and Tesla, why was his success dependent on his parent(s)? His dad gave him the money he needed to start his first company after dropping out of college.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2016 16:50 |
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Landsknecht posted:the weird thing is that even though there is an amazing amount of dumb hype around tech, someone who with fairly basic "general IT support" skills can do some amazing things now with mobile, proximity sensors, and wearables Coworker and I won a hackathon building an IoT coffeepot that shames you on twitter for taking last cup and not making a new pot. We were then invited to Vegas to demo during AT&T keynote and won 2nd. We split 17k in prizes after the whole ordeal. IoT is stupid easy to get into considering EVERYONE has an API to do something. Everyone kept asking us what we were going to do after going forward, but we just laughed and said it was gonna sit on a table at work and we'd chuckle from time to time about it.
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 20:12 |
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The thread going on a wild tangent about how to implement a cashier-less grocery store reminds me of something...
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2017 20:31 |
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fishmech, I'm sure they'd redesign the layout of the store to support this huge change in infrastructure. Of course it's not feasible to throw a bunch of sensors in the current layout of a Walmart or Target.
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2017 21:35 |
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fishmech posted:You complained I wasn't thinking about the user experience, buddy. I did, the Amazon one is clearly worse because it requires a massively more complicated process to even step foot in the goddamn store. Maybe a bunch of smart people at Amazon are having design discussions constantly about it and iterating and maybe this pilot store of theirs is just a prototype and maybe they'll iterate on that idea based on feedback. You know, how most new things are created?
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2017 22:30 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Is this for real? An app for the rhythm method? (cross-posting from Pseudoscience thread) It's about time someone disrupted Catholicism.
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2017 01:22 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:someone give me an idea for an app that i can get overvalued by insane levels because that rat faced snap kid is gonna marry miranda kerr and i want in on this. Ask a bunch of non technical friends for a their idea of an app. If it seems absolutely trivial, provides no value to society, solves no problems, and you think no one would ever use it, build it.
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2017 23:41 |
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TheScott2K posted:You may recognize the CTO as John Carmack, who is best known for demoing Minecraft VR at E3. Pretty sure that's not what he's best known for...
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 18:22 |
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fishmech posted:Oh you mean model rocketry? Yeah he's pretty big in that too. Nah, he's best known for living inside a computer. https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/363003997172424704
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 18:59 |
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Rhesus Pieces posted:On a lighter note: Eh, I'd venture to guess most household IoT products are just household IoT products that persist data on a backend. If manufacturers actually use the data is another thing entirely, but it's reasonable to use the data to track aggregate statistics to make further improvements. Having said that, I don't own any IoT things not because I don't trust the manufacturers with the data, but because I don't trust hackers that will eventually get it because the manufacturers don't understand security.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 22:30 |
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boner confessor posted:it's gonna rule when 4chan shitheads turn your refrigerator off in the middle of the night for lulz It's gonna rule when overnight, a ton of people have their refrigerators suddenly mining bitcoins, their power bills go through the roof, and they have no choice but to unplug their refrigerator letting their food spoil. For the lulz of course.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 22:43 |
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Maluco Marinero posted:This is the problem. Startups run under this assumption that it is moral to snaffle all the data they can in order to 'improve the user experience', but this is an entirely self serving morality that invents a whole industry of surveilling users, such as full on screen watching with Full Story, every single action you do. I'd venture to guess that most companies don't give a poo poo about what you do personally, but are way more interested in what people do in aggregate. Your personal identifying information is useless to the goal of improving the product.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 22:52 |
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I imagine this probably helps people who own a 2nd home and plan to rent it out for extra money. There's already tons of real estate companies that will manage a rent property for you for a cut. Rentberry would definitely need a way to handle tenant issues like a leaky pipe or broken light switch since most of the management companies handle that for the owner as well. I'm sure it's more comfortable for owners to be able to go to management face to face if needed instead of some internet startup.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2017 17:22 |
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People already bid on buying houses. Why is bidding on rent less OK? (Asking a serious question here.) Is it because it leads to less affordable housing because prices can only go up? I can see a situation where my lease is up but my landlord says "oh btw, someone bid $400 more on your place so unless you can beat that, you have 30 days to move."
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2017 17:27 |
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MiddleOne posted:Please tell me that was a joke and not an actual startup. At this point, I can't tell fact from fiction with startups either.
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2017 17:08 |
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Rhesus Pieces posted:What the gently caress, class 4 is the highest it goes and includes stuff like Ebola and smallpox. My mastery of IT and software engineering is a mystical power to VC and makes it really easy to convince them to give me money if I say 'disrupt' three times no matter what discipline I choose to stick my fingers into.
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2017 22:18 |
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Whenever I am in a big city, my first worry is always death by dehydration. Thankfully some brilliant minds have come up with a solution.
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2017 18:25 |
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boner confessor posted:keurig is a drat goofy and wasteful device but it does solve real but minor problems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOMAxuWg1GQ Coworker and I did a hackathon where we made a coffeepot + camera + alexa device so you could find out who made the last cup of coffee. We also hooked it up to twitter so you could shame them on social media. We split 7k in amazon giftcards for a Dallas hackathon and then were invited all expenses paid to Vegas by ATT to compete where we split 10k cash for coming in second. I can't tell you how many people thought we were actually trying to make a real business out of this instead of just loving around.
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# ¿ May 22, 2017 23:30 |
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FilthyImp posted:There's an ambulance ride app that reminds me of that, because they're missing like 2 vowels in their name. I refuse to believe there's an ambulance ride app. I also know someone is about to list off 7 that already exist.
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# ¿ May 25, 2017 22:36 |
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Weatherman posted:Did that dude just start working at British Airways, by any chance? Curious about the same thing...
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 20:28 |
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Feinne posted:If only the human body had some way to tell if it needed more water or not. Surely it's a wonder we survived so long as a species with absolutely no natural mechanism that could drive us to consume the fluids so vital to us. But what if I drink too much?! I might drown!!!
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# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 19:13 |
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outlier posted:Nice quote on twitter today: Github allows you to show off how many stars your repos get but not your pull requests. It's all about having your bespoke artisanal string to boolean library being used by everyone.
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2017 22:06 |
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Doesn't one group control more than 50% of the bitcoin mining power? Meaning they can gently caress with the sanctity of the blockchain if they don't like how things are going for them? I doubt anyone who has bitcoin actually cares about blockchain technology.
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2017 18:25 |
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My guess is that all those echo devices will now be listening for music you play in your house to then turn around and recommend those albums to you on amazon.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2017 22:54 |
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I'm picturing a scenario where someone finds an amazing medical breakthrough, patents it, and then does the bare minimum to prove "use" so that the patent doesn't become invalidated while still preventing the world from enjoying it.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2017 19:03 |
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Rime posted:I have visited some real gnarly impoverished shitholes in the world, and the USA remains the only place where the homeless have actually made me fear for my life. That fear you feel is actually the feeling of pure, unfiltered freedom.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2017 17:35 |
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Once again proves that "think of the dumbest thing possible but actually create it" is still the best business strategy in 2017 (and probably 2018).
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2017 16:57 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:2017 will be remembered as "The Year Every Day Was Fool's Day". I wish the nazi resurgence thing was a joke...
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2017 16:37 |
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Instead of saying database, just say blockchain and your company will instantly be 50% more valuable!
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# ¿ Jan 2, 2018 22:25 |
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aware of dog posted:I posted it elsewhere, but James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google because it discriminates against white male conservatives. He's going to get a book deal and get paid to make the rounds on conservative media outlets. This assumes he wasn't paid to make the lawsuit happen in the first place.
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2018 00:59 |
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Why would anyone want a smart safe? It's the one device I don't want opened remotely.
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2018 20:18 |
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T-man posted:I've been thing about starting up a channel doing video essays in my field (as a hobby, not a job or w/e) and that's basically killed all interest in doing so. As long as you stream every day for 12 hours, after a year you'll be eligible!
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2018 21:55 |
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Facebook is the new FWD: FWD: FWD: email service for your aged 50+ relatives. For me, Facebook is for keeping up with family. Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram are for keeping up with friends.
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2018 17:29 |
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Thanks for the early morning panic attack.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2018 16:42 |
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Baronash posted:Out of curiosity, is this list still accurate as to the data Cambridge Analytica had access to? Some of us don’t have hundreds of friends and don’t want non friends seeing everything.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 19:17 |
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Baronash posted:These companies are only "seeing" your information insomuch as Facebook does: a bunch of cells in a CSV file that is being analyzed by a script to make assumptions about you. Sure, someone could, if they were so inclined, open it up in Excel and read it. But if you have information that you want to keep secret from a sufficiently motivated bad actor, why do you have it on Facebook? Because facebook led me to believe that people who weren't my friends couldn't see my info, likes, posts, etc? I went through all the security settings in the facebook and set it up as I wanted it to be. Are you saying that it's all just security theater and I actually have zero control over who sees what? Like I should be able to post "work sucks" on my wall without my employer having any possible way of seeing it. I should be able to because facebook security settings lead me to believe that's what's actually happening. I completely understand that I might be part of some aggregate dataset that says I'm white tech guy, but I'm talking PII data in hands of people that should be protected.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 19:40 |
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hobbesmaster posted:But if you let your friends see it your friends become the potential weakest link. ie, your boss can see your "works sucks" post if your "friend" shows it to them. So you have to rely on all your friends to know how security works too. I don't have any insight into how CA collected their data, but I'll go out on a limb and assume CA didn't call tons of people's friends asking them about their friends' data. If my data is being used in aggregate, I don't care. I'm just a number that can have advertisements targeted to. I'm only against having my PII shared to companies without consent.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 19:48 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 08:34 |
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JawnV6 posted:What have you read? That's pretty much it, if any of your friends took a quiz for a dollar CA got your info. Ah I totally forgot about the quiz poo poo so yeah that makes sense. Welp. Baronash posted:I mean, this is getting into the "sufficiently-motivated bad actor" territory. Unless you have a genuine concern that your employer would put a Facebook quiz together, hope one of your Facebook friends would take it, use that permission to gain access to your data, and then read the resulting data to find that "work sucks" post, (AKA Cambridge Analytica's method) then Facebook's security settings are likely doing their job. A far more likely scenario is that one of your Facebook friends is also a coworker and tells the boss that you said "work sucks." It's a more likely scenario yes, but that's also why coworkers aren't facebook friends of mine. Also, I can kick a coworker in the dick/vagina for telling the boss at least.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 20:15 |