SimpleXYZ

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Publish a Skill, Get an Echo Dot(developer.amazon.com)
3 points by SimpleXYZ 9y ago|0 comments
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by SimpleXYZ 9y ago
Indeed, the blame clearly lies with Microsoft. One of the reasons I choose a PC over a Mac is because I want to decide things for myself. Microsoft's updates seem very Appleish to me. All they need is large text that says something li
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by SimpleXYZ 9y ago
Oops, I thought he said "cheap, clean freely available drugs".
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by SimpleXYZ 9y ago
No, things are not black and white. Having a heroin vending machine next to every gumball machine is a bad idea.
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by SimpleXYZ 10y ago
If society can change from taxes on tea being too high, it can change when unemployment is 91%.
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by SimpleXYZ 10y ago
So what's the alternative? Protectionism? The rest of the world will be colonizing Pluto while we are self-sufficient with furniture. Look at all these chair building jobs! Each chair only costs $45,000 each. No, the US will never,
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by SimpleXYZ 10y ago
>Use of the devices is slumping because they are not as good as cigarettes at giving a hit of nicotine This is total nonsense. You can use e-juice at a level that will give you nicotine poisoning.
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by SimpleXYZ 10y ago
That is interesting. I think custom TLD's cost a huge amount of money though (like $200k).
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Amazon’s $2.5M ‘Alexa Prize’ seeks chatbot that can converse for 20 minutes(geekwire.com)
1 points by SimpleXYZ 10y ago|0 comments
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by SimpleXYZ 10y ago
It must be nice knowing the "correct" way to live.
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by SimpleXYZ 10y ago
In that case I would predict we'll hit it at around, say, 2030.
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by SimpleXYZ 10y ago
Exactly, we are talking about millions of people if you go back a few thousand years.
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by SimpleXYZ 10y ago
Also, the platform is ExpressionEngine.
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
Not really. Machines don't care if you instruct them to build a Ferrari or a Toyota. There's no difference in robot labor. After that, all that's left is resources, and sending robots to mine outer space isn't a deal-
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
A lot of people seem to assume you get handed a 18 point font piece of paper that says, "You agree to borrow $70,000 for a student loan." Mine was hundreds of pages of legalese and I didn't even know what the total of my 11
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
Socialized medicine or a pure capitalistic system would both be preferable to the current system in the US. Right now it's the worst of both worlds.
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
Those are the prices to build clones of those sites (I think).
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
Yes, "Uber for Babysitting", "Uber for Cooking", "Uber for Package Delivery", etc. Look at all these "great ideas"! I'm willing to give them away because ideas ARE cheap. Overcoming the network
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
What's your source on $15k?
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Steam launches official developer-run Item Stores(eurogamer.net)
2 points by SimpleXYZ 11y ago|0 comments
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
Getting an education was the stupidest thing I've ever done.
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
It doesn't necessarily have to be a "block out the sun" type of project. There are other opportunities, like energy. Surely someone can take a bite out of a 100+ trillion dollar industry in a profitable and green way.
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
In theory, a basic income should shift wages from skill to demand. For example, sanitation workers and doctors would get a high wage whereas video game designer wages would drop. (You won't care about a video game when there is 3&#x2
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Amazon opens voice recognition tech, announces $100M in funding for developers(androidcentral.com)
2 points by SimpleXYZ 11y ago|0 comments
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
I don't have a cell phone or a stereo, so the Echo is really the perfect device for me. I use it for weather, timers, news, fact look-up, math, music, etc. I really wish it supported something like json, allowing me to get an audio of
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
With the exception of aluminum, consumer recycling is total nonsense. (Industrial recycling is extremely important and profitable.) Putting recyclables on an oil burning truck to an oil burning processing plant is dubious at best.
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
Windows XP is technology from 2001. A lot has changed in the last 14 years.
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by SimpleXYZ 11y ago
They should have probably made tiers. 0-1,000 downloads = nothing 1,001-100,000 downloads = donate button 100,001-1,000,000 downloads = big donate button 1,000,001+ downloads = set your own price, 50% share to modder
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by SimpleXYZ 12y ago
I couldn't agree more. 100 or 200 years seems feasible.
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by SimpleXYZ 12y ago
I can't wait to get my Echo. All I want is for the wake up word to be "computer". Is that so much to ask?

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