automoton1

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by automoton1 8y ago
I think if you were to have a really old phone (say 5 years) it would be more of an impressive jump than from one year to the next. I think it's harder to notice some of the incremental improvements being made. They can feel kind of la
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by automoton1 8y ago
This is my experience with IoT devices. Often it feels like a grab for customer data provided by the device and a way to get the customer locked into the device ecosystems. I wish there were more IoT style systems that cared about privacy a
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by automoton1 8y ago
I think side projects can make a difference if it's relevant to the business that your applying for. For example, in college I did a lot of Amateur Radio and was part of a club there. I did a lot of Amateur Radio related things, buildi
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by automoton1 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14015524
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by automoton1 8y ago
Do you think people would benefit from a service that allows them to own their emails regardless of who their provider is?
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Ask HN: Are email providers required to give email access if locked out?
1 points by automoton1 8y ago|1 comments
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by automoton1 8y ago
Are there any startups/new players/existing players that are building cars (2017/2018) that are energy efficient (electric/hybrid) and don't violate your privacy by phoning home?
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by automoton1 8y ago
Was the car so good that you couldn't find another one that didn't collect your data?
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Ask HN: How do you get code reviews of your personal projects?
12 points by automoton1 8y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: What do you do in the morning that makes you most productive?
4 points by automoton1 8y ago|0 comments
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by automoton1 8y ago
How do you know the next boom is going to be in SV? Whose to say the conditions for the next boom aren't riper somewhere else?
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by automoton1 8y ago
Cockatrice is what I've used in the past. https://medium.com/@mrdeprey/how-to-connect-to-cockatrice-an...
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by automoton1 8y ago
If so, perhaps it would be within your interest to submit a Preissuance Submission showing prior art to the PTO, like ridgeguy mentioned in a sibling to your comment.
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by automoton1 8y ago
Apache Spark is what I use, personally.
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by automoton1 8y ago
What evidence do you have to back the assertion that millenials have a strong FOMO versus their fear of losing everything any of the other generations? (Anecdotes don't count as evidence) Why wouldn't bubbles be able to exist with
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by automoton1 8y ago
To facilitate the exchange of goods between individuals. To make it so that people can donate small sums to whatever they want. To make less costly the transfer of funds. Why shouldn't it be cheap?
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by automoton1 8y ago
I think that in a lot of Sci-fi the people still play a critical role in the story, alongside the ideas. Not all sci-fi stories are about the ideas. They can often contain how the ideas impact people, how people use the ideas to shape their
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by automoton1 8y ago
Why is the government encouraging this?
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by automoton1 8y ago
Doesn't UBI have the potential to cause inflation (demand and cost-push)? Is this a valid enough concern to search for an alternate solution to UBI?
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by automoton1 8y ago
"That environment is only easily attained in the exact places that have ridiculous real estate markets." There are places in middle America with open positions for many people that have relatively inexpensive living costs in compa
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by automoton1 8y ago
In my life, at least, there is still some time between eat and sleep that allows for the creation of personal art. Sometimes other things get in the way, but I think that if you've got the energy and motivation you can still get it don
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by automoton1 9y ago
Should Facebook be sued?
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by automoton1 9y ago
Does this work on any document that you pass into it? How does it handle questions for ideas that continue to the next page?
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by automoton1 9y ago
If they did this to Apple and Google, what prevents them from doing it to smaller companies that make similar products? How is this not anticompetitive?
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by automoton1 9y ago
I don't see how talking about consciousness is necessarily a limitation to it being a by-product of physical processes. It could be that consciousness is simply an emergent property (a by-product) of the communication of billions of ne
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by automoton1 9y ago
Knowing this, I'm now tempted to partially sign up to services to see if they'll offer me a discount.
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by automoton1 9y ago
How would you disrupt them?
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by automoton1 9y ago
Even if they don't always serve the same purpose, they serve a similar purpose in a number of examples. It's still a valid analogy to get someone thinking about how they might work.
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by automoton1 9y ago
Wouldn't they still need a warrant?