jryle80

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by jryle80 8y ago
For which companies are those driver driving post-Uber? There aren't many choices, SF specifically. Talking about turnover. Any ideas how that's for Uber compared to Lyft et al.?
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by jryle80 8y ago
I don't know, I'd rather be an early Apple's employee or part of the first iPhone team, witnessing a major new chapter of computing, than a comfortable developer in a comfortable setting.
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by jryle80 8y ago
> The US military has sunk $50 Billion dollars into this problem over the last 30 years and still aren't there. I suppose by "this problem" you referred to tilt-rotor technology. If so V-22 is combat ready, and has been de
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by jryle80 8y ago
> The very structure of a corporation today means it is incentivized to sneak by and almost break as many laws as possible to be short-term profitable Can you elaborate on how corporation today are structured toward short term profitabil
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by jryle80 9y ago
That person may however learn to become caregiver, healthcare worker, or another society supporting worker. As automation and AI take bigger roles, couple with the population aging, we the human being need more and more support from other h
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by jryle80 9y ago
Statistically speaking, I agree that comparison isn't helpful. At the same time we have to take into account it's still learning phase for self-driving. I'd be interested to learn from the history how well automobile was rece
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by jryle80 9y ago
True, but this is no difference than when there is a major incident (e.g. construction) on the thoroughfare and the surrounding quiet streets become the detour. Unless the algorithm mistakenly makes it a permanent preference.
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by jryle80 9y ago
Stock trading is just one of many ways aimed at making capital available to whomever need it. Without capital Olivetti may not have existed in the first place (assuming they borrowed money during their existence). You may blame lax of regul
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by jryle80 9y ago
It's news because Tesla projected to have delivered 1,500 Model 3 by end of 3rd quarter. They missed that milestone. Simple as that. I wouldn't read too much into this myself. Scaling production is hard. Regardless, it's an i
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by jryle80 9y ago
Absolutely. That's human nature. The differences: there are due process, separation of power and free speech in democracies.
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by jryle80 9y ago
> The US has 6800 nuclear weapons, and it seems that people are getting worried about a country who may not have one single functioning weapon. That's of course if we want to just play this about the numbers. It's not about a s
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by jryle80 9y ago
What Syria, Iraq and Libya all have in common -- dictators with brutal policies that naturally create a lot of domestic enemies. Did US try to influence those countries? definitely yes. Playing dirty? of course. But that's world politi
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by jryle80 10y ago
The leak won't make those who support Clinton change their mind. Those hate her will feel vindicated. Those undecided will stay skeptical. In other words, it has done no harm. If they are truly unbiased, they should release all the inf
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by jryle80 11y ago
Care to show how western media depicts China? Do you want to bet that for every negative article you cite, I can find a positive one? I was in China last week. Major Western news sources such as NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, BBC are all blocked as f
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by jryle80 11y ago
ok, let's assume such a hyper-connected system exists and ads disappear completely. You decide to buy socks. You find a supplier you like. Socks come in black and orange. You like black, but your wife prefers orange. She convinces you
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by jryle80 11y ago
> Not only do I not think that is true, I think there's real danger that people conclude that more risk is better I don't think people in general consider more risk being better. Rather, higher reward often comes with higher ri
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by jryle80 11y ago
> education tends to prepare for a job rather than for running a company or being a founder. This is an interesting point. Can you elaborate?
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by jryle80 11y ago
> Because you don't risk bankruptcy by having a health issue, if you're single it's not a sausage fest, more laid back work (in SF it seems you're bound to stay longer times at the office), greater tourism choices (a
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by jryle80 11y ago
So when the NYT maintains such a page, is it also part of their propaganda? http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo And when Newsweek reported on a case that reflects negatively on the US, is it also propaganda? http:/
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by jryle80 12y ago
Sony Pictures in an American entity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment Sony the company bought it in 1989, but it still operates as an independent subsidiary.
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by jryle80 12y ago
Came with generics which was introduced in Java 5. No longer true with Java 7
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by jryle80 12y ago
Sony wearable are powered by Android Wear. Does anyone know if Android Wear supports BLE out of the box? I suppose it does but am not sure about light devices such as Sony SmartBand. There doesn't seem to be any mentions on the page.
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by jryle80 12y ago
Pretty interesting statement. Why? Nations have track records of not killing/spying on each others?
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by jryle80 12y ago
I don't have any inside knowledge of how blackbox works the way it does, but I imagine, like with any critical system, reliability and redundancy trump everything else. I bet the two hour limit is not an arbitrary number but rather res
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by jryle80 12y ago
That's a good point. However I believe low pressurization event is captured by the data recorder. That information, coupled with other events, and the fact that the voice recorder goes silent for 2 hours, would give investigators suffi
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by jryle80 12y ago
Why 2 hours isn't enough? We're talking about voice conversation between the crew. Mot of the information meaningful to investigation would happen in a short period of time prior to the crash.
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by jryle80 13y ago
Why do you need to be an ass? We celebrate computers every single day. Is it unreasonable to acknowledge a brand that many many professionals feel emotionally attached? Did you complain when we were celebrating VAX, Atari, Commodore, Walkma