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XJOKOLAT··on Uber to Suspend Autonomous Tests After Arizona Accident
Uber now brings their toxic reputation to self-driving cars ... potentially holding back the entire drive in that direction.

Thanks, Uber.

XJOKOLAT··on A $10K tiny house 3D-printed in 24 hours
Holy crap, fair play. That would drive me insane.
XJOKOLAT··on Blacks with no criminal record have same sucess geting jobs as whites out prison
Why was this flagged?
XJOKOLAT··on Poachers kill rhino for his horn at French zoo
Fucking awful.
XJOKOLAT··on A $10K tiny house 3D-printed in 24 hours
I'd beg to differ. From personal experience, in the UK you cannot breathe without getting planning permission.

Although, these days, not sure whether to legitimately include UK as part of a European discussion, sadly.

XJOKOLAT··on Uber’s vice president of product and growth Ed Baker has resigned
Couldn't stomach continuing to work for such an ethically derisory company.
XJOKOLAT··on Porsche Design Book One
True. Well, arguably cooler than a Porsche baseball cap.
XJOKOLAT··on SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
"Trump's monkeysphere" ...

I loved that. Thanks for a good chuckle.

Downvotes be damned.

XJOKOLAT··on The new Nokia phones are here: Nokia 6, 5, 3 & 3310
My wife just messaged me about this saying: "I'm finally on-trend!".

She still uses her old Nokia as an alarm and normal phone.

Uses a wifi-connected smartphone for everything else.

Don't ask me why.

XJOKOLAT··on The new Nokia phones are here: Nokia 6, 5, 3 & 3310
Have to say, I'm on a very budget, old Moto 3G and I still get regular updates.
XJOKOLAT··on Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th
Gotta keep the lights on somehow ...
XJOKOLAT··on An Open Letter to the Uber Board and Investors
I think you're misplacing where the deep breech of trust has occurred ... if an investor stays silent in this situation, I would regard that investor as suspect ethically.

And in this case, if the investor is pissed at Travis for not getting in touch (a different breech of the relationship), this is pretty good way of getting their attention (well, possibly).

Edit: disclaimer, I should declare my bias: #deleteuber

XJOKOLAT··on DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust Online
shrugs

bang bang, I'm happy.

!g why would ever go back to vanilla google?

XJOKOLAT··on DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust Online
Fist bump x 1000
XJOKOLAT··on YC Annual Letter 2017
I up-voted you.
XJOKOLAT··on Show HN: Dollar Lean Club – Get and Stay Fit Starting at $1/mo
Are our reps any good? ... Nah

Our reps are f*cking great.

XJOKOLAT··on India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi
Self-generated codes-of-good-practice usually emerge from out of the shadow of a big governmental stick on the horizon.
XJOKOLAT··on Amazon Chime
Barfs.

Sorry, Lync/Skype for Business has been awful for us.

I'll be fair and state that I don't if it is Microsoft's or our tech teams fault.

XJOKOLAT··on The $99B Idea: How Uber and Airbnb Won
Anecdotal.

I've used them also. It's when things go really wrong when you'll understand the issues with them.

This might not be the majority experience, and I accept that, but I wouldn't touch them with a barge-pole based on my experience.

XJOKOLAT··on The $99B Idea: How Uber and Airbnb Won
They're a bunch of scumbags too. Well, senior manatgement definitely - and that probably trickles down to their systems and who they hire but I'll reserve judgement.
XJOKOLAT··on Trump bans government scientists from sharing their work
Seriously, is this just all hot air? Or is this stuff really happening as reported?

I'd be demanding a revolution to overthrow the US government if any one of a few things I've heard about recently happened... but it's a steady stream of unbelievable stuff and the narrative seems to be: This is happening. The End.

Sure, there have been protests, but is that it? Is there no legal challenge? Has the great American democracy, with its checks and balances, decided to lie down and die?

Disclaimer: I'm not in the US so have limited knowledge but the whole thing seems bizarre looking on from abroad.

XJOKOLAT··on Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial
Actioned, thanks.
XJOKOLAT··on Why you should take everything Jason Fried writes with a pound of salt
Click bait. Let me use a well known name to generate attention.

tl:dr, Move along, this isn't article you're looking for.

XJOKOLAT··on Dubai Police now using Crime Prediction software
Awful. But don't pretend the rest of the world is a paragon of virtue.

We need to progress in all parts of the world.

So, instead of pointing fingers, I was curious about your thoughts on Dubai's potential Crime Prediction Software.

XJOKOLAT··on Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue
Agreed. I took a local company cab recently and was really impressed and I was wondering if that would have been the story had the market not changed.

Have still never taken an Uber and don't feel the need to.

XJOKOLAT··on Improving Supercharger Availability
Personally it's a non-issue for me.

Maybe for those who it is an issue for, Tesla can one day do an OTA which sends the car into an automated parking pattern.

>>When charge finish, automatically circle parking lot until parking spot found.

XJOKOLAT··on Microsoft Office 365 beats out Google’s G Suite in S&P 1500
I'd distinguish between O365 (crap) and native apps like MS Excel, etc.

In my experience G Suite and O365 are equivalent. Useful for a few things, rubbish for anything serious.

XJOKOLAT··on Trump Names Elon Musk, Uber CEO to Advisory Team – TheHill
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.
XJOKOLAT··on Things You Notice When You Quit the News
> But, how do you even know what really happens? Mainstream news is ridiculous in its intent because it literally is "if it thinks it stinks, if it bleeds it leads". There is nothing good to get from mainstream news. Nothing. Sliced and diced to the most emotional snippets you could conceive of.

Our education system was supposed to deliver critical thinkers. Either the system failed you (and possibly a generation), or you have forgotten its lessons.

XJOKOLAT··on Things You Notice When You Quit the News
>"I've seen this directly, too. I've been on the local news quite a few times, and EVERY TIME what they end up broadcasting, and what I was explaining to them are different things."

Completely agreed from personal experience. Not new but always worth re-iterating.

The news can't even get the basic facts right without twisting through addition or omission.

How are we supposed to rely on them when factual sources are suspect/false in the age of fake/lie-news?

Find experts. Do your own research.

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