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Really good website. However, I'm wondering as to why this is a full-time business. Is most of your time taken by marketing and sales?

Is this a big problem? I thought people loved mechanical keyboard sounds.

Why would people pay you if it's already opensourced? Do you envision a redhat kind of support system?

What's wrong with the current encryption? I'm told that Signal's encryption technique if very superior and probably the best in the industry.

Just second?

My observations

1. Humans aren't gonna trust SDCs easily. The way I look at it, SDCs would be used only to transport freight for a few years before people can trust it enough for ride sharing. I personally believe that companies should focus on self-driving trucking rather than self-driving cars and pivot into ride sharing after a few years of successful freight transport. People would trust the leader in the self-driving truck industry more than a top-notch but unproven tech company. Let alone cars, as simple as elevators in the buildings were operated by actual people before becoming completely autonomous.

2. Uber is not just in the USA. SDCs aren't gonna be approved everywhere, even after it becomes legal in the USA. Uber still has access to that market, but Waymo magically can't.

3. Uber has other verticals too (Uber Eats).

Are you saying they're okay to eat? Or not?

What if we are actually interested in starting up something on our own in the future? Does the startup experience help? Or is it still beneficial to work at Big4 (or) Fast paced big firms like Uber, Slack, etc?

Google's TTS charges much higher than 0.5$. And you're providing lifetime hosting too. How does it work? I'm afraid that I'd start using it and at some point, you'd go bust.

I feel 90% of the quality issues can be handled by being more proactive. Stay at a community with good trees, buy only organic, drink only mineral water, etc.

Why does Amazon need to make $x billion to make it viable?

Yeah, that's true. Look at this quora answer for more info - https://www.quora.com/How-did-Stripe-come-up-with-its-name/a...

Few of questions

1. People always make weekend grocery trips. Why can't they just add a packet of coffee powder? Why do they have to use you? 2. Amazon just discontinued their dash buttons. There should be a strong reason for it. Do you know what it is? How are you planning to avoid it? 3. The issue with diapers and toilet papers is huge. They take up a lot of volume and have very little weight. Does the scale approach work for them? I'm not sure.

It'd be interesting to see how you guys evolve going forward. Best of luck :)

I had a friend hack a prototype for the exact same concept in our undergrad years. This was done as a course project and he discarded it later. I've always felt it was a good idea though.

Is the article true in claiming that the model doesn't work if we increase the size of the paddle? Or change anything else?

So are you saying that we need not build bigger networks with huge data, but rather have better algorithms with significant parallelization? Sounds like we're back to symbolic AI again!

Interesting. I didn't know about scale. How would someone figure out that these tools are needed by so and so companies => let's provide APIs. I was of the idea that all the self driving startups have their own people solving these challenges. Why would anyone use scale?

What's the difference between this and Eventbrite?

Why can't you upload a copy in Institutional Repository and publish it in a journal? Do journals set any rules?

I don't understand why companies like Elsevier are needed. Why can't every university have their own Arxiv kind of website, upload their work? These websites are anyways indexed by Google.

One thing that I've realized over years is that discipline beats motivation. Motivation to work on something hardly lasts a couple of weeks, but if you are disciplined enough to wake up every morning and work on it, you'll work on it longer.

Now coming to the main question - You need to have something to work for. I did the mistake of wanting to work more without having a solid goal. Unless you have a pressing deadline or a challenging goal, human mind always tends to slack off. Think by asking yourself this question - "What is the problem you want to solve?" and then work backward and allocate time to things.

How did these guys reverse engineer Canon's software?

The things you mentioned completely makes sense. People won't be confident to go out on a dinner with a complete stranger. I think 'bumble' is more of a digital Saide Hawkins but that suffers from the problem of scouring through hundreds of profiles.

What if instead of a completely blind date, we just match two people based on parameters and let them talk? This is a bit like other apps where people talk to each other before meeting them in real life. (And you also get only 1 match a week to encourage people to take things seriously)

Thanks. There are a lot of speed dating/singles only meetup groups that do the same thing you've described. Did you try attending them? As the event is created to ask people out, you might be more comfortable.

What's the need if you're not having any form of credential store?

The biggest advantage with medium is the visibility of your blog post. Why not just use google blogspot website if all you want is just adhoc blogging?

I'm sure this idea would've crossed the minds of several people but it's the antithesis of several of their core values. It's not easy to incorporate this into tinder as an addon - it's because tinder's sole selling point is to make a quick decision based on looks. And this feature doesn't pay much heed to looks.

Regarding liability - I too thought of it but not sure if that's a minor/major issue. What if instead of a completely blind date, we just match two people based on parameters and let them talk? This is a bit like other apps where people talk to each other before meeting, but you don't have to scour through hundreds of profiles. (And you also get only 1 match a week to encourage people to take things seriously)

OkCupid, CoffeMeetsBagel are a bit idealistic but they seem to be running well. It's just that different kinds of people are attracted to different kinds of things - flings, short term commitments, long term commitments etc.

These things are not enforcible. The app can 'recommend' Going Dutch but 1st date sex is too personal and I don't think I have any right to dictate for/against it.

Just to make sure we're thwarting off fraudsters.