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Yeah, this is an interesting issue, but CCTVs are kind of invasive anyways privacy wise so maybe that's a good thing.

They're still useful for realtime monitoring though, which is good for security.

I've always felt that deepfakes are a net positive. Think of all the revenge videos that will be rendered moot. The Jennifer Lawrences of the world can stop stressing because nobody will take any of it seriously anymore.

It's kind of like those pornographic clones of popular kids cartoons. People freaked out at first, but really you don't hear much about it these days.

Sort of like an anti-virus inoculation when you think about it.

Really? You don't want to be able to easily ensure that your pre-teens aren't able to easily access violent porn?

Alright, I guess "all" is little hyperbolic. But I think the sentiment stands firm.

I also think we need to avoid censorship as much as possible, and ensure parents have more control by default is the best path forward. Otherwise we'll end up with a solution like the UK has where age registration has to be done by everyone.

I think his passion is and always will be total immersive VR. I truly believe we are where are today completely on the back of Carmack's recognition of Occulus potential. He was just trying to be friendly and gave palmer assistance. Glad it all worked out though.

It's possible given his technical depth he was using more obscure C++ constructs which aren't as well supported.

[1] http://madebyevan.com/obscure-cpp-features/

Pretty awesome! If I ever had to say the one thing that differentiates successful people from unsuccessful people it wouldn't be intelligence, or even perseverance, or passion. It'd be focus. With focus, you can be amazingly successful in so many types of occupations.

(That being said, passion / perseverance / intelligence can often lead to focus)

A better way would be to require all browser makers or OS makers add an easy to use child protection filter that can be easily enabled by parents.

This is a serious issue and while the OP bill is obvious censorship, all parents want more easy control.

Fraud concerns most likely. They have an api they support for hooking up to Alexa.

Having interviewed with Alexa I can assure you home automation is there #1 goal.

Pm is really about being customer facing (communication skills, understanding business needs), and being able to make insightful trade offs. Developers can write specs. Spec writing is a plus for pm, but not core.

My suggestion that the best way to crack pm other than comm skills is doing competitive surveys.

People like variety in food. You don’t usually see network effects (ie, recipe only works if you use ingredients from same supplier)

Home automation though is a great network effects play which is why amazon is doing this.

Better title: Tickling the brain with low-intensity electrical stimulation in a specific area can improve verbal short-term memory.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180129134354.h...

More a symptom of poor public transit! Where are those slidewalks, dammit.

Sounds like some bizarre William Gibson novel, but then most things do nowadays.

Agreed, if that page is accurate, than basically it was all very best effort, except some things about requiring consent.

Thanks. Why can't all math teachers talk like that? I mean... I know you're clever and all, but if you were really clever you'd explain it in a way that's easy to understand.

Still, kudos to the OP. That was a great attempt to be precise.

So how is it that green land sharks can live 400 years? Or the Great Basin bristlecone pine is like 5K years? And what about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality

Drug dealers profiting from bitcoin need to get their money out too, ya know.

There's a way to get a list of PO boxes, banks use them and so do other orgs.

This is so inane. I use bing all the time (accidentally) and I always go - wait, what's wrong with google? why are these search results so awful? oh riiiight. (switch to google).

Google is being attacked hard by Apple (blocking ads), amazon&azure (cloud)

and ads (facebook).

What Government really needs to do isn't break up Google per se, but generally give more natural advantages to smaller startups versus larger corps. One example would be corporate tax.

Increase corp taxes on large corps (say over 100 billion) and decrease on smaller ones.

In fact, if I were the democratic party this would be my rallying cry. Time to really re-invigorate the american dream.

It'll have to go to a residential / business address. I suspect that theses addresses and contact information will be provided to the FEC for double checking against internal DHS lists.

Grzm, there a lot of great telemedicine startups[1]. I think they should live and die on the merits of their technology, not their founder stories or plant in MSN.

I think if this article spent some time highlighting those competitors and briefly discussed their advantages / disadvantages over this one, I would have been less skeptical.

But, it didn't. And you have to ask yourself why.

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=telemedicine+startups+for+nu...

In rare instances it'll work if you're incredibly in the top 5% of gifted. But, the thing with that, is only 5% of engineers are in that group.

Bingo: "My current theory about this is – as long as I work on a team with a lot of other remotes, everything will be fine. "

reality is, if your team is 80-90% not remote, forget about career advancement. People who show up have two things, a) they want to advance their careers so will use proximity to their advantage and b) don't understand why they can't be working remotely.

Plus of course processes and culture aren't going to be tailored to remote folks.

The only time I've ever been able to make this work was when the manager was also remote.

What's super clever about this is going after nursing homes rather than generaly avoidable ER admissions. Trying to aim at insurers would have been probably next to impossible, even though that's where the big market is.

If you're interested in the opportunity, good read here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/29/16906558/a...

Yeah, it's astroturfing for sure. But it's very well done astroturfing, which makes for entertaining reading. Anyone who doesn't realize this doesn't read very critically.

"And that's when he saw a note from Peck via his website's contact form, offering to solve his problem." .. sounds like he could have used amazon turk. Still, this is all good, if probably sensationalized a bit.

The part where he like, saved a persons life is pretty cool. Shows the value of having very deep expertise in your startup is important.

Plus this is the future, which is great. My guess is that this write-up happened because of his investors trying to tell a story. I've been a part of startups, a huge part of the value add of the VC is their ability to plant these stories in MSM / Techcrunch / etc because they have cred with reporters.. Certain aspects will naturally get exaggerated to make the creation story sounds good.

Yeah, well, exactly 0 would probably have contacted him if he didn't have the degree. He's not that much of a stud, most founders would die for an opportunity like that.

Also, mass emailing a list of 2000 isn't exactly cold calling. Odds are good he actually called this one and did the full press because his parents DID live nearby.

That all being said, the moral of the story is still very sound.

Interesting, but you could just rely on short expiry with refresh as well.

What’s truly sad about this is the misappropriation of resources. Why not donate the money to an efficient charity instead? I wish there was an onerous tax on this nonsense. This is exactly why high VAT + tax credits to the poor is the way we should generate our tax base.