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I just have a general knowledge of what neural networks are about so this video was actually more impressive to me than the one submitted. Thanks.

That's because of the Patriot ACT, a law he helped to pass btw: https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/718656246400880641

I was speaking about quantity, not quality.

I love HBO but they are in a different weight class. At the end of the day most customers will see Netflix's catalog vs HBO's and will go with Netflix. I don't think that this is the best way for them to frame this battle.

In my area 2.1x surge (plus base fare) is still cheaper than a normal -and notoriously shitty- taxi.

I don't use it myself but I would think that you wouldn't want your "professional" social network account to fall in the wrong hands either.

You don't have to tell me. I don't trust any streaming service. Whatever streaming I have to do I do it from own "cloud".

Relevant: https://xkcd.com/538/

Not even close to being the same thing. On android there's a common codebase that it's guaranteed to be there for all devices even if you have to add a couple of additional layouts for the odd cases, which it's what it mostly comes down to in this day and age. The same can't be said for VR right now.

If they care so much about carriers throttling their traffic perhaps they should go easier on users trying to access Netflix through a VPN.

Yes, Toyota has solid financials.

Yeah but it was intentional while this ITMS issue seems to be because of a bug.

> multi-process support, a world-class debugger

Regular users don't care for any of that. The reason why they are number one it's because they had the "internet's homepage" advantage and were able to spam everybody into installing it. If you happen to be on Firefox and you haven't installed the last two .0001 releases they start to spam you with the annoying "install chrome" messages on google.com. No wonder everyone and their uncle installed it instead of Firefox if only to get rid of that annoying ad. Reasonable people can disagree on Firefox vs Chrome but let's not pretend that this isn't how Chrome got to be numero uno.

Just because you feel that way doesn't mean that it isn't worth reporting on but I guess that would be a matter of opinion.

> some of what they write is great, at other times it feels like they'll write anything that makes the US look bad

It's called being critical. A journalist job isn't to make the govt (any govt) look good. There are a bunch of publications dedicated to do PR for the USG so you're in luck.

Don't even bother. Lots of Atlas Shrugged believers here.

> No amount of technical pressure will make an ounce of difference, because browser makers have literally no leverage on rights holders. I

That's completely false. What would rights holders do if no browser supported their DRM extension? Stop streaming altogether? Browser makers just didn't want this fight because most of them have online streaming ventures of their own.

In other words, move fast and break things doesn't apply to shit that can kill people when it does break. Many of SpaceX's problems seem to stem from the same mentality. I'm a fan of both, fwiw.

> I could never do it at the level I want.

Even professional programmers can get that feeling when looking at some of the really popular apps/webapps/games. You have to keep in mind though that none of those are built by a single person but by at least a couple of people (usually dozens upon dozens). The key is to start small but to start somewhere and keep going.

Lately, I've been getting better at catching my "someone should build X" ideas. I used to quickly (and unconsciously) discard them instead of thinking that I could build them myself. Sometimes the ideas aren't even related to software but I'm still keeping them. Who knows, should I ever get tired of programming I may actually build up on them.

For once, list all the companies so we can do a quick overview of the entire batch.

> The ideal penis was small, thin, and covered with a long, tapered foreskin.

Well, that's convenient. I wonder what women had to say about that ;)

That guy needs to do an AMA.

> The industrial revolution eliminated 60% of the jobs and gave birth to communism/socialism/a reaction to the wear of workers by a powerful people. ... Subsequent revolutions also gave much more leverage to the "guy in his garage in the Silicon Valley".

They are not analogous. People are expensive, inefficient and unreliable when compared to machines (where they can even be compared). Each new "revolution" will try to get rid of as many workers as it can. There won't be new jobs for the people that have little or no education. Hell, there may not even be new jobs for people with education. Silicon Valley is the perfect example how this process will go down: new riches for a few people concentrated in very rich metropolises. Where is Namibia's Spotify? In Sweden. There's nothing wrong with this btw, old age technologists used to envision a time where technology freed human beings from the shackles of work but capitalism is in conflict with this idea. The stewards of capitalism need the "losers" and the result will be a lot of misery until we figure out how to accommodate all the unemployed.

Once, I had a coworker report a sexual harassment to me (I was the team leader) but she said that she wanted me to deal with it personally, that she didn't want to make a fuss about it and that I shouldn't say anything to HR. We had a good working relationship and, like OP, I also didn't want to violate the "trust" she placed in me. I respected her "wishes" and acted accordingly. This was a mistake for many many reasons, among them the fact that it also ended up biting me in the ass. After a while someone else said some very inappropiate things to her and she ended up hating the job and decided to leave. At her exit interview with HR she said why she was leaving and, needless to say, HR didn't like the fact that I was told of the harrassment and didn't report it to them. "she told me not to get you involved and I didn't want to break her trust" doesn't cut it as an excuse (and it's also very unprofessional). HR then had a meeting with me where they let me have it. After the meeting the coworker and I talked about it and she essentially said that yeah, I should've disregarded her wishes and gotten HR involved early on. The lesson is to do what you have to do and don't pay much attention to the whole "I don't want to make a fuss" thing. My guess is that women say stuff like that because of the "likability" tax imposed on them. The whole experience was very eye opening to me, I was very young and relatively inexperienced as a team leader. Being male I was also blind at the myriad of stupid shit women get thrown at them by professional men that really should know better. Well, not blind, I knew sexual harassment happened but I never expected it to happen so close to me. I guess that being young I always thought like it was something that other people (working at other places) did. I'm still stupefied at some of the things that she experienced while she worked there and amazed that stuff like that still happens in this day and age.

I never knew about chocolate chess. Thanks for posting it!

Trump is a proto-fascist asshole, no doubt about that but when it comes down to it he shared his worst aspects with every major candidate that ran for the GOP nomination this season. The only difference is that Trump didn't play the game how he was supposed to so the media branded him as being particularly evil when he really is embodying the beliefs of the party that he now represents (and that all other candidates paid lip service to in one form or another).

My thoughts exactly. Personally, that's why I can't justify spending all that time trying to figure out a text editor when I could be, I don't know, working.

What made you leave the IDE world?

That is similar to the outcome that Asimov explores in The Dead Past[1] and like you he lets the government off the hook very easily, like it is a benevolent entity that won't exploit the technology already in the hands of the masses when we know this to be untrue. If technology reaches a point where it disrupts all personal relationships the government wouldn't be far behind creating the dystopian "big brother" society you speak of (which depending who you ask may have already been built).

[1] http://www.rednovels.net/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27323.html