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https://docs.truefi.io/faq/ https://teller.gitbook.io/teller-docs/protocol-1/overview

The current frothy state of crypto, unsustainable as it may be, is evidence that people are willing to trust crypto projects enough to give them money if there's a chance of getting some amount of more money. Much of this looks like equity financing. Debt financing isn't inherently off limits though it just is harder.

The problem is even if 90% of the time the results are good enough on ddg, wondering if I'm missing out on a better result causes me to do a !g google search almost every time I'm searching for something non trivial. And doing two searches for each query gets old after a while.

I get it, it's hard to see past the memes and bubbles and bullshit and buzzwords in the crypto industry. But there is a very real, very powerful, politically agnostic idea of self-sovereignty at the core to all this stuff. You dictate the terms of your data and your money and your stuff to an ultimate degree.

This has been a greatly appreciated plugin for these scenarios (it's on Firefox as well)

I could be wrong but the phrasing of the FAQ on on the information page seems to suggest 3rd party stores using this tech could start popping up in a few months.

To me the Waymo announcement would be as momentous if they said:

> How long will it take to install [self driving] technology in a [car]?

> The installation of the technology can take as little as a few weeks from the time we have access to your [car].

I suppose the page doesn't directly explain when they will start the installations. But from the phrasing, I wouldn't be surprised if we hear an announcement of some sort of launch plans with a partner store in the next Month. It seems relatively imminent. Of course, I think there were other Amazon Go related announcements that didn't pan so who knows.

I've used plenty of self checkout lanes too and it's roughly the same satisfaction as going in a cashier lane. It's still X + Y steps where X is the number of items you have an Y is payment related steps.

(It's possible that I just hate lines (and self checkout?) way more than other people)

But these stores exist today and make traditional cashiers obsolete in no uncertain terms, potentially across the entire brick and mortar retail industry, and the response is "eh, there's already self checkout lanes".

It really feel to me like one of those moments where people shrug off the iphone when it first launches.

I've been to Amazon Go a few times, the small one in NYC, and the selection is underwhelming but the walk out experience is amazing. And since then I've fantasized about just walking out pretty much every time I'm in a grocery store. The technology really feels special, like a sudden vast improvement in something I never really even thought could be improved.

If there are two grocery stores to choose between, I would go further and/or pay a bit more for the one I can "just walk out" of.

Not only that stores could cut staff pretty much right away. Amazon could charge some fraction of the payroll reduction + processing fees and it would be a no brainer for stores to implement, especially as the number of competing stores increases.

People are talking in this thread about how there is some competition "in the works", but amazon has multiple live deployments already. People are talking about the obvious dystopian angle here (spying on your data). Personally I'd give any company all by buying habits if it means I can skip lines after buying the stuff.

Personally I think this is going to be huge, and I will be betting big on Amazon.

While there are many excellent ideas embedded in Datomic and these projects, for me just being able to persist the same data structures you're using at a repl and query for them with data is a huge win vs having to start translating types and concepts and query strings to and from SQL is a huge win.

They also apparently pair/connect way more seamlessly with an iphone but I didn't have any major issues with this.

Basically I wore them for the majority of the hours of the day (during sleep + while working) for over two years without any issues then I had a some pretty major impacted ear wax and started looking into it more. Apparently ear plugs are not really good for you. Which is unfortunate because there is really no substitute.

The bigger issue for me is they really can't be worn more than an hour or so at a time without discomfort.

I understand how in these days of crowd funding everyone wants to eliminate all risk in launching new products and I'm sure it works sometimes and when it doesn't you the product-launcher don't lose much. But these are also days of consumer impatience (at least with me). This isn't a video game or a robot or something you're making, why not just order some powder and make an initial batch before launching this? The cost of doing so can't be that big relative to the cost of getting the site up.

Also many years ago, I discovered this thing called Holosync which is some sort of binaural beats thing that's supposed to help your brain. After just checking the site now it seems really new-agey and psuedosciency and I'm not really sure if I would wholly endorse it. There are a bunch of different meditation "prgrams" that have a strict regimen, but then there's an epilogue CD with two tracks in particular (for Alpha and Theta brainwaves) that I just listen to on repeat and I've found help me immensely. Nothing else I've really experimented with has worked as well.

This is the same person/people that released clojure to the world (as open source). It's not like they're a company with a history of closed proprietary software, they are fully aware of their options, and I'm sure they have their reasons for keeping it closed. Aren't they entitled to do whatever they want with the code they produce without frowny faces all over the comment threads?

This could probably be profitable for anyone if you're at a big school with a decent amount of friends.