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Any current or planned VR features? Cheers

Society's only protagonist is the individual

I'd prefer a virgin birth, then selling the child a few years later

I stopped enjoying math for about this reason. My university tried to teach with proofs, which to me is about as far from an intuitive understanding as possible

Looking for recommendations on lectures / course that goes over linear algebra in this way

It's pay to play

The value of a targeted ad is a lot higher than just +10%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Space_Launch_Compet... USA recently allowed it for their citizens

Self sufficient may not be enough either. A rebelling colony needs guns, not just food

Do you have a source on racial/class distribution for lgbt? Would be interested to see it

Or we rename JavaScript to RustScript and everyone will be forced to love it!

I graduated high school 5 years ago, and in that generation (of video game culture) our social game was League of Legends.

Everyone was always online. Ya, we liked the game, some even cared about their rank, but the beauty was playing with all your friends and talking over Skype. I'm glad that kids have the opportunity to be social in a time where technology often makes us lonelier

Bay area traffic would see a decent improvement just by using more left turn yields at traffic lights

> People are there to voluntarily give help. They also get loads of really stupid questions and venting does help with keeping them providing help.

Ha, imagine hearing this about volunteers at a hospice. SO boards are infinitely less important, but volunteers shouldn't be losing their calm at the same people they're helping

Yep. I saw a talk a while back about Uber sharding their caching layer by geohash

Yep. NASA has such high standards that it's hard to imagine a private company ever matching its engineering quality, after all why would they need to?

Should an infertile couple have a right to a surrogate mother

The Alexa bit really shows that processing speed or "cheapness" doesn't always matter. The VM in AWS that eventually does that hex addition could have done 10^N more of those same additions in the time it takes Alexa to hear the question and respond.

But, humans are big and laggy, and I don't know if I could type in the question to Google or even a terminal faster than getting the answer from Alexa.

imo you also need dry land, for the tool-making flavor of intelligent life

There's a side-effect, however, that's being ignored.

If US companies don't like/trust the talent coming out of US colleges, they should have a stake in improving those programs. But if their solution is just to hire immigrants, it cheats colleges out of feedback from industry.

Colleges really need more practical courses, at least starting in upper years, that set developers up for success in the workforce. How many devs today come out of college needing 3-6 months of learning just the basics? That shouldn't be happening.

No, no, he sold to Facebook for a big exit

I just graduated, so I'm not dealing with constant internship interviews anymore, but at the time I absolutely hated it.

My frustration isn't exactly like yours (my time is probably a lot less valuable). I feel that the questions are all geared at puzzle solvers.

If you're a puzzle solver, you love answers. You love digging into the details. You love finding out the basic components of a system. I think these are the people who excel in academics.

Almost every other intern I met once I got to the bay area was a puzzle solver. They were also competitive and had amazing grades. And these people LOVED algo questions. Over lunch, they could go through half a dozen questions.

I slipped through the cracks I guess. I'm bored by puzzles, have awful grades (and in a worse program), and not so competitive. What I do enjoy, however, is building up. I like modeling and being about to think at greater and greater levels of abstraction to solve problems that aren't puzzles, but instead open ended questions.

Anyway, I think both of these types of people have a place is software, and only one is given attention

That's a cool life journey

Moving from Canada to California did a lot to help my depression. It's hard to not feel good on a beautiful sunny day

> Besides who are we to decide for the Chinese what is best for them?

That's exactly the issue people have. Censorship. No one should be deciding what others can search.

> People perhaps assume all audio is processed locally and/or isn't stored except ephemerally.

Is there info on this from Amazon? I'd assume they do what you mention, have the speech recognition in the Alexa and just send up the words, not the entire audio stream.

Interesting implication of that in this case: if the actual audio is gone and you just have the transcription, is that valid as evidence? Or is it something closer to hearsay

And what if you need floors mopped? Now the small business is just getting gouged for that service

But there is work that can be done for under $15/h, if you can do it with automation. Suddenly humans are legally unable to compete with things like McDonald's ordering machines.

There are people who would gladly work for less than minimum.

I wonder about the rate of reinstallations though. Over a month, some steady percentage of users is changing phones and reinstalling apps. If a new app is able to beat the (new installs + %reinstalls) of giant apps, that's impressive.

If the app stores don't count reinstalls as downloads, then, well, sorry you wasted your time reading this

Tricky part is when one of your underlying systems doesn't quite behave as you thought. Once you figure out the problem (which could take a while since you won't expect it to be there) you get a sense of how much complexity you're building on top of

If you're a hyper competitive person, you probably will want to crush your competitors. And since competitiveness is a must to be CEO, makes sense that this is how the game is played