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automoton1··on DRM for chargers? Google Pixel 3 locks fast Qi charging to its own stand
I think if you were to have a really old phone (say 5 years) it would be more of an impressive jump than from one year to the next. I think it's harder to notice some of the incremental improvements being made. They can feel kind of lackluster because they're not as big as the initial innovation that smartphones brought.
automoton1··on Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand Over Data 300 Times
This is my experience with IoT devices. Often it feels like a grab for customer data provided by the device and a way to get the customer locked into the device ecosystems.

I wish there were more IoT style systems that cared about privacy and portability.

automoton1··on Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career
I think side projects can make a difference if it's relevant to the business that your applying for. For example, in college I did a lot of Amateur Radio and was part of a club there. I did a lot of Amateur Radio related things, building circuits, programming microcontrollers, etc. This helped me get a job at a Radio company working on SDRs. However, I think a lot of my ability to get that job was because I networked a lot with the recruiters.

Side projects aren't the be all end all to gainful employment. You need to use your network to build relationships and engage with people you know that can help you get employed.

automoton1··on Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14015524
automoton1··on Ask HN: Are email providers required to give email access if locked out?
Do you think people would benefit from a service that allows them to own their emails regardless of who their provider is?
automoton1··on Automakers working to transform data from cars into secondary revenue streams
Are there any startups/new players/existing players that are building cars (2017/2018) that are energy efficient (electric/hybrid) and don't violate your privacy by phoning home?
automoton1··on Automakers working to transform data from cars into secondary revenue streams
Was the car so good that you couldn't find another one that didn't collect your data?
automoton1··on Peak Valley?
How do you know the next boom is going to be in SV? Whose to say the conditions for the next boom aren't riper somewhere else?
automoton1··on The Twenty-Five Year Journey of Magic the Gathering
Cockatrice is what I've used in the past.

https://medium.com/@mrdeprey/how-to-connect-to-cockatrice-an...

automoton1··on DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed
If so, perhaps it would be within your interest to submit a Preissuance Submission showing prior art to the PTO, like ridgeguy mentioned in a sibling to your comment.
automoton1··on Ask HN: Does anyone want to pair program with me?
Apache Spark is what I use, personally.
automoton1··on Yes it's a bubble, so what?
What evidence do you have to back the assertion that millenials have a strong FOMO versus their fear of losing everything any of the other generations? (Anecdotes don't count as evidence)

Why wouldn't bubbles be able to exist without a centralized media?

automoton1··on Ask HN: Why is transacting small sums of money (micropayments) so expensive?
To facilitate the exchange of goods between individuals. To make it so that people can donate small sums to whatever they want. To make less costly the transfer of funds.

Why shouldn't it be cheap?

automoton1··on There are things more interesting than people
I think that in a lot of Sci-fi the people still play a critical role in the story, alongside the ideas. Not all sci-fi stories are about the ideas. They can often contain how the ideas impact people, how people use the ideas to shape their world and so on.
automoton1··on Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s
Why is the government encouraging this?
automoton1··on Finland is scrapping plans to extend its basic income project
Doesn't UBI have the potential to cause inflation (demand and cost-push)? Is this a valid enough concern to search for an alternate solution to UBI?
automoton1··on My 10-Year Odyssey Through America’s Housing Crisis
"That environment is only easily attained in the exact places that have ridiculous real estate markets."

There are places in middle America with open positions for many people that have relatively inexpensive living costs in comparison to places like SV, Seattle, New York, and so on.

automoton1··on Does Having a Day Job Mean Making Better Art?
In my life, at least, there is still some time between eat and sleep that allows for the creation of personal art. Sometimes other things get in the way, but I think that if you've got the energy and motivation you can still get it done.
automoton1··on Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
Should Facebook be sued?
automoton1··on An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
Does this work on any document that you pass into it? How does it handle questions for ideas that continue to the next page?
automoton1··on Amazon Will Resume Selling Apple TV, Google's Chromecast
If they did this to Apple and Google, what prevents them from doing it to smaller companies that make similar products? How is this not anticompetitive?
automoton1··on What if consciousness is not what drives the human mind?
I don't see how talking about consciousness is necessarily a limitation to it being a by-product of physical processes.

It could be that consciousness is simply an emergent property (a by-product) of the communication of billions of neurons that are connected in trillions of ways. Where neurons are emergent of chemical phenomena which are emergent of atomic phenomena and so on.

I'm probably greatly simplifying the dependencies of phenomena, but I think that consciousness is most definitely based upon physical processes. The current evidence makes me believe that consciousness is a by-product of evolution, which is a by-product of the conditions on our planet.

So it goes.

automoton1··on How I made 10% of my side project’s incomes with a bot written in 4 hours
Knowing this, I'm now tempted to partially sign up to services to see if they'll offer me a discount.
automoton1··on Something is wrong with children's videos on the internet
How would you disrupt them?
automoton1··on Yes, but what does your startup do?
Even if they don't always serve the same purpose, they serve a similar purpose in a number of examples. It's still a valid analogy to get someone thinking about how they might work.
automoton1··on Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door
Wouldn't they still need a warrant?