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Blimp only wouldn't be able to take ground samples easily

I've used the microphone hardware that Echo uses and it doesn't stream audio until the wake word is received.

The quote is from the link above (referencing an anonymous reddit comment).

Kinda. The issue is the microphone. It's a specialized piece of hardware that uses a microphone array and also has wake word logic built in. There are only a couple companies that sell this and they don't sell one offs. But maybe in the future.

>> "always listen"

This is somewhat correct but misleading. It's always listening for the "wake word" -- alexa or echo -- and then it processes your request. But it's not sending all conversations up to amazon. Just your alexa requests.

Also, being vegetarian doesn't mean eating healthy. I was vegetarian in college and ate tons of fries and quesadillas. I eat meat now but try to eat mostly vegetables.

Count me as a skeptic on this one. NSA employee/contractor takes home classified docs and I am assuming hacking tools, Kaspersky detects the hacking tools and uploads them to Kaspersky, Kaspersky determines it's NSA tools, notifies the Russian government, Russian government hacks the computer and gets all files. Then somehow NSA is able to deduce all this information. I'm not saying this is not possible, but I think their level of conviction on this is too high. A home computer is not going to have access logs. So let's say they see NSA malware in the Kaspersky quarantine folder, and there is also other malware on the computer. They of course have to assume the worst, that Russia got all the files. But they are making a couple big logical jumps without proof. This article is just to sketchy on details for me to take it credibly.

Makes me think of the claim Cuba is using some kind of new radio brain weapon on US consulate workers in Cuba.

My hotel had beer in the vending machine on my floor. This was Tokyo last year. This was not a public vending machine though.

Yep

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If this was his intention this is a really dumb strategy. He went from having a valid lawsuit for his bonus to loosing his company and being at the loosing end of a lawsuit. I don't buy him being that dumb. He just didn't think he was going to get caught.

Only works on desktop browsers. Fingerprinting doesn't work on Safari iOS. Pretty sure stock Android is unreliable too.

This is a civil war funded by Saudi Arabia and Iran on opposite sides. Stepping in the middle won't solve the issue.

edit: I'm not advocating doing nothing. But just that thinking getting boots on the ground will easily solve this.

There are a bunch of reasons. I recently sat next to an Asian mom at the passport office and when the news came on about Syrian refugees she said to me "no Syrian refugees." She complained they cost us money. I asked her a couple questions about Syria and Iraq and she was completely clueless and not interested in learning about the situation. With her accent it's likely she emigrated from Asia. People constantly amaze me.

Good for him. I cancelled my subscription with the launch of 2.0. Just awful and buggy as hell.

What's your point? My great grandparents were Italian and Irish.

My point was basically about food breaking down in a system (our gut). We have some knowledge about this. But not much.

Agreed, research here is that supplements don't have an impact.

Edit: For pregnant women and others for sure. But in the general population no

I apologize for using "chemicals" rather than using correct terms. I was just using it as a shorthand for something grown vs something made.

Edit: This seems to be your argument, that engineered is the same as non-engineered. Because they are all the same basic building blocks. Right?

No, a heart attack at 48 and cancer at 91. This data tells you little

Edit: Sorry, misread. All I know is my great grandfather was a pony express rider and got colon cancer

Yes. It's like comparing snow to climate.

>> Optimizing for just the legible dimensions of a poorly understood domain will not result in good outcomes.

Thank you. This one sentence can replace all my responses to the original post.

I'm not calling it vaporware. We don't understand clearly about our gut bio/digestion/food absorption. It'd be great to hear an expert on this chime in, but my guess they would say "we don't know yet".

I'm not telling you to not eat Soylent or that it won't potentially be great for the human race. But again, we don't know.

Edit: fixed wording Edit: What if they get something wrong like including trans fats? I know this a "playing to fear" argument, but there is a long history of industrial foods being not healthy. It just takes a new generation of suckers to come of age.

Yes, I get that using the word "chemicals" is problematic. I understand that food is made up of the same proteins, fats, etc.

When I hear hucksters marketing organic, GMO, or Soylent. I'm always cautious. Caveat emptor.

Edit: I'm not anti-GMO. Nor the concept of Soylent. But I use a headset rather than hold my phone up to my head. Even though there's no definitive proof we can get cancer from smart phones. I just think there is additional risk here.

Edit: Also, your "chemicals" point is like arguing that Global Warming doesn't exist because it's snowing today. It's true, but not relevant to the discussion.

Yeah, meat/food substitutes are likely central to our population growth rate, but let's be intellectually honest. I'm not sure it'll work. I'm really hopeful the meat substitutes will pan out. We haven't figured out cancer yet. You're betting on us figuring out food?

Edit: because cancer is complex, the same a food and nutrition

Agreed, while the intentions of Soylent are probably sincere, when I first heard about it my response was "nope nope nope".

My parents were hippies and we grew/raised most of our food when I was a kid. But my grandparents had embraced the new space-age diet: margarine in place of butter, tang instead of orange juice, kraft instead of cheese, etc. I thought it tasted awful compared to real food.

As we have found out, some food choices like trans fats have an impact on health. There's really too much noise in the nutrition related data to draw wide ranging conclusions. But buyer beware.

For me I think the safest option is the "whole foods" (Polan) route. For me it would be "eat what your grand-grand parents ate". I was even a vegetarian and eating fake-meats and then realized I was just eating chemicals. So I started eating meat again.

Edit: Changed wording on first sentence

Yeah, when I look at their design it says "White hipster" to me. I can see why AA looking in the door would think it's not their kinda place. Still cool that they are trying.

Yep, patent trolls

She probably had an old DOCSIS 1 modem from a few years ago. You could only get 30MBPS with that. They usually tell you that on the phone when you try to upgrade, but they've been giving free upgrades without you asking in SF. I had to buy a DOCSIS 3.0 modem to get the best speeds.

My experience is not recent, but I ran hackintoshs for about 3 years in the early days (dates are fuzzy but 2008+).

Recently, I looked into NUC's and mini-PC hacks and I don't think Broken BT/Wifi is correct as long as you pick a supported platform. There are mini pc's that work I'm sure. I had a Shuttle SFF working flawlessly back then. The main issue now is getting call forwarding working (call rings on your phone the hackintosh answers it). There is a place that sells an aircard/ide combo for $150. Yes expensive.

The updates. OMG. Yes, this is what made me buy a Mac Pro. Back then, when there was an update it was return to Windows land. Crashes galore until you tracked down every little issue on the boards and mitigated them.

For someone that doesn't need to update their system often, a hack could work out. I loved it, could boot into Windows and play games and then boot back to OSX for video editing etc. But eventually did a cost benefit analysis and I was spending too much time on the updates that were required by the s/w I was using.

Age discrimination is hardcore in tech! Especially programming. I get it, when I was 23 and people told me they were 40 I was like, "damn that's my mom's age. This guy is old." I was really stupid.