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How much is a pint of beer? Pubs here in Singapore is not affordable at all. Going to one everyday after work will really land you in the poor house.

I believe you are referring to dividend investing? Investing in a portfolio of stocks that pay higher than average dividends. I'm not an expert in this, but dividend stocks don't normally have as high of a growth potential so the math may be different. Usually when the FIRE community refers to investing, they usually refer to an index fund that includes either the S&P500 or global stock index so you can track the movement of the broader economy and count on the economy growing year over year.

With dividend investing, it's not really the same thing and the math likely won't work out the same.

If you are able to: 1. Narrow down your GPS coordinate to within the nearest 50 meter radius (really crappy GPS signal.) BUT 2. Are able to use the physical structures surrounding the user to pinpoint the actual precise GPS coordinate. Which Google can do using streetview data.

Then you will be able to triangulate and locate the user quite accurately as long as they are above ground and outside.

And you get this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWbY5jdJnHg (Interestingly, this just came out today)

With the work that Google is doing for in-door-mapping, this might also work indoors as well as underground, I don't know.

But it seems like the location accuracy for location-based AR is being "solved" right now. Unfortunately, the way it's done can only be done by somebody like Google or a company who can afford to collect streetview level data (maybe Apple can afford to do the same here.)

[Edit] Plus, if you're talking about parallel worlds, Google could even use the Streetview data to potentially pre-render the alternate world over the real world and only send the data back the user after they manage to triangulate them. This way they don't need to do that in real-time, reducing the latency of rendering something over the real world structures.

Sounds like survivorship or selection bias to me.

I don't think that was the point of my argument. I don't agree that rich people should be above the law, but that doesn't mean I can't disagree with the way the punishments are structured. I'm all for punishing all equally under the law whether you are rich or not. With that said, that also means that I think financial punishments for laws should be redesigned. A good start would be to fine people based on their networth instead of a fixed sum. Even then, the impact of a $900,000 fine on a wealthy person is likely less than a $900 fine for a poor person.

If you want the rich to not be above the law then the punishment for breaking said law should not be financial in nature. Any punishment that is financial in nature will ALWAYS be less impactful to the rich than to the poor.

An improvement to this would be to structure fine based on networth rather than a fixed amount. Yet even then, a millionaire paying $900,000 in fines is still not as devastating as a poor person paying $900. So I would say that the issue is still the structure of the punishment.

Although that does not rule out the possibility that it stores data locally and only transmit the recorded payload (since the time of last transmission) with the next legitimate payload when the wake word is spoken.

Not saying that they do though since if they were discovered to be doing that, it's way too damaging for Amazon's reputation for it to be worth going through the trouble.

No, but then that's an issue with the way fines and punishments for said crimes are structured, not the fault of those who takes advantage of the loophole.

There are 2 types of fines: fines that are meant to stop things from happening and fines that are there to basically make the city money. Most traffic fines seem to be structured for the latter.

I'm of the view that boring a tunnel is part of his bootstrap plan for bringing the same tech to Mars. It's likely that we will have to dig living spaces underground on Mars and bootstrapping better digging tech by finding a good use for it here on earth first is a great bootstrapping strategy.

Is the 'labourer' not a 'consumer'? If all prices fall due to competitive pressure, all consumers and thus all 'labourers' benefit from cheaper goods. Sure, the 'labourer' may not receive extra compensation due to lower costs and higher margins, but they end up able to purchase more with their dollar when prices fall.

We're all in the same market, I don't see why you would have to make a distinction between 'labourers' and 'consumer'.

I don't think you can attribute his success to luck. Yes he did take risk and yes he was a sociopath in that he didn't care much about how much he had to emotionally torment others to get what he wanted. However if you want to compare what he did to winning the lottery, it would be like he bought lottery tickets and then flew down to the loterry operator and did everything he could to fix the game so that he would win. just like how Warren buffet bought over companies and then made sure they run it his way.

I thought Google already has a product that does video calls across iOS and Android... Hangouts. I don't understand why they are doing this independently of a product they already have.

Self driving cars and public transportation are not mutually exclusive though. Think of how convenient it would be when buses and taxi operate just as easily at night as during the day. One of the reason why cabs are more expensive at night in some cities is because you have to pay the driver more to provide the service at night. Same with buses.

Looks like you have to press a button for it to start listening.

Thanks for the detailed reply! I've been interested in the echo and wanted to get into it for a while so I'll definitely dig into flask-ask and try to get up and running with it.

I was just looking for something like this, and as of yesterday I only found this project: https://github.com/anjishnu/ask-alexa-pykit

Yours look much simpler to get started, would you care to comment on what the differences are between yours and the project I just posted?

This isn't absolutely true, if ideas are worthless without execution then corporations would never spend millions and millions inside their R&D departments creating inventions which may or may not come to market.

The assumption that ideas are always trivial isn't correct, sometimes the inventor spends years and years perfecting a design in his own garage, but doesn't have the means to bring it to market. Should the inventor not get rewarded for his work? Nothing is wrong with the final invention nor is it from the lack of trying to bring it to market, he just doesn't have the financing necessary to pull it off.

If you're allowed to "hurt the creator's feelings" then which creator would ever create?

Jokes aside, your statement is only true under the assumption that the original idea is cheap and trivial, which is not true for a large number of patents. For hardware patents such as the ones filed by Tesla that helped significantly advance modern technology, they are often non-trivial, yet he was never wealthy enough to produce his inventions at scale and relied heavily on corporate partners to do so. If he was not able to own his patents without actually produce the products himself, this arrangement would never have worked.

I feel that there's a legitimate reasons to split them into those terms as there are some significant distinctions that could be made in terms of "level of intelligence" of the AI.

For a much more detailed exploration of this topic, I think Wait but Why's article did a pretty thorough job: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...

Based on all the commentaries, it seems that Lee Sedol was really not ahead during the game at any point during the game... and I think everybody has their answer regarding whether AlphaGo can perform in a Ko fight. That's a yes.

I really hope his performance isn't going to be affected by this loss, but I think that's a lot to ask of a person. 5-0 to AlphaGo is a big possibility at this point.

Wow, Lee Sedol just resigned. First game goes to AlphaGo. I wasn't sure who would win the 5 matches, but I never expected AlphaGo to win the first game!

> And, of course, valve takes the other 75%.

Not disagreeing, but they probably use a large portion of that money to actually pay for the organization, venue, designs of the compendium, the staffs, and everything else involved with the International. All that can't be cheap so I'm not sure which portion of that 75% is valve's profit. Does anybody have any ideas?

There isn't examples of black market slot machines but there are a lot of examples of black market gambling which ruins lives worse than legal gambling does.

My experience is with 3rd world countries, specifically Thailand, where gambling is illegal. I know you're not advocating for a ban on gambling but I think it's worth a mention that due to its illegality, there are widespread issues that stem from it: corruption, cops being in on illegal gambling dens, and mafia / gangs that sprung up to run these under ground dens.

Aside from the more organized underground gambling, there are also smaller village style gambling where within a village / town / city, there are bookies that will collect your bet (and people bet on anything: soccer being the main one.) Basically addicts will find a way to gamble whether it's banned, discouraged, organized, or legalized.

In the case where it's illegal, the creditor who the addicts borrow money from are usually loan sharks or gang members that take extreme means to recover any money they can. Many families lose homes, life-savings, or even get killed. So it gets pretty bad, IMO it's worse than a legalized gambling system.

People who wants to gamble prefer to go to the legal means as it pose much lower risk of extreme repercussions... but if it's not legal, some of them would still find a way to gamble. This may mean that the number of people who do gamble reduces... but I'm not sure by how much and whether that ends up tipping the scale in favor of a ban.

Although he did have a kickstarter for his game, April last year.[1] Pretty small project... and I'm not sure why that was never mentioned in the VB article.

[1] - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/481479629/a-druids-duel...

I imagine that they decided not to have $ limit as implementing that would be once you hit the $ limit, they will take your whole stack down completely. This includes anything you've had setup on AWS, which could be hundreds of instances of any of their services... which may or may not be feasible to do instantaneously or safely (without you losing data or breaking something.) Imagine pulling systems down in the wrong order or while writes or reads are being done... you now have no guarantee that your data will be in a good state.

It's always best to leave termination of your client's systems up to the client than to pull the plug out from under them... at least I'd like to think that's how they would have reasoned it internally.

That may be true, but I don't see how that is different with publicly run marketplaces. Regulators and civil servants also tend to only care about the majority rather than protecting the minority.

I wonder if the safest way to do this is to have a friend outside of the country help run the social media and you, as the insider, provide the information and direct the friend from within the country/city instead.

Thank you, yes that's a great first filter (standard vs non-standard docs.) Though, as you said, unfortunately it's rare for terms outside the valley to be standard so that might not be as helpful a criteria for founders outside the Valley, and especially for us here in Asia.

In that case, what would be the key difference between a clean term vs a messy one? How would a first time founder tell the difference?