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myinnerbanjoon How a cheap, brutally efficient grocery chain is upending America's supermarkets

I recently moved to Canada from the US, and there's stores here that do the coin-deposit for shopping carts--and have folks bag their own groceries. I know the latter would save money, but the former makes sense, too--labor costs are higher, there's liability, and honestly, having wayward carts about the parking lot makes it look a bit unkempt. I bet there's folks who'd gladly pay a quarter--or more--just to have a decent cart that hasn't been beaten by cars and rain.

myinnerbanjoon Why are so many people running for president and so few for mayor?

That's very true. But remember what former House Speaker Tip O'Neil said--all politics is local. It's a great way to learn and practice. Scalability? Well, I think that went out the window with President Trump (respectfully, not saying anything political) showed you don't need any previous electoral experience to win the Presidency.

myinnerbanjoon Microsoft open sources code to give any app Bing-like intelligence

Original article on Microsoft's AI Blog: https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/bing-vector-search/

myinnerbanjoon The world's first AI-created whisky

Duplicate. Original here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19899815

myinnerbanjoon The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech (2008)

And more here: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2013/04/29/cute-cats-to-t...

myinnerbanjoon Eating 60 McNuggets in 20 minutes?

What sauces?

myinnerbanjoon Microsoft at MWC Barcelona: Introducing Microsoft HoloLens 2

Deeper look into business applications: https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/hololens-2/

myinnerbanjoon Notes from a 1984 Tech Talk About Programming Languages

I reposted just to the video. Sorry about that. https://youtu.be/Jtvgf_CyiS0

myinnerbanjoon Without Fox News, Republicans Would Be Toast

I had no idea about the stream-ability of Fox News, but that makes sense. I, too, make sure I watch both sides (CNN and Fox as well) but CNN has a 10-minute cap unless you sign in through your cable provider, which has consistently not worked for me. Sure would be nice if somehow print and TV news didn't have to be so much behind paywalls and commercials.

myinnerbanjoon Surprise DNA Results Are Turning Customer-Service Reps into Therapists

One other curiosity for the future is if companies will screen DNA for genetic abnormalities, disease probabilities, or other genetic information, what impact will that have on a society as a whole? And what is more, that's more private data--how will companies protect, or exploit, that?

myinnerbanjoon Person Retrieval in Surveillance Video using Height, Color and Gender

Is this a new thing? I never seen it before in any of my submissions. If so, I think it's rad.

myinnerbanjoon AI Startups in Montreal

As someone going through the Canadian immigration process right now, it sure seems easier and faster to immigrate to Quebec, either on a work visa or investment. That no doubt will be a huge factor in any explosive growth, truly being the fuel for the fire.

myinnerbanjoon Google “mandatory” news spam

Remember, they're a data company. They have data on you, and they want more. The best thing for us to do is to just stop giving it to them. Just as open source was the shadow of licensed software, I'm hoping there'll be a competitor to the data-hungry regime of current internet companies. Not sure how they can replace the revenue stream, but, that's the beauty of the marketplace. There's the demand. The supply will find a way.

myinnerbanjoon Black holes ruled out as universe’s missing dark matter

I think inflation had something to do with it, the only time in the history of the universe something faster than the speed of light was possible--but only because space and time itself was expanding so quickly.

Just stumbled upon this: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/8p7hnn/where_an...