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I would put the bandwidth caps at the top for the biggest obstacles today.

Isn't mmWave only useful for connecting backhaul due to the line of sight requirement?

Absolutely. Reduce the number of friction points.

"Managing money is easy. Managing investors is hard."

Yeah, been looking for someone like this in tech. The closest thing you'll come is VCs pushing their own investments.

That's when you know that the article wasn't written by someone with technical insight.

1. If you work at Walmart you'll quit whether you're happy or not

2. If you work at Waymo you'll quit only if you're unhappy

As some point you have to hire someone to take out the trash. They can't all be Einsteins.

Even when 20% was in existence, it was (mockingly) called 120%. I will leave you to guess as to why.

Which explains why Google Wave is no longer with us.

This trick is the only thing that seems to bypass WSJ paywall now

A couple of articles chewing through these numbers:

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/01/18/metro-denver-apartment-...

http://www.curbed.com/2017/1/25/14342828/denver-rents-afford...

A $100 winning bid for the Pittsburgh Mills at the foreclosure auction. Not bad (and quite sad)

A strong dollar also reduces export, so how does this pan out net-net?

Exactly. Rising house prices are only a plus if you plan on selling and move outside the bay area.

As a proponent of the Fiduciary Rule, this is actually one of the best critiques against it. A lot of unintended consequences are highlighted, one of them: ex post judgment of whether an investment was in the client interest or not.

>3. Fractional Payment: Overall subscription to Medium as a service payed by readers. Authors are paid according to a formula for how many people viewed their content each month.

For the love of god, please no. This will only encourage clickbait. It would be better if the reader could buy a subscription and dictate how the subscription revenue should be split, i.e. writer A gets X%, writer B gets Y%, etc.

A killer quote from the article:

"To bring this home, it’s like negotiating your salary without specifying the currency you’re being paid in."

This part has always baffled me. Potential employees accepting X shares without knowing the total share count.

Sadly there's nothing new in this piece. The PR flack basically avoids any critical questions about the HW or any ETA on the product.

This doesn't really bode well for the company.

Well, according to Amazon nothing is sent to their server unless Alexa is awake (after saying the magic 'Alexa' keyword).

The article touches on this. There is an equivalent product available from Google. People, in the US apparently, are more inclined to shift to a another vendor if they have the item in stock.

> Regardless, Google kick-started a lot of other car makers to start developing self-driving cars or made it OK for other car makers to be more public about their efforts.

Exactly! This part of Google's legacy is severely under appreciated. People were rolling their eyes when Google originally presented their plan. Amazing how quickly it went from science fiction to reality.

I'm wondering what this pivot will do the morale in the Chauffeur team. There has been so much turbulence in the team with several key members leaving to form their own company because they were so frustrated with the pace. I can't imagine partnering with a traditional automaker will increase the pace.

I think the insane part of Google's original plan was the "no steering wheel" part, not the fact that they wanted to manufacture the cars themselves. There are so many corner cases. I can't imagine that they would get the tech working 100% out of the gate without needing some sort of manual override.

Right. This is a classical example of priming.

This is the killer quote:

“No one wants to face the reality that this is an advertising company with a bunch of hobbies.”

It's so brutal but (IMHO) sums up Alphabet in one sentence.

Many may consider parent as snark but this is a really great point. I wish the article had elaborated on this.

No, I think this is impossible in tech. If you fall asleep at the wheel you'll get blackberryed/nokiaed. You can't run a lifestyle business in tech (unless you find a niche area with very little revenue)

I concur. In fact, I find the podcast better than articles. I'm not sure why though. I think the conversational tone of the podcast is better. They attack the problem from different area and then hone in on the main point.

With automation, it's very rare (never?) to go from white collar to blue collar. I think you can safely assume that it's white collar.

It looks like they're scaling down their car project (Project Titan):

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/how-apple...