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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.
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.
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.
Do you think people would benefit from a service that allows them to own their emails regardless of who their provider is?
Posted by
automoton1 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:43PM
from the ask-hn dept.
For example, if Google/Yahoo/Microsoft or whomever, locked you out of your account for 'suspicious behavior', breaking TOS, or some other reason are they required (legally) to provide you with copies of your existing emails? Regardless of if you've actually done anything?
This hasn't happened to me but I've heard horror stories about it happening to others. What are some mitigations that my not...
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?
Was the car so good that you couldn't find another one that didn't collect your data?
Posted by
automoton1 on Saturday September 22, 2018 @08:27AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Posted by
automoton1 on Saturday September 22, 2018 @08:18AM
from the ask-hn dept.
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?
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.
Apache Spark is what I use, personally.
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?
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?
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.
Why is the government encouraging this?
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?
"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.
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.
Does this work on any document that you pass into it? How does it handle questions for ideas that continue to the next page?
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?
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.
Knowing this, I'm now tempted to partially sign up to services to see if they'll offer me a discount.
How would you disrupt them?
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.
Wouldn't they still need a warrant?