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Interesting, to me I would never carry an additional independent hearing aid for this problem. I generally have my keys, wallet, smartphone, and possibly music headphones. If this could be paired in with existing headphones - awesome, otherwise I can't see many people adding an additional headphone to the aforementioned list without a larger problem. I do like the expansion of the Bose objective though with this.

Neat prospect, but I'm not convinced this is a big enough problem for the majority of people which is how this is marketed. I would also expect a price point comparative to other hearing aids to further distance the average consumer.

This is an extremely narrow view - Musk just elicits pathos to an extreme degree because that is the inherent nature of his products. If you seriously don't think social media has brought positive effects to the world and the human condition, you are naive and set in viewing the world through the lens of black and white.

1. Why do you believe Unity to only be a video game tech? It obviously has applications reaching much further when you consider AR/VR use cases.

2. Minecraft was bought for $2.5B which is literally a video game.

I think its a fair valuation given the current landscape for their domain.

You really do get incredible insight into how they work up and tear down ideas in a setting that is both art and technology. Also fun to hear about lessons learned from iconic films such as toy story, finding nemo, and inside out.

Sounds like what happened with messaging platforms in China. WeChat became the single bundled platform for mobile and thus got to play kingmaker with default service providers. I agree with your opinion, although it feels like a natural progression as the sheer number of services grows at a rapid pace and its the attempt to remove friction built up from the excessive overhead of choice.

Interesting, I am not familiar with this subject - do you have any links on hotwords in this context or examples when this has happened in the past?

Fair statement but the military also has medical professionals. A wild speculative guess from my perspective is that airlines view it as an objective profession, you do these things to handle the machine and that is end of the story. Medical fields are somewhat subjective since we don't really understand the human body like we do airplanes - we didn't build humans from the ground up. We need to make the medical industry absolutely objective and quantitative in order for procedures and checklists to be effective. It still weirds me out how you need second "opinions" on a diagnosis, it just highlights our inability to understand ailments.

I don't understand the point here I guess. Facebook is clearly a service to people. People need validation and they can come here to get it quickly and easily - they also come here to stay in contact with friends and family. The work being provided is you using their service - so its not unpaid feudal system work, it is you coming for a personal benefit that in turn produces profitable output for facebook. This is just an odd analogy in my opinion, one a bit too simplistic.

If the quality was actually that stark of a difference, they wouldn't have paid for a sub-par search engine - the cost of a search engine is too large of a cost to find marginal savings.