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FreedomToCreate | 4 years ago | on: DMX has died at 50

Think it’s less about you caring and more about acknowledging, flaws and all, the impact on culture this individual had during their lifetime

FreedomToCreate | 5 years ago | on: Decoding the Peloton

The bike is 2K for the one without a motorized resistance knob and I bought one despite this feature because it takes me 1 second to turn the knob to the dynamically adjusted value on the display.

FreedomToCreate | 5 years ago | on: No More Google

The issue here is ecosystem. Googles advantage is everything syncs together across there platform seamlessly. Going the no google routes fragments my ability to share photos, share docs and sheets, access easily across platforms.The trade off is being locked out and tracking (which you can limit in privacy settings).

Edit: also want to add that there is also a risk with using smaller platforms as they have a high chance of going bust. I employ a strategy of keeping files on both google, iCloud and a personal drive to have redundancy in case of issues. Of course this does make sense if you want to be absolutely invisible

FreedomToCreate | 5 years ago | on: San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn

My community has dropped prices 10% and is offering 1 month free (4 year old complex in north san jose). However they are not offering this to current renters whose renewals are coming up. They offered me a 0% increase and when I cited that the 5 other identical apartments are currently available for essentially 20% off (10% discount over 12 months plus one month free), they began been pushing the narrative that the rent will increase by the end of June and that I should sign now before they change the offer. So now its a waiting game.

FreedomToCreate | 5 years ago | on: Amazon in advanced talks to buy Zoox

There are numerous Tier 1s (Bosch, Continental, ZF) working on providing autopilot like tech to auto manufacturers. Additionally companies have there own efforts (GM super Cruise for example which btw has nothing to do with Cruise and is developed separately). Comma has open sourced all there code, so good chance the OEMs have someone looking at it.

FreedomToCreate | 5 years ago | on: Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

Google biggest advantage (and its the same thing Apple and Microsoft are doing) is integration of services that ultimately make the users life easier. Personally I use a Mac and iPhone and all my data is stored in iCloud. I do a lot of my personal work with MS Office and my email is Gmail. But over time I have found that choosing an ecosystem does benefit you. Recently I switched my work tasks to Google suite products and dropped my Apple TV for an android based solution. The main advantage is now my TV, browser (chrome), gmail, youtube are all synced together. I can watch videos on my tv and save others to pick up on my phone later. I can edit my docs anywhere and link them into my emails easily. I have debated moving from Apples Photos to Google Photos so that my images are all centrally located for my own ease of use and cross platform integration. I still back up all files to a secondary drive and forward copies of important emails to my outlook account in case I ever get locked out of my google account, but the integration is really nice.

FreedomToCreate | 5 years ago | on: Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas

They don't pay Tesla assembly workers much, very comparable to what GM and Ford pay in the Detroit Metro Area. Ford pay 13-30 dollars(source:payscale.com) while Tesla pays 18-30 dollars (source - father in law who works on the line). Most people are older men who never got a college education or younger men following the same path. They all live in multifamily units in the bay area, and thats how they afford it. Even with the sky high cost, these people see the bay area as their home and are not going to pick up and leave, so they is always labor available for manufacturers.

FreedomToCreate | 5 years ago | on: GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff

Waymo and Tesla have been designing a lot of their own hardware and I believe Cruise has been doing the same. Nvidia and Intel have been successful with getting start-ups into their ecosystem and attracted OEMS who want hardware for ADAS, but for FSD, you have to get the costs remarkably down, and that will need custom hardware without a middle man to pay. I doubt cruise is using anyones kit.

FreedomToCreate | 6 years ago | on: Airbnb to halt all marketing, most hiring as losses mount

Income loss for you is also income loss for the traveller who has to rebook the trip and pay double if they can't cancel. I have a booking I made in June in California. It was for my grandparents to stay at while they visited me (unfortunately my apartment is too small). Even though June is outside the travel ban time, I don't want two 80 year old people traveling during that time since we know Covid-19 will be active during that period.

FreedomToCreate | 6 years ago | on: Dave Rubin Interviews Peter Thiel (2018)

I really enjoyed Dave and his interviews back than. Even gave money to help his new show and wore a Rubin Report shirt around so if people asked I could point them his way. With time though I feel the his show has turned from a long form interview with people across different spectrums, to more center-right with guests who help channel a certain point of view.

FreedomToCreate | 6 years ago | on: Tech industry layoffs rose 351 percent in 2019. Is a recession looming?

Read the article and not once do they offer the data that would give this metric any real context. How much hiring was going on in that same period. For all we know 64K layoffs occurred in dying sectors of the industry while 100K jobs (made up hypothetical number) we created in new segments. Without context, 351% means nothing.
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