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hellllllllooo | 6 years ago | on: Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

Most profitable company in the tech world creates new product and uses prior manufacturing skill, brand awareness/loyalty, device lock-in, advertising experience and retail channels to sell it and makes more profit that arbitrary list of companies in different business areas. What's the point?

hellllllllooo | 6 years ago | on: Having Kids

You can always adopt or foster children if you really regret it later. There are plenty of children that exist that need good homes without having to create more.

hellllllllooo | 6 years ago | on: Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning

> Does the fact that black Americans used to be slaves in the US, or were kept out of certain housing markets, contribute towards the fact that black Americans, on average, have lower credit scores, income, wealth, and collateral? Of course. But is this model racist? Literally not at all.

Saying that because history was racist means I'm absolved of responsibility going forward is not a strong argument. Redlining was literally a racist behavior. The point of the article is to be aware of it so you can try do better than in the past.

hellllllllooo | 6 years ago | on: Police cited 55 people for eating on San Francisco trains. Only nine were white

> I'm just saying that arresting 84% blacks is not necessarily racist _by the cops_, because every one of those 46 arrests may well have a video like this one, and this guy deserved it.

Deserves to be detained for eating a sandwich? Beligerant for expressing how stupid that is? The police department apologized for this so even they don't agree with you. I think we're done here. Good luck.

hellllllllooo | 6 years ago | on: Police cited 55 people for eating on San Francisco trains. Only nine were white

Did you watch the video that the article cites? Please do. It's what sparked this study of the statistics and the police behavior in it is completely unreasonable. What you're saying doesn't align at all with what was recorded. He could easily be an "employed programmer", your biases are showing. A lot of programmers I know would respond similarly.

> San Francisco transit boss apologizes to rider detained over a sandwich

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/11/san-francisc...

hellllllllooo | 6 years ago | on: Self-Driving Uber in Crash Wasn’t Programmed to Spot Jaywalkers

The system should have detected and braked and if was incapable of this it shouldn't be on public roads. This is a very simple case of the car failing to detect an object in the road and should be the most basic functionality of a driverless vehicle. I have sympathy for the driver who Uber's PR team has thrown under the bus (excuse the turn of phrase) when it was obviously was a basic engineering and management failure.

hellllllllooo | 6 years ago | on: Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

Really, you can't understand it? You've never had to work long hours at an unfulfilling, repetitive job you hate just to pay the bills and survive without being able to save anything? You're lucky, a lot of people in the US are not so lucky.

hellllllllooo | 6 years ago | on: Stripe to move to South San Francisco

> San Francisco spends a lot on its homeless problem with little to show for it.

$241 million from a budget of over $12 billion from a city that with businesses that collectively make hundreds of billions every year. Doesn't seem like that much. Same as 1 SoftBank funded startup that inevitably wastes it.

Little to show for it? The money is going to help people in a awful situation. Just because they haven't disappeared from the streets doesn't mean it's wasted.

The number is more like $3800 per person per year.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Bu...

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