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jayjay71 | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serve healthy fast food

Sounds fun. Best of luck.

Thank you Aaron!

jayjay71 | 6 years ago | on: Reiki can’t possibly work, so why does it?

Fun fact: at least in the United States, chiropractors do not have medical degrees and so they are not licensed doctors.

jayjay71 | 6 years ago | on: Launch HN: Trexo Robotics (YC W19) – Robotic Legs for Kids with Cerebral Palsy

I just want to congratulate you on launching a product that I hope will have an incredibly positive impact for numerous families. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavor!

jayjay71 | 7 years ago | on: Ironclad (YC S15) raises $23M led by Sequoia

Congrats to Jason and Cai! I don't know how much their product/service has changed, but I remember it making my life so much easier when I was raising money for my company.

jayjay71 | 7 years ago | on: Tesla meets self-imposed deadline for Model 3, rolls out 5000 cars in a week

3% is not a rounding error. There are industries with smaller profit margins than that.

jayjay71 | 7 years ago | on: Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant

That's a pretty sweet machine. Can't wait to see it first hand.

jayjay71 | 8 years ago | on: Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley’s monopoly on big growth tech companies is over

It's not a uniform distribution.

jayjay71 | 8 years ago | on: Seattle has third largest homeless population in U.S.

>the companies (Amazon is directly complicit in this issue since they contributed immensely to the now largely unaffordable rental/housing market) that have profited from the area, need to ask the question if thousands of homeless people wandering the streets is an acceptable cost of doing business

I believe the shareholders have voted with a resounding yes. Companies are not out to make the world a better place - they are trying to maximize profits. I think we should try to find more pragmatic solutions such as improving government programs and creating non-profits to help with the homeless problem.

jayjay71 | 8 years ago | on: GM announces completed production of 130 autonomous Chevy Bolt EVs

Why not apply for a job?

jayjay71 | 8 years ago | on: AI and Robotics in Agriculture in Japan [video]

Many of them left. Some are still there working on things related to robotics, such as Verb Surgical. I'm sure a few became more traditional software engineers, although I don't know any personally.

jayjay71 | 8 years ago | on: Robots that learn

You should google bistrobot

jayjay71 | 8 years ago | on: How Craigslist Makes Money

I hope someone reads this and makes it a reality.

jayjay71 | 9 years ago | on: Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, is doing an AMA

Just so applicants are aware, YC founders no longer have access to Pier 9.

jayjay71 | 9 years ago | on: Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, is doing an AMA

Obviously you should listen to Michael over me, but as a former YC founder with a robotics startup I agree that you should probably wait until you're more focused on growth than prototyping.

jayjay71 | 9 years ago | on: Trump administration re-evaluating self-driving car guidance

You clearly made the comparison between Uber's technology and the legally blind. Looking at your other comments, it seems you want to argue more than you want to have a constructive conversation. I'm exiting this thread.

jayjay71 | 9 years ago | on: Trump administration re-evaluating self-driving car guidance

You're assuming that because it missed the traffic light once it will do so every time. The real world is a dynamic environment, something odd may have happened that it just missed the light that one instance. I am not condoning Uber and I suspect they have a long way to go with their self-driving technology, but you're making bold conclusions on almost no data.

jayjay71 | 9 years ago | on: A self-driving Uber ran a red light last December, contrary to company claims

Delphi actively looks for traffic lights at every intersection with their self-driving technology, or at least they used to.

jayjay71 | 9 years ago | on: Valve’s Gabe Newell: VR could “turn out to be a complete failure”

I can't believe I'd never thought of Google Earth in VR. That looks amazing.

jayjay71 | 9 years ago | on: Valve’s Gabe Newell: VR could “turn out to be a complete failure”

What resolution is necessary to read standard text with VR? I'd imagine it would start to become usable for this at 4k per eye, and even then I suspect it would be limited.