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hobbesmaster posted:buffet doesn't play stocks though he buys companies no you don't understand it's IMPOSSIBLE!!!
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Cold on a Cob posted:my understanding is for most of his career buffet bought companies that, if you liquidated them, would still be worth more than their market cap Buffett invests in companies that have solid product fundamentals but have operational efficiencies to unlock with access to capital and more financially savvy management. he buys companies to keeps them running and improve them and doesn't fire employees. this is basically the opposite of corporate raiders that want to break up a company for quick profits.
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flakeloaf posted:in much the same way i can open the faucet and get a slice of the ocean holy poo poo, don't drink that water!
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Aug 25, 2014 19:29
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you are riding in your google self driving car, going at the speed limit, as mandated by law. suddenly a pedestrian steps into the street. the car observes the pedestrian and calculates it has 200 ms to react. there is insufficient time to apply the brakes with any effect. the car has three options: 1) run the pedestrian over, 90% probability of pedestrian fatality. you are expected to survive. 2) cross into oncoming traffic. there is an oncoming car that will hit you. 40% probability of fatality to you, unknown for other driver. 3) drive off the road. the terrain is not sufficiently mapped so injury probability unknown. what does your car do?
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Aug 31, 2014 17:16
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hobbesmaster posted:lock up the brakes, same as a person driver should do a human can't make split second decisions with any kind of intelligence, our minds don't work that fast. the car has fully understood the situation and made the decision to kill the pedestrian when it could have avoided it. it has decided that the almost certainty of killing the pedestrian is better than risking your life at an unknown probability. it doesn't have the survival instinct we do, it calculated who lives and dies and somehow your life is worth more than the pedestrian's. when they review the accident and discover that going off the road would have resulted in minimal damage, does that mean the car is guilty of manslaughter?
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Aug 31, 2014 18:08
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what's the balance for when the car risks your life to save someone else's? 0%? with humans nothing is quantifiable so it's all a gray area. once you have hard numbers, things become a lot more complex.
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Aug 31, 2014 18:10
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ufarn posted:is the pedestrian a thinkfluencer and-or entrepreneur y/n? the forth prime directive says a google car cannot harm a google officer.
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Aug 31, 2014 18:26
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THC posted:my engineer friend has totally drunk the google car kool aid. keeps misconstruing my argument as "robot cars are not possible even theoretically" instead of "this lovely company is lying to you and is years if not decades away from a marketable product" classic case of spergs focusing on the details instead of the big picture. for example: Progressive JPEG posted:a person walking at 3.1 miles/hour would have moved about 11" in 200ms so i guess the solution would be to turn slightly aside
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Sep 1, 2014 00:34
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Google basically builds technology demos to distract people from the fact that they are an advertising company. not much more to it than that
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Sep 2, 2014 22:55
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raruler posted:to be fair doubleclick didn't even do that and everyone hated them. Google has a bunch of star-struck futurist nerds lapping it up and repeating "don't be evil" self driving cars and Google glass and all that other poo poo are an advertisement for google.
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Sep 2, 2014 23:01
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features I want in a smoke detector 1) reliably save my life 2) minimal false positives coincidentally these are already available in the smoke detectors in my house.
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Sep 4, 2014 15:29
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you mean this is an opportunity to janitor your smoke detector. another Google innovation.
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Sep 4, 2014 15:48
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duTrieux. posted:this is likely going to happen with soldiers, too the future of infantry combat is those dog robots with mounted machine guns running through buildings, deployed from self driving cars and controlled from a base in Kansas by virtual reality headset wearing gamers which brings us back to Google, which has a stake in almost all of these
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Oct 2, 2014 22:25
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we use tons of JDAMS guides bombs, mostly delivered from light attack aircraft
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Oct 2, 2014 22:36
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Fabricated posted:if we spend enough money it'll work this time, right?! Copy of Microsoft Business Plan (2).doc
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Oct 3, 2014 18:19
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finally a way to catch runaway sex slaves and unemployed foreign workers without all the tedious document checking
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Oct 4, 2014 02:31
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Necc0 posted:why would you want to cheap out on the people responsible for your physical security no Silicon Valley company wants blue collar employees on their books. everything is outsourced, janitors, security, food prep, maintenance. whenever the blue collars get the idea that they want to unionize then either the contracting firm cracks down on it hard or the whole contracting firm gets entirely replaced. commence union chat now
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Oct 6, 2014 17:30
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Google doesn't need to innovate, they just need to copy and be good enough. see also, Microsoft in the PC market
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Oct 8, 2014 22:07
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kraftwerk singles posted:i'm getting google fiber in january Google is going to know all of your porn habits
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Oct 10, 2014 19:06
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I've already joined a syndicate for when the corporate wars start.
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Oct 12, 2014 04:28
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duTrieux. posted:you're either generation x (which pretty much just gave the gently caress up) or a millennial in denial, so, y'know, shut it you're missing Y in there, which is most yosposters.
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Oct 12, 2014 17:16
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Progressive JPEG posted:well i figured fb/goog would be doing it but assumed it was pretty small potatoes doubleclick started doing this around 1996. I still remember the outrage over their clear one pixel gif that was placed on other sites to track you.
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Oct 12, 2014 17:19
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duTrieux. posted:please, sit down. there's something i need to tell you. someone who is 34 today is a millennial, are you loving making GBS threads me?
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Oct 12, 2014 18:34
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Sniep posted:i thought millennials grew up during the 2000 era, like were 8+ during 2000+, not 18+ Sniep posted:just saying the group ive always heard that term applied to being like just in their 20s now not 30s
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Oct 12, 2014 19:22
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JewKiller 3000 posted:i bet mozilla could make firefox the most used browser again, if they bundled adblock plus and did a huge marketing push to explain how you wouldn't see ads again, not even on youtube that wouldn't work out so well once every single ad-driven site on the Internet starts automatically redirecting Firefox users to goatse
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Oct 12, 2014 19:25
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is Google glass officially dead yet? I haven't heard a story on the news hyping it in literally weeks, and I'm pretty certain nobody actually bought one.
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Oct 22, 2014 00:59
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Necc0 posted:no one was fired over them acqui-hiring the phonebloks. no one. in fact they still bring it up in casual conversation hire me when you do. I have some ideas regarding articulated-toe shoes and self-driving social networks.
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Oct 22, 2014 03:07
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so this morning slate has a hit piece calling out google self driving cars as not real and having no chance of becoming real. it's low on tech detail but generally correct in its assessment. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/google_self_driving_car_it_may_never_actually_happen.single.html looks like the shine is coming off of yet another google moonshot project, time to come up with some more impractical ideas to impress investors
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Oct 22, 2014 16:30
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PleasureKevin posted:because of rain no, it needs the maps and the ability to see so it can compare what it sees against the map data and only concentrate on the difference. without both it can't move.
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Oct 22, 2014 21:55
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poty posted:looks like googles latest bullshit move to hide all promotions emails god forbid you see an ad without them getting paid this is literally the entire reason gmail exists. spam is a competitor to google's ads, so they created the world's best spam filter.
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Oct 23, 2014 01:49
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theadder posted:how much privacy robbery does google do with chrome all of it
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Oct 23, 2014 04:28
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Larry doesn't have a loving clue what he's doing. he's just high all of the time and loving interns. whatever happened to Sergei?
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Oct 25, 2014 04:18
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flakeloaf posted:not everyone's goals extend to corporate success the guy is a billionaire, he doesn't need to be the head of a company to do those things
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Oct 25, 2014 04:34
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in fact it would probably be a lot more convenient for him if he were unemployed.
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Oct 25, 2014 04:37
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but what is he doing at google these days? I haven't seen anything about him in a long time. did he have a falling out with page and just go off into the weeds?
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Oct 26, 2014 02:02
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cremnob posted:google x was supposedly his thing so yes, off in the weeds loving around, like Andy Rubin. I thought google x is dead now
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Oct 26, 2014 02:25
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maniacdevnull posted:glass was super successful in that it a) took money from idiots and b) made everyone realize android wear is great a) took money from idiots b) got a massive amount of attention and credit for innovation despite being essentially garbage
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Oct 26, 2014 19:44
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even comedy Google apologist smyths won't endorse glass
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Oct 27, 2014 20:38
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ShadowHawk posted:Yeah pretty much. Remember when Google got a bunch of poo poo because they couldn't understand Scottish? nobody can, it is a made up language. when no non-scots are around they switch to English
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theadder posted:Google working on nanoparticles to detect cancer oh look, another google moonshot misdirect that will never happen. everyone keep looking this way, ignore the fact that we are an advertising company and give us credit for innovation
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