I’ve used such a Cisco system. Compared to regular video calls the latency and quality was light years ahead, much more natural conversations were possible. By which I mean it was possible to laugh, interject, and generally have a realistic conversation with a colleague in another country without having to compensate for video lag in that very careful way I find necessary on Meet and Zoom.

That said, there was no “emotional connection” like the Google one is described as offering. It was still a video call. There was no forgetting that. I suspect the 3D and the apparent physical closeness to the display add a lot.

Depends what you mean by sustainable. Pinboard has taken care of my bookmarks since 2011, it’s still here in 2021. Nothing I put up on my VPS in 2011 still exists.

Here: https://policies.google.com/privacy you scroll to the bottom and press Privacy.

There's nothing here for Google Finance or portfolio data.

https://policies.google.com/technologies/product-privacy

How do the estimates work? Are my guesses shared anywhere?

We aggregate guesses and combine them with our model to produce the ranges we show in the app. No one will see an individual guess and no one knows who has guessed who.

My experience of Ruby, which is admittedly a few years old, is that people did use multiple Ruby environments through e.g rbenv to manage different sets of gem versions, which is what "virtual envs" are the equivalent of.

Now, I do agree the Python tooling situation is kind of a mess, but there you can still do:

"pip install the-package"

And you're just as good, all the other tools are when you're trying to do stuff harder like:

- Maintain multiple development environments - Publish new packages - Build binary packages - Handle Windows

I think on Ruby you need tools beyond "gem install" to do those as well. The point is how we achieve simplicity while keeping the ability to do those things.

I'm really hoping this will make AngularDart a lot nicer to write. Inputs might have a null value and it's very easy to forget to account for it, will be great to catch that at compile time.

What everyone else said, but also the presence of false positives means there'll be appeals. So you have a choice or ignoring the appeals and being accused of censoring people, or processing them - and that tends to need a person.

I struggle to see how comparing people who like particular technical products to supporters of dictatorships shows any of the "utmost respect" to any commenters that you claim at the start of your comment.

The reinsurance industry quite frequently handles claims like wildfire and hurricanes without needing federal government help.

I tried this. It’s junk. So much slower than a boarding pass scan.

I’ve seen good setups for this like at the UK border. This is not the same.

Almost everyone got rejected and got looked at by staff, especially black people who the machine seemed incapable of recognizing. Children? No chance.

I get it, there are privacy concerns which should rank higher, but you don’t even need to pull them out here. This is just useless bad tech.

>I’ve seen good setups for this like at the UK border. This is not the same.

I was just going to say I've done this in the UK. You put your passport on a scanner and look into the camera, took a full 5 seconds though, but since there are many more of these than border guards it's still faster.

Those don't use facial recognition, it's a bunch of border guards behind a wall manually evaluating if you match the data on the passport.