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Samsung TV starts playing ads if it feels you are idle so i don't connect it to internet directly so use a fire stick. I once connected tv to internet to update some firmware but disconnected the same day because of ads.

There are also concerns about control, in Texas there were people who signed something that allowed the companies to remotely control their ac, apparently at night time it was turned up to 82, I am worried about what other companies could do like smart washer ( how about allowed to wash cloths only after 10 pm ) or not allowed to use some setting like extra wash etc.

What would happen if your account gets locked and you cannot access your smart stove to cook a meal. All those people who posted that their oculus was locked out because their FB account go locked out. In my opinion most of these smart appliances are more of a hassle than worth it.

Comment · 5 years ago

Snowflake separates compute and data storage which allows you to add more compute during busy times and switch to a lower compute during off peak times. It is also considered to be a data warehouse that is not from a cloud provider(even thought it uses AWS underneath and managed by snowflake).

The company i work for use snowflake. Just like any cloud platform, you can run up the tab if wrongly configured and not optimized.

Comment · 5 years ago

I did contracting for a while, I bought insurance with dental in 2010. It cost me about $120 a month and was comparable to my work. I did some contracting around 2015 and i bought insurance, I was paying $400 with barely any coverage. In my 2010 plan i had no concept of co-insurance, in my 2015 i also have co-insurance, also heard from my friend that when his wife had a baby, they had several doctors half in-network and half out to max out his deductible. He said same hospital for his first kid cost him around $400, second kid at 2017 cost him $4500.

The cost have gone up a lot.

Comment · 5 years ago

Am i missing something, if a treadmill has a subscription, the kid can still run on it right?, is it some kind of fingerprint or face authentication that would stop a kid from running.

Comment · 5 years ago

Some of these landlords also have mortgage on rental property, one of my friend had a rental property, i think he was netting $100 a month. The rest went for mortgage, property tax, maintenance and property management person. He sold it in 2014.

I don't think he could have absorbed 12 month + of non rent payment and pay all those expenses out of his pocket.

Comment · 5 years ago

Amazon is known to sell the ring data, i suspect this could give amazon more data that they can sell and make more money. It is almost like a mesh tracking in a neighborhood if this is enabled.

Comment · 5 years ago

I have a smart tv but never signed into my wifi from it, does it still have privacy issues. I use firestick to access netflix etc.

I assume the next versions of the tvs internet connection may be mandatory for it to work.

Comment · 5 years ago

i would be ok if facebook charges and not track, i am sure we might end up in a state where we are paying and getting tracked. It would be like the roomba who said they will sell the floor plans.

Comment · 5 years ago

I had LG G8 thinq and it made me get an iphone after it. My previous 2 phones were pure android motorolla phones. G8 thingq one was very bloated, i had to drag an app to the screen before i can bring it up. I cannot see list of apps and just run it. I have samsung tablet the ui seems to be ok, not too much bloat.

Comment · 5 years ago

I think countries are going to get their own digital currency and ban crypto. I saw some news on India that they are looking to ban all crypto and just looking to push indian digital currency.

China is developing digital yuan so i am not sure what will happen to bitcoin that you own if the country deems it illegal.

Comment · 5 years ago

   The scary thing is eye tracking data which could be used to figure out effective decision strategies and could be used to place more compelling ads. When this information along with facebook( used for oculus login), instagram and data they get from google, I would be spammed with all kinds of things. 
   I am hoping for nice privacy based VR headset but looks like most companies grade eye tracking data.

Comment · 6 years ago

We are using Snowflake in our company, I think we are storing in TB's, not sure about the total count maybe 50+ TB.

Pricing: If you are not careful, you could end up spending lot more money, it is like any cloud, people get sticker stock. I have heard that one of the data warehouse that went from terradata to snowflake we end up paying like 5x or 6x. - You have to optimize the crap out of warehouse and run stuff in batches. - Models have to be clean( snow schema ) not clutter - If you are doing streaming etc, you could end up with a lot more data so when you are comparing to on prem, please compare apples to apples. - scaling compute when you want is very good if you can otpimize it. - Consider snapshot backing it up to S3 as well so if you need to move off snowflake in future you can use it

Pitfalls: 1. Cost of compute and changing our thinking on compute i.e. in onprem etc we just think of running as many queries as we want or even something in RDS, snowflake compute could vary and could end up costing lot of money.

2. If amazon us east is down or even if you are testing for geo redundancy, they need to explicitly copy eveything from east to west and takes some time, I don't think you would lose things, you could have hours of outage instead of just working off another region.

Comment · 6 years ago

I almost got Tutanota, I went with runbox. It is based off Norway, hopefully this ruling will not applicable for other email companies with EU.

Comment · 6 years ago

I remember a radio host ranting that in his flight there was a lady with a pony as an emotional support animal, there was also a joke about a guy who registered a swarm of bees as emotional support animal. I wonder if that was the case that forced these emotional support animal in planes.

Comment · 6 years ago

My understanding is there are so many financial regulations that it is very hard for tech companies to own, I work in financial services and I can tell you the amount of red tape and paperwork is significant both inside and need to file with regulators. The CEO had mentioned once that there were regulations that prevented companies like amazon and google jumping into financial things.