Crazy. People on Hacker News are still upset at Google for shutting down Reader.
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Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City
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#12Crazy. People on Hacker News are still upset at Google for shutting down Reader.
you realize they shut down like 80 percent of what they start? or atleast abandon it?
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#13Out of curiousity and so we can all concretely imagine how Sidewalk Labs plans to transform cities, can someone explain what are the speicific changes and associated benefits in this new kind of city? It mentions, autonomous transit, ride sharing, cheaper housing (how?). Can someone paint a fuller picture of what will be new and how it will be beneficial.
I'm not skeptical at all, in fact I'm very hopeful. I just want to be able to picture the new kind of city more concretely.
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#14Crazy. People on Hacker News are still upset at Google for shutting down Reader.
And their fiber-optic to the home ISP. That's quite relevant here.
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#15I can't help but notice right now that Toronto's name has been increasingly pushed as some sort of "next tech centre" (well, many cities in the world want to be something like that). Can someone who's actually there fill me in on what's happening there? How does Toronto's scene compare to say, New York or Seattle?
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#16Out of curiousity and so we can all concretely imagine how Sidewalk Labs plans to transform cities, can someone explain what are the speicific changes and associated benefits in this new kind of city? It mentions, autonomous transit, ride sharing, cheaper housing (how?). Can someone paint a fuller picture of what will be new and how it will be beneficial. I'm not skeptical at all, in fact I'm very hopeful. I just wan…
Personally I'm interested in seeing the privacy impact assessment if there is an actual proposal. This isn't Google doing it out of some utopian goodness of their heart. Everything in those 12 blocks will be logged, analyzed, and sold to advertisers.
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#17Singapore did that for their Jurong Lake District in 2015, according to Wired. How did that work out?
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#18Again, watch house and rental prices soar through the roof... Can't a poor student in Toronto get a break?
When that student wants property in the most prime space in the region probably not. Toronto already allows tons of new units(like this project) what more are you expecting from the city?
hmmmm
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#19I can't help but notice right now that Toronto's name has been increasingly pushed as some sort of "next tech centre" (well, many cities in the world want to be something like that). Can someone who's actually there fill me in on what's happening there? How does Toronto's scene compare to say, New York or Seattle?
"Toronto is like New York, but without all the 'stuff'" - Steve Martin, SNL.
Toronto has grown up a lot in the pst few years. The canadian dollar is about 20% less than USD, so VC dollars go further - and while competitive, hiring engineers is nothing like the bay. That said, there is a shallow pool of senior SaaS startup folks in Toronto compared to SF or New York.
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#20waaaa