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1247 points mangoman | 4 comments | 05 Dec 16 14:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.97s | source
1. scrollaway ◴[05 Dec 16 15:38 UTC] No.13106044[source]▶
If you simply watched the video instead of trying to find a range of shit to complain about in it, maybe you'd notice customers are not scanning anything.

The difference between scanning and not scanning is pretty important.

https://xkcd.com/1425/

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2. strictnein ◴[05 Dec 16 15:43 UTC] No.13106087[source]▶
The funny thing is that the bird identification isn't 5 years any more. It's just an API call away

https://cloud.google.com/vision/

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3. scrollaway ◴[05 Dec 16 16:07 UTC] No.13106326{3}[source]▶
XKCD 1425 was in September 2014. Randall was a bit pessimistic but it roughly checks out :)
4. aembleton ◴[05 Dec 16 16:08 UTC] No.13106332[source]▶
Funny how that cartoon hasn't aged. There are now APIs such as the Microsoft Computer Vision API that can handle the bird detection: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/computer-...