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by Brakenshire 10y ago
The Vivofit looks really good in the sense that you don't really need to sync it with a smartphone to get the relevant information, it's just there on your wrist. You want something that will tell you at a glance how many steps yo
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by Brakenshire 10y ago
The phone's going to be priced at the mid to high range. Including all the important components pre-built means that it can't be sold at a low price. 'A single phone for everyone' was the original idea, but it seems they
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by Brakenshire 10y ago
It seems strange that access to the audio stack isn't also behind the permission.
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by Brakenshire 10y ago
On the other hand, Microsoft's new Universal Apps compile to ARM, Linux can compile to ARM already, and Apple can and has switched. It's difficult to one degree or another, but it can happen.
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by Brakenshire 10y ago
Hopefully speeding up image acquisition will also bring down cost. If you can reduce the acquisition time by a factor of 4, you should be able to make the scans at least 2 times less expensive, with correct management of the queue.
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by Brakenshire 10y ago
I would guess the automatic parts will be like a toolkit of tasks which the surgeon can delegate to an algorithm. You could imagine that an algorithm could sew skin together with a level of accuracy to prevent scarring, rejoin nerve and sma
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
By far the worst mistake that reddit makes is the emphasis it gives to r/all, and the way that impacts its public reputation, and shapes its audience. Reddit's algorithms are nowhere near sophisticated enough to compare long form
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
Yes, if you could combine gas generation with district heating, that + solar generation really would fit together neatly. Also, there are projects to do the thermodynamic equivalent of district heating over a single home! i.e. you burn gas
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
Solar thermal is not really comparable to solar PV. This article, if I'm not mistaken, is talking about PV, which is an entirely separate technology, with unrelated learning curves / cost reductions.
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
Lithium ion can't store electricity across seasons, though, which is important anywhere outside equatorial areas. Gas can be left idle during the Summer, and used during the Winter. If the cost of solar power went below the marginal co
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
> It is very likely that many industries will move to places where solar power is especially abundant and inexpensive. I suspect over time the cost of producing solar electricity will become negligible against the cost of storage. The ke
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
It would be interesting to calculate what level of storage you would need to store solar electricity from earlier in the day, to meet demand in the evening. For instance, the Powerwall has 6.5 kWh storage, that would support 2kW of continuo
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
FWIW, your article says that the remaining Powerwall is designed exactly for this purpose. > The larger Powerwall was positioned as a longer-term back up power supply, which GTM noted was looking like a hard sell, with other market alter
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
Benefits through competition? Intel is only one company, it's competing with a whole ecosystem of companies, who can all iterate and find efficiencies on chip design, and on manufacturing. And those improvements which are specific to t
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
> So ad-supported sites have to choose between greatly reduced ad revenue or a broken app. Thanks Google. Geolocation API is pretty powerful. It's one thing for a random website to know approximate location, but to be able to track
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
Cheers for that. I stumbled across their online player recently, but was a bit overwhelmed. Might give your suggestion a go: https://globeplayer.tv/videos/twelfth-night
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
There are a lot of things that are sensible to privatize, but this seems entirely political and ideological. I did think the Conservatives were more reasonable than this.
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
Unfortunately the Land Registry is in the process of being privatized. If that goes through, it seems very unlikely this data will stay open.
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
It's the same principle as the nucleation process which turns clouds into rain.
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
It will happen in the sense that AR technology will become viable and cost-effective. I think it's far from set in stone how much it will be used outside of niche applications. Smartphones are an enormously powerful technology but they
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
> many western countries also subsidize markets they want to stimulate Subsidizing markets is different to favouring local suppliers. For instance, Germany's feed in tariffs subsidized solar, but it didn't distinguish between G
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
> Instead there should be a tax on taking carbon out of the ground or importing it into the country. Doesn't that have the same problem? Anything energy intensive just shifts outside of the borders of that country where the tax is e
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
There's lot of talk of people moving away from laptops and full computers, and just buying a tablet instead. If you only want a device for watching videos, reading articles, online shopping, social media and email, a tablet is probably
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
I have read that delivery drivers have to make 16 deliveries an hour to make minimum wage in the UK.
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
> I worked at a Starbucks while in college and frappuccinos are very very popular Are you in the UK? There is more of a social stigma on that than in the US.
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
> 'encouraging people to eat healthily' is an attempt to impose a culture This is a crazy way of looking at it. You might as well have said 100 years ago that education beyond 14 was an imposition on the poor. In a lot of citie
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
> I suspect it's a class issue: politicians see soda as something that poor, obese people drink, but a white chocolate mocha is not. To drink one of those coffees you have to actually go to Costa Coffee or Starbucks. It's too e
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
The sugar tax money doesn't go into general taxation, it is ring-fenced as extra funding for school sports.
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
Looks interesting for hybrid apps in particular. I notice Mapbox have plugins for NativeScript and Cordova. There's an experimental plug-in for React Native. If anyone from Mapbox is looking, do you know if a JavaScript offline version
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by Brakenshire 11y ago
That data looks messed up to me. The Reactjs search is most common among Russia, China, US, Australia, Canada, France, UK, Germany. The Angular search is most popular in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Belarus, Israel, South Korea, Hong Kong

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