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by Fordec 6y ago
I find this perplexing because the Olympic Games is notorious for draining an urban centers resources for years and the result being a bunch of infrastructure that the majority of the time just slowly decays due to the local community not
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by Fordec 6y ago
I see as fintech overvalued, not because it's hype or a bubble, but because an already pre-existing part of society had a disproportionate amount of value extracted from it by the financial sector in general. As these companies eat int
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by Fordec 6y ago
There's always a relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/2347/
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by Fordec 6y ago
Yeah, I'm not at all convinced of the garbage man satellite idea. The Delta-V calculations only make sense if the craft is very big. And all the very big ones are in GEO, not LEO, where it's even harder to achieve. Lasers that act
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by Fordec 6y ago
For search a Graph database would be my go-to if starting one now, not a NoSQL one.
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Once we have a proper suite of in-orbit manufacturing (not just 3d printing a plastic part) it's going to be a straight up Cambrian explosion event for what technology we can design for a space environment by letting go of vibration to
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by Fordec 6y ago
Also, because of the Europe focus, a disproportionate number of those affected won't be in English. They will be in French, German, Italian etc. Part of HN's bias is at times because of the US focus, namely Silicon Valley there is
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by Fordec 6y ago
Your data was in the cloud, now it's in the smoke.
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I don't believe I am confused actually. I get this is just an algorithm hypothetical being answered right now. I just care about the telescopes way more than the astronomy and am thinking steps ahead about the meta game of the telescop
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by Fordec 6y ago
I'm super 100% out of my depth on this on the math side of things, so bear with me. But isn't matrix multiplication one of the core basis assumptions of GPU based computing architectures, in particular for AI? That doing math in p
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by Fordec 6y ago
We need diversity for solving different problems, not for diversity sake. What problem did MIPS solve in a unique way that others didn't? Because it wasn't desktop, mobile, embedded, graphics or AI.
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Hey, whatever it was, I appreciate people like you are out there regardless of whether the thing got done anyway. I'm in currently in the valley of death phase of startup life working on a tiny piece of the climate problem, but when th
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by Fordec 6y ago
Wasn't ITER supposed to be built by now? DEMO was supposed to start in 2033 as the successor to ITER.
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by Fordec 6y ago
US accounts for 16% of Chinese exports. 84% is the rest of the world. So while it's the biggest trade partner, it's not the end all and be all. It's about as important as what the UK was to Ireland before Brexit. Stopping tra
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by Fordec 6y ago
Are you suggesting that if trade with the US stops due to a US-China dispute or war there is literally nobody else in the entire world to trade with?
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by Fordec 6y ago
This just made me realize, if cars are to satellites, we don't really have a bus to xyz equivalent. Cars are great and all, it gave a generation flexibility to go where they like but they don't scale. There are denser forms of tra
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by Fordec 6y ago
I do think that we're going to see more of this. This is just a relatively early example. Rust and LLVM bring things to the table that make them inevitable if we as an ecosystem, on the whole, value privacy and security. This is where
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by Fordec 6y ago
Touchscreens will be on the way out. But what I do expect what will come down the line that hasn't been done yet is custom shaped screens embedded within analog controls. Since notches in phone screens started becoming a thing, the a
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by Fordec 6y ago
IAM shouldn't be a thing to learn. It's account management, default and easy to access options should be sane enough for most people to use. At big companies, sure someone has it as a dedicated part of their job description. But i
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by Fordec 6y ago
VC shilling on twitter
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by Fordec 6y ago
The existing agri corporations. Don't prohibit GMO, just invalidate the patents and regulate the results. If everyone can select the seeds that are designed best downstream farmers and consumers benefit from the reduction of monopoly.
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by Fordec 6y ago
I'm not in this subsection of the industry, so take this with a heaping grain of salt. I'm just using my own biases here. But I get the sense that this is one of a number of big pieces of the puzzle of how current cutting edge mod
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by Fordec 6y ago
If the recent Armenia Azerbaijan crisis was anything to go by, in mountainous terrain a drone/artillery combination is quite effective but a relatively new combat style on the scene.
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It's easy to be original when you have a decade of being demonstrably wrong under your belt. Just say something out of the ordinary, poof, origionality. His demographic data is correct. Any extrapolations he makes based on that data ar
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by Fordec 6y ago
Does a single soul believe the Google review process is fair and reasonable any more? Only the social media option gets results because it causes them enough PR pain. And there's no sign, at all, of that changing.
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I'd trade 20 minutes extra socializing at my first place with the people I love or my third place with the people of similar interests for an hour of socializing with people talking about a sport I'm not into or their kids. I also
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by Fordec 6y ago
None of these tackle the one aspect that trumps everything else in the corporate world. Is this better for the company? Even if the majority of companies see things this way, they will return to the office. But those that succeed, survive,
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by Fordec 6y ago
Well flip that around for a second to step beyond the US focused bias and see if the logic still holds up. Should the US be able to force Chinese companies to do what the US wants?
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From a link in another thread[0]: "But iterated games sometimes require a strategy that deviates from apparent first-level rationality, where you let yourself consider lose-lose options in order to influence an opponent's behavior
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by Fordec 6y ago
It's not about the lack of startup projects, it's the lack of genuine unicorn projects that pays for the other 19 companies that fail in their portfolio along the way from MVP to IPO. Everyone has ideas for companies that can be w

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