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by Fordec 3y ago
My perception is that CCS2 is better egineering than NACS but both are improvements over CCS1 so any alternate adoption is a market improvement. Having the pure "best design" is very rarely the deciding factor to market adoption
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by Fordec 3y ago
After following this thread and following up on some mentioned competitors, looks like I'm looking for Plivo. Cheaper and still covers the SMS backhaul use case without the fluff I don't need while still focusing on the developer.
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by Fordec 3y ago
My open question becomes, who is servicing the request-reply service in its void? It still has a place as a subsystem within IoT that itself isn't anything necessarily hype worthy, but quiet background productive infrastructure in an e
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by Fordec 3y ago
Any NN tips? I have my legacy pipelines, but haven't put the effort to migrate yet even though I know I should.
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by Fordec 3y ago
"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product"
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by Fordec 3y ago
Not just cut the human out, but I must also assume having it truck based cuts out building rental/ownership costs also
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by Fordec 3y ago
Thanks for the confirmation that "you're not really useful to us" remains a valid statement.
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by Fordec 3y ago
Ok? Indoor growing doesn't by law have to be hydroponics.
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by Fordec 3y ago
USDA 3b is what I've generally seen sited. Mostly online, including Etsy, but it's much easier to grow by cuttings.
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by Fordec 3y ago
There are plant's that are basically impossible to transport, so they aren't farmed for practical purposes. Remove the need for long distance transport, you have a unique proposition. Eg. I bet you've never had a Thimbleberry
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by Fordec 3y ago
Microsoft made a massive investment in OpenAI and get 75% of OpenAI profit at least until that earns them the $10B invested back. Microsoft, for now, from a financials perspective are OpenAI rather than any old third party integrator. The
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by Fordec 3y ago
The main one, amoung many smaller things, were his comments around Jeffrey Epstein in 2019.
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by Fordec 3y ago
I haven't even heard of evo psych lol, never mind these "rockstars".
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by Fordec 3y ago
Don't mistake self-congratulatory with show-y about academia. Only the home crowd know academics names, politics at least has the public eye on them.
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by Fordec 3y ago
Name one business problem solved with any tool that can only be solved by that tool and nothing else. It's not about uniqueness, the name of the game is efficiency/scaling already solvable problems by multiple or skilled humans an
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by Fordec 4y ago
It's used inside Google's TPUs[0]. Useless for regular logic programming (You've wouldn't want a nuclear power plant, or your payment processor to approximately work), but has found a use case in scaling ML pipelines whe
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by Fordec 4y ago
Tried looking it on Sentinel Hub but based off the visual resolution, the cracks are mostly are too small to see from space with the optical satellites that just about show individual buildings. My assumption is that you can only really sta
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by Fordec 4y ago
That's what people do, but to do so they need to work in growth industries and geographies. Otherwise you don't make enough to do just that. Thus they go somewhere that does, in this case Tokyo mostly. Which makes the situation wo
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by Fordec 4y ago
2.1 is steady state of just one for one replace those dying with new people. What numbers around 1.0 are are logarithmic decline as the population functionally keeps halving which is also hard to plan an economy around paying for two old pe
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by Fordec 4y ago
A fertility rate of 1.3 is still a demographic crisis. Just because the neighbors degraded to the same level also isn't supposed to be a point of pride. Japan at 1.3 and China at 1.2 are both far below replacement rate of 2.1 and both
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by Fordec 4y ago
The main company there is Zeiss in Germany that makes all the high grade optics. Part of the reason ASML is Dutch is it has access to the German precision manufacturing up-stream, quite literally.
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by Fordec 4y ago
Would subscribe to this newsletter if you were to pursue the problem. Have lots of interest in the space but zero of the resources, access to sun, space or chemistry skillset so can only live vicariously on the topic.
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by Fordec 4y ago
Well my Netflix and UberEats bills are $0 and if a subscription service is to be compared to a basic human need as food itself, that's a bit of a complete misunderstanding of a general humans hierarchy of needs. That applies to any e
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by Fordec 4y ago
The key will be authenticity and trust. And in the world where the percentage of online content that contains this ends up in the vast minority of content, in person expertise and meetings will have to make a return out of sheer necessity.
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by Fordec 4y ago
Intelcom is totally undercutting them for sure. If I get an Intelcom email, I know it's showing up on time as stated. Meanwhile, if it's UPS, well I'm still waiting on a package at I ordered 2 months ago coming from the US a
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by Fordec 4y ago
Only works if your bases are at the poles. Which for some missions works, but it's a limitation if your project needs to be anywhere else.
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by Fordec 4y ago
A stock that never rose on fundamentals (Tesla stock at its peak valuation was more than GM and Ford combined, their fundamentals were never that good) will also fall regardless of fundamentals. If the argument is about Tesla stock was wor
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by Fordec 4y ago
Created? Please, it was already there. Gestures vaguely at every Libertarian, (Neo-)Luddite, Jenny Mccarthy and basically the city of Portland.
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by Fordec 4y ago
He says on HN.
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by Fordec 4y ago
And on the good software the 2D interfaces take customizable color parameters, any level detail you like 3D files, customizable fonts. Just take 20 minutes to customize a settings file and reuse for every new project after, iterating as you

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