InvisibleCities

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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
>I still think Uber has the right idea long-term with a completely autonomous fleet... I really disagree here. I think the biggest strength of Uber's business model is that they offload all of the maintenance, fuel, liability, regis
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
The reality is that it is impossible for everyone to be an expert in everything. At some point, certain fields, medicine and finance for example, become so complex that it is impossible for a lay-person to make an informed decision. Histori
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
That would be an absolute unmitigated disaster. VCs with ample resources capable of doing thorough due diligence still manage to get hoodwinked by frauds and con artists. I shudder to think about how many more UBeams will come out of the wo
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
One more thing that you didn't mention, which I think is important: if you run simulated annealing on specialized hardware and compare it to the performance of D-Wave's machine, there is virtually no speedup for D-Wave's mach
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
>It's very possible that it's not possible to deploy fiber profitably. Well, boo hoo for them. If it's not profitable, they shouldn't have signed the contract in the first place. They can't just shirk their contr
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
>Also, note that delta-V is not thrust. Delta-V is a change in velocity, thrust is force.) Thanks for the condescending reply. Seeing as I have a degree in Physics, I am well aware of the technical difference between thrust and delta-v.
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
I know that SV seems to have abandoned the idea of good unit economics, but the concept of asteroid mining seems to take that to a whole new level. The cost of developing autonomous asteroid mining equipment, finding asteroids suitable for
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
By continuing to live in a country, you give it your tacit consent to be governed. This is one of the cornerstones of John Locke's political philosophy[1], which largely formed the basis for the theory behind American government and th
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
>They're going to cure heart disease, not write the next snapchat. Are you suggesting that curing heart disease is an easier and cheaper endeavor than building a mobile app for sharing photos?
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question, but how does the weather app know if the user is outside? Many buildings have HVAC systems that are designed to have positive pressure relative to the general environment, and most phone GPS systems are not ac
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
>The flip side of that coin is that some companies, under pressure to "grow up", become misguided—destroying their core product and user base in the process. If your core "product" is massively unprofitable, it's
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
>I'm surprised nobody brought a case all the way to The Supreme Court State's Attorneys will typically drop Civil Asset Forfeiture cases before they get to the Supreme Court for that reason. It's better to give up a few ca
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
I've worked on classic WCF/SOAP/ESB systems, as well as the modern equivalent, and NServiceBus + REST beats absolutely everything from the old days, hands down. It's not even close.
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
You can opine in harsh language about whether or not this guy made the "smart" choice all you want, but why is our "justice" system forcing this man to make such an unfair choice in the first place?
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
Sure, but what fun is a pool you can't do a cannonball into?
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by InvisibleCities 11y ago
Given tweets like this one ( https://twitter.com/jtuple/status/598230043093897216 ), there doesn't seem to be much to speculate about.
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by InvisibleCities 12y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" ~Upton Sinclair
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by InvisibleCities 13y ago
You know, we actually tried that for a while (search for Turnpike System or Turnpike Trusts on wikipedia), and it was an unmitigated disaster. Because turnpike operators had what were effectively local monopolies, they collected absurdly hi
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by InvisibleCities 13y ago
There is another very glaring difference between the Finnish and American educational system that the article ignores - there are no private schools in Finland. Everyone in Finland, no matter how wealthy or politically connected, sends thei
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by InvisibleCities 13y ago
No, it's not a review. It is an ill-informed complaint. This is akin to a reviewer writing a review of a book they had not read. You can no more review a product based on it's "features" than you can review a movie based
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by InvisibleCities 13y ago
The problem with "feel bad" motivation strategies is that they only really work in the short term. Sure, putting tracking devices on employees increases productivity right then, but after a few months, once the employees have figu
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by InvisibleCities 13y ago
Will this one stop working after 3 months like the Nexus 7 I bought in January did?
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by InvisibleCities 13y ago
Every night, I bang two rocks together for several hours to scare off tigers so they won't attack me while I sleep. I have yet to be attacked by a tiger, so my plan must be extremely effective.
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by InvisibleCities 13y ago
>Making 5% profit on "obscene"ly risky loans isn't the cause of the US's student debt problem. This just sounds like populism and pandering. Student loans are federally guaranteed (i.e. if the student cannot repay the
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by InvisibleCities 13y ago
You are right. No white male has ever suggested eating babies as a form of satire before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
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by InvisibleCities 13y ago
>France is a very close ally of the US with much more than just extradition treaty ties. If Snowden set foot on French territory, he would be sent back to the US in a matter of days. France also has a history of sheltering people from ex
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by InvisibleCities 13y ago
by Dave Navarro I think you mean Joe Navarro, unless the guitarist from Jane's Addiction and RHCP has led a far richer life than I previously imagined.
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
>Because it's too easy to claim fraud and have your CC provider initialise a charge-back. First, you can do this with any CC purchase, and I don't see why bitcoin merchants need any special protection against it. Why would a bitcoin mer
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
So while the FDA, the ATF, and leagues of scientists from the Institute for Tobacco Studies have not found a singe contributing factor, and instead have found evidence to suggest that lung cancer may be caused by a conjunction of many diffe
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
>You're more likely to have the entire tree fly straight at you. Well, that certainly sounds much safer.

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