MarkEthan

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by MarkEthan 5y ago
I'm not surprised - Amazon successfully managed to get the Pentagon to drop a $10 Billion USD contract with Microsoft by "applying lawyers" to the matter [1]! Why not do the same here. When you are at the scale of ambition th
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by MarkEthan 5y ago
How do people justify Hyperloop as a particularly green option when my initial thought would be that it uses a similar amount of energy as a normal train - which we already have as a popular option? Or is the energy cost of maintaining the
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by MarkEthan 9y ago
I'd imagine he has an impressively comprehensive team around him ensuring he doesn't need to focus on anything other than his work. That said, working over 14 hours per day 7 days a week is implausible to me. Maybe in short bursts
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by MarkEthan 10y ago
In a couple decades people are going to look back at the 1990's/2000's as a savage time - large tracts of the earth desperately poisoning themselves daily and being totally unconcerned by it. According to the CDC[1] Diabetes
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by MarkEthan 10y ago
The fact that their website fails to clearly explain anything that I would say is particularly new to the world of cryptocurrencies I'd guess the value proposition is the marketing strategy... Or even just a better pump & dump stra
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How to Protect Your Web App Against DDoS Attacks by Using Amazon Route 53(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by MarkEthan 10y ago|0 comments
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by MarkEthan 10y ago
I imagine it's a combination of this and wanting Vine users to use the native Twitter video functionality rather than be owned by another company. https://about.twitter.com/videos-on-twitter
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by MarkEthan 10y ago
The lack of quality blurring is definitely something to prioritize. As an aside, OpenStreetView makes me think of the "gargoyles" in Snow Crash. As sensors of all types (but in this instance cameras) get radically cheaper & st
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July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa(nytimes.com)
381 points by MarkEthan 10y ago|502 comments
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Earth-Like Planet Around Proxima Centauri Discovered(universetoday.com)
2 points by MarkEthan 10y ago|0 comments