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by Qworg 8y ago
How are you subsidizing them? You're getting cheap food - truck crop farming is notoriously low margin. Are you prepared for $15/pint strawberries?
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by Qworg 8y ago
Even at wages closing in on 3x minimum wage, we cannot get enough farm labor[1] - obviously low skilled American labor still doesn't want the job. What's the solution? [1] https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-f
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by Qworg 8y ago
You're not a typical investor in the described class. Frankly, I suffer from this expectation sometimes too - many things that seem wildly off course make sense from the perspective of the folks driving the ship.
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Very interesting! Early 2000s UIUC had it reversed - the BS was "practical CS" and the BA was highly mathematical/theory based. Then again, despite being a top 5 program, it only received accreditation while I was attending.
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Run VSCode?
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Zach is the CEO of Inventables, and he's a standup dude - I worked for him and Keith as a freshman in college. I'm always excited to see Inventables growing.
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Transparent | Senior Backend Software Engineers & Applied Cryptographers | Seattle, WA | ONSITE Are you upset with how money works? We’re moving past the old way of thinking and are creating a seamless universal platform to bring the e
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by Qworg 8y ago
It isn't the majority they worry about - any individual on the OFAC list or folks laundering money is an enormous risk. While Patreon isn't Silk Road, people can and will try to take advantage of any payment system with weak contr
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Banks don't necessarily trust each other and "I thought the other guy did KYC/AML" isn't a defense when the Feds show up.
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The middleman just becomes the exchanges (who also have to deal with payment processors).
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Not only that, industrial robots are chosen for repeatability, not speed. A flexible system necessarily doesn't take the most efficient path, and if it does, you'd just buy a dumb arm.
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I do, since it has been done. Here's a reasonable example: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2018/02/20/587356461/h...
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It is an open problem still. I'm unsure of a list though. There have been some great advancements in grasping and embodied decision making lately though, so it could fall soon.
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A recent interview RE: the tenth anniversary of Bitcoin - https://www.coindesk.com/enough-with-the-ico-me-so-horny-get... Always sad to lose deep thinkers.
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As far as I know, the US is making noise about it. I don't know if any real changes have occurred.
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It is essentially abusing the UBU to subsidize trade from China. There was an excellent NPR story about it: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
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Even though they are highly regulated, you're still taking a credit risk against the organization, not the US Government. The government can create new money to service its debts, where Circle/Coinbase might go out of business.
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On average, 3-5%.
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Underwater data centers make a great deal of sense - close to customers (low latency), fast deployments (decision to power on in 90 days), and, of course, cooling efficiencies. I expect them to actually happen if Phase 2 goes well. Then aga
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Domestically is due to time cost of money, which makes wires used only for transactions that are giant or must arrive tomorrow.
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People are also using USD, today, in regimes such as Venezuela. Enforcement is terrible and members of the government's inner circle are facilitating USD/Bolivar exchanges outside of the law already. Why would they care about cryp
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by Qworg 8y ago
We certainly hire junior engineers at my startup - we have about 50/50 "people who need some training"/"people are contributing at 100%". That said, at a startup, it is some drag on the build/test in the
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There could also be 3 pennies of friction in getting the money into or out of Tether.
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As part of our work in deploying the Natick datacenter to the Orkneys, we had the opportunity to visit Skara Brae, as well as the other Neolithic sites. It is a truly amazing place and the size of the civilization in the Orkneys at that ea
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by Qworg 8y ago
This paper [1] is pretty interesting RE: the effects of fly ash in concrete mixes. It isn't a replacement, certainly, and brings both problems and benefits. [1] https://www.cement.org/docs/default-source/fc_c
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The culture we have versus the Culture we want?
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A "hill climbing governor" should be a trivial addition for any scooter manufacturer.
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There are a few of these already - Mechanical Turk is the most famous.
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I wouldn't knock having enough parking, but Seattle has a ridiculous number of single family residences within spitting distance of downtown. The upzoning regulation is a great first step, but is slow to roll out due to difficulties i
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Satya Nadella: The cloud is going to move underwater(arstechnica.com)
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