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by Qworg 10y ago
The barely middle class was turned against the poor. The former is the movement against payouts, even though they're one bad incident away from being part of the latter group.
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by Qworg 10y ago
This is likely the current #1 use case of VR - particularly in China.
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by Qworg 10y ago
People _can't_ move away. A large portion of their net worth is tied up in their house. They don't have the cash they need to move. There's no way you can reduce prices of housing in urban areas to match what the empty suburb
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by Qworg 10y ago
Ah, I never took amateur that way!
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by Qworg 10y ago
PhDs are professional dilettantes? I've always seen it as exactly the opposite - they are hyperfocused in their field of study.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Wait. Why can't they take big risks? They're in a better position to take big bets than anyone else - Google X, Microsoft Research, Facebook's FAIR and others. If they have the right people in house (or can get them), they ca
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by Qworg 10y ago
I think people are focusing too much on the recycling and not enough on point #2: access over ownership. It doesn't matter if a good is more expensive because it is meant to be repairable/upgradable if it is shared over many peopl
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by Qworg 10y ago
We were written up as project 10 (HackSignal) in this book: Hack This: 24 Incredible Hackerspace Projects from the DIY Movement by John Baichtal http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00602MH08/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_udp_api_4... We n
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by Qworg 10y ago
Those two sites were one reason I built my own carbon arc spotlight. =)
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by Qworg 10y ago
Just because it allows them to function doesn't make it correct.
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by Qworg 10y ago
What do you do, if not manage day to day? This definitely sounds like the direction I'm leaning, so it'd be helpful to see what others have done. My email is in my profile if you'd prefer.
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by Qworg 10y ago
You're 100% right - I didn't know if the actual site was up yet.
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Microsoft previews Project Springfield, a cloud-based bug detector(blogs.microsoft.com)
86 points by Qworg 10y ago|9 comments
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Palmer Luckey's mentor, VR pioneer moves to Microsoft(polygon.com)
2 points by Qworg 10y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 10y ago
Most certainly - safety should be guaranteed at the lowest level, even if Tensorflow gets borked. Think of it as a failure cascade - if Tensorflow breaks, the car can safely stop. If the low level stuff breaks, the car may not be able to s
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by Qworg 10y ago
An awesome feature certainly. I appreciate the access (and the free teaching we're getting more of soon) :) While I can't dictate what orgs do, it'd be helpful to see some "we applied with zero connections and got in on
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by Qworg 10y ago
RE: "We have no connection to most of the companies we fund." This certainly isn't the perception on my part - the flood of posts from previous YC companies who talk about how they had help from other YC companies to polish t
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by Qworg 10y ago
Lots of very smart folks do - especially if they can't get courses that match their ability. You end up spending lots of time chasing other things.
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Osiris-Rex Spacecraft Blazes Trail for Asteroid Miners(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by Qworg 10y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 10y ago
It'll create an opportunity for someone to build a "exactly how far does each free trip get me?" app.
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by Qworg 10y ago
There's a serious problem at the heart of "throw a bunch of data at it" strategy - driving has an extremely long tail that's relatively fat. You can hit the "average case" relatively quickly (you can assume th
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by Qworg 10y ago
How did you get to this number? I'm familiar with a few "map the world" efforts, and this seems an order of magnitude too small. I'd love to hear about a breakthrough.
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by Qworg 10y ago
You are correct - the interesting question is whether or not the Tesla pack has enough extra but unreported cells to cover that drop over time so you don't see the losses.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Alternative options: NVidia is too expensive per unit or most Apple customers could care less about dedicated graphics. I think the latter is most likely - they don't sell their products on specs.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Are they the same price in 2006's dollars?
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by Qworg 10y ago
Note - you will likely ruin your microwave doing it if it breaks containment. You can also do it with a fish bowl and a burned toothpick in a cork - that way you can see the ball like plasma race around the inside. =)
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The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car: A New Chapter(medium.com)
2 points by Qworg 10y ago|0 comments
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Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist(nytimes.com)
131 points by Qworg 10y ago|93 comments
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by Qworg 10y ago
The original "self-driving cars" course on Udacity - the one that Sebastian started with. =)
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by Qworg 10y ago
Is this different than the previous curriculum taught by Sebastian?

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