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by Qworg 14y ago
Totally true. =) I'm less concerned with the existential health of the cow, just health when growing and feed type. Both of these influence final meat quality, along with many other variables. Example: Cows that were calm when killed are t
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by Qworg 14y ago
Nothing specifically about chocolate. Any non-grass diet is demonstrably worse for the cows in overall health and final meat quality.
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by Qworg 14y ago
Cows will eat most anything. It doesn't mean they should.
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by Qworg 14y ago
Fat is also not evenly distributed. Lots of extra fat on beef is cut from the carcass, ground, then remixed with lower fat ground beef. IIRC, 93/7 is standard, and 80/20 is just cut with fat.
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by Qworg 14y ago
I would love for these to take off - a telepresence robot in every meeting would be grand. Ubiquity requires more than just the robot though - it requires real policy change and upsetting the status quo. I think that's the hardest part. Al
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by Qworg 14y ago
First, I think you're overestimating how easily people will adapt to having these robots around. I hope there's no stairs or elevators in between the official meeting and the food table. Second, does this small factory have high speed wifi
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by Qworg 14y ago
This isn't an argument for a telepresence robot - it is an argument for a Cisco teleoffice installation. Having a robot adds a whole new layer of complexity and issues.
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by Qworg 14y ago
Except they have to use a _robot_ to accommodate you - hardly less invasive than some software. =/
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by Qworg 14y ago
Right, but how will this be better than screensharing and teleconferencing? I'm not trashing the technology - it is an extremely well done version of a telepresence robot, combined with a spectacular price point. I'm worried that they're
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by Qworg 14y ago
The hardest part for telepresence robots is finding a market/use case to grow in. Being cheaper is a great first step, but who are you selling to?
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by Qworg 14y ago
Sadly, this is too filled with over the top platitudes to even be realistic. Drones, IMAX domes, and 3D printers have nothing to do with building sustainable businesses or Burning Man. If anything, this is funding an art project so that the
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by Qworg 14y ago
At least from my perspective, a major problem is maintaining control of your information. How does Chartulo.us store the data? Where? Can it be removed immediately post retrieval?
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by Qworg 14y ago
Yes, but we already had to switch once (as per the links above) - we'll do it again if we're forced to.
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by Qworg 14y ago
Also, ideas like "feeding the world" don't fire the "make lots of money before the fund term ends" neurons for VCs. =/ Execution is long and painful on a real world problem like that.
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by Qworg 14y ago
Woah, wait a moment. One variety of commercial banana is mostly clones (the traditional yellow Chicquita/Dole type). There are many other kinds of bananas - less familiar, but also different genetically. Bananas won't disappear - only on
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by Qworg 14y ago
Morningstar Farms does this as well.
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by Qworg 14y ago
nReduce has been great for Spark. The weekly checkins, combined with frank advice from our fellow teams, makes for a serious kick in the pants drive to ship constantly. I would recommend nReduce for any startup. If there's one gripe, it is
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by Qworg 14y ago
For simple tasks. Identifying thousands of different products by sight alone in infinite numbers of configurations at varying light levels/obstruction? Humans are best.
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by Qworg 14y ago
The company that I'm working for bridges the gap between research and production. You can see some of our stuff here: http://rec.ri.cmu.edu/
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by Qworg 14y ago
Average humans are capable of fine manipulation and fast visual recognition at low prices.
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by Qworg 14y ago
I was confused by this as well - we still use fltk on some of our robot control stations.
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by Qworg 14y ago
If there is anything that will kill free access, it will be this: "British universities now pay around £200m a year in subscription fees to journal publishers, but under the new scheme, authors will pay "article processing charges" (APCs) t
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by Qworg 14y ago
Hilariously, at least one of the people writing a tutorial uses Chrome. =)
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by Qworg 14y ago
It still costs money to design and build this equipment, sadly. "Helping the world" can't feed your family. =/ Raspberry Pi non-profit is awesome - but they made a very low cost, very versatile product. This is so unlike disaster equipmen
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by Qworg 14y ago
Actually, that's an excellent question: Does the robot actively seek WiFi weak spots in the communication mesh or does it have to be driven to a certain locations?
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by Qworg 14y ago
Nuclear work is a whole different kettle of fish - you need to harden all of the sensitive parts of the system. Cameras will fail (or their lenses will frost over), circuitry will fail, and your robot needs to be able to be decontaminated
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by Qworg 14y ago
Serving the disaster market is pretty awful. There's little to no money available until something goes wrong, then there's a ton of money and everything is purchased in 5 days. You have to have enough capital to be able to wait until somet
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by Qworg 14y ago
Not for white collar jobs AFAIK. The salaryman is expected to come before his boss and go home after - work may extend to drinking after work to build team identity/loyalty.
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by Qworg 14y ago
Time in and out of the office tiers as well. When I lived in Japan, I stayed with the head of Korean Air for Japan and with a mid-level engineer at Mazda. The Mazda engineer left the house at 6 AM and got back at 7 PM or so. The executive l
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by Qworg 14y ago
I don't think it will make existing MMOs better. It will free them from the terrible restrictions that MMOs had to take on (like shards and instances) based on technology, rather than gameplay choice.

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