RobLach

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by RobLach 8y ago
“I’ve been dying since I was 20 so what makes it special now that I have cancer”
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by RobLach 8y ago
Interesting to realize that also now means “what’s IBM up to”; which carries its own weight, positive or negative.
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by RobLach 8y ago
Unless there are widespread helium-3 fusion reactors, the demand for it is about $2000/liter for mostly scientific and imaging purposes. Even then it’s a sort of a niche driven price since when the US was willing to bother decaying tri
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by RobLach 8y ago
Dividends?
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by RobLach 8y ago
Chariot was a shuttle bus service.
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by RobLach 8y ago
RoboRace is a thing. They aim to compete on Formula E tracks with similar performance. https://roborace.com/ Where we’re at is painfully slow https://youtu.be/7NGEM5jcXV4
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by RobLach 8y ago
WeWork has a major problem in that they signed a vast number of real estate contracts during the financial crisis 10 years ago at fire sale prices that are now expiring and will require renegotiation. Unfortunately for WeWork they are a gen
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by RobLach 8y ago
How do I eat a snack in VR? I almost exclusively watch shows while drinking coffee.
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by RobLach 8y ago
For context: from 0.4% of PC gamers surveyed to 0.8%.
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by RobLach 8y ago
Making cities more livable is not sustainable? I don’t even know what this means. Cities are the most efficient way of sustaining populations. Making them better at that is only a net good.
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Currently
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I don’t intend this to be a personal attack but I think you need to take a step back and re-evaluate what you’re saying because what I’m reading is that because of increasing populations, property is more valuable, which creates more opport
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by RobLach 8y ago
Am I the only one having the most annoying mobile browsing experience with this page? The page is zoomed in out of the windows until I scroll.
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by RobLach 8y ago
Total milk demand is trending down but production is still trending upwards in the US, so dairy farms as a business (factory farms) are still finding enough margin for expansion. It’s just these rural lifestyle dairy farms are finally being
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by RobLach 8y ago
Controlled by Facebook? Why not just throw a ledger onto a relational database. Surely they trust their own servers.
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Apple reveals uptick in demands for user data in revamped transparency report(techcrunch.com)
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I am very thankful for a resource like Wikipedia which is a natural home for noting these quirks of culture.
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by RobLach 8y ago
You don’t have much granularity to work with though. It’s either good enough, weird, or not edible. Produce is already sorted by at the processor for auxiliary products such as sauces and processed goods where the consumer would never see t
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by RobLach 8y ago
It’s research so it’s good to know how to do it really well so in 10 years you can throw it in. Chasing photo realism is sisyphisian. Using this now for anything like a commercial game is way past the point of diminishing returns. In their
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by RobLach 8y ago
Very cool.
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Why wouldn’t you sue Apple first?
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The best benchmarks I’ve witnessed come out of academia.
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Or society works because people do things for others without expecting repayment and there’s enough social pressure for the vast majority to not exploit that system. Problems really only arise if debt is systemically expected, like a housin
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In my experience, for the better.
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“Unforeseen issues”
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“Using artificial sweeteners” vs “not using artificial sweeteners” doesn’t really tell you much. I mean it makes sense that people who use artificial sweeteners would have more excess mass since people who are dealing with that would seek a
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by RobLach 8y ago
https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/introducing-vectorflow-f...
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by RobLach 8y ago
Read about Chicago’s Tunnel and Reservoir plan. It’s a 60 year underground water infrastructure plan that’s been miraculously more or less on schedule and budget. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Pla
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Samsung's folding screen tech has been stolen and sold to China(cnn.com)
144 points by RobLach 8y ago|91 comments
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by RobLach 8y ago
Isn’t FAANG starting getting there?

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