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by abetusk 5y ago
This really makes my heart sink. It's not just that a top poster is leaving because they feel it hasn't been worth it in any real sense ("financial ... socially ... acclaim ... personal growth") but also because all that
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by abetusk 5y ago
I get a little nervous when the responsibility of incentivizing FOSS is framed as a personal responsibility. Isn't there a deeper conversation to be had about how we allocate resources as a society to help build fundamental infrastruct
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by abetusk 5y ago
It looks like they use an Antigravity MN4004 KV300 - 2PCS/SET [0] as the main motor ($145/2pcs). [0] https://store.tmotor.com/goods.php?id=438
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by abetusk 5y ago
So isn't the magic here convexity? Convexity is such a huge constraint that I would guess convergence would be hard to avoid.
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by abetusk 5y ago
$300/kWh is essentially what lead acid is at, which is maybe why you chose it, but, point being, there are already batteries out there that hit this mark. In terms of availability of LiFePO4 batteries, just a quick check on Alibaba and
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by abetusk 5y ago
You're not looking very hard. There are three major technologies that are on the horizon: solar, AI and cryptocurrency. Solar is probably the safest bet among the three. A combination of Swanson's law [0] and Wright's law [1]
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by abetusk 5y ago
Andre Antunes does satirical takes on the effect [0] [1] [2]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JPRvxTjfOk [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZFt9KUvYs8 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by abetusk 5y ago
The language is pretty terse, so it's hard to get a concise idea of what's being proposed. I think another one of their posts tries to put it more concisely (thanks to _Microft for the link) [0]: """ 1. Truly sponta
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by abetusk 5y ago
This is not the thing you've asked for and it requires a bit of work to extract usable data from it, but I scraped Bandcamp a while ago (2019), along with the licenses of the tracks, genres and fan count, and made it available on Archi
820.
by abetusk 5y ago
Archive.org has "The Unwritten Laws of Engineering" by W.J. King available (one of the book recommendations) [0]. [0] https://archive.org/details/the-unwritten-laws-of-engineerin...
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Your Superapp Needs a Content Strategy(lillianli.substack.com)
15 points by abetusk 5y ago|0 comments
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by abetusk 5y ago
Surprisingly decent, for what it is. It would be great to have something to give feedback on whether it actually picked a movie that lines up with the mood I've picked.
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by abetusk 5y ago
* Don't compromise my ethics unless there's a very good reason to do so. Small steps down a bad path can lead to being very far from who you want to be. * Progress not perfection. Instead of being paralyzed by indecision, choose t
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by abetusk 5y ago
I won't check your numbers and take them at face value. Even with your numbers, that's a 6.4x decrease in price per TB (($100/1Tb) / ($250/16TB)), which is around 2.7 halvings over the course of 10 years, which is v
825.
by abetusk 5y ago
I think you missed the critical point: for $1000. Feasibility is great but economic access is the aspect that I'm focusing on.
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by abetusk 5y ago
The human brain is estimated at 2.5 Pb of storage [0]. Assuming a "Moore's Law" like behavior of storage price, so that price halves every 2-3 years and assuming we use storage as a proxy for the space, access speed and compu
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by abetusk 5y ago
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not but 2-SAT is polynomial solvable [0] whereas 3-SAT is NP-Complete [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-satisfiability#Algorithms [1] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by abetusk 5y ago
This line is what I think of whenever the cryptocurrency vitriol comes out here: """ Pets.com was mocked, but Chewy is now a $30 billion business. Webvan failed, but Instacart and UberEats are now thriving. eToys was a joke,
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by abetusk 5y ago
I think some links are broken in the plasticscanner.com site, but it does look to be open source. * Thesis: https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:1fa997b7... * Wikifactor: https://wikifact
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Bitcoin Banking for Communities: Lessons Learned from El Zonte(galoy.io)
1 points by abetusk 5y ago|0 comments
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by abetusk 5y ago
I'm not addressing the issue of whether you receive compensation for your work or your desire to have control over who copies it. I'm pointing out that you've stated it's "open access" without making it open ac
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by abetusk 5y ago
This book is distributed under a non commercial license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) [0]. While I understand that language is evolving and that only under a "strict definition" of open access does it mean removing barriers to copying and reu
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by abetusk 5y ago
Search engines have been coming up lately, so maybe this is a good a place as any to discuss some back of the envelope calculations. Let's say we wanted to recreate the web index made by Google. How much cost and engineering would it t
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by abetusk 5y ago
They have an article about K-star rating systems [0] which uses Bayesian approximation [1] [2] (something I know little to nothing about, I'm just regurgitating the article). There's a whole section on their website that has diffe
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by abetusk 5y ago
There exists a utility called tarindexer [0] that can be used for random access to tar files. An index text file is created (one time) that is used to record the position of the files in the tar archive. Random reads are done by loading the
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by abetusk 5y ago
> I'm curious what ... you ... mean by "build trust into the technology by the outset"? I'm not sure I could come up with a checklist that would take all the considerations in mind, so it's an ill defined questio
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by abetusk 5y ago
You say that you don't store any information to ensure privacy but this is essentially asking users to trust you. Why not build trust into the technology from the outset? Or have I missed something and that is what you've done? Ba
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by abetusk 5y ago
Some links that helped me understand the Hough transform: * https://towardsdatascience.com/lines-detection-with-hough-tr... * https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.2....
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by abetusk 5y ago
Quality corporate trolling. @gadrev is right, well worth the read.
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by abetusk 5y ago
Hacker News (HN) is actively hostile to the idea of cryptocurrency. I doubt you'll get a measured opinion, one way or the other. Stacker News (SN) is a place that is at least attempting to have these conversations, though they swing th

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