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by achow 4y ago
The architect Kashef Chowdhury's presentation on the design. Much more visual, gets covered in 10mins: https://youtu.be/lc1DMkQqfLw?t=243
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https://archive.is/iOhwW
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by achow 4y ago
> Literally nobody has done this Not entirely true. Diesel-Electric Locomotives though colloquially called 'Diesel trains' but they do what you are proposing. And this tech is from 1930s-40s. https://www.up.com&#x2
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by achow 4y ago
Population wise Mexico is 10% that of China's. That would be factor of how much of China it can become. Mexico's population ~130M, China's 1.3 billion.
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FTX's Alameda Lost Track of $50M at a Time: 'Such Is Life'(wsj.com)
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As big as rumored 15" or as big as 2012 13"? Both does not make sense.
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by achow 4y ago
Don't get it; 'but' seems to be very legitimate use. Intuitively, it is more likely that people who are not fan of US policies would be fan of Iranian govt's policies (you know because Iranian govt and US govt don't
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You see the Catch-22 situation? Author is the manager of Priya. This means Priya can replace the manager, but manager needs to train Priya for that. Obviously that is not going to happen as Author him/herself is very apprehensive about
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by achow 4y ago
Then might as well have an electric moped or scooter. No strain necessary at all.
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by achow 4y ago
Other downsides: - Digital drive operates at 50% efficiency as compared to chain or belt drives. - Slower on gradients.
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Ridiculous or not, even Microsoft lost similar battle. At that time (2014) I was aghast on how can this happen. Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service is now called OneDrive after losing a legal battle with Sky. https:/&#x2
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by achow 4y ago
Tragic. From tweets it appears that he had moved to Miami, came back to SF on a work trip for a day - and this happened.
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by achow 4y ago
Yes right. > The 48-year-old, who can neither read nor write, would need to call his son to confirm that the payment had been received. Looks like the author made up a narrative. These vendors definitely can read numbers, they manage l
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The person [1] in the Youtube video of a event at Google is no priest in the sense like a priest in a Church or Imam in Mosque. He is more of a spiritual leader and Yoga teacher, more like Dalai Lama than Pope. [1] Sadhguru https:/&#x
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In India, Y Combinator is faced with the question: WhY Combinator? (Paywalled)(the-ken.com)
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Rape/Population ranking [1]: USA 27.3 India 1.8 Time to stop all NASA programs! [1] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Rape-r...
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by achow 4y ago
These kind of higher purpose establishments empowers women. These kind of places are magnet for academic oriented women science students - provides them stable, safe, intellectual environment. There are many such government research establi
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'Ultramassive' black hole discovered – bigger than the majority of galaxies(bbc.com)
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In a corporate drama ('Succession', 'Silicon Valley'?) the plot could be that the likes of Goog is secretly funding this.
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GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact - Potential of Large Language Models Tyna Eloundou1, Sam Manning, Pamela Mishkin, and Daniel Rock OpenAI, OpenResearch, University of Pennsylvania March 27, 2023 https://arx
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by achow 4y ago
Gleaning from app description [1] it is perhaps because it is just not a music player, but (roughly put) a combination of Wikipedia and classical music repository/player. One of the AppStore image shows the 'Wiki' part of the
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by achow 4y ago
It turns itself into glass. When desiccation begins and TDP is activated, it engages a process known as vitrification. Boothby said, “The glass is coating the molecules inside of the tardigrade cells, keeping them intact.”
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We are results of many accidents.
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Is Jack Dorsey going to get blown up by Hindenburg Research?(theverge.com)
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Block as in Blockchain.
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by achow 4y ago
Hidenburgh seems to have directly accused Block. Block has systematically taken advantage of the demographics it claims to be helping. The “magic” behind Block’s business has not been disruptive innovation, but rather the company’s willing
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by achow 4y ago
Not really. It is much more nuanced. It is about charging infrastructure and how undependable they could be, which adds to the anxiety manifold.
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by achow 4y ago
MKBHD very beautifully conveyed the problem This is Ruining Electric Cars https://youtu.be/BA2qJKU8t2k
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We are currently testing Microsoft 365 Copilot with 20 customers, including 8 in Fortune 500 enterprises. We will be expanding these previews to customers more broadly in the coming months and will share more on new controls for IT admins
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CoPilot integration in Excel seems to be really useful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-waFp6rLc0 I wonder with this what would happen to BI industry, particularly to BI/Analytics startups like ThoughtSpot ( "Th

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