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by aedron 10y ago
Funny, I was going to comment that I have never heard of a regular car spontaneously erupting into flames. Warning or no, that is a life-threatening situation. Imagine you had a couple of toddlers strapped in, somehow missed the warning not
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by aedron 10y ago
It feels like a lot of what Uber does these days is just hyping up the stock price. Of course that is a very short term strategy, if your ever more audacious announcements keep falling flat. We saw a lot of this in the last throes of the do
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by aedron 10y ago
If only there was a globally distributed untamperable ledger where we could store information...
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by aedron 10y ago
The fact that a lot of posters here don't even realize it is satire speaks more to the point than anything.
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by aedron 10y ago
The most exciting thing to me in portable PCs is the 'VR backpack' form factor. As cool as the HTC Vive is, moving around with a fat cable sticking out the back of your head is a big detriment. Putting the PC in a backpack will be
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by aedron 10y ago
Big interviews like this come with a price. They are always puff pieces.
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by aedron 10y ago
> in a handful of years VR is going to reach the 'iPod point' where there are no technical or price barriers to Apple putting together a product that's strongly desirable to a mass market. Apple under Jobs could do that. T
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by aedron 10y ago
Most IT/technology companies trade above 20x P/E. That Apple is so much lower simply reflects how little confidence investors have in the company at the moment, as evidenced by the huge slide in share price.
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by aedron 10y ago
To be honest, while We Don't Have Cable(tm), some of the stuff I have seen on Cartoon Network was surprisingly good. Shows like Adventure Time are weird and funny, there was also a mini-series called Over The Garden Wall that was strai
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by aedron 10y ago
The most astute observation is that characters on Danish kids TV are often completely, unapologetically flawed. This makes them relatable to kids, and kids enjoy watching them in all their dysfunction. And I actually disagree with the premi
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by aedron 10y ago
This was actually how BMW created ultra-hardened combustion chambers. It was discovered that urinating on the engine block hardened the metal: http://www.autoevolution.com/news/turbocharged-engines-in-fo... Some of yo
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by aedron 10y ago
> he would try to take other people's food Oh my God, please explain this.
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by aedron 10y ago
"New York, New York, a helluva town. The Bronx is up but the Battery's down"
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by aedron 10y ago
No university in Denmark will qualify applicants based on which area or schools they come from. It wouldn't make sense, since, as a sibling comment mentioned, Denmark is small and close-knit, and the same schools usually have both &#x2
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by aedron 10y ago
It may be that social heritage is a big factor in determining a person's life path, but that doesn't mean economic factors aren't. The fact remains that in Denmark, any kid, no matter how poor, who has talent and puts in the
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by aedron 10y ago
Isn't Solar City run by his cousins?
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by aedron 10y ago
It's a really cool idea, the design is a big letdown for me though.
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by aedron 10y ago
VR backpacks are already here (and are probably the future): http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/7/11874762/vr-backpack-pc-han... You can pack a lot of computing power into a backpack these days.
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by aedron 10y ago
Impressive. I am guessing this is what the next Google Street View will look like.
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by aedron 10y ago
Sounds cool and at least 10 years out. So why are they hyping it now? What with hiring Neal Stephenson and so on.
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by aedron 10y ago
Seriously, this should almost have a NSFW warning for that image alone. Brrr.
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by aedron 10y ago
It's not far from it, only they use the word 'terrorists'. Which is even more vague. And of course they kill indiscriminately whoever happens to be in a given targeted area.
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by aedron 10y ago
So like the U.S. drone regime in the Middle East.
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by aedron 10y ago
Many real fights are one on one without weapons. I think MMA synthesizes such a fight relatively well, with the exception of usually cluttered or cramped environments and wearing real clothes. As for situations with several opponents, possi
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by aedron 10y ago
I like watching MMA because it pits all the various styles against eachother with a minimum set of rules. This way, it becomes very apparent which styles work and which don't. Predictably, more practical and direct styles like boxing a
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by aedron 10y ago
My impression is that people come in for a chat about themselves and their past experiences. The guy running the shop can easily tell if they know what they are talking about. If he likes them they are brought on to the team and then evalua
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by aedron 10y ago
I don't think a barista is asked to make a coffee under supervision during his very first interview either? That would be demeaning in the extreme, in my opinion.
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by aedron 10y ago
My ideal hiring process for developers would be this: First an on-site talk at the company site, with a general discussion with the candidate about his personality, background and technical experience, as well as a presentation of the compa
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by aedron 10y ago
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22
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by aedron 10y ago
> Sometimes it feels like the people giving feedback are just too eager to please you with positive feedback. This is an important observation. As someone once said, "no one wants to crush your dreams". If you present people an

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