amiramir

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by amiramir 13y ago
I'll just ask the NSA for mine ;-)
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by amiramir 13y ago
I was hoping for something a la Neville Brody/The Face. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Brody
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by amiramir 13y ago
The experience with these older business, like cabs and hotels, seems highlight the role of legal and regulatory frameworks in encouraging or retarding innovation. Uber and Airbnb seem to be simple and elegant businesses that in part increa
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by amiramir 13y ago
How is what these people were arrested for different than what Coinbase does?
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by amiramir 13y ago
There's also this tongue-in-cheek leader from The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21594257-our-wildest-f...
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by amiramir 13y ago
I've been a fan of David Braben's since playing Elite and Virus as a kid. I'd never seen him speak and The Procedural Generation video gave me a whole new appreciation of his intellect. I hope he gets a knighthood for his wor
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by amiramir 13y ago
Thingi, NYC. Thingi is a Samsung Accelerator startup focusing on quantified sport and consumer sports analytics. We’d prefer to hire you as a full-time employee (with benefits) but we can also hire you as a contractor if you’d prefer. We ha
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by amiramir 13y ago
I live in a building in downtown NYC near Canal and Broadway. It was built in the 1890s and our Otis freight elevator is supposed to be one of the oldest operating elevators in the city. The first passenger elevator (also and Otis) was inst
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by amiramir 13y ago
Many years after he'd left, I went to the same "high school" as Fred Sanger. Our biology/science building was named after him. He visited the school every so often and was a very modest and entertaining man. You can get
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by amiramir 13y ago
A friend of mine who is an industrial photographer got an assignment to photograph an anchovy processing plant. He said that you could smell the plant from over ten miles away. Part of his contract was to have all of his clothes and equipme
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by amiramir 13y ago
New York City - Thingi (working title) Fulltime Hardware and Software Positions in NYC (Chelsea/Flatiron) Be the one of the first engineers at a Samsung-backed hardware startup Thingi is a startup at The Samsung Accelerator in NYC and
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by amiramir 13y ago
The nice thing about the hard parts of the game is that there was a sense of accomplishment once they were mastered. Docking used to drive me to tears. First get in line with the dock. Then start to rotate in sync with it. Only to fail. Eve
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by amiramir 13y ago
Thanks. I like some of the other initiatives listed there. Digital Attack Map is interesting to peruse though the graphics could be a bit clearer.
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by amiramir 13y ago
The Boeing Pelican was a proposed ground-effect aircraft for heavy lift over long distances. It exploited the same aerodynamic effect but was optimized for cargo rather than as a weapons platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by amiramir 13y ago
I don't believe so. Both DD-WRT and Tomato are essentially Linux builds (2.6.xx kernel) with drivers for the router's hardware. They are fairly close in features with some people preferring the Tomato UI to DD-WRT.
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by amiramir 13y ago
NSA issues aside, it would be nice to get some of the community's thoughts on the merits of the service from a technical and product point of view.
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by amiramir 13y ago
In the US and in NY we non-drivers subsidize automobile usage. The costs of building and maintaing road infrastructure are huge as are the costs of pollution and traffic. It's a form of transfer and a large one at that. As a New Yorker