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by anbop 7y ago
A door is a terrible idea. It’s too thick so it will be too high or your knees will hit it.
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by anbop 7y ago
In Silicon Valley, BT Liquidators usually has a good number of choices to test. One thing to beware of is that all sales are absolutely final there, so make sure you know how to thoroughly test a chair for problems or strange squeaks.
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by anbop 7y ago
I couldn’t find it inspiring, only heartbreaking and anger-inducing. It makes me so geared up to think how shitty the world is to some people who have done nothing to deserve it and so generous to some who have done everything to not deserv
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by anbop 7y ago
Nobody stopped Russia from invading Crimea... I doubt anyone is going to stop them from invading Greenland.
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by anbop 7y ago
Very very interesting link. Thank you so much for bringing it to my attention.
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by anbop 7y ago
That could be a solution for the asylum seekers in the US, too... settle them in the Alaskan wild. If you’re willing to go from Honduras to Nome that’s a clear cut sign that what you’re fleeing is a very real danger.
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by anbop 7y ago
National territory has a psychological and strategic value that cannot be bought and sold. Countries have gone to war over infinitesimally tiny pieces of land (Gaza, Falklands, Northern Ireland)... we do not need to look to a crystal ball t
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by anbop 7y ago
There’s no way to make a physical cable that carries 100w and hundreds of gigabits as cheap as a cable that carries 1 amp at 5 volts.
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by anbop 7y ago
Could it be that people see an outage, migrate to a new vendor, and increase load?
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by anbop 7y ago
Most of the talk of self driving cars was always on purpose built lanes/roads. That certainly has been in discussion for 50 years.
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by anbop 7y ago
Sorry, my yard is like a 4th bedroom for my 3 bedroom house that I paid $2 million for. It’s too expensive for me to give back to nature.
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by anbop 7y ago
Twenty years ago the idea seemed several centuries away.
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by anbop 7y ago
Except that slopes are actually slippery sometimes. Look at the recent, and quite rapid, normalization of physical violence in American political argumentation.
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by anbop 7y ago
And? That’s why cash exists.
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by anbop 7y ago
Vista has done very well without flipping their companies.
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by anbop 7y ago
If you’ve trained a computer illiterate person well, they will not go to sketchy ad-ridden websites and download files to their PC and double click them.
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by anbop 7y ago
It’s content marketing. It uses those words to drive “engagement.”
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by anbop 7y ago
When a train slows down, the phones on board the train can know in tens of milliseconds. In aggregate this can lead to much better predictions.
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by anbop 7y ago
YC’s own Sam Altman parlayed a failed startup into millions of dollars which he later turned into hundreds of millions with the mentorship of Paul Graham.
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by anbop 7y ago
Acting like I’m the Luddite because I don’t want to breastfeed 25 battery powered peripherals. Next they’ll say MagSafe was obsolete.
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by anbop 7y ago
Apple is a trendsetter and nobody can deny that. That doesn’t make the headphone jack an anti feature. I use a 6S to this day when I could get a XS, for the headphone jack and smaller size/weight.
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by anbop 7y ago
Symmetry is not patentable.
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by anbop 7y ago
I wish those “ears” were more purpose built, like physical indicator LEDs for microphone and camera access, SSL, etc.
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by anbop 7y ago
The new headquarters syndrome strikes again. Ive, sidelined, went eyeballs deep into the new headquarters, alongside a decline in physical product quality like the trashcan design miss and keyboard gremlins. Hardware and software teams kept
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by anbop 7y ago
What’s worth $30/mo to a journalist is a way higher bar than being worth $30/mo to a VC or exec. Superhuman seems to be unapologetically targeting a luxury crowd.
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by anbop 7y ago
He's been irrelevant for a few years now and is working mainly on the architecture of the new headquarters.
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by anbop 7y ago
Users gave StackOverflow its entire business by making it the #1 place for programming. Now it’s StackOverflow’s responsibility to treat those users fairly. Since companies in this position often renege on this social contract, users have t
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by anbop 7y ago
A greater fraction of people are creating text, photos, and video to be seen by other people than at any previous time in human history.
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by anbop 7y ago
Who would buy organic, canned, chicken? Seems like the demographics for "canned meat" and "organic food" are completely opposite.
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by anbop 7y ago
They mill it from the back until it's quite thin and then blast some holes through with a laser.

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