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by aresant 8y ago
I am just finishing reading the Hyperion Cantos which is an absolutely inspired masterwork by Dan Simmons. I can’t stand rereading / rewatching anything, this series is so rich that it feels like reading fresh material all over again.
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by aresant 8y ago
I prefer this one -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUvuaChDEg The original rap diss of Sony who was suing him, actually badass :)
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by aresant 8y ago
I think this is an interesting problem to solve. The FCC, and other government agencies that require input from Citizens, need to know the comments they are getting are from actual citizens aka taxpayer id, aka social security #. As a Citiz
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by aresant 8y ago
"[In their investigation] Apple found that just prior to Zhang's departure, his network activity had "increased exponentially" compared to the prior two years he had worked at Apple. He accessed content that included pro
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by aresant 8y ago
That is a fascinating point that is obvious but until you said it outloud it hadn't crystallized for me. The problem for the retirees is quite often they have a fixed income - solution to "unlock" that equity is maybe it&#x27
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by aresant 8y ago
The principal issue, full stop, in the Bay Area and most of California is housing. There are two solutions to this: 1) Build more. But this is outrageously difficult due to a well-meaning political view of safety / fairness / etc.
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Lego Technic Bridge Girder(m.youtube.com)
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Most businesses that rily on unskilled labor are tripling down on automation / systems engineering. The common explanation is cost savings, but I've observed another major driver : quality of service. Our current unemployment rate
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by aresant 8y ago
That is such snark for HN but I couldn't help but laugh. Back in the day FB had a full on "roll out the red carpet" event for notable affiliate marketers, led by "Shoemoney" to figure out how they could better engag
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by aresant 8y ago
The Tesla story has effectively become a manufacturing story. Can they meet production targets? Can they maintain product quality while they scale? Will they run out of money before they solve the CapEx intensive, low margin problem of auto
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by aresant 8y ago
A little case history - there were two illuminating threads ~10 months back where several current & former IBM employees commented on the growing disconnect between the reality vs. marketing of Watson - looks like vindicated by today&#x
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No, Moebius as in Jean Giraud Great primer http://www.tcj.com/jean-moebius-giraud-1938-2012/ Great collection of his awe inspiring art and a short film https://www.rabbleboy.com/the-amazing-art-of-moebi
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"By doing the military's bidding, then Google is now far scarier than Microsoft ever was." I understand your point, but Microsoft does an awful lot of business with the military. Last year they won a contract to put every emp
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by aresant 8y ago
Gates & Buffet are right. As an "Asset Class" - which this article makes principle - cryptocurrency is absolute insanity. But having a trustless, semi-distributed, potentially anonymous, and global currency that we can send to
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AEye’s iDar sensor combines camera and lidar data into a 3D point cloud(venturebeat.com)
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Ghostery leaks users email in their GDPR update(twitter.com)
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by aresant 8y ago
I don't get it. "Autopilot" aka adaptive cruise control is going to continue failing since drivers think it's more than that. More people are going to die in spectacular, headlining fashion. Imagine if that was a schoolb
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by aresant 8y ago
Humans - for the moment - still drastically lead machines in the realm of creative output. But I love the author's idea of the machine as a "collaborator" Tools like the Source Filmmaker are a good analog. (1) That platform p
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by aresant 8y ago
That is a really fascinating comment - essentially the advent of gaming on the platform was a reposition after the market it was built for failed. I'd love to hear more about how Philips managed to get Nintendo over a barrel on use of
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How to Survive in Gamedev for Eleven Years Without a Hit(youtube.com)
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Tesla Model 3 Rebuffed by Consumer Reports on Slow Braking(bloombergquint.com)
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The icing on the cake in this article is the following picture caption: "Mitch Lowe, chief executive of MoviePass, in the company’s office at a WeWork in Manhattan." So the movie company selling dollar bills for half price is leas
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by aresant 8y ago
Seeing Google's approach to quantifying life's special moments in this blog post brings out the luddite in me. When we had our first child every moment we captured felt special. It was awe inspiring to watch our little human encou
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by aresant 8y ago
Summary: - 68 year old male catches bacterial infection - Acinetobacter baumannii - on vacation in Egypt - Traditional antibiotics courses don't work - Wife suggested trying bacteriophages - aka "phages" - which are baceteria
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by aresant 8y ago
According to the sub-35 crowd in my office: 1 - Early retirement. Not from the "give it to me" perspective but from the make it easy to budget, save, use frugality as a mechanism to retire early and have reliable 4% withdrawals. 2
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by aresant 8y ago
Fascinating that 1 - google is going to participate in the purchase. Clearly a defensive move v amazon. 2 - us companies will now own the 1 & 2 positions for ecommerce in India. Start difference w China and somewhat surprising given Ind
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by aresant 8y ago
Not that it's going to happen. But Apple is sitting on ~$270b of cash (1). And is run by a guy in Tim Cook that is a world class operator and fulfillment guy. And who has been criticized for lacking vision :) We can dream right? (1) h
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Who’s the Lidar IP Leader?(eetimes.com)
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by aresant 9y ago
Fascinating that Keller was essentially brought in to stop gap Tesla's loss / end of relationship with Mobileye who previously supplied the EyeQ3 chipset that was the core of Tesla's autopilot. At the time speculation was the
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~$1 trillion of real estate is on the move … here’s why(medium.com)
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