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   by atroyn 11y ago

   This is a particular pain on mobile, because a given thread tends to be much deeper to scroll past.
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   by atroyn 11y ago

   Salty Bet does something very similar to that. When there's no major e-sports matches going on, various automated fighting game characters (including custom community submitted characters) are pitted against one another in fights, whic
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   by atroyn 11y ago

   Is there room in the market for a 'prosumer' printer, something like the OnePlus of printers? Along with non-apple laptops and notebooks, printers seem to be one of the things people complain about the most.
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   by atroyn 11y ago

   Seems ingenious - it's an active system that uses entirely passive components. No power draw, and will always work.
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   by atroyn 11y ago

   I don't understand why they'd choose this particular feature? Which group of users is this for?
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   by atroyn 11y ago

   If they did not, what could Pakistan do about it? The U.S would do so anyway covertly, and the Pakistani government would be seen to be weak, since they were powerless to stop it. So the Pakistani government 'allows' it to at leas
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   by atroyn 11y ago

   Like @dalyons said, we learned a lot. There was already a lot of overlap between YC and IK12 (for instance, YC partners were regular speakers, and @gralston is a partner at both). To have them merging while still maintaining an 'edtech
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   by atroyn 11y ago

   Because the increase in taxes would be more than offset by savings in other areas?
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   by atroyn 11y ago

   Reasonable, added.
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    I wouldn't trust a robot with anything!
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    Poll: Would you trust robots?

    6 points by atroyn 11y ago|4 comments
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    Deliver a pizza
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    Drive me to work
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    Perform surgery on me or a loved one
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    Identify criminal activity
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    Stop criminal activity
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    Buy my groceries
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    Mind my children
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    Teach my children
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    On the revenue side, Facebook doesn't monetize these users (yet), and it's a virtual monopoly in almost every market it's in. On the cost side, one bit costs pretty much the same as any other to serve.
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    But won't they be just as hooked as in markets where Facebook has already penetrated? Seems like the smart play is just getting people on-line, and getting them onto Facebook the same way they always have. Why wouldn't that work i
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    Could Facebook not simply have outmanoeuvred the problem here by providing free access to the wider web, perhaps in a rolling fashion? Does Facebook have any real 'native' competition in India?
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    iRobot Announces Sale of Defense and Security Business(media.irobot.com)

    1 points by atroyn 11y ago|1 comments
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    Thanks for this reference. I'm quite interested in what kinds of alternate 'bootstrap' energy sources would have been available.
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    I think the underlying assumption you're making is that a sufficiently powerful computer could emulate the chemical processes in the brain, and that this is therefore equivalent to running a brain on a computer, decoupling cognition fr
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    I sincerely believe that decoupling human living standards from human labour will be a good thing in the long term, though we'll have to adjust to the idea of no one ever having to work ever again.
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    My thesis is that the knowledge on its own wouldn't be enough. To reflect a later commenter, suppose we still knew how to make shale gas. We still need all the infrastructure involved in getting shale gas - which needs other infrastruc
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    I don't dismiss it, I just believe it to be unlikely. I am in the middle of Bostrom's book right now.
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    I am not sure I agree that it would necessarily be quicker. Evolutionarily speaking, a rat's brain's neurons switch just as fast as a humans. The number and density of neurons seem to define the level of cognition, not the switchi
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    by atroyn 11y ago

    Consider: by definition, the human brain has the equivalent 'intelligence' of a human-equivalent A.I. That means we are able to understand the A.I precisely as well as it can understand itself. If the A.I can self-improve, then we