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by ballard 12y ago
Nice. I flipped the LCD and added ram to my HP 48G. Reverse RPN! :)
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by ballard 12y ago
I'm wearing a Newton Digital which is already negative in the default state, and it seems possible to convert it to a regular positive display. Wouldn't look as cool though.
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by ballard 12y ago
Distributed battery banks would allow demand to "debounced" (smoothed) such that load could be much flatter and more predictable. That might reduce costs and wear/tear on infrastructure.
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by ballard 12y ago
Large battery banks would allow demand to "debounced" (smoothed) such that load could be much flatter and more predictable. That might reduce costs and wear/tear on infrastructure.
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by ballard 12y ago
Large battery banks would allow demand to "debounced" (smoothed) such that load could be much flatter and more predictable. It would be an adjunct at most, definitely not a replacement because it would be temporary storage. Furt
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by ballard 12y ago
Cool. Looking forward to it.
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by ballard 12y ago
Gracias. There seem to be ever more folks ready to overreact with pitchforks and cudgels calling for the draw and quarter anyone over misinterpreting the color of a bikeshed. It's too bad folks choose to disagree, point out something
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CUPS – All the coffee you can drink for $45/mo at NYC indy coffee shops(businessweek.com)
3 points by ballard 12y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 12y ago
Sort of related, neat history of another toxic gasoline additive: tetra-ethyl lead http://www.damninteresting.com/the-ethyl-poisoned-earth/
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by ballard 12y ago
The last mover advantage of waiting for other people to do the heavy lifting for them and then swoop in for the win.
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by ballard 12y ago
I think people want high SNR value before a clever triple entendre, but accomplishing both is far better. Failing that, expressing a clear, reasoned sentiment is also another tact.
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by ballard 12y ago
Signals FTW.
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by ballard 12y ago
Yup. It's not a geopolitics IRC chat. Only the tech aspects of evading censorship would qualify but only if they were novel.
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by ballard 12y ago
"Hide" after "link" would be handy.
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by ballard 12y ago
"Highly biased" probably isn't fair. Thomas goes looking for heated discussions, but what's the point if HN we can't have a good thesis defense every now and again. :)
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by ballard 12y ago
Possibly. But I think people shouldn't be able to up or down vote on threads they're in, it's a conflict of interest. (If they did vote, give it back to be fair.)
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by ballard 12y ago
It would be cool if HN opened up a read API so that folks could build alternate frontends / scoring algos.
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by ballard 12y ago
Definitely gotta give you guys a standing ovation for yeomen's work.
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by ballard 12y ago
Yup. Speaking ill of the dead is awful.
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by ballard 12y ago
Rushdie can be hit or miss, hits are really good though. Language is decadent.
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by ballard 12y ago
If I had a hundred up votes button that could only be used once, I would have pressed it now.
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by ballard 12y ago
Similar genre to Rushdie, how might you contrast their styles?
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by ballard 12y ago
Hmmm. Stashed in BTC or LTC? Maybe one em gambled it all away.
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by ballard 12y ago
Thomas, sounds like a possible new client or two.
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by ballard 12y ago
This is a good driver for tech. It makes sense for everyone to have their own battery at home to be like a google server ups... Distributed is far more reliable than centralized. Heck the power grid wouldn't even have to be 24/7
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by ballard 12y ago
Might want to also watch Cloud Atlas.
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by ballard 12y ago
Page with ingredients, don't know how to interpret: http://blog.soylent.me/search/Ingredients
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by ballard 12y ago
Animal protein isn't a human requirement there are plenty of other amino acid balanced sources. Also, the way it's produced is horrible for the animals and for the land that it takes to grow the feed and the land to raise them. T
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by ballard 12y ago
Finding them, contacting them, money, paperwork, lawyers and stickytoitiveness. In the end it saved like a few pct over just paying taxes, but this curly haired Cornell grad doesn't like paying The Man if at all possible. In the end
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by ballard 12y ago
There's already been some disruptions (Paypal, BTC (Coinbase, USV)), but copying isn't sufficient for disruption. Chase although mostly evil was the biggest to roll out check deposits by mobile camera. Also citi offers a basic c

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