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YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips(arstechnica.com)
259 points by beambot 6y ago|192 comments
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by beambot 6y ago
Filecoin is meant for stable long-term storage; thus, mining the unused space on your personal harddirve is not the intended use case. Today, there is a lack of Dropbox-like systems to make the decentralized system broadly useful. It's
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by beambot 6y ago
https://file.app will give you a reasonable approximation of the current value of Filecoin in Gb-years. From what I can tell, it still compares very favorably to various AWS offerings even at today's price. You could mak
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by beambot 6y ago
Here's an alternative mental model... Let's talk about Filecoin (related to Chia) for file storage. Assume for the moment that all 2 billion tokens are in circulation. At any given time, there is a market of people looking to st
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by beambot 6y ago
There's no way that wireless power transfer achieves the same efficiency as a wired connection.
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by beambot 6y ago
Google may save $1B this year on the P&L, but I can assure you that a large cohort of employees are vastly less effective (especially parents!). Time will tell how wfh pans out in terms of long-term enterprise value creation, after con
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by beambot 6y ago
I'm confused by the conglomeration argument... even beyond the innovator's dilemma aspect. The conglomerate market cap may be less than the sum of its parts at any given instant, but that completely discounts the strategic interpl
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by beambot 6y ago
"Russia may fine citizens for using SpaceX's Starlink internet. Here's how the internet service poses a threat to authoritarian regimes." https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-may-fine-citizens-spa...
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by beambot 6y ago
If you look at some of the earliest Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems, you'll find that they used exposed film (i.e. light) to perform some serious fourier-style computations using diffractive optics. I.e. you can use physical pr
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by beambot 6y ago
Let me be more concise: convert some of the dying big-box stores into open-office WeWork/Regus-style workspaces for white-collar desk workers.
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by beambot 6y ago
So one person acquiesces to "no solution because it's a chicken and egg problem." Another says "let it rot into decaying blight." Even if suboptimal, revitalizing the mall as a co-working space sounds like a less-ba
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by beambot 6y ago
There are plenty of malls in SF Bay Area that actually have good & healthy options instead of McDonalds. That's a solvable problem -- just like how some tech companies have amazing cafeterias.
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by beambot 6y ago
Where does the money come from? Cities are cash-strapped, which makes demolition & park development unlikely. Existing property owners aren't exactly in the business of giving away prime realestate or operating charities -- they&
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by beambot 6y ago
Malls can definitely obtain natural lighting if architected properly (eg sky lights and light pipes) -- malls are no different than other commercial offices. For example: I used to work at GoogleX's "San Antonio station", whi
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by beambot 6y ago
Malls could be the best co-working offices. Ample daytime parking, baller food courts, medical facilities, hair dressers, dentists, cafes, movie theaters, entertainment, etc all under one roof.
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YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips(arstechnica.com)
8 points by beambot 6y ago|2 comments
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by beambot 6y ago
It appears less than 8% of gold's annual production is for industrial use [1]. If you remove the "store of value" demand from its price, then the residual value is peanuts. [1] https://www.statista.com/statis
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by beambot 6y ago
Most people I know keep less than 3 months of their net worth in currency. The vast majority of their net worth is placed in real estate (largely, their primary residence), stocks, or ETFs. You can make a case about net-present value of fut
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by beambot 6y ago
If it was simply a matter of money, SpaceX could raise $15B in an IPO in a heartbeat given the incredible retail demand. I'm glad that Elon is remaining "conservative" in his financing of SpaceX to avoid the quartly Wall Stre
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by beambot 6y ago
> I don't believe... The good news is that studies such as this produce empirical, scientific evidence that supercedes anecdotes and individuals' belief patterns -- whether they're negative or skeptical (as yours) or hype
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by beambot 6y ago
> You'd have to embed the whole file in the blockchain for that No, you don't. The eth contact can control ownership of and permissions to the Filecoin files. > Eth network can be banned too Banning the entire network is dif
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by beambot 6y ago
The Ethereum smart contract can advertise the file in perpetuity by being memorialized on the blockchain in an irrevocable way
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by beambot 6y ago
Censorship-free distributed storage (using Ethereum & Filecoin)
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by beambot 6y ago
Substitute "SPAC" for "junk company" and you basically described the current situation. There are some that are legit, but many of them are "greater fool" scenarios -- and that ratio is getting worse as acquisi
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by beambot 6y ago
It doesn't help when formal classifications such as "organic" muddy the waters: "Of course it's organic, it comes from a plant!" "That's not what organic means..." "Guh, wat?"
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by beambot 6y ago
YC backed a company in this space: Prometheus Fuels. The science is sound, and the scaling is economical as you look at renewables for the electricity. Some links: https://www.prometheusfuels.com/ https://www.s
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by beambot 6y ago
Time immemorial : "extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition, indefinitely ancient, ancient beyond memory or record." Immoral : "an agent doing or thinking something they know or believe to be wrong."
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by beambot 6y ago
To be fair: if you measure the cosmological time from the first human step to man walking on the moon, it was barely the blink of an eye...
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by beambot 6y ago
Except that the US has worse wealth inequality than Egypt as measured by the Gini index... https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/wealth-in... Unless you are saying that US has more corruption and a less ef
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by beambot 6y ago
Until the AI finds the backdoor authorization: For 20 Years the Nuclear Launch Code at US Minuteman Silos Was 00000000 https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-...

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