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901.
by beambot 7y ago
Insufficient irrationality?
902.
by beambot 7y ago
My mistake. Thanks for the clarification.
903.
by beambot 7y ago
If this is using a projected pattern, then it's not lidar -- it's probably a form of projected stereo. I.e. it's not a true time-of-flight measurement.
904.
by beambot 7y ago
How about critically-endangered animals reappearing -- e.g. the Malabar large-spotted civet: https://www.ibtimes.sg/this-critically-endangered-animal-was...
905.
by beambot 7y ago
Deciding what is fundamentally good or drawing the line (eg the glassware) is the muddy part. The road to hell is paved with good intentions -- next thing you know, science chemistry kits are illegal & large swaths of population no long
906.
by beambot 7y ago
US fertility rate is approx. 1.8, well below population sustainability. If it weren't for immigration (a political policy question), the US would have negative population growth too.
907.
by beambot 7y ago
> But it doesn't actually correspond to any kind of real-world performance. But it may correlate with performance, and that might be sufficient -- in the same way that Moore's law did for so long too
908.
by beambot 7y ago
It's backscatter tech, which was literally invented for surveillance (see Great Seal Bug [0]) -- modern(ish) versions of which are prominently featured in the NSA's ANT Catalog [1]. This is the same technology as UHF RFID (now Rai
909.
by beambot 7y ago
Size & reputation seem just as relevant to all the existing medical providers, but that seems to have little impact...
910.
by beambot 7y ago
EAS tags are notoriously simple to bypass for insiders.
911.
by beambot 7y ago
Infantry from Sony Online? It was amazing! Used to play CTF all the time.
912.
by beambot 7y ago
Could be worse... Matlab?
913.
by beambot 7y ago
Time plays a factor in IRR too.
914.
by beambot 7y ago
Apprenticeships in many (most?) fields are sponsored by the professional organization (akin to a guild) and paid for by laborers at lower-than-master wages. And yet, here is the AMA itself saying the problem lies with federal government fu
915.
by beambot 7y ago
Mind you, in the astrophysics' realm of science, the Taylor expansion's error terms can be pretty big sometimes -- eg. dark matter & dark energy.
916.
by beambot 7y ago
Like $13B per aircraft carrier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford-class_aircraf...
917.
by beambot 7y ago
Such a negative undertone... And very unhelpful. "(...) if you think that participating in YC will increase the value (...)" is exactly half of what the commentor was asking (indirectly): is the value of YC worth 7%? That one&#x27
918.
by beambot 7y ago
It seems like college students can design, build, & launch a microsat for $50k-$1M. Why jump straight to $200M+ for those learnings? It shouldn't take $Billions to start getting your feet wet.
919.
by beambot 7y ago
sum(negatives) > sum(positives) is perfectly legitimate -- it's not extremely pointless , nor is it particularly difficult to assess. It's (quite literally) a "pros vs. cons" analysis. It can be complex to quantify,
920.
by beambot 7y ago
"Referee" is too unbiased a word. Shocking how frequently the consultants' conclusions mirror the arguments posed by the side that pays their fees.
921.
by beambot 7y ago
> My guess is that extending fiber optic networks Google tried that: Google Fiber. Apparently it wasn't economical. > In October 2016, all expansion plans were put on hold and some jobs were cut. https://en.wikipedia.
922.
by beambot 7y ago
> Google’s parent company, Alphabet, made a bid to acquire Fitbit, a source familiar with the matter tells CNBC. More like: the source "leaked" to create negotiation pressures...
923.
by beambot 7y ago
Even more insidious: Participating Preferred, which is effectively double-dipping.
924.
by beambot 7y ago
Inertia is a pain in the ass. VW has a lot of inertia...
925.
by beambot 7y ago
If you drop an apple & observe that it falls, you get some predictive value about the nature of gravity. But that's a far cry from computing the orbital dynamics of a spacecraft. Parent's comment on "transparency"
926.
by beambot 7y ago
Right. Everything you said about food supply resiliency only applies to modern production in the US. To be fair: that's the topic of the article. But it is inapplicable to 2/3rds of the world's population -- where disease &am
927.
by beambot 7y ago
So... How do account for the swine problem in Asia? Disease can still have tremendous global impact.
928.
by beambot 7y ago
What is sort of practical temperature differential can you achieve? Eg, would you expect to get ice if ambient was 50-deg F? How about 80-deg F?
929.
by beambot 7y ago
New Orleans sits below sea level & oceans are projected to rise due to anthropogenic global warming. Should they move?
930.
by beambot 7y ago
Google Cloud is worth $225B and Waymo is worth $100B [1], so the rest of Alphabet is worth less than $500B in market cap? The math doesn't add up. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/waymo-valuation-cut

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