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by billiam 10y ago
An additional and important application discussed in the paper for the (relatively) high efficiency infrared reflectors is for thermophotovoltaic systems, which many think will be generating a lot of our electricity in 50 years.
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by billiam 10y ago
tl;dr It is probably common Wifi in a specific setting. Cmon, HNers. You're better than this. This obsesssion with "listening" to what you say is so twentieth century. Metadata beats data anytime. with the surround of informa
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by billiam 10y ago
I'm sorry, but the obvious sarcasm expressed here is all too common among the slightly younger engineers and related tech company people I work with. They believe that trading traditional notions of privacy for the shiny, novel conven
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by billiam 10y ago
Congratulations, guys! Really glad to see this finally shipped. It will ALWAYS be Ideatown to me;)
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The Wood Wide Web(theatlantic.com)
2 points by billiam 11y ago|0 comments
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by billiam 11y ago
It's even less to buy/coopt/promise a Blue Origin ride to a single tech columnist who is lightly edited.
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by billiam 11y ago
Chris totally nailed it. The world doesn't turn out to need another version of Android made out of HTML, CSS, and JS, and could have spent many of those resources making the browser engine the world does need for a gazillion-core CPU+G
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by billiam 11y ago
Are you kidding? I think Apple has definitely proven it understands the upgrade cycle for products better than anyone--they perfectly the mid-cycle upgrade that the phone companies invented in the early 2000s (that's the S line), while
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by billiam 11y ago
There are a lot of reasons for the persistent sexual harassment and sexism in Silicon Valley. A narrow and self-reinforcing culture, complacency stemming from the misconception that it is a meritocracy, and the relative immaturity of a lot
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by billiam 11y ago
Obviously important to understand actual modern problems like cancer, but in a broad sense this is just the beginning of coming to a complete picture of the origin of metazoa. This was a single mutation that ends up in all animals, but per
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by billiam 11y ago
Dude, you clearly know nothing about this company. Do you even live in SF? I haven't been in anything except a new or near-new Yellow Cab in years, and yes, they know how to use Google Maps.
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by billiam 11y ago
Looks to me like someone read this undergraduate econ lesson from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10839116
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by billiam 11y ago
You're not wrong. The Internet, social media, and smartphones have made us a very "now" culture (with the attention span of a gnat), but static Web pages are about the least "now" thing I can think of, and the aspir
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by billiam 11y ago
AFAIK this statement is 100% wrong. The Architeuthis, while slow moving, looked totally healthy to the diver and bystanders that looked at it, as well as to this amateur teuthologist (look it up). It sprayed some ink and did exploratory mov
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by billiam 11y ago
This.So this. Those of us who knew Ian and cared about him have our own responsibility to know what happened.
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by billiam 11y ago
Very interested in this problem and this guy's story, as a network engineer and a user of the discussed products, BUT I really can't take a blog post seriously that has a spelling or grammatical error in every other sentence as th
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by billiam 11y ago
This exceptionalist view about America is as common as it is laughable. We're not the only way to live, even (or especially) as a wealthy nation. The US is growing more corrupt, and the decline of civic society is being actively driven
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by billiam 11y ago
they won't sell their panels outright because they are not trying to make money from manufacturing panels, but from providing the service (and the monitoring) to install and use them. That is Solar City's business, and they make l
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by billiam 11y ago
This isn't really about the war on drugs, but about the tradition in Mexico, not uniquely more than most countries, that literally every state organ is involved in criminal activity, and is in many ways indistinguishable from the crime
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by billiam 11y ago
My friend Matt just summed up your cynical formulation: "let's let Airbnb capture tax revenue so that people now in their homes can stay there a little longer" as a hand sandwich: I will sell you two pieces of bread and convi
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by billiam 11y ago
A sign of our imminent extinction, no doubt. Let's double down on JP-4! Party like its 1989, or til the seas are flooding the runway!
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by billiam 11y ago
The most subversive thing about this device is its use of the WebAudio API.
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by billiam 11y ago
And it's so 90s, dude. Move on. There's a lot more evil in the world now, even if they say they don't do any.
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Google Plays Deciding Role in US Elections(pnas.org)
1 points by billiam 11y ago|0 comments
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by billiam 11y ago
This. Huge missed opportunity.
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by billiam 11y ago
We had a great time talking to David Yang and visiting Cybiko in Moscow when I worked at Palm. Cybiko was an amazing combination of Russian hacking genius, genuine software innovation, and extremely misguided business thinking. Like many fa
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by billiam 11y ago
To me, that it worked so easily says a lot about the people holding TSLA.
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by billiam 11y ago
That is exactly what some of us are excited about and what others (like the creators of Swift?) are terrified of.
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by billiam 11y ago
Since the rich and powerful have effectively diluted our most precious right, free speech (ask the relatives of the Yangtzee River tragedy about that) by having the Supreme Court make money equivalent to speech through Citizens United, I fi
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by billiam 11y ago
Not at all trying to pick a fight. But: >Load shifting on a consumer scale has been happening for decades in various places around the world (e.g. cheap nuclear energy at night powering storage heaters) Sorry, but as a consumer I pay the

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