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by cfadvan 8y ago
This is a hell of a post, and I agree with almost all of it. One piece of advice I’d give is that terms like “false flags” have been so poisoned by lunatics that it’s probably worth avoiding them. My impression of you at the start of this c
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by cfadvan 8y ago
The Tesla PR machine has done everything it can to build hype and expectations, that didn’t come out of nowhere. As for don’t buy the car, given the increased rate of refunds, clearly that’s the trend. It is a bit silly though, for a busine
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Diluted at least 50-50, but I don’t know the answer to your second and third questions, sorry.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
It doesn’t work, and please take the ten seconds it takes to check that your advice is relevant before you give it.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Given how many billions are being currently spent on self driving, there's going to be a lot of dissapointed investors if they've just been sold snake oil, and anything decades out absolutely is snake oil in the corporate world.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
The Atlantic has a great system, and it’s all opt-in as required by GDPR.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
I think that everyone in this industry is also starting to realize that far from a quick race to be first, this is actually the start of a long slog. With the realization that full autonomy isn’t a few years, but at least a few decades away
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Excellent! I saw her short video she released yesterday just before her surgery, and was wondering how it went. I hope her recovery is as quick and painless as possible, she’s a great lady.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
They do, but their ubiquity makes them cheap. Coal has useful properties, as does pig iron, but it’s only valuable in bulk. Think of diamond as “white coal” and you’re there.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
This is hysterical! Make the vanilla beans (4 years) Vanilla grows best in warm temperatures, preferably in the 70’s to 90’s. Cooler temperatures will slow down the growth. Keep temperatures above 60˙F for the most part. Vanilla orchids be
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Not really, because “real” diamonds have very little intrinsic value. Now if we could cheaply manufacture Platinum, or your example of perfectly cooked food, your point would start to be relevant here. As it is, diamond is already a very ar
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Startups are often run like cults, and diversity of thought is anathema to running a cult.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Alright, in that case I can’t honestly disagree with your point, my bad.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
It gets thrown around a lot, but truly, I don’t think that word “copyright” means what the plaintiffs here think it means. Now I realize that some lawyers will happily cash their hourly and represent a client with no standing, but this is s
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by cfadvan 8y ago
The sad truth is that for all that it seems to be popular here, Bloomberg is a rag and it almost always shows. They start with an agenda and work lazily backwards from that. Fortnite is f2p, and massively popular, and a lot of women play ga
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by cfadvan 8y ago
If the metaphorical parties require you to be fashion-obsessed, you missed nothing.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Leaving the planet is meaningless if you still must rely on Earth for support. The moon is not going to be self-sustaining in any feasible future we might live to see. We’re stuck on Earth for now, let’s try to deal with it. Besides, if we
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by cfadvan 8y ago
That’s always how fashion/fads work, if you wait long enough you’re cool again. As a bonus you’ll have saved a ton of money and spared yourself untold aggravation.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
That’s truly brilliant. It reminds me of the Wright Brothers, who would swap sides in arguments to represent the formerly opposing side, as a rhetorical exercise.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
The problem is while it has a volume comparable to Earth, its mass is comparable to Sol! It would take an unbelievable amount of energy to move something so massive from its original position to a collision course with another body. With a
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by cfadvan 8y ago
One of those times when one should stick with one's initial thought. Everyone should have to work a retail job to get a sense of what a broad selection of the public is like. Everyone (who is physically able) should have to work in m
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by cfadvan 8y ago
What does it take for people to see that for all the problems technology and markets have solved, they have unintended side-effects that, after enough time, can become global problems? Pain. Pain on the personally detectable level, and so
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Manipulating a white dwarf to kill a planet is like using a hydrogen bomb to kill an ant.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Conceivable, but not remotely available at the moment, or on the horizon. Not to mention, evacuation to where? The whole solar system would be thrown into disarray, and we don’t know of any Earth-like planets in other systems. We’d be toast
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Apple will start reporting government requests to remove apps from the App Store(theverge.com)
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by cfadvan 8y ago
What about it is disrespectful, and why should anyone care? It’s true that if you look hard enough, you’ll always find an offended party, but so what?
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Wait long enough and the violent solution will emerge on its own, like riots or the guillotine. Waiting and doing nothing while hoping for something ideal is a surefire way to live through the worst case scenario.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
I’m not sure about light reading, but http://theoreticalminimum.com is a great starting point.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
A single photon will register one click on the detector, it’s only with an ensemble of many photons that an interference pattern emerges.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
I have that right here, can you give me a page number?

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