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by danblick 10y ago
Are you assuming these automakers won't compete with Uber directly? I think some automakers are looking to enter the "transportation services" market. http://www.wsj.com/articles/ford-says-it-will-focus-m
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Also I heard that there is a legal precedent that if the government confiscates your drugs you can attack them and demand reparations and they will have to pay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
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I seem to recall a story from several years back about bombs being disguised as laptops. Requiring devices to be powered on was a simple strategy to make sure they weren't completely fake. [1] https://www.google.com/amp
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I think "home price appreciation" is one of the more interesting factors here. If home prices grow at 4% and wages don't keep up, it seems like that's not likely to be a sustainable over the long term.
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I have this sense that home prices all over the US are being artificially inflated. That said, if you figure 4% interest on $1 million, that works out to about $3333 per month. Q: Are there enough people in the Bay Area who are willing to
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I guess I'd worry more about rogue nations developing (cheaper) biological weapons and chemical weapons. I imagine it would be easier to build something like [1] than a robot like this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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I've worked as an SDE at two of the big five tech companies. By far the most common route to getting a first job at these companies is to start with a college internship and continue from there. Basically with only a high school educat
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I first learned about Neil Postman in the last year from Alan Kay's reading list. I've found myself wishing he were still alive to champion his ideas today - they seem just as relevant in the era of Facebook as they did in the er
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That's horrible. So much for my hope that Trump would turn out mostly benign.
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Gerard Degroot argues in "The Dark Side of the Moon" [1] that going to the moon was mostly about (1) allowing Democrats (LBJ and JFK) to score political points by criticising the Eisenhower administration and (2) cashing in on Ame
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Start? This is a skill they've developed for years and years. The company that inspired "I was a warehouse wage slave" no doubt can transfer a few lessons to delivery...
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In order to see most of the benefit from self driving trucks, you need a fully autonomous vehicle that can travel without a person paid to sit in it, right?
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After AWS hit 20 products or so, there was a feeling that cutesy names were becoming difficult to learn and that new products should have descriptive names (e.g. AWS IoT, AWS ML, AWS IAM) rather than codenames. I guess that idea has lost f
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by danblick 10y ago
For me the title evokes "Considered harmful essays considered harmful", which suggests that perhaps "benefits and disadvantages of Electron" would have been a better essay. http://meyerweb.com/eric/
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I believe the term "master plan" here is an allusion to Elon Musk's "master plans", which were ideas for billions dollar businesses. ~ https://techcrunch.com/gallery/dr-elon/
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DIY Transparent Rocket Engine(hackaday.com)
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"The problem with quotes on the internet is that it can be difficult to verify their authenticity." - Abraham Lincoln
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First off let me clarify that I'm no Trump supporter either. :) That said, I've been reading a book called "The Accidental Superpower" that I find very insightful, and the author makes arguments similar to the ones you m
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Neil Postman argued in "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" (1985) that entertainment had become the "supra-ideology of all discourse on television". Good television is entertai
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So wait... is the defense industry involved in the Aquila project somehow? The applications to defense/surveillance are obvious, and the aerospace technology (if not the electronics) has been developed for the military/CIA/w
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If you were trying to implement a language with assignment statements like: x := y + z or f(y + z) or g(f(x, y)) you'd need to be able to evaluate expressions first. Maybe it's just simpler to illustrate a sm
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America has enough shale oil to be a net energy exporter, which means no more dealing with Venezuela or need for huge defense spending to protect strategic resources across the world. So I dunno, I can see why developing those resources mig
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Check out the "Deepmath" paper linked above. (The paper is from a few months ago, the source code is new IIUC.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04442
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Somewhere, a lonely nerd feels like this is the perfect match for his passion for VHDL/CSS. :) Or maybe he's a Verilog guy who will keep looking. ;)
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I'm curious how well that would work? I think it would be awkward to deploy a secret key to a (difficult-to-configure) home device and then keep that secret key secure. It worries me that your IoT device might claim to use HTTPS but
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I guess maybe you're being downvoted for the tone of your comment, but I came here wondering the same thing. Usually we think of communication as secure when messages can be read only by their intended recipients. We don't really
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I just finished "The Dark Side of the Moon" by Gerard De Groot, which is a history of the American space program focused on the key people involved and their motivations. The author argues that a major problem with the manned spac
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_burn
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What happens if you get in the path of a microwave beam at this kind of power? I'd imagine you notice your skin getting hot. What's the biggest risk? (I'm not saying I'm OK having my eyeballs heated, I'm just curi
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In the last year I've learned a little bit about expert performance from the book "Peak" and also the Coursera course "Learning how to learn". Experts learn to think and act more efficiently by forming "chunk

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