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by diego 5y ago
If you are a CEO, you have to rehearse the delivery for something like this. Even more now that these videos are certain to become public. To me, this video says that he's a mediocre leader. If I were on the board I would seek to repla
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by diego 5y ago
Brain chemistry is weird, perhaps some combination of therapy and antidepressants could help. It sounds like you can afford it, so why not give it a shot.
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by diego 5y ago
The actual title says "How Smart Homes Alter Human Behavior." The submission title makes it sounds like it's news that they do.
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by diego 5y ago
From the point of view of YC, they want to you think different even if it gets you killed. 100 startups think different, 99 get killed, the other one makes up for the rest. Most founders would prefer better than 1% odds of course.
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by diego 5y ago
I meant as in "beating Lucene" without trying to use Lucene properly. It's like trying to use a spoon to cut a steak and then saying that you can beat silverware with your teeth.
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by diego 5y ago
Lucene is extremely flexible. You have to configure it to do what you want if you don't like the defaults (which OP didn't do).
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by diego 5y ago
I'm not sure if this is a troll. It seems the author did not spend much time learning Lucene, it already does everything he needs and better. Of course Lucene does tf-idf! If you are not getting the results you want, you must not be in
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by diego 5y ago
You don't seem to understand what "charging rate" means. There is nothing magical about subdividing lithium cells. No matter the size of the cell, you can't insert energy at a higher rate per unit of volume.
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by diego 5y ago
That is not correct. In order to fully charge a cell in 5 minutes, you need to charge that cell at 12C. That is just not possible with lithium batteries. 5C is pushing it. There is nothing to optimize, you would have to change the battery c
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by diego 5y ago
No, they could not. The cable is not the limiting factor AT ALL. The limiting factor is the speed at which you can insert energy into a battery. Everyone who has ever charged drone batteries knows this. Charge too fast, the batteries catch
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by diego 5y ago
They are different problems. You can stop filling the tub, but the water in the tub isn't going to evaporate in time. You still have to drain it. It's not either/or.
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by diego 5y ago
This is a good story, but really the airframes are the cheapest part of fixed wing drones. You can build them out of dollar store foam if you'd like, people have been doing it for years [1]. The expensive part are the electronics, in p
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by diego 5y ago
FYI, La Parca is the grim reaper in Spanish. Not saying you should change the name, just be aware that for some people "death" is the most obvious connotation of the name.
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by diego 5y ago
This is the one I'm referring to. https://www.amazon.com/Art-Fugue-Bach/dp/B00000E2U0
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by diego 5y ago
Nothing to see here. These performances are from 1984, which means that the recording companies that own their copyright have the right to block them in the US and other countries.
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by diego 5y ago
This depends on the definition of "automate" and "creative." GPT-3 proves that you can automate creative writing. In principle it's possible to have a system that interacts with users and develops software based on
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by diego 5y ago
This is misguided. Let's say this campaign succeeds. Maybe 10% of the cups will be recycled, leaving still a ton of waste. It would be much more effective to campaign against single-use cups. I grew up in a time in which you had to bri
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by diego 5y ago
The law where? That is part of the problem. Every piece of content would need to have hundreds of flags, one for each jurisdiction in which the content could be viewed. That may not be enough for some countries given how easy it is to fake
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by diego 5y ago
It's broken from the point of view of the article writers. It's working just fine from the point of view of the companies operating it.
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by diego 5y ago
That’s why I asked. I just read it myself and it doesn’t say that a catastrophe is imminent. It looks relatively mundane.
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by diego 5y ago
That does not contradict at all what I said. Why the downvote? Also, have you read the report?
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by diego 5y ago
I'm sure every day in the US there are many, many reports of structures with damage that needs to be fixed immediately (my house was one of them). Almost all of them don't collapse. Obviously there is a problem with the credibilit
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by diego 5y ago
Yes, it's a dark pattern in journalism. They hint at causation while having plausible deniability. Used to bother me too when I checked Yahoo Finance, every other day the market would be up/down "as" whatever happened th
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Twitter: The Machine to Rage Against(diegobasch.com)
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by diego 5y ago
I built bip38, a java library for password-protected private keys in Bitcoin (and dogecoin) implementing the BIP388 standard. https://github.com/dbasch/BIP38 And implementations of paper wallets for offline storage usi
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by diego 5y ago
No, he's right on this one. Corporate Development means "the group in charge of acquiring companies." I have never seen a Corp Dev team that did anything else (and I have dealt with quite a few including my company's acq
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by diego 5y ago
Why is "preventable" even a meaningful label for a pandemic. All it means is that it wasn't inevitable, like death. It's like saying that you could have won a game you lost, if only you had played better.
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by diego 5y ago
There isn't one. It's just not true. There is lots of creative work that is routinely outsourced and cannot be automated yet. A CEO of a startup constantly outsources tasks to people, whenever they cannot be automated easily.
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by diego 5y ago
I'm just quoting her. My point is that she provides no math.
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by diego 5y ago
The author of the article may have some valid points, but she doesn't understand crypto so she completely discounts any mechanisms of value creation that might come from it. Near the end of the article it gets really bad. She attempts

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