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by digikata 11y ago
Basic Income won't come naturally, look at how difficult a 40 hour week / 8hr day was to bring into existence. Basically, widespread strikes were required. The baseline productivity of the world is already sufficient for basic inc
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by digikata 11y ago
On the other hand, I strongly suspect that we've long hit the point where we could apply our productivity to reducing working hours with little appreciable end effect in output of stuff (and a huge increase in quality of life).
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by digikata 11y ago
Great news! Now reproduce it again, independently, in more labs. Sidenote re: the photo: would one expect the device here to be in some sort of insulated box? Or are the cameras sufficient to do all the accounting?
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by digikata 11y ago
It's more interesting to me to compare cost/GB on the most frequently shipped or bought capacity for each media. At 250GB, the SSD is at close to (or maybe just ahead of) the most common size. 250GB HDDs are basically close to EO
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by digikata 11y ago
Off hand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-169_Joint_Common_Missile - cancelled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Air-to-Ground_Missile - follow on to the JCM (not sure about it's status
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by digikata 11y ago
Any military project with a 'J' in the acronym increases the likelihood of the program going over-budget...
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by digikata 11y ago
What I've noticed with different specialized lines of fruit is that early-on, varieties tend to show up in small niches where they succeed because they taste great. As their popularity increases, more growers and larger buyers start to
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by digikata 11y ago
This is interesting context going back to the 50's - much longer than the whole restaurant chain thing in the 80's (I think?): http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/02/03/146356117/wh
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by digikata 11y ago
IIRC, Eggs went from bad to good due to changes in industry accepted feed. Not due to misapplied science (well maybe misapplied at the point of the high-cholesterol feed construction). I don't think is is the best link, but it was quic
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by digikata 11y ago
Are people desperate enough to chop off a finger to gain access necessarily going to check if there's a liveness detector first?
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by digikata 11y ago
"Your face, your voice, your fingerprint, your iris, all of these things cannot be spoofed..." Maybe I'm misunderstanding your focus here, but face, fingerprints, iris and voice prints have all been spoofed - some of them tri
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by digikata 11y ago
The posture and expression is a part of training often referred to as "Command Presence". I sympathize with the need to protect oneself on the job, but applying "Command Presence" to every situation also escalates proble
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by digikata 11y ago
Hmm, sometime in the last decade, I started shifting any remaining 'book' consumption for technical literature purchases to ebooks. They take up less space and are portable between home/office, are searchable... etc.
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by digikata 11y ago
A single cell AA lithium likely already has a 3.7v (IIRC) to 1.5v step down, but also likely has a cut-off voltage to protect the internal cell too. If it's built-in lithium then you're as likely put in a step-down or a buck-boost
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by digikata 11y ago
Who writes the software for the quorum? Or is it hardware?
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by digikata 11y ago
Any field where the bug could be catastrophic. The only reason the shuttle group was sustainable the way it operated was because a bug in the software they worked upon was in that category. Off hand, commercial space, deep space science, av
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by digikata 11y ago
"Next, the researchers plan to 'apply the proposed method to other tasks with whole-body contact,'" -- robot football league?
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by digikata 11y ago
Personally, I blame spreadsheets. Well, not spreadsheets per se, but their ability to ease quantification of certain money streams above others. They make it easy to optimize profit margin in the short term, and dismiss long-term, difficult
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by digikata 11y ago
There's no career track because many companies are unwilling to invest in the training & development of their employees. The expectation is that you hire in the job market from a set of people sitting 'on-the-shelf' with
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by digikata 11y ago
I had a similar thought that if the company in direct contact with customers of a given social strata, having employees from similar backgrounds that interact with those customers might be an advantage. On the other hand, if the company is
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by digikata 11y ago
It sounds like this is article is focused a little bit towards the financial industry. It would be interesting to hear if there are firms bucking the conventional wisdom and following something like a 'Moneyball' strategy for hiri
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by digikata 11y ago
I'm no expert in this area, but when you mention qualified investors, I think you're describing private investment where qualified investors are required because those investments otherwise have a much lower bar of disclosure and
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by digikata 11y ago
As long as the investment context is disclosed, why shouldn't there be long range, high-risk investments available in the market to interested buyers? Edit: I agree with you that the risk is very, very high. But, it at least gives a no
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by digikata 11y ago
It should be a pretty good step towards getting measurements on thermal issues to then spec the needed tolerances with better basis on reality... You could also build segments with the intent of inducing displacements to study what's
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by digikata 11y ago
The purpose would be to learn more about the inevitable practical problems that come up between a system concept that pencils out to be more efficient and a real operating system. I think we stand on the shoulders of giants giving an incred
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by digikata 11y ago
So why do we all set the nominal bar at 40h for a 5 day week, why not 32h and 4 days or some other mix?
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by digikata 11y ago
One could argue that the current economic system has shifted to increasingly taking labor from the vast majority of producers while providing a minimal amount of compensation, all while a tiny slice get a vast amount of compensation. Becaus
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by digikata 11y ago
I've been wondering if that these are all coming to a cusp, not soley because of some tech driven revolution, but because there's a shift of who controls investments, in turn driven by a generational changeover in business/in
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Comcast ends an interconnection fight before net neutrality takes effect(arstechnica.com)
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by digikata 11y ago
I agree the RNN performance is really amazing!

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