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by dkarp 4y ago
Opioids and Benzodiazepines (Xanax) are even closer to what I imagined Soma was
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by dkarp 5y ago
It's too early to write them off. They're not Kodak, they're well funded and willing to change direction as their moat disappears.
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by dkarp 5y ago
Which was open sourced by another tech giant (FB)
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by dkarp 5y ago
according to [1], about a day for the 7 character twitter url on a 1.5GHz machine. So nothing really for a company like twitter. [1] https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot
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by dkarp 5y ago
*128GB. I dislike how they omit this and act like it's more powerful than Mac Pro.
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by dkarp 5y ago
When I see a presentation so well trained and rehearsed, I am also put off. It's such overt manipulation of my monkey brain.
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by dkarp 5y ago
I visited North Korea some years ago. For me, one of the most memorable things about the trip had nothing to do with the North Korea itself. Without the comfort of their smartphones, all the other tourists had no choice but to spend their t
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by dkarp 5y ago
I've ridden this trainline from Pyongyang to Beijing, although it was necessary to change trains after crossing the Yalu river and entering China at Dandong
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by dkarp 5y ago
Did you use a still air box? They're easy to DIY and make a big difference in preventing contamination
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by dkarp 5y ago
Thanks, added to my "do not miss" list!
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by dkarp 5y ago
The tomato plant is huge! It seems quite foliage heavy though, do you think that's because of the commercial nutrient blend you used? Have you also looked at modifying the recipe at different stages i.e. during growth, flowering, ripen
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by dkarp 5y ago
Very cool. Do you have any pictures of the full hydroponic setup (with plants)?
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by dkarp 5y ago
Totally agree with you. I remember reading somewhere (maybe on HN) that Japan is an extremely consumerist society. I don't know how true that is but, like anywhere, some are going to be more conscientious than others and I've hear
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by dkarp 5y ago
I liked this system a lot when I lived in Germany. Although living in a 4th floor apartment without an elevator, buying crates of heavy duty glass bottles was a bit of a drag compared with cans. The bottles are great to drink out of though
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by dkarp 5y ago
Hi Peter, have you seen any change in immigration as a result of covid? What do you believe the long term impact may be?
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by dkarp 5y ago
Is it no longer possible? Sounds nice
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by dkarp 5y ago
The subtitle, "Charles Munger says artificial windows are, in some ways, 'actually better' than the real deal", is a bit misleading and obviously to stoke outrage. However it's not an article. It's a transcribe
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by dkarp 5y ago
No worries, it's interesting how incredibly bright these rooms are. The windows are unusually large. Maybe Munger didn't have much input there. [edit] downvoter is maybe unaware that I'm referring to the Stanford Munger build
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by dkarp 5y ago
Just looking at the Stanford residence and it seems to have incredibly bright windowed rooms (maybe they're not showing the windowless ones?)[0] [0] https://rde.stanford.edu/studenthousing/munger-graduate-resi...
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by dkarp 5y ago
They have only sold millions of devices since being part of FB. They were still really niche in 2014.
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by dkarp 5y ago
Is that not pretty much the story of Oculus so far? There are 2 million oculus quest 2 devices out there now and they're getting to the point where they have a monopoly in VR
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by dkarp 5y ago
My bank offers this by giving you virtual accounts (called pots). They are, like you say, just partitions of the same account, but it is useful to have them in the bank as opposed to in a spreadsheet. Bills only come out of the bills pot, s
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by dkarp 5y ago
You don't need the elite strap or battery packs, they really are optional and not "optional" but necessary. $299 is cheaper than most phones or consoles. It's far from $1000 rig + VR equipment. Are phones and consoles on
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by dkarp 5y ago
I've heard about a system in Germany where local government pays restaurants to allow the public to use their toilets. It's cheaper for the government than erecting public toilets and covers extra cleaning costs for the restaurant
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by dkarp 5y ago
Except Oculus Quest 2 is $299.00, runs smoothly and requires no rig at all
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by dkarp 5y ago
It's a bold move, a big gamble. Isn't that what sets Silicon Valley apart from traditional companies?
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by dkarp 5y ago
Is a company with tens of thousands of employees really one man's project?
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by dkarp 5y ago
This is a really good comment. I think this sort of research done by large corporations is a big reason for the US's success. Just look at Xerox's PARC[0] where so much was incubated that couldn't have been if Xerox just focu
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by dkarp 5y ago
Or as Mike Tyson put it: Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth
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by dkarp 5y ago
Maybe it's still under construction

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