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by dmritard96 9y ago
One thing missing from this article is demand response: "It matters, researchers say, because cooling has a direct relationship with the building of coal-fired power plants to meet peak demand. If more air-conditioners are humming in m
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Hobby Lobby Illegally Imported Cuneiform into the United States from Iraq(nytimes.com)
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by dmritard96 9y ago
I am also increasingly leary of amazon.com since I simply feel they are getting too big. I don't really care for brick and mortar options that much but rather I simply don't feel there is enough competition to keep amazon on thei
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by dmritard96 9y ago
would this meet Rainforest Alliance standards? With coffee being the worlds second largest commodity, I am particularly bothered by both my addiction and the difficultly in finding Rainforest Alliance certified options. It seems like fair
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by dmritard96 9y ago
previously built out a large price tracking system across numerous online marketplaces and retailers. Things that impacted pricing: Time of Day, Time of Week, Year etc. Previous Shopping IP address/Geographical Location User Agent Str
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by dmritard96 9y ago
A couple hacks helped us. First was finding some short cuts to test the core functionality of the idea and make sure that when we pulled X string, Y things happened (in our case, adjusting air flow of vents had a material impact on tempera
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by dmritard96 9y ago
In many cases, there simply aren't many good alternatives. I'll illustrate with our (flair.co's) example. FYI we are a hw/sw play. Why Not KS/Indiegogo We are building a product that has a large b2b angle and while
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by dmritard96 9y ago
seems like spoofing will be trivial though? When someone walks by my front door on the sidewalk, will it go off? Can my raspi emulate a human to create so many false positives that this is rendered useless? My 2 cents, this sounds great
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by dmritard96 9y ago
'6 is a magical/religious number for the jews' - oh really?
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by dmritard96 10y ago
Are there any opensource autonomous/driverless car projects with substantial momentum. This seems like something so foundational to the next 50 to 100 years that it needs to be 'owned' by everyone.
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by dmritard96 10y ago
also worth noting that these are exceptional companies with TONS of companies that aren't unicorns that are highly valuable and well run. Whether women run unicorns better perhaps was not what the stat was about and instead was probab
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by dmritard96 10y ago
My understanding of this argument is that because of cancers many and possibly infinite forms there is no 'cure for cancer'. While I can appreciate the mathematical correctness of this point (sure did take a long article to get t
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by dmritard96 10y ago
#1 is absolutely the biggest one for me and #3 is a solid second. I have a Macbook Pro with retina and stopped using linux simply because I couldn't get a good resolution on my laptop and monitors. And then when traveling (flights etc
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by dmritard96 10y ago
Samsung and Apple fought over rectangles. Nest and Honeywell fought over circles. Next up, spheres... But in all seriousness, this is just rent seeking via the patent system.
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by dmritard96 10y ago
In general, every issue - violence, privacy etc are much more hot button when they involve genitalia. was just talking to my wife about this this morning and trying to understand if its a result of long standing oppression from males to fe
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by dmritard96 10y ago
"or how that is exacerbated by multiple note rounds" - YES - I too am looking for a clear and concise example of this. The only people that have ever suggested this to us were....VCs and from my reading and rereading of all of ou
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by dmritard96 10y ago
I tend to agree and think its a bit unfair to downvote this. Why must life exist with organics molecules? Who would have expected arsenic based life (I don'think many would call this organic): http://www.washingtonpost.com&
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by dmritard96 10y ago
My experience at a former company was that the management would plan a group happy hour and there was a ton of pressure to participate. This in particular hurt those that had families or other priorities and advantaged those that were youn
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by dmritard96 10y ago
it is interesting that sex is the hot button. in general we special case sex in the US. While I dont mean to say sexual harrasment isnt a real problem, its interesting to me more philosophically that propositioning for sex is ultra proble
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by dmritard96 10y ago
Looking at this space, I honestly expected more drive by wire and remote VR pilot type intermediary solutions than full autonomy. I wonder if remote control will be completely bypassed or if certain sectors will still benefit from this.
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by dmritard96 10y ago
For the most part agreed. In general, if there is a 'natural monopoly' AND the private sector is failing to provide better service or better pricing or both as a result of competition, I don't understand why we wouldn't
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by dmritard96 10y ago
well, someone should tell Techcrunch this...the fact that fundraising announcements dominate startup/media relations arguably makes fundraising a stage lingua franca for better or for worse. A few thoughts on fundraising as a milestone
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by dmritard96 10y ago
I am tangentially in this space in that we build tech that allows for demand response capabilities, specifically for mini-split and other air conditioning systems ( https://flair.co , shameless plug). This article seems to be miss
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by dmritard96 10y ago
To me, I think you are objecting to capitalism more than democracy. That certainly chases labor arbitrage however I do think its a poor mischaracterization to attribute labor arbitrage to slavery. That doesn't mean arbitrarily small
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by dmritard96 10y ago
I don't know the mechanics of how apple works with retailers but honestly all rules are off for them. With respect to Best Buy's margin - its not a flat rate for anyone, its typically negotiated for each vendor based on a great n
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by dmritard96 10y ago
This is a great point! Because of google services being blocked in China, the play store is unavailable so people download their apps ('A-P-Ps' if talking to someone in China) via 3rd party sites. Trying to become a substantial
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by dmritard96 10y ago
There is an important supply chain related nuance in my opinion - in the US, distribution channels are critically important - Amazon, Best Buy etc. - but in Asia, this isn't always the case, in fact a flash sale on JD or some vendors s
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by dmritard96 10y ago
In the slides where this talks about the SVG way and the CSS way - I don't know enough about either to verify if its true, but are these approaches inherent in these choices? That seems awfully suspicious/disingenuous to me but p
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by dmritard96 10y ago
I am very aware of the benefits to urban living, but i do wonder if humans are inherently happier living in high density environments. I feel like the benefits of urban living are less crucial if the human population was prevented from gro
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by dmritard96 10y ago
I have a dual degree with French Horn Performance and Computer Engineering. I spent a decent amount of time understanding audio signals in college and as a result I feel I can intuit a lot about audio signals wrt to capture/processing

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