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by dotBen 2y ago
Great for pro-use but they don't have hobby level products to compete with the DJI Mavic and Mini
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by dotBen 2y ago
I worry that this all removes the ability to have a sensible and legitimate conversation about DJI. Elise Stefanik can go fuck herself for all the reasons listed elsewhere, lets get that on the table. BUT we should be thoughtful, if not wor
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by dotBen 2y ago
It's a bit frustrating to go through all of the intake form and account creation only to discover that to view anything I need to pay $10.
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by dotBen 2y ago
(co-founded a commercial startup based on an open source project, invest into a lot of open source/commercial businesses) Open sourcing as a strategy works when there is a lot of developer interest and (usually) a developer is the be
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by dotBen 2y ago
nix has been around for 10+ years and only recently are normies like me becoming interested in it. Er, there's people who worked on it at Bell Labs in the 70's who would like to have a word. It's taken 50 years for Unix to
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by dotBen 2y ago
No, cars didn't have seat belts for a long time - generations of people drove without them. When they introduced them a lot of people complained. Now you would have to be an idiot to argue against seat belts. "Kids" is a ve
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by dotBen 2y ago
This was also MY start to programming. I won a Psion 3c when I was 12 or 13 and built shareware apps for it. I did my work experience at Psion's HQ in West London when I was 15, became a software engineer, director of engineering, st
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by dotBen 2y ago
Something like this will either electronically disable a satellite or physically destroy it. The worry with physically destroying satellites is the amount of debris created could rapidly realize the Kessler Syndrome which in turn could proh
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by dotBen 2y ago
Looks like the Jam team have some great investors who will steer them correctly but the founders need to consider whether they can raise the amounts needed the same way Matthew and Michelle (founders of CloudFlare) could back in the day - w
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by dotBen 2y ago
Yes America wouldn't have anywhere near the number of drivers that it does if Americans had to pass the British driving test. Have you ever had to reverse around a corner, since you did the test?
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by dotBen 2y ago
(Brit living in SF here) Given that this forum is slanted towards America, you have to appreciate that the quality of public transport in London is nothing like what we have here in the US other than New York City. You're not wrong abo
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by dotBen 2y ago
New York is really the only exception in the US to this - world class public transportation system both within downtown areas and out to the suburbs and beyond (Acella is what all of AmTrak should have been like). Even here in San Francisco
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by dotBen 2y ago
But the trouble is they are too expensive. Not sure I would buy a NUC but tons of gently used/new overstock thin-client machines from Lenovo (ThinkCenter) and Dell Optiplex that cost $75-200 depending on spec and give you as good or b
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by dotBen 2y ago
Neither in San Francisco. In 2005 Google wanted to do a nice gesture and offer free wifi across SF. The Board of Supervisors literally asked Google how much they were intending to pay the city in order to offer free wifi... SMH. It of cour
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by dotBen 2y ago
With the very clear caveat that I'd like to see a world where no one is interested or inclined to abuse children or view CSAM in the first place... I would like to think you are right. The problem is that we already have a comparable w
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by dotBen 2y ago
Note this is from 2003... Internet is no longer just 5% of retail. That $100m rebuild of the Tanforan mall is already being exited and will be converted to a biotech and life sciences hub. The rest of the general impact to retail, I'm
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by dotBen 2y ago
Even if this change occurred would he be able to accept independent income generated outside of the sponsor of his TN? In this case, wouldn't his new management consultant TN be tied to his (now former) employer, so would such revenues
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by dotBen 3y ago
A lot of us didn't grow up with ticks but have moved to places like the Bay Area where we do get them. I think this serves as a good reminder that folks should be aware of common tick procedures like checking at the end of a walk if yo
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by dotBen 3y ago
It's impossible to debate TikTok while people still are not on the same page about the fundamentals which makes this an unusual company that's not comparable to other social networks: 1) TikTok is indirectly owned and therefore co
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by dotBen 3y ago
Your argument is that an app which is indirectly owned and influenced by the Chinese Communist Party is a conduit for free speech and the US government banning it would be infringing in your free speech... is a strange hill to die on.
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by dotBen 3y ago
Aren't all governments tapping connectivity the occurs within their borders (whether it be in internet exchanges, sea cables that come onto their shores, etc - kinda doesn't matter where it physically happens)? I assume this is go
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by dotBen 3y ago
No because whether he owns a bitcoin at $30 or at $30k a bitcoin is a bitcoin and at this point every wallet is indexed, tracked and any wallet with significant value (regardless of cost basis) is being mined for potential vulnerabilities.
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by dotBen 3y ago
While the choice to pursue a commercialization partnership is inevitable, I do feel that the Venn diagram of "what do we need to research and pioneer in space" and "what is commercially exploitable" is not completely ove
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by dotBen 3y ago
Price. I don't need CPUs to do rendering on my NAS, and wouldn't pay the premium for it. The margins on these devices are already pretty high because they're enterprise and business focused - I "buy once cry once"&#
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by dotBen 3y ago
I guess I could read you a statement from Mein Kampf if you want. Not necessarily MY opinion... and it certainly wouldn't be. But my point is, why would I do that? In both of these examples I can only assume one writes out an opinion
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by dotBen 3y ago
"to maximize shareholder value" You know, philosophically speaking, not every company has to do that. And before someone steps in and quotes 'fiduciary responsibility for shareholder returns', I'm a VC and I run
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by dotBen 3y ago
Stores cost money to run. It costs money to move goods from regional warehouse to store. At scale, on demand grocery delivery introduces significant efficiency which probably offsets whatever the reliance on impulse buys.
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by dotBen 3y ago
Sure, but due to its nature the aircraft industry for commerical planes isn't really a free market. Obviously, Boeing and Airbus represent a duopoly. When you factor in one of them is US-based and is relied upon to deliver on certain
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by dotBen 3y ago
They are. I also really loved my Air 11". A lot of tech friends who were on call would carry them in large jacket pockets. I remember someone pulling one out at a restaurant in Valencia St in SF because pager duty went off. MacBook 12
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by dotBen 3y ago
Honestly I miss my MacBook 12”. I still have it but it too long in the tooth and will soon be converted to a Chromebook or sold. It's just a lovely size for traveling. I've never been able to convert over to iPad + keyboard for t

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