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by dougSF70 4y ago
Before Uber, the Taxi market was self-organizing. Like some ill-thought out communist central planning from the 1950s, Uber thought they could create top-down controlled market place. The rider part of their business will go to zero except
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by dougSF70 4y ago
At a hardware store on Coldharbour Lane in London (at the Camberwell end) the guy behind the counter asked me if I wanted to buy the Rolls-Royce of adjustable spanners (wrenches to US folk) or a regular version. I purchased the Rolls-Royce
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by dougSF70 4y ago
I mean spontaneous prompts from a sentient device telling me what it thinks about the latest news events. "Hey Doug, i think the oil price maximum price is a bad idea because...what do you think?" If that were happening i would b
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by dougSF70 4y ago
In all examples of sentience the "sentient system" responds to a prompt. The response is generated from probabalistic model, these models have become incredibly sophisticated and nuanced in recent years. However, I have never seen
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Headline should really read: Japanese man loses password-protected encrypted USB stick.
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The theory goes that a 4.5% draw rate from your capital will ensure your capital is preserved (relative to inflation average of 2.5%) for ever provided it grows at 7% a year in the long run. This is an achievable long term capital growth ra
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by dougSF70 4y ago
When it is hard for worker-bees to transition to become manager-bees then unions are important and necessary. In any other business where worker-bees can become manager-bees then they should take that opportunity if they want to create chan
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by dougSF70 4y ago
SIlicon Valley Bank is clunky but it is reliable. Coming from the UK and having lived in San Francisco for the past decade I was irritated to see a firm use borrowed interest (BREXIT) to build their brand. Especially when the implications o
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by dougSF70 5y ago
I have some tips. If you are applying from a public middle school and have not been through the process before, you are at a big disadvantage. The number 1 tip is to start early, middle to end of 7th grade.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
I have just been through both processes for two of my children. I can definitely say that applying to a private high school in San Francisco is 3x as stressful.
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Ask HN: Perspectives on SF private high school vs. college applications
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by dougSF70 5y ago
Does those crows know they won't be flying any time soon?
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They could get a ride back on the spaceX vehicle
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Good for them. Good for all the people who are fighting for democracy.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
They look pretty pleased with themselves. Whether it was random or intentional it worked out.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
I remember the great floods at Leakington Spa. Terrible.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
+1 on that. I had a Mac Pro 5.1 that was surplus to requirements. Its 10 years old with 64GB of Ram and 2 x 6core processors. I stripped off the OS and installed Ubuntu along with an nVidia 750 - $100. For learning purposes and running hype
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by dougSF70 5y ago
Isn't it referred to as Brazil Cost by economists. The only way to reduce the tariff is to manufacture locally. NOKIA did this and gained significant market share as a result 20+ years ago
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by dougSF70 5y ago
Possibly, but it is registered in Amsterdam and listed in the USA. Perhaps it works the Russian government bails them out and takes over as a result.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
Correction..$1.025bn..the RUB is weakening...hold on a sec, let's call it $1bn.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
And they only have $625million of cash, of which only a portion is outside of Russia. They also state they may not be able to raise the balance of the note...this is a perfect shitstorm.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
Rumors and hearsay regarding his wealth, he does a good job of concealing it.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
I have read that Putin's rumored $150bn wealth stash is in a Swiss Bank.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
Surely, part of the resistance isn't about productivity its about cost of living. If you had halved your living expenses would you be voting to double them again in order to go to the office? I doubt many people would do this.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
There was enough screen real estate for me to read the text, like peering over a fence.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
So trees use some energy and remove insulation (CO2). I wonder how much of the energy is reflected back by plants. More energy is in the blue end of the spectrum, if plants are absorbing bluer light then perhaps 80% of energy is reflected?
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by dougSF70 5y ago
I am thinking from an energy perspective. Energy used to grow an animal or a plant is energy not used to warm the planet. Perhaps we should design a system that builds a carbon structures using the sun's energy. Rather than Solar Elect
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by dougSF70 5y ago
I was ignoring the insulating effect of CO2 and focussing on the heat system. What I am getting at is we need to find low temperature way of locking up the Sun's energy. Such that when it is stored it has removed energy from the Earth
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by dougSF70 5y ago
That too, but if half the planet planted a tree per month that would be 42 billion trees to remove sun's energy.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
Yes but it is how it stays that is the problem. If the energy because locked in cell walls because it helped a tree grow then it isn't available to heat up things.

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