dougmany

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by dougmany 11y ago
I have found in life that when people say obvious, they really mean unexamined. If you have the courage to honestly know the damage done, you will see mutilation.
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by dougmany 11y ago
I am no expert on this but the article suggested that the database of named photos was the hardest part to obtain for an individual. Since you would (probably) most value a database of people you have met before, a self generated database
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by dougmany 11y ago
My favorite part: "Japan’s other barriers, like regulations and design criteria that effectively keep out American-made cars and light trucks, would come down" Take our crappy cars Japan! I also didn't realize the US had a la
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by dougmany 11y ago
Just search 40w laser engraver on ebay and you should get several hits around $400. Mine is working great after some mods. Mods: ~$25 for 8ft ground rod and wire ~ $35 for 24V DC power supply( includes 5 volt supply because I blow out the
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by dougmany 11y ago
I use Visual studio to write c# apps for my day job(love it). My Linux development had been polar opposites of spending days getting a embedded arm toolchain to compile and using vim to make a .c file an typing gcc main.c -o HelloWorld .
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by dougmany 11y ago
But they care about more days off. In one of his videos he says voting day must be on a national holiday. He should really lead with this.
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by dougmany 11y ago
I read a book on local investment and slow money but I can't remember the name of it. It talked about how the stock market has become divorced from putting money back into business creation. How it is just the sum of the money people
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by dougmany 11y ago
but not before becoming wealthy middle-aged people.
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by dougmany 11y ago
This great article supports that. http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/the-death-of-... It has a great graph of engineering effort vs Moore's law which made it cheaper to just wait for a faster chip
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by dougmany 11y ago
The "cheese from yeast" example the article is taking about represents cell based experiments. The discoveries will be more like 3d printing with DNA. Structures, food and clothing made by microbes. The existing companies are
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by dougmany 11y ago
I am curious about your third point. From my understanding solar panels are 99% sand. I searched around a little and all I could find is that the thin film type need Tellurium. The rarity of Tellurium is comparable to that of platinum.
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by dougmany 11y ago
I have the same model keyboard as in the video! Just thought I would share.
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by dougmany 11y ago
Very tiny solar sails.
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by dougmany 11y ago
I disagree. I think we have more understanding of the physical world (physics) then we do the complex human interactions that make up society (politics) and the economy (business). To me the fact the latter fields are not well described a
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by dougmany 12y ago
That is good to hear. I used Arch and loved it until that upgrade thing you mentioned a few years ago. It basically made a machine I had unusable so I stopped using Arch altogether. Maybe it is time to go back.
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by dougmany 12y ago
Landscaping typically accounts for half of all residential water use. To some the value of a lawn is close to zero. Saving 5% of all water use by eliminating something with close to zero value is a huge gain.
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by dougmany 12y ago
The article you linked with ends with "only way to build computers that can interpret scenes like we do is to allow them to get exposed to all the years of (structured, temporally coherent) experience we have" This may appear dau
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by dougmany 12y ago
I disagree. I think we find identity in our car because we a pilot them in a similar way we pilot our bodies. As we get less involved in the control of the vehicle, we will care less about how it looks/feels. Taxi cabs are a good ex