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by esturk 9y ago
Why can't one just buy BTC in yuan and liquidate it in another foreign currency?
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by esturk 9y ago
What's easier to change? An business model or human nature? Clever people already know not to fight human nature and build their business models around it.
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by esturk 9y ago
DIY Powerwalls aside, the idea of procuring cells across various "dead" batteries is amazing for the environment. A lot of times, people just throw out the entire battery even though only 1 or 2 cell is dead which shuts off the en
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by esturk 9y ago
I agree. Not just that, I would add that Google's incentive is often to encourage usage of these services despite being a detriment to the user. To this day, Android still does not have Night Mode built in probably because so people wo
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by esturk 9y ago
13$ in 1944 adjusted for inflations would be 180.38$ in 2017. Still a small payment for the DoD.
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by esturk 9y ago
I like the 1st method simply because its a generative approach vs a discriminative approach of the 2nd and 3rd one. Put it another way. This is analogous to yielding prime numbers through a sieve generation method vs a filtering method that
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by esturk 9y ago
You rip NYT for not openly discussing the downsides, yet after reading your comment about the 'risks', you haven't talked about the downsides either. Aside from "negotiation is not negotiation in the private sector"
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by esturk 9y ago
I'm sure there's some business opportunities that can be taken to alleviate this surplus. There's a generation of people that have been groomed to use their electrical appliances during the night time wether to do laundries o
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by esturk 9y ago
And this claim is not about the other dominant positions because if they are the better product, they will be shown. This is about Google trying to prop up an inferior product in a non-dominant position using their dominant search position.
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How Do You Win the America’s Cup? Pedal Faster(bloomberg.com)
3 points by esturk 9y ago|0 comments
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by esturk 9y ago
My guess would be the paint prevents rust.
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by esturk 9y ago
No. This MAGA (Microsoft, Apple, Goggle, Amazon), is actually making American tech great.
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by esturk 9y ago
You'd be surprise to know that a flagship Android phone/tablet can run Dolphin. In fact, GCN ver. of Twilight Princess is playable.
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by esturk 9y ago
"Burning garbage emits 1.5 times as much carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour generated as coal and three times as much as natural gas." Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-burning-garbage-for-electr...
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by esturk 10y ago
Whose 'they' in this context? Uber/Otto?
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by esturk 10y ago
Prior iOS development certainly helps a lot. From my experience, a lot of time were spent debugging on Xcode to build the app itself.
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by esturk 10y ago
To give pause that only revered CEOs can bring meaningful change in this world. This view is especially prevalent in the Tech world.
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by esturk 10y ago
You're thinking of only 1 part of the solution. 'Energy storage' is a time shift in providing power and that is solved by technological means. But there's probably a simpler solution which of time-shift in "energy u
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by esturk 10y ago
I'm actually looking forward to the day when the outflux of workers balances out the influx. As it is right now, influx > outflux, so the population in SV is still growing which actually contributes to the housing crisis. Because th
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by esturk 10y ago
Interesting tidbit from the 3rd article: "Ultimately, Thornberg believes California would be better served with a Texas-style tax revenue system where there's less reliance on personal income taxes and capital gains tied to the st
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by esturk 10y ago
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey According to the survey, it seems FB wants to claw back their lost market share before more VR entrants become an issue.
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by esturk 10y ago
Yes, there's a 1 year exclusive until it goes to PC.
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by esturk 10y ago
Just like congressional districts that cover the entire state (ie. WY, ND, SD, etc.), there's no reason that multiple representatives can't all represent the entire state. They can cover the entire state's interest through co
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by esturk 10y ago
I recall reading this NPR article that says about 2/3 of homicides are resolved. In fact, since you specified 'urban' killings, those trend higher than rural killings. http://www.npr.org/2015/03/30&#
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by esturk 10y ago
I always felt "down-voting" should cost something. Maybe 1 karma/point/etc. so that people who would down-vote should feel they are invested enough to do so. As it is right now, down voting is too easy and detached to ot
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by esturk 10y ago
What constitutes as a killer app is debatable, but the very first AAA title VR game (Resident Evil 7) was recently released with great reviews. This is just the beginning.
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by esturk 10y ago
You have to live in the future to invent for the future. These are probably being used by product manager to see the deficiencies for the next feature upgrades to make it perfect.
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by esturk 10y ago
What do you mean by no weed? Just like in many states where it is illegal, you just need to know people.
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by esturk 10y ago
I always thought we might be able to reuse empty strip mines and dump the salt in there but someone smarter than me can chime in on why that may not be environmentally sound.
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Social Security Garnished for Unpaid Student Debt(wsj.com)
23 points by esturk 10y ago|75 comments

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