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by frongpik 6y ago
Any TV with 2 mics. Those TVs are called smart for a reason.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Fuel here is imho irrelevant. What matters is the containers with junk that china manufactures, the west consumes and throws away to replace it with the next version of the shiny junk.
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by frongpik 6y ago
If distance doubles, the number of ships needs to double to keep the original throughput.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Such is the nature of "doing the right thing" - it must be a free will choice. This is not a matter of law, but a matter of maturity of society.
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by frongpik 6y ago
I see the first two amendments have become too much of a burden for the modern government?
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by frongpik 6y ago
This ship is doing more to combat climate change than all petty carbon taxes combined.
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by frongpik 6y ago
A third world country would indeed just run a slave camp. First world countries are more sophisticated and achieve the same result within the legal framework. They do it because they love mental gymnastics. Amazon comes to a 3rd tier town,
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by frongpik 6y ago
That's pretty old news. These days ultrasound mics and speakers can act almost like lowres webcams.
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by frongpik 6y ago
I'd rather pay capital gains tax on a 250k stock appreciation, than have my house appreciate by the same amount. It's just ordinary people don't have brokerage accounts that can appreciate by so much.
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by frongpik 6y ago
At that level connections is everything. His title us basically a chief smooth talker that knows important people.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The tax advantage is up to comical 250k that will be promptly eaten away by brokerage fees, transfer fees and other god knows what fees, on top of all the house maintanence costs over those years. Those who have a million or two but a house
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by frongpik 6y ago
Or just put those 100k into a margin trading account with 1:10 leverage in a "west coast real estate index". No commissions, no agents, no property taxes, no leaking roofs.
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by frongpik 6y ago
There's a rare exception when a real estate attorney with a reputation is also a part time agent. Finding one is a challenge. They give a lot of valuable advice, but it's only actionable when you have choice and the money, i.e. th
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by frongpik 6y ago
If it was just about the money, it would be better to invest the downpayment into a margin trading account with 1 to 5 leverage.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Insufficient housing creates competition among workers and they do more work for less pay, as nobody wants to be an outsider. The number of building permits is set by city councils and those listen to the capital as the latter can choose wh
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by frongpik 6y ago
Maybe the idea isn't bad and I'd argue there's indeed a market for such an app, but it won't take off with such implementation. The "clever" code snippet is just silly. Would you use a tax form to lure accounta
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by frongpik 6y ago
The analyst will still work till 3 am, but will do 3x more spreadsheets. For the same pay.
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Ask HN: Are there solar spectrograms over the 11 year period?
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by frongpik 6y ago
The title implies that "[All] vaccines are effective against [all] variants", but that's a lie. And when people realize this, they'll lose trust in vaccines in general.
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by frongpik 6y ago
I'd add another use of NFTs that follows the letter of the law, but violates its spirit: a trust fund whose beneficiary is an owner of a specific NFT. This allows to conceal the identity of the beneficiary and pull out various tricks,
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by frongpik 6y ago
Ah, you're being nitpicky. Buyers of those NFTs will be betting on Musk setting the foot first, and thus claiming a big enough chunk of Mars land. Potential returns are very large when there's a lot of ambiguity and risk. By the t
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by frongpik 6y ago
Elon Musk can make another 100 billions by claiming a chunk of Mars territory and selling NFTs backed by 1 acre lots of Mars land. The NFTs will be real so long as Elon gets the US gov to recognize his landlord rights on Mars, at least near
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by frongpik 6y ago
How complicated are those forms? It sounds like GS would pay a lot for a software that converts 95% of the data into excel spreadsheets.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The ML model may be shit and that's ok so long as it shows the path it's going to follow and sticks with it.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Reading standard financial forms isn't a solved problem?
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by frongpik 6y ago
Why dont they automate it? Image (text) recognition is a solved problem.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Ads, basically. But I doubt web makes any impact here. Let's say every web user spends 2 hours every day waiting for ads to finish loading. 2 hr x 100 watt x 360 days x 5 billion users = 1 TWh. The US alone produces 4000 TWh per year.
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by frongpik 6y ago
I don't get what's so difficult about self driving. The car just needs to show a path it's going to follow during the next ten seconds and stick with it. Only when the path appears wrong, the driver takes control. This let&#x
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by frongpik 6y ago
And P stands for privacy.
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by frongpik 6y ago
How did you approach other businesses to sell them something? I presume your business is b2b.

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