ftlio

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by ftlio 9y ago
Who pays out the .1?
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by ftlio 9y ago
What is the cost of time-shifting usage versus paying peak pricing versus buying some storage to charge at lower rates? At the industrial scale this becomes a game of capital expenditures versus cash flow. At the consumer scale it's
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by ftlio 9y ago
That's one name for it. 'I still won't vote for taxes or meaningful legislation on the issue because they're just going to get it wrong anyway.' is the phase's actual name.
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by ftlio 9y ago
That makes much more sense.
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by ftlio 9y ago
> I'm all about open-source, but I wish people wouldn't focus on how companies should do it because it's good for them financially 1) Why on Earth would a company spend a considerable amount of resources on doing something
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by ftlio 9y ago
'We' could roll our own Linux distro, work out deals with manufacturers to provide some form factor useable by children to run our distro on, set up a massive cloud to orchestrate all these devices in such a way that they are usef
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by ftlio 9y ago
The income of your average Costco shopper is massive compared to your average Walmart shopper as well. They can't eliminate the annual fee either because it's literally less than their annual profit (well maybe not in this market
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by ftlio 9y ago
A good answer to a good question!
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by ftlio 9y ago
I like the sentiment, but the actual thing used to cut people into the value of that economy has utility that can be priced in terms of that actual thing. Imagine you lived in an economy where all you had to do was pay robots in the require
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by ftlio 9y ago
Does it jump your cursor around? I'd be interested in your config if it doesn't.
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by ftlio 9y ago
The N^2 problem of Bitcoin and Ethereum is solvable through sharding. I agree that on-chain scaling is impossible (and the two projects differ in their taste for decentralization vs scalability at their core), but the build out of workable
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by ftlio 9y ago
I took my SAT scores from 90th percentile to 98th percentile by buying a book, doing a few sample problems every night for a couple of weeks, and reading the test taking tips in the back. Probably the most helpful tip was that all the math
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by ftlio 9y ago
You realize a lot of people pushing the supposedly nefarious agenda you're saying here own a lot of bitcoins, and even belong to companies where timelocked bitcoins act as an incentive program, right? The conspiracy theories surroundi
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by ftlio 10y ago
I think a lot of this stuff will rely on a more formal spec like https://github.com/solid/solid-spec to be useful. For identity, there's https://github.com/solid/solid-spec/blob/mas
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by ftlio 10y ago
Less leverage for Google, more consumer lock in.
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by ftlio 10y ago
My mother used to be a scan coordinator at a grocery store. We have been talking about this eventually happening for over a decade. Although based on her experience, the infrastructure for even letting her know what pricing should be requ
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by ftlio 10y ago
Timothy Leary is a double entendre here...
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by ftlio 10y ago
Term projects. Those are what prepared me for getting paid to apply my academic knowledge more than anything. All the better when it was left up to me to create the spec. Most of the time I had to abide by some requirements, like 'M
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by ftlio 10y ago
How many drivers a month avoid losses thanks to this traffic light? I'm gonna guess the ROI is positive overall on traffic lights. *Sent from my iPhone while driving 75 on the freeway, eating fast food listening to a book on tape, nav
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by ftlio 10y ago
Sensors with Bluetooth / low power wifi. Lithium Ion batteries work for 5 years for our use case. If this improves that, that's less replacement.
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by ftlio 10y ago
Costco's profits are less their subscription revenue. That tells me the space for bulk retailers in middle class areas with the type of consumers that can shell out a yearly subscription fee isn't a whole lot bigger than Costco a
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by ftlio 10y ago
This stratfor article discusses the natural capital afforded to the US: https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geopolitics-united-states-... both in terms of transportation networks and being removed by an ocean from the co
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by ftlio 10y ago
He doesn't think America is great, aye? Hence the imperative that it must be made great... again.
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by ftlio 10y ago
You just described my life and why Amazon gets all my grocery and household goods money now.
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by ftlio 10y ago
Run your business like an unsigned int. There are no negatives!
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by ftlio 10y ago
The first 5000 years I can't recommend enough. As far as how abstract money and society get, I think a decent counterpoint exists in Nick Szabo's Shelling Out: http://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/ Money
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by ftlio 10y ago
Windows 10 isn't too bad OS wise either though. I don't know, maybe I'm just too old now because I'm already tired typing about it. I still scratch my head when I see people developing non Windows apps on Windows. And
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by ftlio 10y ago
An enemy combatants gets no such treatment. Since we're in a war against terrorism (the state's words, not mine), the legalese has mainly been argued from that distinction. In an ideal world, it takes a crime to make a criminal.
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by ftlio 10y ago
Food Inc. discusses the practice of bussing people into the US from central / south America on legal visas. After the visas expire, the sponsors make deals with the INS to slow feed migrants back to them for deportation. Even the peo
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by ftlio 10y ago
Yeah I think all of the subsidies are justified by the whole 'non starving populus' externalities even if it isn't an optimal solution.

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