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by grizzles 6y ago
I just flicked an email to the ceo of a company I'm an investor that could become a huge customer. The thing their customers will want to insure against is fairly bespoke, so they will care about strong terms around non-competition and
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by grizzles 6y ago
There is a reason no one has tried it. What you are proposing would be very expensive. You have to transport the water to them. The large tanks (eg. 10M litres) require ongoing maintenance. You must make sure they don't leak, evaporat
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by grizzles 6y ago
I had the same idea. Startup name is strata.energy. Pool pump s are another good one for your list. No one cares when the pump runs, just that it runs.
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by grizzles 6y ago
This won't work because of erosion.
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by grizzles 6y ago
Hope they do a wasm emscripten build like sqlite has too. Would be an incredible building block for the move to distributed computing.
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by grizzles 6y ago
I'd keep it offline but allow for online lookups to make sure your vote is cast. For example, at the end of the process the election counters release a file called "results.txt". Inside that file is a data structure like: {
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by grizzles 6y ago
I respect him but my opinion of his credibility dropped quite a bit when The Intercept burned Reality Winner. He claims it was the fault of a colleague but he's still comfortable calling himself the founder of the org. Take some respon
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by grizzles 6y ago
why wasn't the turbine hung off an airship?
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by grizzles 6y ago
States need to open all in person polling places right away and keep them open to election day to prevent a civil war. This isn't going to be a normal election. Social distancing over time instead of space.
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by grizzles 6y ago
Indisputably. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
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by grizzles 6y ago
This has little to no chance of coming into service. It's absolutely a direct threat to Visa & 100+ others. They will make sure that this is killed in Congress + legislation will likely be written prohibiting the Fed from creating
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by grizzles 6y ago
Nuclear power is the safest form of power delivery. Fukushima is a good lesson, but nuclear power can clearly be engineered to work safely at sea level and below. The US Navy submarine corps has demonstrated it for decades. Singapore is a t
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by grizzles 6y ago
This is a political project. It's difficult to consider it otherwise in a rational decision making context. Any engineer would take one look at this and go yep, let's put a nuclear reactor on one or more of Singapore's 64 sur
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by grizzles 6y ago
Your broker could change their T&Cs to enact a 1% conversion to USD fee. If you own 100 gold bricks, that's the same as them walking in and confiscating 1 of them. Presumably that's something that wouldn't happen if you o
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by grizzles 6y ago
The history of paper and leather money is that it was originally considered receipts for the storage of precious metals like gold. In fact this was the case in the US until the 1970s. I'm not a gold bug suggesting a return to the gold
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by grizzles 6y ago
Gold: If you don't have the physical gold in your IMMEDIATE possession, you don't own gold.
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by grizzles 6y ago
Bad idea. Just like it is/was stupid for them to surface the neo nazi content I've been shown in the last few years, eg. in Google News. I usually expect more from this company. Has Google gone hopelessly corporate?
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by grizzles 6y ago
How does MaxMind prevent someone from releasing an open source version of their database? If you are about to answer "Copyright", remember - you can't Copyright facts. This has been upheld in the Courts system many times.
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by grizzles 6y ago
Growth is flat. For example, vs their 2016 Q3 results they've had 8 down quarters in the Client Computing Group aka consumer. They'll have the data centres for awhile but when you only have a few customers buying huge volume they
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by grizzles 6y ago
Intel is a company that's living on it's distribution legacy. Ask yourself - why do regular people still buy Intel PCs? Because they are easy to buy. A great non Intel hardware and software laptop+aio by AMD or someone else woul
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by grizzles 6y ago
Find your yaysayers. Prioritize for impact. Get feedback. I believe in you. Also this doesn't work for all things but try to find a way to make it profitable. Then you can build a positive feedback loop. From what I briefly read it loo
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by grizzles 6y ago
Ok City is just down the road from Tulsa. Guess this means Liz Warren was born on a Native American reservation.
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by grizzles 6y ago
WebView is such a core component. In the interests of completeness, Flutter.dev really ought to bundle an android-like webview component in the core libs. It really breaks the WORA value prop if you need to if-elif your way around platfor
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by grizzles 6y ago
Well there's hydropower (gravity) or tidal power (celestial bodies). Otherwise I don't think water can be focused the way wind can.
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by grizzles 6y ago
You are a victim of your own bubble (as we all are). Rational discourse doesn't appeal to most people. Hence this idea won't work at scale - eg. outside said bubble.
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by grizzles 6y ago
Upgrade experiment: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rooftop-wind-powe...
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by grizzles 6y ago
Language can be fun. Reminds me of "I never said she stole my money". which has a bunch of different meanings depending on which word is emphasized.
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by grizzles 6y ago
It's behind a user/password thing. I'll see if I can get you a link, but it might be after this thread expires.
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by grizzles 6y ago
Cool. I've built some things like this to new urban (eg. transport concepts) in babylon.js. Mine has no FPS style view, it's more like a single animated object you can pan around. Where did you get your art / textures from? I
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by grizzles 6y ago
Great suggestion. This is one of my design pet peeves for anything related to banking / bill payments numbers that are long and unwieldy to type. The (eg. invoice) number 563466130 in base 35 is "9bh18y". The same number as

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