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by grondilu 11y ago
Who said anything about competing with them? There are many, many shareholders who are just regular joes and will probably never become millionaires. The author whines about wealth going to shareholders. To me that just means that people
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by grondilu 11y ago
> those gains may be captured by shareholders Then buy shares. Problem solved. I mean, this guy makes it sound as if holding shares was some trait that gets inherited at birth or something. It's (usually) not. Shares are bought, a
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by grondilu 11y ago
That's only the slides. Is there a video of the talk?(assuming there is a talk, that is)
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by grondilu 11y ago
I was hoping this was an application of the single-pixel camera concept I've read about few years ago[1]. Apparently not. 1. http://web.stanford.edu/~jbarral/PSY221/SinglePixelImaging.h...
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by grondilu 11y ago
Gave it a shot in HTLM5/WebGL. Check it out: http://grondilu.github.io/dna.html
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by grondilu 11y ago
Neat idea. Someone needs to implement that in HTLM5/Webgl. Couldn't resist trying something similar with 2D canvas: https://output.jsbin.com/zorepe It will definitely look better in genuine 3D, but that's a
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by grondilu 11y ago
I also thought of AI while reading this title. Many people assess that strong AI will not be possible until will figure out how the brain works. Yet it's very much possible that we create a machine that exhibits human-like behavior b
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by grondilu 11y ago
> When there's a self-driving version, though - that's a winner. I don't know. Seems to me that a self-driving model would gain at being completely redesigned. As a matter of fact, lately I've been wondering if self-
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by grondilu 11y ago
That's the best example of out-of-the-box thinking I've ever seen in chess.
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by grondilu 11y ago
You don't miss anything because you don't exist anymore. Missing things is considered a bad thing when you can experience the frustration of not being able to do things you would like to do. But if you don't exist, you can n
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by grondilu 11y ago
There's a real world company that offers this service: https://www.eter9.com/
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by grondilu 11y ago
He actually said "with quite a lot of mathematics too"
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by grondilu 11y ago
> I have no choice but to obey. Did he ask a lawyer? Because it looks to me there are two possibilities. One, he was not doing anything illegal in which case the police had no authority to stop his activities. Two, he was indeed doing
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by grondilu 11y ago
They would probably get a better result if they opened a brothel next to their building or something.
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by grondilu 11y ago
Even weirdos like the Weirstrass function? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function
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by grondilu 11y ago
> Instead of using steel to build certain high-strength components of an airplane, for instance, Carbon3D would be able to 3D print a lightweight alternative by shaping plastic into a form previously impossible to manufacture. This is wh
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by grondilu 11y ago
> The challenge in moving large amounts of scientific data is that the open Internet is designed for transferring small amounts of data, like web pages Isn't there FTP for large data transfers?
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by grondilu 11y ago
> "just because, for example, one employee negotiated harder than the other" Isn't that a perfectly valid reason, though?
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Show HN: Can you draw points at infinity with OpenGL? Sure, why not?
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Show HN: Oolite space game in HTML5/WebGL(grondilu.github.io)
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by grondilu 11y ago
With bash, if 'fg' is too long to type you can just type '%'.
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by grondilu 11y ago
> A town, city, state or country can provide its community with a basic income that is backed by the value created by that community. It's not clear to me why the value created by people living inside those types of communities shou
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by grondilu 12y ago
Indeed. My memory is failing me but I seem to recall having heard or read someone talking about the brain and stating that its sole purpose is to move the body. Thus, an organism that does not move does not need a brain, and as a proof of
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by grondilu 12y ago
> The Mail Rail scan is comprised of more than 11 billion points, consuming over a terabyte of storage. That's about 90 bytes per point. Seems a lot.
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by grondilu 12y ago
Thiel seems to hope and expect technological progress to improve people's lives, and this seems to be the main drive for his interest in technology. But isn't it possible to be interested in technology for the sake of it, for the
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by grondilu 12y ago
> The director of SpaceX is developing a network of satellites above the Earth that could speed up web surfing and could provide access to isolated communities. And the most interesting thing about this project is that it will use the pr
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by grondilu 12y ago
I'm all for preserving endangered species and all, but frankly these insects scare the hell out of me and if I was anywhere close to one of them I may run away, screaming like a little girl. I believe I'm not very exceptional a pe
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by grondilu 12y ago
I would argue that the orbital resonance necessarily is the result of Earth's gravity.
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by grondilu 12y ago
> We can —and we will— redistribute wealth But should we? And if so : why ? Also : who's "we"?
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by grondilu 12y ago
> "Would you try to understand the universe by simulating every molecule? What would you have achieved? It’s going to be just as complicated as the real thing and you won’t understand it any better." I'm pretty sure cosmo

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