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by guimarin 10y ago
This is pretty typical of SF. Try and solve a problem they are not well suited to solve at the city level. SF has a ton of Fog, building solar panels would not be as beneficial to the city as increasing density and allowing people to have r
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by guimarin 10y ago
I doubt it's just red tape. More likely there is invested capital that has to be EOL, and they wrap up all the changes across the stack in one place. Counterfeiting is sexy, so it's the excuse. But really it's a calculation b
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by guimarin 10y ago
The difference is that servers don't self organize, they are static. People on the other hand make things happen. Relatively few small changes have outsized impacts because our current status quo is so optimized for the existing rulese
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by guimarin 10y ago
This really isn't rocket science or difficult. Everyone thinks this is a hard-complex problem, it is not. This is a hard simple problem. (easy-hard; simple-complex) 1. Upzone SOMA district to 12 stories. 2. Remove requirement that buil
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by guimarin 11y ago
I think you mean soft contacts. You can buy hard contacts that last a year right now.
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by guimarin 11y ago
I'm just going to file this one away for 20 years from now when electricity is 10-100x cheaper than today and indoor/underground farming is the most economical due to pest, density, and environmental concerns. Could you also say t
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by guimarin 11y ago
this is how short-term -> long-term memory works. You build up 'competence; in the hippocampus during waking hours, and then when you sleep 'a part' of those memories are shifted into other areas of the brain so the hippo
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by guimarin 11y ago
when trying to learn something, engage with it repeatedly on exponential decay. IE. Index cards. Go through them as many times as it take to learn whatever you are learning. Then perform a 20-30 minute context switch. do again. Now wait 1 h
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by guimarin 11y ago
You could imagine a kind of curated UGC for Netflix, where they take News personalities that are already well developed on YouTube and give them a platform to really go global. I for one cannot wait until this happens. The programming they&
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by guimarin 11y ago
Software is leading to much more leverage in capital efficiency. This is driving a reduction in CapEx spending in the US despite low interest rates. It's driving a reduced cost in exploration and extraction, which is in turn increasing
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by guimarin 11y ago
While I agree with you, your point is ultimately a semantic difference and not related to the parent discussion on how to fix education. Certainly 'status' defined this way is a necessity of being rich but not sufficient. Being an
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by guimarin 11y ago
A conspiracy seems overly suspicious. It's more likely that the people putting in place standardized testing believe that data should drive compensation and results. They don't seem to be understanding the implication of such a ga
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by guimarin 11y ago
And just to be clear. The answer for children is to make learning to love learning play. And the way to do that in a way that scales is through a video game. That is the future of education. Games for children that teach them how to learn,
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by guimarin 11y ago
I disagree with your comment about better teachers. Teachers are simply a conduit for learning. They don't scale, which is why there is still a power-law distribution in educational outcomes despite tons or research and data and traini
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by guimarin 11y ago
I think it's a stretch to ever think there was practical development for energy occurring at those facilities. When you think for 10s about the efficacy of dropping a deuterium pellet every 100ms into a laser chamber that literally nee
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by guimarin 11y ago
and yet the US has defunded and underfunded new Fusion research related to power generation at every turn for the past 20 years. Pinning our hopes on the ITER boondoggle.
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by guimarin 11y ago
The problem with Fusion has always been that R&D associated with it has no bearing on any first order weapons technology. Sure you might be able to put a reactor on an aircraft carrier, but studying powergeneration from fusion reactions
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by guimarin 11y ago
You're right, AWS just breaks even with their pricing.
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by guimarin 11y ago
This is awesome! We always seem to get tremendous bang for our buck in building ever larger and more precise tools. Question though, is there a realistic timeline or project for building a similar telescope as this, but in Space?
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by guimarin 11y ago
For anyone who reads this comment and is confused about what we are talking about. On page 17, Fusion research for the NIF of ~480M is outlined. We could debate for a long time about how this is more of PR move, and not realistic. In the pa
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by guimarin 11y ago
Most of the funding I've seen has gone into maintenance for existing projects, nuclear weapons research, and the ITER boondoggle. But if you have any sources of projects that have received billions of dollars that have been about power
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by guimarin 11y ago
Fusion is one of those areas that would benefit greatly from Public R&D. It's really sad that we've spent almost nothing on fusion research for the purposes of producing affordable electricity in the last 20 years.[1][2][3] 1.
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by guimarin 11y ago
how does the bitcoin system handles 10k+ transactions an hour?
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by guimarin 11y ago
As someone who derives most of his income from the value created by start-ups disrupting incumbents, I'm all in favor of index funds making firms anti-competitive in their own industries.
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by guimarin 11y ago
Back when I was a kid, Enemy of the State was not a documentary. But really, if you cared about Privacy/Security at all since the 80's you'd've known about Echelon, Echelon II, etc. You've also read up on ThinThread
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by guimarin 11y ago
Saying it's branding is a little disingenuous. I like to joke that NYC is just a brand describing a truly shitty city, but that's not really the case. What I've noticed about the WSJ is that a lot of the commentary is primari
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by guimarin 11y ago
I find myself thinking that the existance of Dark Energy/Dark Matter is the solution to the fermi paradox. there is some kind of energy creating system which creates dark matter. This matter is no good for normal matter so it is transp
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by guimarin 11y ago
This issue with cars, is what scares me the most. We'll be able to have 'classic cars' -> cars made up until about 1980s. then there will be this huge period of cars that have to be destroyed because their onboard computer
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by guimarin 11y ago
It happens all the time. More often than not the C-level will get a bonus on employee retention and tie the new stock vesting schedule up with that retention period. They in the meantime are able to immediately get bought out. I think Micha
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by guimarin 12y ago
IMO the real breakthrough here was the density of Carbon Nanotubes they are claiming.

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