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by guimarin 12y ago
I met with one of the Coin founders and he had something really interesting to say on this topic. If apple-pay is successful it will disintermediate the banks from the money process/transaction. They are clearly not wanting this to hap
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by guimarin 12y ago
You don't think they 'actually spend $20k on a hammer, $30k on a toilet seat, do you'[1]? If this is not an error, I think we just found the best justification I've seen for making all budgets/purchases etc. in gove
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by guimarin 12y ago
This is a great idea. I wish that it was free, but I don't have FU money to fund my own version, so I can't complain too loudly. Hopefully if they become successful or fold they make their basic data public and in the former charg
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by guimarin 12y ago
It's funny you ask whether someone will do the jobs we cannot outsource to robots. I saw an old man bend over and pick up a piece of trash the other day while walking to work. I have also calculated that about 90% of the software I use
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by guimarin 12y ago
This is hardly surprising though. The current democratic leadership is full of double-talkers and the republicans are completely owned by special interests. The only way to get something done would be to throw more money at lobbyists than c
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by guimarin 12y ago
Reuters is reporting the settlement to be about $324million. So an order of magnitude less than speculated here. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/24/us-apple-google-la... And just in case anyone is
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by guimarin 12y ago
This 'advice' is a really great re-skin of Nancy Duarte's book Resonate.[1] Nancy is one of the genius' behind Duarte Designs[2] whose client list includes Steve Jobs and his infamous Apple presentations as well as Al Go
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by guimarin 12y ago
this is just not true. I built a battery exchange vehicle in what amounted to my backyard. range was 180mi. It's not that hard. BP was never a competent tech company but a business guy who latched on to an already existent tech idea.
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by guimarin 13y ago
pretty link baity topic. Makes the internet out to be the bad guy... the internet is just a piece of technology. wealth inequality happens as a result of the capitalist process. it's the best thing we've come up with at organizing
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by guimarin 13y ago
We are moving from a world where everyone has to work to one where no one can work. From closed allocation and hierarchical control to open allocation and a decentralized control structure. This process will probably take a long time, and t
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by guimarin 13y ago
I think you're framing the situation incorrectly. Wall Street is at a state of regulatory capture. Sorry I'm not an SEC apologist, but from what I've seen they walk a fine line between incompetence and brilliance. Everyone on
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by guimarin 13y ago
That dimon is still being targeted astounds me. This is an example of why even those in power should not be the nail that sticks out. In case you're wondering why dimon, why JP Morgan it all traces back to this [1] event. 1. in 2008&#x
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by guimarin 13y ago
Maybe. I used to think a lot of conclusions I had were absurd. I think the NYT has come a long way from the paper storied of old. Also, and I mean this in the most non ad hominem way possible. At what point would you disclose your former an
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by guimarin 13y ago
It's simple. the NYT is and has been for some time, a mouthpiece for the sitting administration in Washington. They were under Bush, they are under Obama. The administrations trade 'towing the line' for access. Don't toe
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by guimarin 13y ago
Don't get me wrong I think that LLNL and the NIF are doing great work. I just think the work is more weapons based and less energy than we are all lead to believe in the press. and I meant that the Fusion Reactor business is a low prio
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by guimarin 13y ago
tl;dr - Another article about the US nuclear weapons research facility at Lawrence Livermore, AKA NIF, and its sideshow 57th priority. On a related note. It's been really sad to see the US slowly lose its edge in plasma based fusion te
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500 Startups: Fund II raises $44m(techcrunch.com)
2 points by guimarin 13y ago|0 comments
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Mouse Gametes synthesized from Epithelial Cells(nature.com)
1 points by guimarin 13y ago|0 comments
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by guimarin 13y ago
I guess genetics is the new 'vehicle' to the fountain of youth. Plants, alchemy, ships, industrialization, computers, and now genetics. Seems like our quest moves further away from myth with each cycle. Albeit, when you have an i
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by guimarin 13y ago
I know that, and certainly I'm reaching out. This is why Better Place never built a single piece of hardware in the US or EU, btw. But I'm curious what HN thinks I should do. Last time around, nothing came of it, and the world
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by guimarin 13y ago
Alright, I'll grant that it may not be a hack. My point is the quality of the leaks and the timing is too good for it not to have some more serious motivation than what appeared to me to be another instance of the NSA 'Trailblaze
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by guimarin 13y ago
I think it bears repeating again, as we see yet another major disclosure about NSA programs throughout the world: the NSA has been hacked by someone who is deliberately leaking these documents in some super-Risk game of international espion
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by guimarin 13y ago
"If the government has a broader voluntary national security program to gather customer data we don’t participate in it." -priceless. Of course they wouldn't participate in such a thing voluntarily, can you imagine how expen
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by guimarin 13y ago
awesome. when can I buy one to put in my HFT datacenter...
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by guimarin 13y ago
it was. the ceo stole the idea from a small-time silicon valley inventor, while said inventor was soliciting him for money. thus it was never in the US or EU where patents applied.
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by guimarin 13y ago
OP is not alone. I saw the trailer for elysium and immediately thought, Rendezvous with Rama ( 50 yrs old ). For me, part of the problem with envisioning a future that is so much 'more' than what we have today, on the order of how Star Trek
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by guimarin 13y ago
It bothers me that journalists take this view often with technology that can only be used by a small fraction of users. It also bothers me that companies feel it's necessary to do a big dog and pony show for a feature that's only available
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by guimarin 13y ago
Aston Martin engineers good cars for their production volume. Since they are more or less in the same production volume as where tesla wants to be in the medium term, I would say his experience will bring a lot to Tesla. It was probably o
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by guimarin 13y ago
I for one, am very glad that we work in an industry that by and large, supports its employees to express themselves in such a manner. Obviously, YMMV but that's one thing about being software engineer that I appreciate.
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Inkonomics: What happens when Tattoos go Mainstream?(priceonomics.com)
1 points by guimarin 13y ago|1 comments

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