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by hos234 7y ago
So you are saying Facebook should declare itself as a (virtual) country and then try?
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by hos234 7y ago
"Too big to innovate"
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by hos234 7y ago
Thats a very good answer. Requires one further piece. Cancellation of competing power occurs as Interconnections Increase. The more connected the world gets the more power bumps into each other. For anyone interested in addition to End of P
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by hos234 7y ago
"It’s not just that power shifts from one country to another, from one political party to another, from one business model to another, it’s this: Power is decaying" - Moises Naim [The End of Power] The book basically says, it is b
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by hos234 7y ago
They do have a weakness - Search. There are a trillion products in a trillion categories and some meaningless small number get displayed on the first search result page. This is obviously highly abnormal and their own search teams will tell
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by hos234 7y ago
Hard to say, as you haven't mentioned why they are interested in a sophomore from a small college.
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Bumble CEO's vision to build the female internet(fastcompany.com)
2 points by hos234 7y ago|1 comments
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by hos234 7y ago
All this is ambiguous because people are different. Different personality types. Different needs. The spectrum is vast. And its all changing with different phases of life. Study your own family and friends, and you will find a dozen differe
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by hos234 7y ago
No idea why you are getting downvoted. There will always be some number of "greedy" people in any group. But what they are greedy about does change from generation to generation, and that definitely makes things interesting.
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Temprature Triggered Shape Shifting Structures(seas.harvard.edu)
1 points by hos234 7y ago|0 comments
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by hos234 7y ago
This is from 2004, way before stealth drones went mainstream but all were in development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-3_DarkStar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_P
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by hos234 7y ago
All this is reminding me of the fall of the Iron Curtain for some reason. That too started in unexpected ways and was over quicker then anyone imagined. "They have 200000 soviet soldiers watching...silos full of nuclear missiles and he
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by hos234 7y ago
Or if they start using Star Wars/Marvel symbols is China going to ban the next Star Wars/Marvel movie or maybe bleep out "Rebel Alliance" or "Avengers Assemble"? Good strategy indeed.
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by hos234 7y ago
I vaguely remember reading there are cases of Auditory Brain stem Implants (to restore some forms of hearing) running for decades. No idea how similar that is to this case though.
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Tech and Humanity – Joseph Gordon-Levitt Interviews Jaron Lanier(podcasts.apple.com)
2 points by hos234 7y ago|0 comments
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by hos234 7y ago
This is not what people are worrying about. We are already seeing, for almost 10 years now, a whole bunch of Unintended Consequences of dumb algorithms applied at global population scales. Just because some people are throwing the phrase su
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by hos234 7y ago
This has nothing to do with national borders. In US, UK and Germany the Nobel's don't come from all over the country but from very small areas. If Princeton/Newyork/Boston declared independence tomorrow those new countri
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by hos234 7y ago
Awesome that they got 5000 students involved in the excavation.
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by hos234 7y ago
Big corps can't escalate things as a reaction or on a whim. They have much more to loose than a single protestor does. It has to be planned. Preferably with all other big corps in tow. Google tried and their market share went from 35%
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by hos234 7y ago
The GIS community has a bunch of stuff for local govt. Just google "GIS small town". Maps/Dashboards (of issues) to track things basically - road repairs, streetlighting, sewage/water monitoring, zoning/taxes, utili
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by hos234 7y ago
Interesting thanks! That sporttechie site was an eye opener. Didn't realize how much stuff was going on.
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by hos234 7y ago
Jacquard Looms. No electronics required.
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by hos234 7y ago
This is cool. I didn't know lidar point clouds could be generated for an entire stadium. Not clear how the impact point was detected in real time (or exit velocity, launch angle, and spray direction for that matter) without some manual
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by hos234 7y ago
Yup. That's the strategy the Military uses - https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pent... "At a cost of $400 million, some 1,200 auditors charged into the jungle of military finance,
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by hos234 7y ago
> sensing and metrology in what kind of areas?
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by hos234 7y ago
There is this famous scene from Howard Stern's movie Private Parts - Howard: In a way that I gotta figure out what I'm gonna be. I mean, I don't want to be one of these disc jockeys that runs around the country, you know, loo
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by hos234 7y ago
So where did these conversations go? Just curious if she is heading back more aware or more confused.
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by hos234 7y ago
The "real mess" of society is different from what social media has created. Social media has added a new dimension to complexity in society, by adding a number(upvote/click/like/view/retweet etc) next to every
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The world is full of people trapped doing meaningless robotic things as it is. On top of it they are all living longer wondering what the fuck for. Just ask a friendly neighbourhood shrink for the stats. Your kind of advice my friend contri
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by hos234 7y ago
Only if you find it interesting or if its causing issues, otherwise its a waste of time. Be clear about what strengths you bring to the table and work on those. If you have a sales background for example hone that craft. Let the techies do

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