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by ignostic 10y ago
I do a lot of marketing, and I smiled seeing what you spent money on. I've been most of those places with bigger budgets and similar results. When I'm working with good companies it usually turns into something more like product m
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by ignostic 10y ago
I believe the trick is that they harvest "95 percent of it from the light they absorb ", emphasis added. It's sort of like saying an efficient solar system only loses 5% of the energy absorbed by the solar panels. Photosyn
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by ignostic 11y ago
RSS readers seem like such a good idea, but they've hardly caught on outside of tech groups. They weren't intuitive enough for most people to use, and we didn't want another interface that we had to check. We also didn't
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by ignostic 11y ago
Maybe someone can help me understand the significance, because this seems perfectly obvious. I couldn't read the full article, but I don't think any scientist in the field felt like humans hadn't had any impact on plants and
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by ignostic 11y ago
Wikipedia feels like a piece of software that's experienced massive scope creep. It's huge. People have pet pieces they're emotionally attached to. It's so massive and trying to do so much that it's hard to even tel
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Here’s Waldo: Computing the optimal search strategy for finding Waldo(randalolson.com)
2 points by ignostic 11y ago|0 comments
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by ignostic 11y ago
There's a lot of unexplained jargon in this post, and the flow is confusing. The "tl;dr" doesn't even make sense on its own, and is never fully explained by the post. Pretty bad content, IMO, but I'd love to hear wh
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by ignostic 11y ago
There are scientists who are trying to "cure" death. I don't know if it will happen in our lifetime, but it's possible. http://theimmortalists.com/ I, too, don't want to die, but I don't let it
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by ignostic 11y ago
Yeah, this is gross and sexist. It's insulting to women, but it's also insulting to the programmers. I'd be a insulted if my manager hired ANYONE as an "official encourager" for my position. Praise means very little
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by ignostic 11y ago
A 40% depth discharge is going to put way more wear than leaving it at 100%. Unless you want to plug and unplug constantly most users are probably best leaving it plugged while working. If you really want to, you can do a little bit of good
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by ignostic 11y ago
Yeah, that's a great starting spot for putting these crazy myths to bed. A lot of a people seem confused about two concepts in the article: ideal storage and depth of discharge . These are two separate concerns. If you try to mainta
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by ignostic 11y ago
It's correct that you'll retain battery capacity better if you store it at 40-80%. But that recommendation is based on long-term storage . It's not right to assume that also applies to in-use products, especially the way p
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by ignostic 11y ago
Ehhh, orbit's not a great idea, especially lower-earth orbit. There's already enough space junk in our orbit right now that we're running the risk of an orbital chain-reaction. The chain reaction could take out most of our sa
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by ignostic 12y ago
I'm very glad to see this idea turning into a community mechanism. HN has some great minds, and I love seeing the solutions they come up with to problems. It's a very technical, analytical, and rational community. Unfortunately, s
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by ignostic 12y ago
Putting aside the Comcast hate in this thread, this is great. This is competition at work. Comcast isn't going to force you to buy, and they're going to lower their current prices for 500 Mbps customers and launch 2 Gbps service t
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by ignostic 12y ago
I understand how someone might believe in "innovation tokens," but it's really just a confused way to look at ROI. There's no inherent cost in some innovation, though. If our programmers already know an "innovative&
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by ignostic 12y ago
> "Its the 3rd Millennium, get with it." No need to be condescending. People can disagree with you without being technically stupid. > "SO that's what, a few gigabytes? Takes 30 seconds to download? Then run some s
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by ignostic 12y ago
Exactly. Based on data from Spotify[1] and taking an average payment[2] of $.0052, I calculated Spotify would be storing about 20 BILLION accounting records PER MONTH. Showing my work: 15m paying subscribers = ~150m per month, ~105m paid to
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by ignostic 12y ago
It might not be complicated, but it's cumbersome as hell: "Hey, Rhianna, here's your 65-million line payment breakdown for the week! I know it used to just be one simple intuitive calculation, but isn't this great!?&quot
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by ignostic 12y ago
Right now the payment is easy to understand why you were paid as you were. Listens * payment * .7 = my check. If the proposal were followed, all transparency is lost. "Extremely long payment records" is quite an under-statement. I
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by ignostic 12y ago
I guess you could say it that way. When some researchers say plaque is a "symptom," they might just mean that there is an underlying mechanism that is broken and causing plaque to build up. No one thinks the plaque is good or norm
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by ignostic 12y ago
Do you not remember the Prism program that really got the anti-NSA sentiment running? In that case, they weren't listening for communication. They were compelling private companies to hand it over. If we go all HTTPS, the NSA will just
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by ignostic 12y ago
That's sort of a problem. Also, look at these pages: http://www.autoaccessoriesgarage.com/Seat-Covers/_Nissan-Alt... http://www.autoaccessoriesgarage.com/Seat-Covers/_Hyundai-So... The page l
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by ignostic 12y ago
Wow, I've forgotten how many Google products I used that were abandoned at some point. I counted 15 that I've used. To be fair, some of these didn't die - they were renamed, graduated, or folded into another project. Google T
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by ignostic 12y ago
Customs officials forcing you to unlock your phone is not just an invasion of privacy - it's a pointless invasion of privacy. Customs agents don't even know where to start in finding data that a user wants hidden. Even if allowed
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by ignostic 12y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who found this approach childish. Adding "ducks" has one of two outcomes: - Best case : Someone sees your duck and you've all wasted time adding and then removing it. - Worst case : No
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by ignostic 12y ago
I have some experience consulting with one of these companies, and I know they understand the importance of moving past paper and into things like tablets and ereaders. It's perhaps their primary focus to transition to new tech without
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by ignostic 12y ago
This post appears to have been flagged incorrectly. I'm sure we've been using a bunch of words that would raise a flag, when in reality we're just talking about the content and important but sensitive issues. Could some fix t
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by ignostic 12y ago
This is disgusting. It's also disappointing how little most games (CoD, for example) have done to cut back on back behavior. I've seen players on some games just spew hate and nasty taunts in games with no repercussions. At most,
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by ignostic 12y ago
The circle? I didn't see her threatening to kill or rape anyone. I'm pretty sure she's not putting it out there as retribution. It'd be pretty ineffective retribution considering the offenders put it out there themselves

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