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by ild 11y ago
Right, high frequency con artistry.
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by ild 11y ago
> We attack both startups and inequality. That would've been true if there was no non-profit startups.
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by ild 11y ago
Looks like she is wearing a hijab.
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by ild 11y ago
History... Germans have complexes with it.
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by ild 11y ago
If you want to hire only those with GitHub profiles, no wonder you see shortage of candidates.
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by ild 11y ago
> huge social cost of having your own minority language. Scandinavians are some of the most successful societies, despite of small languages. Languages have cultural baggage to them; every time I hear English, I see high inequality, poor
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by ild 11y ago
Cool; all the pranksters of West Virginia and New Mexico please take note.
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by ild 11y ago
> (don't like volatility) Antifragility is not liking volatility; it is dislike but acceptance of it. This is what he said: “(4) Build in redundancy and overcompensation “Redundancy in systems is a key to antifragility. As Taleb su
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by ild 11y ago
Underlying markets _are never stable_. The main stabilizing force in the world are institutions of power and violence, such as army (especially American), police, jails etc. Markets already rely heavily on governments for their existence.
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by ild 11y ago
1. Somewhat higher quality. 2. Different legal status (police calls etc.). 3. Powered from a separate "battery", often will work even nothing else does.
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by ild 11y ago
Yeah, extreme volatility is the definition of instability.
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by ild 11y ago
Hardware involves certifications (unless you are small-time EBay vendor).
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by ild 11y ago
Chlorine, not chloride.
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by ild 11y ago
Markets cease to exist in unstable environment; "artificial" or not, stability is a precondition for existence of any social institution;I mean, come on, who wants to participate in unstable market?
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by ild 11y ago
You still need a bit of load if you run supply without the actual computer connected.
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by ild 11y ago
> I've been designing electronics and firmware professionally for my entire career. That makes absolutely no difference. You can still be a bad engineer. If you find Arduino bastardized C++ superior than AVR-GCC, you are a poor deve
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by ild 11y ago
I know someone bought 1988 Honda. Made a sharp turn - front wheel fell off.
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by ild 11y ago
Depends on the food eaten. Intestinal gases are poisonous.
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by ild 11y ago
So the annoying PCMatic ads were right???
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by ild 11y ago
But this is not Reddit either.
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by ild 11y ago
God thanks bicycles, horses and hot air balloons don't have wireless yet.
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by ild 11y ago
Not in Bay Area.
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by ild 11y ago
The difference is that Arduino interfaces the electronic world; you need to know your domain.
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by ild 11y ago
There was a link on HN recently about gentrification of the concept "hacker". It explains better than I can do.
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by ild 11y ago
The problem starts when someone unfamiliar with low level OS details writes a network service; you end up hacked. With arduino people get false sense of knowledge and when they put the things togethe for a real world application, it ends up
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by ild 11y ago
Arduino has its niche: it is artists; it actually started as a part of Processing. However, what bothers me is the culture around it: newspeak ("fritzing" etc.), lack of understanding that it is a toy and inferior thing, not suita
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by ild 11y ago
No, wrong analogy. Web browsing should not be advertised as an introduction into TCP/IP.
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by ild 11y ago
Besides, last time I checked "open-source hardware" meant VHDL, Verilog and FPGA. The word has been hijacked I guess. Arduino, as a piece of hardware btw is a nice development kit on its own.
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by ild 11y ago
> to who? Everyone and especially the arduinists themselves. > people than you might get interested in electronics as a hobby. wow. People get interested in Arduino, not electronics; they get interested in the bling, not how it works.
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by ild 11y ago
> fewer people who learn the basics? It stays constant, but the noise increases.

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