jacquesm

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by jacquesm 7mo ago
YC backing. That's all it takes. Taken an existing idea that has legs (preferably one you find in Europe or Asia), then take it to the US, apply to YC and say you already have validation see 'startup x'.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
In this case though morality is their product. So they go down hard.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
"By combining the evidence I collected together with what the sim.ai team provided, I will show that Delve has stolen an open-source company’s tech by violating their license and then making a lot of money with it." -> You mean
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Oh, now there is an idea for an app... how to bs your used car salesman right back.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You could put that 500W into a heatpump.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
The difference is having your body worn out before you are at an age where you can retire.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
My conclusion is that you didn't even try to understand the GP.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Very nice. I have my eyes on Lithium-Titanate cells for my house, I can't wait until they go down in price enough. Weight and energy density are not an issue, but safety is and those cells are very good in that sense. https:/&#x2
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
The fossil fuel industry is fighting a rearguard action at this point.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
The next generation of home batteries will be a game changer. It will do for home energy storage what Lithium-Ion has done for laptops, phones and vehicles and it will be a lot safer too.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
House heating does not require massive amounts of energy. What it requires is efficiency. I've seen a house in Canada that was heated with a single candle when not occupied. Triple wall, reflective foil in between the wall layers, vert
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
They can and they will . In the longer term there simply won't be anything else.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Agreed it is not new. But it is taken to a new level.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
A bit of both. You became more attuned to what really does and does not make sense and they rotted a bit further. But 10 years ago it was pretty visible for both Musk and Andreessen.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
I don't think technologists are blue collar. They are not necessarily part of the owner class but true blue collar work is not done behind desks.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
The other way around.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You left out 'unarmed'.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
We've been in low-key WW3 since 2022 or maybe even since 2014, it is just that like WW2 it did not arrive everywhere at once. But there are a lot of countries at war now and if the fall out from this entirely manufactured energy crisis
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Not really, because the attacks do not take place from US and EU territory, but all from Ukrainian territory. And they are very careful about never so much as giving the impression that this is not the case.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Imagine the degree of fall out if say Estonia allowed Ukraine to use their country to set up a base and they started attacking russian infrastructure or Kaliningrad from there. I'm fairly sure russia would see that as Estonia having jo
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Colo and cloud providers that provide real SLAs exist. But they're pricey because they tend to insure against breach of that that SLA and they pass on the cost of that insurance. If you're a run-of-the-mill e-commerce company th
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
I've been telling everybody around me to prepare for a massive price increase in various must-haves because I don't see how we're going to avoid that. Fertilizer and fuel are a massive problem and once reserves run out (and w
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
UAE has always been one of the more repressive government on the planet.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Low latency to certain markets.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Per-core-per-drone.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Iran has been on the other side in the Ukrainian war so they have absolutely nothing whatsoever to complain about. If anything they should count their blessings that Ukraine has so far left them alone, they could have definitely chosen not
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Props to you, you're further along that track than I am. Running a business has been one of main obstacles to cutting more of these ties. But it's getting there.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> I've never seen an SLA which is clear cut enough to be worth pursuing if you want more than a free t-shirt. I have, regularly. I am not sure what kind of business you are running but parties that rely on service providers for crit
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> So, like, what phone OS do you use? Nokia N800. > Do you pick airlines based on what planes they fly? I stopped flying entirely. > Do you choose Bing over Google? Still using Google but working very hard on moving away from it. Y
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Highly annoying. Hn should block that thing from linking.

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