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by jcfrei 8y ago
I think the data from Alaska should be excluded, all counties have the same ratio.
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Elon Musk’s Funding for Tesla Wasn’t So Secure(bloomberg.com)
114 points by jcfrei 8y ago|86 comments
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by jcfrei 8y ago
What bothers me is that lots of applications will start throwing errors even if you disable just one permission from Google Play Services (like body sensors). Quite some time ago Google started encouraging developers to use the google play
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Very interesting article. I have nothing substantial to add I just want to point out how "cyberpunky" the lives of some people have become. Twenty years ago this would have fit right into the storyline of a dystopian cyberpunk nov
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by jcfrei 8y ago
An inflation adjusted government bond ETF might be what you seek. In any case, there's no such thing as free lunch: In other words "a risk free asset that pays above the rate of inflation" doesn't exist.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
That's simply not true. There are plenty of cheap investments (via ETFs) for pretty much any risk profile. If you save money in the form of currency on a savings account then you misunderstand modern financial markets. That's not
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by jcfrei 8y ago
With a couple of hundred dollars you can already open a brokerage account and invest in pretty much anything.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
There's that inflation is a tax meme again. Nobody forces you to hold any asset with inflation with the exception of a yearly conversion into local currency for tax payment. The fact that you need USD to pay for everything else too is
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by jcfrei 8y ago
It's something I would get excited about - not something I absolutely need. In the past decades so much effort has gone into optimizing rendering speeds for computer games or page rendering on browsers while text editors appear to have
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by jcfrei 8y ago
On a semi-related note: You know what would really get me excited? A GPU accelerated, highly optimized text editor, that could display several gigabytes of text with several thousand columns wide rows, smooth scrolling, zooming and text-hig
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Interesting opinion piece. I've previously written about the rise of technoskepticism: http://jcfrei.com/technological-primacy/
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Is this online "epdf" viewer by Springer running sluggish on purpose? Or is that just because of my dated notebook? Whenever graphs are rendered my CPU usage just spikes.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
> The taste of insects simply does not compare to meat and poultry. Poultry, especially the meat of chicken and turkeys is close to tasteless. I would argue the opposite, the average consumer doesn't really care for the taste of the
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Waymo might also tell a different story: They've realized that a fundamental breakthrough in self-driving cars is unlikely to happen in the next decade and therefore there's no point in waiting any longer to perfect the technology
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Tesla Facing New Investigation from Regulators, as It Builds Cars in a Tent(jalopnik.com)
3 points by jcfrei 8y ago|0 comments
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The Convenience of the Digital Age, at 11,562 Feet(nytimes.com)
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by jcfrei 8y ago
I never would have thought that one day I'd see a link to Liricas Analas on HN.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
I wouldn't say the web UI got screwed. It's just that it grew out of a markup language whose main focus was adding semantics and hyperlinks to documents. Then commercial interests (among others) focused on adding more and more fun
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Not an expert by any means but I think the benefits of fusion power lie in the future: Namely as a power plant for interstellar exploration. The energy received by the sun might be enough to power infrastructure on earth but planets and spa
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The future of VR with Jaron Lanier, and why we should we all quit social media(youtube.com)
1 points by jcfrei 8y ago|2 comments
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by jcfrei 8y ago
It looks like a joke now but I'm fairly convinced that in the not too distant future the most influential social media accounts will be run by some kind of AI.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
They mention it in the article: > None of the proposals were as lucrative as Facebook’s ad-based model. “Well, that doesn’t scale,” Ms. Sandberg told the WhatsApp executives of their proposals, according to a person familiar with the ma
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by jcfrei 8y ago
A major part of human communication happens through facial expressions. Emojis/Animojis enable this for digital communication. It's new in the sense that we now have a global set of symbols for these expressions.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Always interesting to see the divergence between HN and what the average user cares about. For most people emojis (and animojis) have opened a whole new way to communicate with each other. I can't think of another linguistic feature in
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by jcfrei 8y ago
I'm currently reading The Secret History of Mac Gaming by Richard Moss. It tells the story of the developers for the early Apple Macintosh.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
In previous discussions about sub 10nm chips I kept reading that the only company which is close to achieving this feature size is Intel - and for all other companies it's just a marketing term. Does this still hold?
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by jcfrei 8y ago
I've always wondered this too. Could we use Therapeutic Hypothermia (as it's called in the article) to increase our life spans? At least until more advanced medical procedures can cure aging?
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by jcfrei 8y ago
> It surprises to me no end that a company with $100B in funds, vast experience in supply chain and ability to suck up virtually all talent is struggling so badly at a technology that is over 100 years old while Tesla with its shoestring
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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by jcfrei 8y ago
I agree that it's a collusion between politicians and foreign investors. I wouldn't go so far as saying that one party has more responsibility than the other. But I would add a third party that also carries responsibility: The ele

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