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by jpm_sd 7y ago
"Takes flight" and crashes: To demonstrate our offshore flight capability, we completed two flights from the floating platform. The first quick flight included launch, hover away from the perch, and an autonomous landing. The seco
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Makani’s airborne wind power system takes flight offshore(medium.com)
3 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|1 comments
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Why did they even buy it? It's been on life support for years: https://mashable.com/2016/06/15/how-yahoo-derailed-tumblr/
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WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn(bloomberg.com)
212 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|168 comments
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Star Wars Is Struggling to Win over the Next Generation of Kids(bloomberg.com)
2 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Cool project! But, as with other electric instruments, not quite the same as the traditional equivalent: "Compared to an acoustic harmonica, the DM48 is less expressive in many ways, as mouth geometry, hands, and classical bending&#x2F
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The Great NASA Bake-Off(theatlantic.com)
1 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
These were the ":CueCat" of 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat I wonder what today's equivalent is?
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
What is required beyond "your at-will employment has been terminated"? What are the grounds for your hypothetical lawsuit?
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What Happens When the World’s Population Stops Growing?(theatlantic.com)
16 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
I'm an EE who has worked with and interviewed a lot of SWEs. Software is a uniquely "fake it till you make it"-compatible career path. There is an oversupply of people who look pretty good on paper but execute poorly.
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
I think one of the reasons technical interviewing has become so cumbersome is because companies are very reluctant to fire employees who are not working out. Thus, they have to make sure it's an absolutely perfect match up front. Would
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California Pushes Ahead with Self-Driving Vehicles(kqed.org)
1 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Interesting. The existing version uses stock powertrain components from Bosch that are common to several other small EVs. I wonder if they have developed a new lower cost system internally.
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
The Fiat 500e has been in production since 2013 (by Chrysler, in Mexico), but due to weird regulatory incentives, is only for sale in California and Oregon.
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
This is a really well-written, thorough article. Here's another way to think about it: Before we try to colonize Mars, we should try colonizing Canada. It's warmer than Mars! It has air and water, so it should be easy! And yet: h
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
While it might create a remarkably accurate visualization of the best-possible outcome, this won't tell you how it will feel afterwards, and it won't tell you about possible complications. Could be very misleading.
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Other Bets operating loss: ($989) [million] Almost a Billion dollars per quarter!? Put them out of shareholders' misery, already!
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The Slackification of the American Home(theatlantic.com)
3 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
After years of back pain and trying tons of different chairs, I've found that swimming and yoga make more of a difference than chair choice.
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Apparently this technique really works. From a blog post this morning: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6551805... Meet flight system P-496, which Loon’s operations team brought to a controlled
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
“We’re proposing infrastructure that we believe will protect the city,” says Richard McGuinness, a senior planning official working on Boston’s response to climate change. “How do you retreat from billions of dollars of assets? It’s not pra
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Building a Passive Radar System with RTL-SDR(rtl-sdr.com)
2 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Join something! A band, a chamber group, an orchestra? An artists' collective with shared studio space?
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
"business model R&D" used to be called "fraud"
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
This is very clever, but clever usually loses out to practical in the end. Zipline[0] has a delivery drone with even fewer moving parts! It looks an awful lot like an airplane. [0] https://flyzipline.com/
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
That's the new trade-off. The cable plug fails instead of the socket on the device. Cables are cheap.
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Students can also access "real time group classes taught largely by very experienced K12 teachers" by... going to school.
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
It is typical for Google to fund multiple competing projects, whether internal or external, for almost anything the founders find interesting.
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
I worked on Loon for a few years. It's a different use case. At "only" 20km altitude, they are able to provide LTE service direct to standard handsets. Starlink requires a dedicated rooftop terminal with a phased array antenn

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