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Why Are People Fleeing Central America? A New Breed of Gangs Is Taking Over(wsj.com)
1 points by jpm_sd 8y ago|0 comments
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Caltech develops world's smallest optical gyroscope(caltech.edu)
3 points by jpm_sd 8y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Saildrone | Full-time | ONSITE | Alameda, CA | https://www.saildrone.com/#Careers We are hiring for multiple roles! Data Pipeline Engineer Geospatial Software Developer Lead iOS Developer Platform Engineer Quality Control L
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Executive accused of harassment at Alphabet 'X' unit is out(axios.com)
115 points by jpm_sd 8y ago|82 comments
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Upper management is afraid to lose people who are supposedly valuable.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
And were two of those people Drummond and DeVaul?
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Star Simpson is actually somewhat notorious for her naivete: https://thetech.com/2007/11/13/simpson-v127-n40 http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2007/10/i_was_a_teenage_terrori... Edi
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
These tasks are not real problems in need of solutions. Fetching a beer from the fridge, taking an empty plate to the sink, and throwing dirty clothes in a hamper take so little time that there is no reason to automate them.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
I believe the general idea is to provide drinking water where there is no pre-existing "residential tap water" infrastructure.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
I 100% disagree with your conclusion. People don't want robot buddies, they want dishwashers. And dishwasher equivalents for other household tasks.
731.
MAKERphone – an educational DIY mobile phone(kickstarter.com)
3 points by jpm_sd 8y ago|1 comments
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
I just read "Why We Sleep" which covers a lot of the same territory. Vital information, should be in the Human Brain Owner's Manual.
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Raytheon High-Energy Laser Mission Scenarios [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jpm_sd 8y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Thanks, that's very informative.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Anyone working with cobots in your factory interested to comment? What's the main competitive advantage that made Universal[1] so successful while Rethink withered away? [1] https://www.universal-robots.com/
736.
by jpm_sd 8y ago
This hard-crashed Chrome for me. 64-bit, 69.0.3497.100, Windows 10.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Never seen this before: Error 1005 Access denied What happened? The owner of this website (www.richardmudhar.com) has banned the autonomous system number (ASN) your IP address is in (7922) from accessing this website.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Isn't hydroponic farming already pretty low on labor costs? (compared to capital & maintenance costs) Edit: apparently not. The Engadget article is a bit better. "What we found is that the two biggest costs in the indoor farm
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
My worst cycling injury (separated shoulder) is due to an oblivious pedestrian stepping directly out in front of me from between parked cars. For years I've wished I had just run her down instead of dodging and taking the impact myself
740.
by jpm_sd 8y ago
I commute by bike year-round and have been for three years. Every day lately I think about going back to an EV - I had a leased Leaf for commuting to my previous job. I'm getting tired of being a second class citizen on the road, tired
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
You're right on the money here. And I think an engineer can have a pretty solid, fulfilling, well-enough-paying career working for a whole string of failed startups!
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Saildrone | Full-time | ONSITE | Alameda, CA | https://www.saildrone.com/#Careers We are hiring for multiple roles! Data Pipeline Engineer Geospatial Software Developer Lead iOS Developer Platform Engineer Quality Control L
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Wikipedia says round trip efficiency on rechargeable zinc-air cells is very low (~50%). Doesn't sound too promising for grid scale storage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%E2%80%93air_battery#Secon...
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Things that helped me: Get a sit/stand desk and vary your posture and shoulder/elbow angles over the course of the work day. Exercise your hands, arms, and upper back. Lift weights, do indoor rock climbing, go for a swim, do some
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Why do tires blow out? Do they have a predictable lifespan? If there is a huge cost savings associated with autonomous driving, could some of those $$$ be put toward more frequent tire changes that prevent blowouts from happening? (edit) Pe
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
The intended audience is social policy wonks, not HN geeks.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
> There’s no IT team at startups Uh, what? Are you nuts? Hire somebody.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Tried it, not a fan. I use the 10 pin ARM JTAG pinout on all my boards with a 0.050" 2x5 ribbon header. Works great, very small. http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.faqs/attach...
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
meat-eating robots would probably be more efficient, right?
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
On the other hand, I watched a teenage boy ride a Lime scooter onto a highway 880 on-ramp yesterday.

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