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by kosei 8y ago
If they tried to do this with a spacecraft, wouldn't it need constant line of sight from earth with this technique? Seems interesting but pretty impractical for that application, unless I'm reading the text incorrectly.
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Pew Research: Gender pay gap has narrowed, but changed little in past decade(pewresearch.org)
1 points by kosei 8y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 8y ago
I'd be curious to know also how many people are still being paid for their work as artists through movies, TV, video games, etc. I bet it is also a significantly larger percentage of the population than a few hundred years ago.
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by kosei 8y ago
Womp womp, article didn't get picked up when I posted it last night. Guess I should have retitled / waited until morning! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19418939
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US Detects Meteor Explosion(bbc.com)
1 points by kosei 8y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 8y ago
Yeah, one of my favorite comics of 10-15 years back. Too bad he seemingly gave up on his main series. Was always very well written and drawn.
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SXSWarren: A day later, Elizabeth Warren defends her Big Tech breakup proposal(arstechnica.com)
2 points by kosei 8y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 8y ago
This line made me snicker: "And Facebook has planned to build 1,500 apartments near its Menlo Park headquarters, with 15 percent to be affordable." So, 85% of the housing created is too expensive to be purchased? Sounds like a pre
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by kosei 8y ago
"[Warren Buffett] says his measure of success is, “Do the people you care about love you back?” I think that is about as good a metric as you will find." I love this.
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Defeating Feature Fatigue (2006)(hbr.org)
2 points by kosei 8y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 8y ago
Is it just me, or does this phrasing make it seem like he's full of it? "With further deep-learning advancements, especially on mobile devices, we'll be able to produce completely photoreal avatars in real time." What &q
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by kosei 8y ago
Article seems so click-baity. Last year, more than 1 in 4 home sellers dropped their price, according to the included chart, but the market was hotter than ever.
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by kosei 8y ago
What union?
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by kosei 8y ago
Can you give a couple examples of this happening? I've lived in NYC much of my life and housing prices have continued to rise for most of 30+ years, so your statement isn't something that I quite understand from experience.
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by kosei 8y ago
Last few years have been incredibly rough for the industry, after the amazing growth with social games and mobile games. Will be interesting to see what the industry looks like 3-5 years from now...
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More than 1,000 jobs lost to video game studio closures over the past year(gamesindustry.biz)
33 points by kosei 8y ago|26 comments
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by kosei 8y ago
You do you, but having 1/4 of your net worth in any company is extremely risky and ill-advised. I hope it works out for you, but I also really hope you diversify your portfolio.
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Game developer Telltale hit with class-action lawsuit for breaking labor laws(polygon.com)
2 points by kosei 8y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 8y ago
I think you're taking this analogy too literally.
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by kosei 8y ago
I've heard good things about Dublin. Anyone here on HN able to speak from direct experience? Personally live in Seattle and love it, but I got in before the major boom and it is not nearly as affordable as 5-10 years ago. Still think i
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by kosei 8y ago
Sure, if they falsified their books, that's absolutely illegal. But "they told me their business model was sustainable, and I believed them and gave them my money" doesn't seem like a reasonable argument either. If that&
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by kosei 8y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/moviepass-second-act/ > It pays theaters full price for each ticket, whether a member visits once or 31 times a month. It has to provide for customer service to support those 1.5 mil
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by kosei 8y ago
It's possible that the Waterstone model is something to consider moving forward, but it's unreasonable to act as if the flaw in B&N's business model was a "thinker" book reader market that is "turned off by
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by kosei 8y ago
> MoviePass parent Helios & Matheson Analytics Inc. omitted and misstated its financial prospects in press releases when it touted a "sustainable" business model, the shareholders claim in lawsuits filed in Manhattan federa
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What You Found in 3M Russian Troll Tweets(fivethirtyeight.com)
8 points by kosei 8y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 8y ago
The vast majority of customers would switch off Whatsapp to free competitors if the service had a price. If more companies go this path, sure, but the market has shown so far that people are willing to put up with ads in exchange for not pa
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How Survivorship Bias Distorts Our View of Successful Entrepreneurs (2017)(entrepreneur.com)
4 points by kosei 8y ago|0 comments
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Video games and mental health: 'Nobody's properly talking'(bbc.com)
2 points by kosei 8y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 8y ago
> In Philadelphia, there are 3.7 times more parking spaces than households Honestly, this number seems reasonable to me, when you consider that people could be parking at a) their home, b) their work, and c) at any number of other places
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by kosei 8y ago
Wow, this is just crazy. > The raw data necessary to render just one frame is available in the “Base” package. [45 GB download / 93 GB unpacked]

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