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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
You wrote: > really interested in how we have solved the latency problem, and we don't want to help them. But just before that, you also wrote ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072333 ): > One of the issue
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
For those feeling the impulse to empty their wallets, I urge caution. I just got done being burned by the kickstarter for the goodreader equivalent. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-inch-android-e-reade... I see
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> doesn't look at why the rerouting happened. There are many ways we can look at it. But lets look at it from the perspective of the natives. They would see it as: "The original pipeline was meant to go under Bismark, a 90% whi
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
Looks interesting. But what does: "By combining cutting edge E Ink Carta technology with ultra-thin high-friction surface materials, the CANVAS display is purebred paper experience." What exactly is purebred paper?
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> Sure, by not giving much of a shit about the conditions that labourers have to endure Lets look at ourselves then. Do our own labourers have a good work environment? Or do we ignore toxic/poisoned conditions [1]? Do we let our cor
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
My fear with these designs is that because the chassis is the heatsink, there is the issue of the continuous deformation (expansion and contraction) of the chassis body/heatsink, and you get mechanical stresses on the mobo that eventua
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
My understanding is that India's new rules on the high denomination notes was intended to curtail corruption. This was a major topic of discussion in my workplace as we have many Indian developers. Most of them were very proud that thi
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
Soofa (based out of Cambridge) is implementing exactly that. They're using E Ink's large sized 32" color panels. http://www.soofa.co/soofa-sign/ , http://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
I respect his views. He's been consistently right in the long term. Many of the problems he predicted are currently with us. I recently discovered the StallmanWasRight subreddit as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/St
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> If they had actually known what atrocities Lets put the atrocities to one side for a moment. We should also consider the fact that in many cases colonial invasions put into place highly extractive political institutions and extractive
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> Except it was the British Empire that persecuted slavery and brought to an end the slave trade far in advance of other nations. I think you may not be aware of the graylevels within that statement. It is true that the Slavery Abolition
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> People who raise these issues now probably and unintentionally end up generating hatred amongst individuals who might otherwise be perfectly fine with each other. I think that's a flawed way to think. Your logic would imply that w
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> A huge percentage of India lives, works, and travels in areas that are unlikely to ever be reached by Google's wifi, Please define "huge". Googling shows me that Google's wifi was setup at mass transit stations. Wik
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> Facebook may have self-interest but Indian elites unilaterally deciding what is good for poorer Indians is far more obnoxious. I may be lacking local context. Where do I find out more about your reference to "Indian elites unilate
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> if instead of female CEOs we were talking Sri Lankan CEOs, we'd have long arrived at a cliché conclusion I wasn't able to follow this sentence. What is the cliché with Sri Lankan CEOs? I'm not even sure I know of any. I
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
How is a person with a track record that tainted still in this position? And how is that organizations like the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) would still grant such a person access to such a large group?
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> he learned that both the founders traveled business class and stayed at a beachfront resort. My understanding is that the Indian startup space and VC ecosystem is pretty vindictive towards any founder who would have behaved that way an
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> our agencies are working rather well To what extent do our agencies "create" the terrorists that they're rewarded to fight against? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday&#x2
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> Germany makes better cars than anyone else Sure. Like those excellent Volkswagon diesel vehicles that are vastly more efficient than their Japanese competitors. Edit: I thought my sarcasm would be clear. [1] https://en.wikip
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
I like how with words like "non-mainstream hardware", "acess to documentation is limited" you make it sound like using E Ink tech is incredibly complex and that mere mortals would not be able to do it on their own. Then
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> It's also possible that Meyer was right How is "it" possible given the fact that the engineers all made the last minute changes Mayer demanded and the outcome was unsuccessful?
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> Do you fault the oncologist that doesn't cure advanced metastatic cancer? Yeah, especially if the "oncologist" told the patient to change their t-shirt to purple to cure the cancer. Eg: http://www.nytimes.com&
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> there is very little innovation in this space A lot of E-Ink based projects got stepped on within large MNCs because LCD vendors dropped their prices significantly whenever development teams talked about switching. Plus LCD and backlig
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
I'm suspicious about this. Flex funding is the first warning flag of a scam. The second warning flag is the religiosity in the advertising video talking about god and talking nonsense about "damaging our retina". The third wa
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
"the foreign minister for Singapore spoke about VR porn" "I told Mark, actually, the real killer app for augmented reality is not games, it is actually virtual sex." "If you can successfully master virtual sex in au
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
I'd settle for a phone that just lets me have source to everything that can be reflashed and allows me to practically modify and reflash as desired. I feel USB host would be good enough so that I can add peripherals as needed, I don&#x
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> way worse than what I read about the American system. Is it though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera... - the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the w
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by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> Gates Foundation which managed to entirely rid India of polio (!!) Uhm, that's completely inaccurate, where are you getting such data? The Gates foundation only got started in 2000, and it isn't clear when they started gettin
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by linuxkerneldev 11y ago
> This looks like the "move fast and break things" crowd trying to run a medical lab. No, I don't think that's fair to the "move fast" crowd. This looks more like a bunch of politically connected country clu
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by linuxkerneldev 11y ago
"Alejandro Nieto was killed by police in the neighbourhood where he spent his whole life. Did he die because a few white newcomers saw him as a menacing outsider?" No, he died because: a) police officers are inadequately trained a

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