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by louprado 11y ago
Well... the poster suggesting your vitriol does go by the name "Tranquil". If you must know, dismissive phrases such as, "people like you", isn't a mature way to strengthen a counter argument.
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And you got it wrong: Lamarck
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There's a related RadioLab episode on this topic. A Scandinavian researcher showed that if you underwent caloric restriction in your adolescence, then surprisingly, your descendants are less likely to suffer from heart disease, diabete
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I wonder what percentage of the employees in the HR departments have a college degree. My guess it is close to 100% at 100% of top companies. Even if you do get hired, HR might undermine your career and prospects for promotion if you don&#
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While my Alma Matter is often the butt of jokes I often say "Arizona State was the best school my family and I could afford." Once I became an AZ resident, tuition was less than $500 a semester. Granted this was in the early 90&#x
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Hmmm... does anyone know if Grand Theft Auto has an API ? I would like to pre-train my autonomous vehicle controller before connecting it to an actual car.
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I recognize my question has little to do with the OP. But I can't get past this investment dilemma. Let's say I have $100k in two different accounts. Assume both accounts only hold one stock, an index tracker, that grows annually
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To take it a step further, I wonder if it is possible to engineer better catalysts to speed up cell division. Evolutionary pressure should bias towards maximum reproduction rates (given a the right environmental conditions). But I wonder ho
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Agreed the violence of the 80s was insane, especially in NYC. I was 10 the first time I was threatened with a gun, 12 the first time someone broke my bone in a beating (still visible 30 years later), 15 the second time I was beaten with a b
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To expand upon the specific discussion of the OP, I feel we are witnessing a historical pattern: urban-flight -> under-valued urban real-estate -> then urban renewal and economic opportunity -> influx of homeless and criminals sinc
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In the OP, the manager is frustrated with the "extraordinarily change-averse" employees over 50. One of the reasons I love being in tech (I am 44) is that you become so familiar with change your start seeing it as an inevitable fo
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Can anyone comment on the target use case for bi/quadruped robots ? Industrial operations have smooth flat predictable flooring where wheels are just fine. It's also too expensive for a consumer grade household assistant (but this
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You could owe licensing fees just by putting the word Bluetooth on your website. We didn't have the Bluetooth Certified Logo anywhere and still don't. If your App uses Bluetooth the fee is around $100 per platform, but since it is
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by louprado 11y ago
Random IP lawsuits aside, there are known agencies/certifications/requirements, etc that may eventually require compliance. Here's the ones I know: RoHS, CEC?, UL, FCC, Wifi Alliance, Bluetooth SIG, please add if anyone else
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Our company is going with HomeKit since the high-bar of entry means you will compete with less companies. We recently received our MFi Manufacturing license which means we can procure Apple's authentication co-processor and submit prod
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Last month my hardware start-up was almost shut down because our power supplies are CEC efficiency level 5 and not 6. Customs would have seized our entire last shipment. Prior to that I got a cease and desist from the Bluetooth SIG unless
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With only 7 billion people on the planet the theoretical IQ maximum is around 190. You can calculate this value from the CDF (cumulative distribution function) of a normal probability distribution having a mean of 100 and std of 15 (the def
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While many of us are not "color-blind", we are all color challenged. This is because we only have three cone-types, assuming you aren't a tetrachromat. I had a thought experiment: Suppose you breakup visible light into six ba
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The overlooked discussion is that universities are supposed to make money by selling quality education. Their goal shouldn't be to make money by risking money. Perhaps the lower return simply reflects the less aggressive nature of thei
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It seems like every time I meet someone who claims they need less than 6 hours of sleep, they are either notably sleep deprived, or they exclude the fact they sleep longer on the weekend and don't bother counting all the random naps. I
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There's a long list on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_notable_fo... A close friend of mine worked on PaintBrawl, which made the list (#2.11). PaintBrawl is a first person shooter but u
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Does this music ever repeat ? I can't tell if it is a play list of previously AI generated music or continuously novel AI generated music. I stopped listening to focusatwill.com because the repetition was too distracting even with a p
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coda please.
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Agreed. The main problem is you can lie and game the VC's. "It's called future-selling and everyone does it", a biz-guy once told me. It's not a lie, we are "hacking the interview". Coders like hacking, ri
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A Canadian who invests in single-family homes recently told me that the U.S. state of Indiana charges double real-estate taxes if the home is not owner-occupied. As a Californian who owns rental property in Arizona, I am all in favor of th
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1) We domesticated horses and dogs to perform a service, not serve as food. These animals were not bred to be flavorful. 2) If you are eating a service animal, that implies it was either too sick or too old to be of service. An old or sick
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We're the only biped without a tail. Not sure how long arms compare to a tail for restoring balance but they are far better protection from falls compared to a chin.
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Agreed. It's a gimmick, but useful since most people talk way more than they should.
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We expected to receive the canonical advice to focus on one opportunity. But the YC-partner felt that it was still early enough for us to explore multiple opportunities simultaneously even though they lacked synergy. Also he leaned most hea
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Yesterday my co-founder and I attended YC’s Open Office Hours. Fortunately we had watched the “How to Start a Startup” series, so we knew in advance how to concisely introduce our company and also set an appropriate goal for the meeting. Ev

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