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by malchow 7y ago
Power generators in the future are: 1) more numerous, 2) lower output, 3) more intermittent, 4) more democratized. Therefore communication is more important than it was in the 20th century monolithic model.
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by malchow 7y ago
Yep -- I'm talking about ARM Cortex equipped internet connected boxes -- think residential solar, 5G rollout, small cells -- all on a genuine internet of power.
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by malchow 7y ago
Any devs interested in this space -- we have a company working on this and hiring; please ping me. Power networks are currently dumb and dataless. This will change!
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by malchow 7y ago
I pay Dropbox $199/yr and it's frustrating. I want to share files, photos, videos, and other items with individuals and small audiences all the time –– both for business and personal purposes. But Dropbox is so convinced that it n
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Moore's Law for Agriculture(farmprogress.com)
3 points by malchow 7y ago|0 comments
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by malchow 7y ago
If you find this fascinating, as I do, I have a VP Eng job at a company of ours that recently went public. Ping me.
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China is blocking Wikipedia in every language(engadget.com)
2 points by malchow 7y ago|0 comments
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by malchow 7y ago
What about the fact that it was originally called Page Speed Project and was a genuinely open standard; that that was subsequently shut down in favor of AMP? That the difference between the two is that Page Speed did not have attractive col
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University Title Generator(universitytitlegenerator.com)
5 points by malchow 7y ago|0 comments
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by malchow 7y ago
You know that churches help people, right? In fact, they’re pretty good at it.
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by malchow 8y ago
I agree. The opening of the article intrigued me, so I read it. All I could think was: what fun to read about a lady who has never met a real estate agent !
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by malchow 8y ago
Peak California is real and this is a quite good summary of it. One redeeming aspect not well understood, though, is the role of capital. We're temporarily in an odd age of overabundance in venture capital (overabundance relative to in
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by malchow 8y ago
Search, i.e. lower activation threshold for accessing intelligence from strangers elsewhere in the world.
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Ask HN: Why doesn't YC build a web browser?
3 points by malchow 8y ago|6 comments
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One of Google Play’s most popular games is an ad fraud platform(which-50.com)
2 points by malchow 8y ago|0 comments
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by malchow 8y ago
It would be nice to have an internet again.
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by malchow 8y ago
This is not true. The most advanced 5nm wafer process is at Taiwan Semi.
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by malchow 8y ago
I wonder if Apple's hardware design troubles would be ameliorated if ICs had to buy their own work machines using their own post-tax money. EDIT: And could only use machines in the workplace that are release+12 months old?
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by malchow 8y ago
You can be for or against Brexit. The saddest thing is the gulf between the governing class and Britons. The former cannot effectuate a strong existential roar from the people they represent. That’s worse than this vote, and worse than the
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by malchow 8y ago
Drain Lake Lag, reroute water pipelines, stop controlled burns, raise the gas tax, and float a special bond. We’ll save you, butterflies!
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by malchow 8y ago
https://sourcegraph.com ?
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by malchow 8y ago
A fascinating read, and a fair bit of intellectual humility in the conclusion: “To beat a network effect, you may start at point A, but you’re going to be successful only by steering to some distant point B, which will always be a related m
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by malchow 8y ago
I pay $5/yr (a legacy plan that will disappear if I ever have a billing information imperfection) for 40GB Gmail storage, which is all I need. This announcement reminds me that Google has no respect for pricing, SLA, data mining transp
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Google Doc Warns: Do Not Give Contractors T-Shirts for the Holidays(gizmodo.com)
4 points by malchow 8y ago|0 comments
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China Maneuvers to Snag Top-Secret Boeing Satellite Technology(wsj.com)
3 points by malchow 8y ago|0 comments
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by malchow 8y ago
I think this is fairly mistaken. As a share of the tech economy, SV is almost certainly declining. That's to be expected and embraced as labor economics evolve. That doesn't for a moment mean that northern California isn't st
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by malchow 8y ago
"Kids have almost zero avenues to build or accomplish things. Their parents don't care or give them meaningful stuff to work on or tools to build stuff with. They might as well be under house arrest." I just want to point up
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by malchow 8y ago
For those curious about advancement in LEDs to bring them up to par with the legacy tech described in this article, take a look at Lumenari. (Disclosure: we're investors.) Using software methods to discover and grow novel phosphors to
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by malchow 8y ago
"We're putting a lot of faith in..." OK. Back in the real world, successful AI companies build useful software products that inform human decision making but do not directly, unilaterally, unintermediatedly result in real-wor
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by malchow 8y ago
You say that, but IME it takes lots of configuration effort and lots more AWS services in order to really get the kind of resiliency that, say, Amazon.com enjoys. And core services in core regions in AWS do go down. It doesn't not ha

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