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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
"Also, the 1420 MHz signal is problematic in itself in that it is "protected spectrum": it is bandwidth in which terrestrial transmitters are forbidden to transmit due to it being reserved for astronomical purposes." Wait... what?? If this
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Every single one? Including the author of the css for your website? Edit: Yes, as per your reply below, this comment stemmed from an eruption of confusion on my part. It (the confusion) is now contained and slumbering happily in the depths
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
One thing I am very happy about is the undeniable signs in my everyday life that tell me that I without a doubt now live in the future of my childhood. My phone, laptop, my work are all things that not only didn't exist as they are back the
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
tl;dr: It is called a hyperboloid shape and is very strong compared to other curved surfaces because it can be built or supported by straight beams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid_structure
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
That sure is an impressive-looking device. The copper wires go very well with the green glow. It is interesting to think about how devices that exist in very few instances also have very specific usages. Devices that are mass-produced tend
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Yeah you never want a firestorm of interest around new products.
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
What surprised the researchers is that the quantum simulations are still not as efficient as they could be: they still have to store more information than the process would seem to need. That suggests quantum theory might not yet be
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
As a swede I never have cash on me anymore. But when I lived in Tokyo, the situation was reversed: low crime levels, high prices and nowhere to use a card, all contributed to me walking around with on average about $500 on any given day. Th
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Why I'm leaving as the CEO of Twingly(blog.twingly.com)
4 points by martinkallstrom 15y ago|1 comments
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Why I Hate Five-Star Ratings(davidcelis.com)
2 points by martinkallstrom 15y ago|1 comments
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
That's excellent, I too want my kids to know that they can do or accomplish anything with sufficient preparation. I try to work into their vocabulary (as well as my own) to say/think "Wow that person has trained a lot" when seeing feats of
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
I'm teaching my daughters to view mistakes as learning something, not failing at something. It's amazing to see that it's becoming ingrained in their way of thinking. When they forgot their favorite Littlest Pet Shop figures at church last
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
You don't give this info in the video. What you should do is to do the video using mainly the product that you are going to build and tell everyone how awesome it is. And then in the end you flash the nixie tube version and say: "If you com
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
You're responding as if you are performing customer service. I appreciate that. But my point is that your project will not get proper funding on Kickstarter with a video edited so that it is the bait and switch feeling of prototype vs. fini
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
It is probably a mistake of him to let the beautiful nixie tubes and the elegant wooden finish pull so much weight in the promo video and then reveal that the final product will feature very bland LED numbers and an equally non-attractive p
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
So in effect you are locked out of your Flickr account?
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Upvoted because of the reasons above. Bad choice of words on my part. Should have been "Vehicles (period) are incredibly power consuming".
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
My bad, poor choice of words. Of course it is not the fact that it is fueled by petroleum that contributes most to the five+ orders of magnitude in difference in power consumption.
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Key takeaway: Vehicles powered by petroleum fuels are incredibly power consuming. Driving a car a single hour on a highway consumes as much energy as an iPhone does in about 46 years. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+hour+*+100km%2Fh
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
I disagree with the review. The book doesn't contain a complete and perfect path to personal wealth for anyone. But what book could ever accomplish that? Disclaimer: I read it several years ago. But the takeaways of the book that stayed wit
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Yeah yeah but how do you avoid getting grinfucked by yourself? That's what I want to know.
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
If there are people who have been waiting out for a perceptively more safe bet to make in the technology stock market, one can only assume that this is the one they will be comfortable with betting on. Earlier filings such as those of Linke
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Serious question: if an accelerator asks participating startups to not hire employees from one another, does it violate laws governing fair competition?
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
It's funny because it's true
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Actually, he did this illegally. His publisher had the copyright to all translations, not himself. So he routinely asked "to see them" and then routinely leaked them on The Pirate Bay. Again, this is according to himself.
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Author Paolo Coelho operated a blog called Pirate Coelho where he published torrents to all his books. He still does this because it makes him rich. For example, in Russia nobody bought his books, sales were up to 15 000 books in two years.
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
It is so heartfelt that this news ends up at the very top of HN even in at the height of the SOPA debate.
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
I agree and I salute you for giving way for jest in face of serious argument. To follow up along your reasoning, I think the weakness of man sets it's own limitations without us having to make conscious decisions on how far we should strive
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Sounds like a case of featuritis brewing. It's very easy to get caught in an evil cycle of rising expectations that move the actual launch further and further away. Let's ship an MVP first, launching early and often.
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
He flies to the top because he needs something hard under the lid, not the soft snow. After two thirds of the video the crow figures out that by having one leg on the "ground" the jar won't slide down when he picks and pulls at it, then spe

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