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by mdda 13y ago
Or (to play devil's advocate) for someone else to start a slick B2B brand that used tarsnap as a backend, and took all the surplus out of the middle...
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Robots : Immigrants from the Future (Economist Special Report)(economist.com)
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by mdda 13y ago
I understand that wealthy people may be conspicuously buying Mercedes and Lamborghinis : But that doesn't change the facts about the MRT, busses and Taxis... Agreed, it doesn't boost the morale of the general population to see, bu
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by mdda 13y ago
You've got to be kidding if you're complaining about taxes in Singapore... OTOH, there's a lot of complaining going on in Singapore : It's a national sport (more akin to the UK, IHMO, than the US). The car ownership stu
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by mdda 13y ago
To emphasize the point : In Singapore, the MRT (subway) and bus systems are excellent & frequent (and you can get exact ETA info via your phone). Taxis are everywhere and cheap. There's even less reason to own a car in Singapore
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by mdda 13y ago
It's not worse than the initial application. One crazy thing is : They force you to renew at the Embassy in your home country, in person. So, once your application is in, they give you a date to turn up. But they won't give yo
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by mdda 13y ago
The Treaty country list for the USA : [1] The US E-2 is similar to the (into Netherlands) DAFT, except for the fact that the US doesn't allow for the 'sole entrepreneur' option : You need to fund a business with the plan to e
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by mdda 13y ago
I'm surprised no-one mentioned the E-2 (Treaty Investor) visa. It allows someone from a Treaty country (which includes a lot of developed countries) to start a business in the USA. It's not an intent visa, though (more on that l
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by mdda 13y ago
Compression doesn't seem that smart on the level of 'gzip'. But one can also look at what the brain is doing when learning (and classifying stuff into conceptual clusters) as also being compression. Given the enormous theor
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by mdda 13y ago
I can see my apartment! (view looks like it's from the Empire State Building, NYC, looking East)
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by mdda 13y ago
I don't see how the patent office didn't just google for 30 seconds... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031320304... Maybe the patent has interesting twists and turns, but applying
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by mdda 13y ago
One thing that surprised me was the statement about a sun that would soon engulf the nearby planet - and being so relatively large that the planet was 'more than half' in sunlight (~ the sun's disc shines 'around the cor
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by mdda 13y ago
How would you rephrase your question so that your suggestion of Socratic Questioning isn't pushed into the answer? eg: I'm curious about your method, could you give me an example or two of a prodding question?
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by mdda 13y ago
One would hope to understand a little. After all, all votes are equal in a democracy.
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by mdda 13y ago
I'm guessing that in some English-speaking countries, the natural continuation of the phrase isn't just a thumbs up, but the words "... but sounding good and the actual reality are totally different". i.e. "Sounds G
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by mdda 13y ago
From my recollection, the industry stats on mail-in-rebates on (say) hard disks is something like 80% are unclaimed. Cutting a UPC out of the side of a box (and finding a stamp, and copying a tricky address exactly, etc) is a >$15 job f
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by mdda 13y ago
Actually puzzled : Why would the cat need it warmer indoors if there's an ice storm? Isn't keeping it at the same temperature enough? Or is the problem because the heating switches off overnight, so you feel that it needs a boos
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by mdda 13y ago
There's also a completely mundane/political explanation (which would apply to industry too). If you're really good, you're an asset to your boss, and your success reflects well on them. So leaving is a backward step as
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by mdda 13y ago
How about : http://www.businessinsider.com/lyndsey-scott-model-and-coder...
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by mdda 13y ago
Doesn't that mean that the second user is in a niche that will pay more for the service? Could there be a different way to charge, so that people are paying according to the value to them (instead of the # of reports, which may be you
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by mdda 13y ago
Typo : "Distributed POSIX complaint project file system"
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by mdda 13y ago
What might have gone wrong (i.e. what might the video show)? YouTube has given an error when trying to view the video on every day that I've tried to view it (its viewer #s appear to have flatlined too - so I don't think it'
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by mdda 13y ago
Interesting : I was mainly responding to the comment about US expats having a special cocooned existence (which may well be true, for expats from all first-world countries). But its parent post also fingered low taxes as being a reason tha
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by mdda 13y ago
US citizens are taxed on world-wide income, so the benefits of the low-tax environment aren't so much of a factor, since you owe the IRS on whatever you earn anywhere on earth (but for a ~$80k exemption). Most other countries tax based
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by mdda 13y ago
Isn't this a role that 3d printing and Quadcopters are filling for like-minded tinkerers? Extension projects : for instance, if one has a quadcopter and a go-pro, then the next problem is figuring out a cheaper gimbal mount (using BLDC
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by mdda 13y ago
So in the stats, Red is bad, yellow is good, on a row-by-row basis? But something should be done about the scaling of the #s on the stats page. It seems that each row is a factor based on the row below. But : Look at the lines 1715f012890
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by mdda 13y ago
NB: There is a lot of hard-earned wisdom distilled in man_bear_pig's comment.
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Machine Learning
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by mdda 13y ago
Does this [1] lead to the PDF report you mean? [1] http://digitalinnovationtoday.com/speed-summary-mckinseys-12...
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by mdda 13y ago
As I understand it, ReThink Robotics' main selling point is to do with co-working (having a robot sensitive enough to work side-by-side with a human safely). The trainability is another point (but there are a lot more issues to deal w

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