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by mojomark 10y ago
Honestly, like you point out, I think it's happening at micro-levels already. Certainly entire societies have voluntarily cut themselves off largelt from technology altogether - not just Amish, but modern off-grid people as well. Howe
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Of course automation will inevitably be capable of displacing all human acts (jobs and art). The author concludes with the same tired, naiive and unsatisfactory outlook: 'you don't need worry about it because robots will just kill
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>>“And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s strange. That’s me, many years ago,’” says Kennis, who was momentarily stunned by the sight of all that beautiful hair. Three weeks earlier she had completed chemotherapy for breast cancer, and her ha
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NP. This did get me thinking about the idea again. If, like you say, you could identify a market with a much higher cost/gal of water AND you find a way to significantly reduce chartering and operating costs, you might be able to turn
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> You can do both I do agree. My issue was with the single-sidedness of Chevron's campaign. To me it implied that energy consumers are the primary cause of environmental woes. Speaking for my industry only (commercial shipping), if
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> but what about a different market? Or perhaps a different mechanism of transportation? I'm not sure what you mean by 'a different market', but I can address the latter: Generally, commercial shipping will yield the great
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> I think Tesla and Solar City...They're not "stop driving, turn off your house lights, etc", they're "keep doing what you do, only now greener" Agree 100%! A few years ago Chevron ran an add campaign in DC
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> The cost of H20 in Ca is about $0.002/gal (cheaper for farmers). *$0.25/gal cost should have read ~$0.15/gal.
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Ok, too expensive seems like a reasonable argument, but how much to expensive, specifically? See my other reply. In short, based on a CBA we did a few yrs back, fuel consumption alone using a diesel-powered handy size tanker to ship H20 fro
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Actually tankers are not cost-viable today (and probably never will be). A friend of mine and I (both marine engineering professionals in commercial shipping) did a Cost Benefit Analysis on chartering a handy size tanker, cleaning the tanks
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>they almost always perform (much) worse. 'Much worse' relative to what exactly?
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"The plastic substrates are poor gas-barriers for oxygen and water vapor, and the OLED materials can seriously be damaged by their gasses. " Incidentally, polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals make an excellent passivatio
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"...the best investment I ever made was our company's ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)." This is certainly not true for all companies. I lost over $100K due to our Employee Stock being driven into the ground over the cours
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"...don't focus exclusively on profits. Many innovations... [are] cost reducers" I agree and I like your idea of also covering cost reduction efforts in profit sharing models. It is undoubtedly easier for companies to swallow
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Why is my comment 'dead'?
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As an engineer at a defense contractor, I recently had to go through the process of having my company waive my 100% IP ownership clause so that I could work with a startup on my own time without fear of putting them in jeopardy. It took abo
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"...the amount of work we can automate with AI is vastly bigger than before. As leaders, it is incumbent on all of us to make sure we are building a world in which every individual has an opportunity to thrive." Andrew Ng is cerai
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Well, our light field display concept is fairly different from ML's in the manner in which we scan the light into the eye. We propose using very narrow collimated wavefronts instead of broad/potentially curved wavefronts. The syst
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> One of their patents mentions using stacked diffraction optical elements [DOE]. > http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H... . I believe this particular excerpt is referring to the use o
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I agree that the lack of coherence (spatial & temporal) of ambient lighy would makes the use of diffraction gratings to actively create destructive interference patterns on the retina a futile efftort. Ambient light is generally a white
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If you hold out your thumb between your eye and the sun, such that your thumb appears to just block the edges of the sun, then you will be effectively blocking the entire set of overlapping wavefronts emanating from the sun (that would have
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> - They could do hard occlusion with an LCD mask. Or they could punt til v2, and soft-occlude with blur using their stacked diffraction plates. Unfortunately, you cannot easily achieve "hard occlusion" with an LCD mask. Pinlig
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> There's a cable leading from these glasses to your pocket where you have a tablet-size device doing all the heavy lifting, most likely using mobile SoC's. Pretty sure you can't run a desktop CPU and GPU on a pocketable d
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Nobody here is trying to crush dreams. The author, and many others, are simply trying to point out that there are much better uses of time and money. The factors (i.e. physics) underpinning the economics of freight shipping in all forms are
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> Supposedly AR glasses with multiple focal planes and with localized occlusion (blacking out the world; I recommend being more specific when referring to occlusion with respect to AR systems. There are two primary forms: (1) "Real