mojuba

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by mojuba 11y ago
Some sort of automatic scanners on all cargo and cruise ships.
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by mojuba 11y ago
1978: mostly secretaries, now largely replaced by computers. 2014: mostly truck drivers. To be replaced by computers by 2034?
873.
by mojuba 11y ago
Look up CSS-color level 4. It supports non-integer arguments for rgb() and rgba() which supposedly solves the problem, though in a bit ugly way, because the total range is still 0..255.
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by mojuba 11y ago
I've noticed that "bad news" about Europe as a rule pop up ahead of a weakening dollar. Just an observation. It's just these "news" are getting more and more ludicrous over time.
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by mojuba 11y ago
Medicine is not technology. Materials are, but in the end chemistry is just a subsidiary of physics.
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by mojuba 11y ago
Technological progress mostly relies on discoveries made in physics. Things that will amaze a 1885 person in 1950 were mostly made possible with electricity and derivative technologies, plus nuclear physics, and a few other things. Even eng
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by mojuba 11y ago
In the years preceding the collapse of the USSR, circa 1987, 98% of the population supported the Communist Party. When there is no freedom of speech votes aren't predictive or indicative of anything at all other than the amount of prop
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by mojuba 11y ago
Geo coverage ≠ completeness in terms of technology. Early stage investors would be more interested in the latter I think. In that regard Uber is 100% complete and long past the early stage.
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by mojuba 11y ago
I'm pretty sure this is nothing new, but where is that app/website that allows to skim through startup one-liners that indicate the stage they're at? Say, Phonodrone - drone that keeps your phone in front of your nose whi
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by mojuba 11y ago
What if I don't need light right now? Can LEDs transmit data at levels a human eye can't see, so as to not irritate us under day light? Also, could lightbulbs have IR transmitters alongside the ordinary light, again so as to not d
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by mojuba 11y ago
I agree, but the Earth-sized world could be used for something interesting too. E.g. imagining the world of the future, where you can teleport, or you can design a bike and copy/paste it to your friends, for real. Or you could model th
882.
by mojuba 11y ago
I first read the title as "two day sprintf". Need a little rest definitely...
883.
by mojuba 11y ago
Apple inspires conformity to their own non-conformism :)
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by mojuba 11y ago
I will procrastinate... later.
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by mojuba 11y ago
Hmmm. That's strange because I remember from one of the books I found that Beethoven regarded requiem as an amateurish work and even Mozart's worst ever, in fact without knowing the whole story behind it. A bit extreme of course,
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by mojuba 11y ago
I uncovered the whole story after hearing Süssmayr on radio accidentally. It sounded so much like Mozart, but was clearly inferior. I didn't know it was S. until the host announced who it was. I started googling and found some research
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by mojuba 11y ago
Read somewhere that the entire opening movement (Introitus) is definitely him, and at least the main themes for some of the other parts, such as Lacrymosa and Kyrie.
888.
by mojuba 11y ago
That's an interesting insight: startups as a game of the rich, just like expensive art. At least it can explain a few peculiarities in the startup world.
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by mojuba 11y ago
Context and exposure matter in art, they matter a lot. Mozart's requiem for example, is probably the "Mona Lisa" of classical music, everyone knows it's a famous work, that it's great and that it's Mozart. Exce
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by mojuba 11y ago
Because the only way to make your signal appear more random is to add more redundancy. In order to make it look like an absolute random signal you'd have to add infinite redundancy.
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by mojuba 11y ago
A signal that contains anything other than noise can not be absolutely indistinguishable from noise. Otherwise you won't be able to decrypt it.
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by mojuba 11y ago
Someone said that if any object in the Universe has a non-zero second derivative of velocity (aka jerk, or "acceleration of acceleration") it's a sign of intelligent life. Something similar should exist in the information the
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by mojuba 11y ago
Drinks are much cheaper in shops compared to pubs/bars (the latter are taxed much more heavily). Another reason for Ireland to party at home :)
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by mojuba 11y ago
Same in Ireland, house parties are pretty common. I'm wondering if it's to do with the population density and public transportation (you don't want to drive drunk), among many other factors already mentioned in the article.
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The Death of the Party(nytimes.com)
112 points by mojuba 11y ago|110 comments
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by mojuba 11y ago
I see your sarcasm but Tesla shouldn't have been part of it :)
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by mojuba 11y ago
Exactly, and I think mentally controlled UIs will have a greater appeal in some (distant) future for the same reasons. One interesting aspect of voice vs. tactile that remains overlooked is the amount of energy required for performing somet
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by mojuba 11y ago
> All these machinations and adjustments are precisely what Michael Dell sought to escape when he took his business private two years ago. Got me thinking, what keeps companies like Apple and Google from doing the same? What are the bene
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by mojuba 11y ago
I have no idea what CMU is, sorry.
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by mojuba 11y ago
YC is a private business of course, but since they started this initiative, wouldn't it be even more efficient to make YC staff itself more diverse? Rather than doing segregated open hours.

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