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by neals 8y ago
They intend to beam the energy to earth through a laser. I wonder if building a space-mirror and focussing a beam of sunlight would be a much easier and scalable solution. Though I guess you would need multiple base stations to beam it som
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by neals 8y ago
I've stopped loving, hating, trusting or distrusting it: My client wants to auction thousands of cars with 7 competitors. He wants parts of it on blockchain. If that's the way he can create trust within this group of competitors,
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by neals 8y ago
Until you take a look at your spamfolder to see who's been selling you e-mail address.
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by neals 8y ago
I use an alias for every website, like me+apple@gmail.com to login to Apple.
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by neals 8y ago
I can see how that seems laughable, but Hungary is turning into a dictatorship exteremly fast. The scariest thing is that Hungary joined the EU in 2004 but has since a few years turned into a very scary place.
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by neals 8y ago
Running latest Ubuntu on a 4k and a 1280x1920 screen. Not ideal, but I can work with it. Some apps still have issues, either to large on the small screen, or to small on the big one... I feel like they're 1 or 2 version away from it be
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by neals 8y ago
I think it's a smart time to IPO now that governments are catching up and starting to regulate against this type of activity.
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by neals 8y ago
Any examples of jobs that have percentage based compensation but aren't sales?
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by neals 8y ago
() => "Sartre was right";
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by neals 8y ago
What if I live on the third floor, apartment 3A?
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by neals 8y ago
It's a little more thought out than you give them credit. Imagine a pair of lawnchairs made from "ocean cleanup plastic", the idea is that people would pay a large premium for this. It's like a brand that saves the world
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by neals 8y ago
It isn't all fun and games. I had to ride the bike to school for 5 years. Over in the neighbouring city. A 45 minute ride. Alone. Through wind, rain, wind and wind. And rain. That's also part of the culture, because it's safe
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by neals 8y ago
The key to successful hydrophonic farming is, surprisingly, marketing. I've visited a couple of these in Europe. There's a lot of manual labor and electricity involved and it's very expensive. The only way to make it work is
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by neals 8y ago
So, my fellow HN dreamers... Would you rather be the first or the last civilization in existence?
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by neals 8y ago
I would take them away from what they have known and done for years and years. I would finally take their skill and ambition seriously. They will work on a goal that is beyond what they could even imagine when they learned and studied and
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by neals 8y ago
Tldr: restaurants/kitchens push smelly air out. Subway station sucks smelly air in.
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by neals 8y ago
I need to interact with a very specific SDK that Bluetooth stuff, is React the going to be able to handle that?
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by neals 8y ago
Don't forget about biotech. The whole medical/pharma industry hasn't really changed for over 20 years. CRISPR is pretty much common knowledge but there's tons of other less-known tech being developed in this field that&#
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by neals 8y ago
Somebody using 'sugar'? It is not clear to me when or how this library is used...
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by neals 8y ago
The Javascript is compiled to native code, apparently. Maybe there's a Typescript to Cpp transpiler that I haven't heard about?
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by neals 8y ago
Which, according to the link, is a "registered financial advisor"...
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by neals 8y ago
Must be nice. When you like a TV series, but it gets canceled, to be able to buy the whole thing.
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by neals 8y ago
Netflix, do the right thing
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by neals 9y ago
We used to, but at some point my job just consisted of signing off on trivial stuff like moonbases and space stations all day.
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by neals 9y ago
I'm a big fan of Fossil myself. But the SQlite people have something that I don't really have within the teams I operate : the authority to dare and speak out against Git and not be laughed away like a hipster that is just trying
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by neals 9y ago
I watched the first 20 minutes or so. What I really miss here is some naration. A documentary that is tied together by quotes from interviews and flashy stockfootage is hard for me to follow.
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by neals 9y ago
I've never done any real development with a language that uses pointers. So noob question: why would one use a pointer over passing a variable? (those are the two flavors right?)
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by neals 9y ago
I think it's nice that a great method for trying to be noticed in the universe, is to actually dim a light, instead of starting one. Seems counter intuitive.
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by neals 9y ago
So how do people use that? (I don't work with large databases like this) Say, a user comes to a website from New York. Does this require me to have a webserver (probably google cloud-something) in New York that connects to this region
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by neals 9y ago
So in those 11 years, did YCombinater make any money on Dropbox? Or is incubating more of a 'long term' investment?

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