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by new299 10y ago
This is the browning of the flesh of the Apple which happens when the Apple is cut and in contact with Oxygen. This is not related to wax or other treatments of the skin used to prolong freshness as I understand it.
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by new299 10y ago
Right, I think we agree. It's not a sunk cost fallacy. It's more sink cost signaling or something.
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by new299 10y ago
When developing a new basic technology the milestones are often vague, and they're generally not open to DD. So hitting milestones in taken on trust and open to interpretation quite often. Sink cost doesn't work quite the same way
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by new299 10y ago
Yes, it's a trade off. Living somewhere expensive where there's little liquidity sucks . Living somewhere cheap, where you can get occasional well paid work and save money can also work.
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by new299 10y ago
Well, perhaps think of it another way. Those billions are mostly going toward staffing costs (I would guess? If not direct employees then via semiconductor fabs etc). Would that engineer time be better spent proving out a bunch of smaller s
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by new299 10y ago
Right, my comment wasn't on the last statement in your comment ("they're too big to fail"), but the bulk of it motivated by "Google didn't put ~$500m, and Alibaba something like $800m, just on a whim". Yea
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by new299 10y ago
You know... this thesis that they've raised 1.1BUSD so it /must/ be good just doesn't hold water for me. It's almost an argument from authority, and it's not very useful. In particular, investors have made larg
548.
by new299 10y ago
Wow. Do we know for certain that Magic Leap isn't KLFs new project? They have a track record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...
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by new299 10y ago
I guess there's something I don't understand. I couldn't find any information about them being sued. I can't figure out who else would sue them for not meeting their targets aside from shareholders who feel they were dec
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by new299 10y ago
But they've only raised 22MUSD how can we expect them to have done anything yet? ;) Suing them seem like an odd thing to do.
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by new299 10y ago
They're based in Dania Beach, Florida. I'd guess the job market is not quite as liquid as in the Bay Area. People get locked in, family commitments etc. etc.
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by new299 10y ago
I'd like to break this down a bit. Firstly, why is this so frustrating. On a practical level, it's frustrating for engineers because to operate as engineers we have to work for these companies. It's not just the fakeness, it&
553.
by new299 10y ago
You can be compelled to give your users data to government agents. You can even be compelled to background encryption algorithms to make this easier. To say that's not "giving" seems like semantics.
554.
by new299 10y ago
"We will never sell or give away any data concerning you. Not one single bit." and "Lyra Communications Ltd, UK reg. 10534260" are unfortunately not really compatible statements, particularly after the IP Bill passed.
555.
by new299 10y ago
Forget high speed rail. It would be great if the trains weren't 30+ years old. On the lines I most often use the carriages don't have automatic doors. I'm constantly embarrassed when I have to show visitors how to open the wi
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by new299 10y ago
If you're going to make a contentious statement like that (i.e. most homeless are insane). I think you should probably at least try to back it up. It probably varies significantly by country/city. But the first reference I found [
557.
by new299 10y ago
I love this. I love it partly because I could never imagine this happening in the UK. The UK doesn't have a constitution. And I could imagine this getting shut down pretty quickly. I hope this kind of attitude persists in the US. It&#x
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by new299 10y ago
Seems like one potential interesting application should be the treatment of Phantom limb syndrome [1]. This is the sensation that a amputated limb is still attached, and sufferers often experience pain. One treatment is the use of a mirror
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by new299 10y ago
They spend 9 paragraphs discussing it, and other aspects of the optical system. I think it's pretty neat. I'm mostly skeptical because commodity compute has led HPC for so long. Novel architectures are often quite interesting, but
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by new299 10y ago
I guess it's an aims race, but I would guess there are a few potential ways to mitigate against this: 1. Watermark all images on the in-email preview. 2. You should be able to design a mail scanner which would detect images that look t
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by new299 10y ago
Personally, I feel like Ubuntu gets a lot more attention, perhaps more on the client-side. Sometimes, the foundational work Debian provides isn't fully acknowledged.
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by new299 10y ago
It's possible they were blocking all the vents and causing airflow issues?
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by new299 10y ago
Yay! This is cool. I wrote something like this myself a while back: http://41j.com/hterm/ I recommend checking out libvterm ( http://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libvterm/ ). It abstracts out of lot
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by new299 10y ago
I usually shutdown. Sometimes, I don't even do that. For example if I'm going into a meeting and down need the laptop. I just close the lid and pull the drive (don't really care about the laptop getting stolen, but I do care
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by new299 10y ago
The connection to the bot server seems pretty flaky. However I'm pretty impressed by the quality of conversation, there are certainly fragments that appear quite logical. Anyone know what hardware and software is being used here?
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by new299 10y ago
The article really makes it look like they've not used it yet. It then goes on to discuss 3 other sites that have installed Watson, and have made no major staff cuts. Even if there has been testing. I find it unlikely that you'd m
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by new299 10y ago
They've not even installed the system yet: "Fukoku Mutual has already begun staff reductions in preparation for the system's installation." ... "The insurance firm will spend about 200 million yen to install the AI
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by new299 10y ago
This was posted last week here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13283167 My comment then, and still is, that this isn't really much of a story: The cynic in me thinks this is likely a total non-story/spin. I
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by new299 10y ago
I've started using cheap X220/X230s as my everyday laptops. I leave the HD dock off and just pull the harddrive out to move between laptops. This actually works really really well for me (on Linux).
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by new299 10y ago
I'm not going to downvote you. But it's in no way shape or form fraud. It's just like sending back business reply mail if you're not interested in the product. It's not fraud. I can see a case for it being a bit lik

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