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by nickparker 10y ago
Does anyone else find it extremely discomforting that the voting machines even have a full fledged OS? It's a throwback to this xkcd https://xkcd.com/463/ In my mind, the ideal electronic voting machine: - Has mec
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by nickparker 10y ago
That's only a spiral if you expect organizations to stay in Mtn. View no matter what. At some point your spiral reaches a point where Mtn. View based companies are beaten out by companies in sane cities with sane costs of living, and t
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by nickparker 10y ago
Multirotor hobbyist here - are those props some sort of strange heavy lift configuration? I've never seen such a long chord length on such small props. Anyway, unless those props are somehow very special, there's no way that thing
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Almost definitely. Stable matching is a very well understood problem, and as far as I can tell investor day is a textbook example of it.
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The radar might not be able to clearly distinguish between objects at the height of the cab and objects at signage heights. Just about everything on the road is mostly on the road. If the system can bias its sampling towards the ground, i
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by nickparker 10y ago
"Therefore people in Ecuador, Kenya, Tanzania and Indonesia are all a bit closer to the moon (not much, only about 13 miles closer) than people standing at the North and South poles." I may just be pedantic, but isn't this of
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by nickparker 10y ago
As I understand it: It's true of any platform, but Etherium is at a far higher risk of getting hacked because the language is Turing complete. There could conceivably be a smart contract blockchain with a simplified language that was s
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by nickparker 10y ago
>"Because they wanted/didn't want to do it" isn't where the trail of inquiry ends, btw. Absolutely this. I think a lot of educators today understand that they should encourage diverse students, but they still exh
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by nickparker 10y ago
How does the top of your funnel work? I don't know how your organization does it, but the three worst companies I've worked in diversity-wise all recruited about the same way: Word of mouth and some weak outreach through the easie
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by nickparker 10y ago
I just entered [myname]@aol.com and it worked. It's not like they're making me authenticate the email. What problem did you run into?
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by nickparker 10y ago
Would it be possible to artificially shorten patent terms? Say, create a blind trust, grant nonrevocable, universal, and sublicensable rights to the trust, and set the trust to grant free sublicenses to anyone and everyone in 5 years?
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This is a bit of a simplistic view... Insurance trades a slightly higher expected cost for zero variance in cost. For small companies, that's a great proposition because a small monthly fee can be planned for, while a patent suit is do
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The common complaint against Uber is that drivers barely make any money when you factor in minimum wage. Their solution won't be increased prices, it'll be the end of drivers. I'd love to see someone actually run the cashflow
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by nickparker 10y ago
"Cancelled" by who? Hyperloop One is by far the most credible project, with HTT somewhere behind them in second. They haven't revealed anything about their compression systems or lack thereof. HTT has backed off air levitatio
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You still need tubes on Mars for a vanilla air-levitation based Hyperloop. Martian fines would wreak havoc on your compression system. The mag-lev systems could perhaps run on exposed pistes though.
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I'm not sure where your consensus is coming from, but it's not what I've seen/heard working on this stuff. Hyperloop One (formerly Hyperloop Tech) said in an info session last Fall that they were targeting launch interva