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by npunt 3y ago
Rebuilding the tribe. We have divided ourselves into neat little nuclear family boxes and thrown ourselves together with a bunch of other randos in neat little boxes, with the unstated assumption that the family unit is the end all be all o
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by npunt 3y ago
Think bigger. "Driverless cars" are a technology that moves atoms without the need for people, a lot like how we move bits around today. There are innumerable benefits to moving the right atoms to the right places at the right tim
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by npunt 3y ago
My mind immediately went to 'was this one of the creative inputs of the renaissance?' Found this article [1] which tries to make the case and contains something to ponder: > After all, in 1484 Pope Innocent VIII had banned the
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by npunt 3y ago
I like the style, your comment created a clear train of thought and context
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That's great! Thanks for the clarification, I might have to poke around more with it and I look forward to seeing your next steps. Some additional thoughts in case they're of interest: My main go to market concern is that by requi
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by npunt 3y ago
TLDR: The premise isn't ambitious enough, the use cases seem thin, and the lack of marketing pop reflects a lack of distinct USP. But, I'm encouraged to see someone trying technically ambitious work like this because its barking u
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by npunt 3y ago
A good rule of thumb for forming beliefs (and commenting on fora about studies) is if you don’t have more than a passing awareness of an entire academic field, and your observation relies on no unique knowledge, talent, or perspective that
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by npunt 3y ago
If you read the quote, MacOS plus iOS is <$1k (cheapest mac mini + apple dev acct). Given that the article stated iOS & Android have equivalent revenue, you're looking Android+iOS+MacOS at <$1500 revenue. Its not a mobile-f
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by npunt 3y ago
Great read, very eye opening. > Similar to developing for macOS, a Mac is pretty much required for developing for iOS and there’s the $100 per year developer membership fee. I think the combined income of both iOS and macOS (95% of which
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by npunt 3y ago
You’ve got to be kidding
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by npunt 3y ago
Yeah the 'good at explaining / doesn't understand' part of the 2x2 is an entire genre on twitter.
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by npunt 3y ago
Totally it's a very solvable problem w not many variants. It's unfortunate the USB group chose these particular labels. They're so ugly that you'd never want one on a cable, and they don't reduce to small sizes we
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by npunt 3y ago
agree!
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by npunt 3y ago
So whats your solution? We all get that this is imperfect, the question is can the solution be improved upon within the constraints, and if not, what constraints should change? Because USB-C does a lot and touches a lot of things, I think t
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by npunt 3y ago
I think this is a bit hyperbolic. Once you try to implement any standard in practice to billions of people & devices you're going to find the same constraints and similar trade-offs everywhere. Manufacturers are going to cheap ou
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by npunt 3y ago
Though I don't think it was the root cause of 68k's demise, offering poor backwards compatibility between generations was an unforced error by Motorola. Everything was changing so fast in computing in the 80s-90s, and Wintel'
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by npunt 3y ago
I love all this new exploratory hardware coming out. At $59 this seems like an easy way to try out the concept without committing, and the form factor doesn't seem fiddly. I wonder if there's ways to get the benefits of this while
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by npunt 3y ago
Maybe where you are, but the true cost of water in many important regions is very high and running out. The Colorado river basin is on the brink of drying out completely and that's the best agricultural land in North America as well as
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by npunt 3y ago
In an ideal world, wouldn't we want people to be showing their work earlier in the process? Inspiring others to join in on the action? We saw with LK99 the world rally around a promising lead and discover some interesting things very q
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by npunt 3y ago
I mean they're researchers, not builders. If this all checks out, they've done their part and this should inspire builders to run with it and commercialize or open source a printable design. Specialization is great, glad someone i
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by npunt 3y ago
This makes complete sense when paired with growing body of research [1] [2] on the gut-brain axis and how gut health impacts cognition, mood, and various neurological functions. We already know that processed foods with low fiber, lots of s
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by npunt 3y ago
I like this roundup [1] as it hammers the point home with tons of observations across cultures, times, contexts, and methods of analysis. For instance, different cultures phased out lead gas at different times, and their subsequent crime ch
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by npunt 3y ago
same. this anecdote is great, its fun to find connection to random people through history.
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by npunt 3y ago
Disagree, I think this is not a good read on Apple strategy and you may be heeding the wrong lessons in computing history. 1. The passive vs active framing applies primarily to non-Pro iPads. I don't think it can be reasonably argued t
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by npunt 3y ago
Absolutely. I'd add that we also need a privacy-preserving way to see that contacts have accounts on a given social app (aka contact matching). A standard pattern for social apps is to ask for access to your contacts to see if anyone
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by npunt 3y ago
Lost $250M using the advertised launch price of $67M for Falcon 9 , which of course is way higher than what it actually costs SpaceX.
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by npunt 3y ago
Its doable but not in 10 years. From [1] > They found that soil fertility takes less than 10 years to recover to old-growth forest values. Plant functioning takes less than 25 years, and species diversity takes 60 years. Above-ground bio
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by npunt 3y ago
Well said. Can't rule CS out, but can't say it is the endpoint either. Re: mitochondrial dysfunction, you may be interested in Ron Davis' latest on the 'itaconate shunt', presented last week [1] [1] https:/&#x
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by npunt 3y ago
sigh no, this is not the generally recognized understanding of MECFS, just one hypothesis, and one that better explains fibro/pain [1]. It's also a conclusion not too distant from the 'its in your head' concept that ha
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by npunt 3y ago
Agree disabling entirely is a total cudgel and not a great long term solution, as it sets us up for the equivalent of crash diets or cold turkey substance use followed by almost inevitable relapses. I think the root cause is that our digita

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