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by npunt 7y ago
Good summary. One additional thing to point out is the upper bound of the first case is the total covid deaths counted, whereas the upper bound of the second could be much larger.
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by npunt 7y ago
True, tho that's only one of many ways to get locked-in. Just to name three: 1. what if I want to switch platforms? 2. what if they switch business models? 3. what if they go away? The only real concern is #1 with Sketch, and that&#x27
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by npunt 7y ago
Jobs’ hot takes aren’t the end-all when it comes to product intent at Apple. He was basically an embodiment of strong opinions weakly held. His superpower was focusing teams on what the right set of features would be to create a product tha
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by npunt 7y ago
As should you. It’s not that an app ecosystem was never planned, it’s that it was not an early priority. Remember they were literally defining everything at the beginning - OS, UX, APIs, core features, hardware, first party apps, market pos
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by npunt 7y ago
Love the more presence-oriented take on video conferencing. Co-workers and I have often joked it'd be great to have a traffic light type signal above our workstations at work to know whether it was ok to initiate convo, and Remotion ba
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by npunt 7y ago
What I meant was input via the device itself. You can't expect people to press buttons on their glasses to get things done, that'd be a bad experience. The only other hands-free input method is gaze tracking, which would be great,
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by npunt 7y ago
Could be, but I don't believe in Google's ability to create a category-defining consumer product. They're an enterprise company that thinks they're a consumer company, there's a lack of understanding humans in every
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by npunt 7y ago
Sure, but that's a bit of a theoretical argument. The ability for at tech to be co-opted isn't something that prevents a v1 launch. That's something that happens later. Google isn't going to be the one that creates break
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by npunt 7y ago
AR's optics limitation is not cameras, it's the display. That's a tough optics challenge because you have to block incoming light (very hard) and display the data very close to the eye (hard) in a form factor that is appealin
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by npunt 7y ago
Agree, the popular idea of AR going around - wide FOV, fancy graphics, good occlusion of incoming light, tiny footprint - is unlikely for a long time due to optics. I think it’s foolish to try to execute that vision now, and why I’ve always
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by npunt 7y ago
171.3 million transistors per mm^2 is mind boggling. Were Apple's A14 to have the same area as their A13 (98.48mm^2) and maintain that density throughout, you're looking at ~16+ billion transistors. Some comparisons: - Apple A13:
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by npunt 7y ago
Agree, and to dive in a bit more to the icing, one of the most important and least remembered ingredients in that icing was the 1.8" Toshiba hard drive. That allowed for the miniaturization of the iPod relative to other, clunkier playe
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by npunt 7y ago
Sounds quite foundational and may impact a lot of fields. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200312192401/https://newsroom.... Nature link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s
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by npunt 7y ago
We need to start making these immediately. Every day counts right now. Where’s the army of amateur hardware hackers and 3d printer folks that can start cranking away on this?
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by npunt 7y ago
Unfortunately because of the incentives that drive developer business, we have to treat apps with minimal trust for anything potentially sensitive. Clipboards often contain people's names, contact info, passwords, and personal writing.
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by npunt 7y ago
Thank you both for this discussion, it was quite enjoyable to read!
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by npunt 7y ago
That may be true, I wonder what other cultural factors are at play as well. It may have been that people were more self-sufficient then, and thus it was not as disruptive to isolate. It seems appropriate to bring up on International Women&#
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by npunt 7y ago
Excellent use of back of the envelope math. I wonder if maybe the loss is non-linear, and a bit more is coming off because the tires are brand new. Perhaps there’s some coating on new tires before they ‘break in’?
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by npunt 7y ago
It seems that way but I’m not sure honestly, this is past the limits of my knowledge. Probably good to keep an eye on the subject though since it may affect our behavioral choices.
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by npunt 7y ago
Underdog spirit
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by npunt 7y ago
I see you point. It is possible to significantly reduce resale markets by going after price-gougers though. It doesn't have to be perfect to have the intended effect, and the threat of being busted is usually enough to push it to the
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by npunt 7y ago
I think you're missing the point - if there's a big arbitrage opportunity through price gouging, there will be even less stock in stores.
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by npunt 7y ago
Its smart to raise money when money is cheap (right before a recession), especially if your business is particularly dependent on business from other startups. The startups-serving-startups ecosystem is incredibly fragile to downturns.
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by npunt 7y ago
The medium of film in general is just much more prone to using violence as a plot device - it’s a cheap & easy way to create conflict. Whereas books can describe inner emotional state more readily and thus cheap conflict can be emotiona
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by npunt 7y ago
Yes, we can lower the R0 infection rate and smooth it out over a longer period of time by adopting better hygiene practices and making behavior changes. You're seeing that right now as different countries mobilize and react differently
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by npunt 7y ago
Think about capacity and throughput of hospitals. If everyone gets it all at once, they'll be overwhelmed and many people will die, since severe cases often need respirators, drugs, and close monitoring. The goal is to smooth out the c
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by npunt 7y ago
I think data and metadata is a good analogy. They don't want to control the end content (the data), but want to route users to the content that is engaging (the metadata, aka knowing the users prefs and knowing what content meets those
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by npunt 7y ago
If there's one truth to social networks its that everyone's experiences on them are different, based on who you're connected to, where you grew up, what life stage you're in, and whether you have interests adjacent to to
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by npunt 7y ago
I'm not sure what market research inspired the phone, but there's probably a segment of people where pretty severe constraints are considered a positive, primarily to reduce device usage, either as your only device or a device you
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by npunt 7y ago
Yeah these devices did check some boxes for various features and capabilities, and as a late 90s tech geek I wanted one badly because they were clearly 'the future', but the fit & finish in the UX just wasn't there for br

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