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by nrp 7y ago
It would be interesting to see examples of the alternatives. That is, marketplaces that failed due to scammers, marketplaces that succeeded by heavily curating to block scammers, and marketplaces that failed due to excessive curation while
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by nrp 7y ago
1. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft will all be more valuable than they are today, and none will be broken up by government action. 2. Legislation will increasingly come into place in the US and EU forcing tech companies to cle
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by nrp 7y ago
Typically, boards like this would only be used for prototyping. It's a dead simple system and there is basically nothing of value in the board itself for production use. Any design using the same microcontroller would just incorporat
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CMOS Micro Camera Module(ams.com)
2 points by nrp 7y ago|1 comments
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by nrp 7y ago
Part of the power of cities is that they balance density and modularity. You don't need an enormous capital outlay to build a city all at once. It can grow and shrinks organically at an individual building, street, and transit line l
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by nrp 7y ago
I suspect SMIC or another Chinese foundry will get there over the next 10-20 years. China justifyably considers it a strategic priority and a matter of national security and will put in as much money as it takes to pull people and IP out o
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by nrp 7y ago
I agree, but I would guess the deals looked something like equity, first right of refusal on acquisition, some level of access to IP, and maybe something like timed or category exclusivity in exchange for investment. I'd also guess tha
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by nrp 7y ago
The specifications and renders certainly look interesting, but there’s nothing on that site that indicates there is anything more than specs and renders.
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by nrp 7y ago
The modularity of the supply chain is part of the challenge, as Bunnie illustrated. You could have interchangeability at the chip level or OEM level, but still have the same bad actor tampering at the foundry, chip packaging house, part di
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by nrp 7y ago
You’d be surprised. In the last city I lived in in Orange County, the waste system was deliberately designed to have a single residential container and full sorting done at the waste facility by a combination of people and machines. The c
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by nrp 7y ago
In the Bay Area, you're probably being served by Recology. They have trucks with multiple compartments for recycling, composting, and trash, but they also have pretty advanced sorting capabilities at their sites: https://ww
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by nrp 7y ago
You could even call it a negative cost for the potential savings on health care from getting regular cardio exercise! Give employees a discount on health insurance costs if they bike or walk to work.
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by nrp 7y ago
It is an unusually cheap system, and OP clearly did some thorough research on finding a really well integrated SoC that is available for super low piece part prices. I'd guess Allwinner targets that part at some ultra high volume appl
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by nrp 7y ago
It’s actually probably harder these days to build something that isn’t RoHS compliant as a hobbyist than one that is. The vast majority of what you can buy from Digikey and Mouser and whatnot will be compliant, PCB shops will mostly do lea
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by nrp 7y ago
Indeed. In the US we have the FDA and the CDC precisely so that all of us don’t have to worry about it. Per the linked article, they seem to be doing their jobs. The CDC has identified the likely vector for harm, and the FDA has been cra
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by nrp 7y ago
Actually, it seems some adulterated products made it into the legal market, which seems to indicate insufficient control and inspection along the supply chain: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1097011 In any c
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by nrp 7y ago
People dying from toxic cutting agents that managed to get distributed pretty broadly across the US seems like a pretty good reason on its own to regulate it like tobacco is. Added “sin tax” revenue is just icing on the cake.
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by nrp 7y ago
Is this in relation to Stripe's move out of San Francisco ( https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/2nd-most-valuab... ) or something else?
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by nrp 7y ago
And pork, apparently: https://www.fpri.org/article/2019/12/pork-apocalypse-african...
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by nrp 7y ago
You can assume anyone named and quoted in an article like this is speaking officially on behalf of the company they are working for, with some level of preparation and filtering by their Comms team.
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by nrp 7y ago
I think the argument is that HTML can and should be human readable and editable, while you really need a tool to meaningfully create and edit SVGs anyway, so minifying isn’t a loss.
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by nrp 7y ago
Is it deliberate satire that this was written as a very long series if tweets rather than as a well structured article like it may have been in 1983?
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by nrp 7y ago
This isn't unique to any specific region, so I would guess it has to do with density of relevant industries and individuals and the rise of e-commerce. As an example, the San Francisco Bay Area used to be full of shops like Halted, We
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by nrp 7y ago
Lululemon, Nike, and Away all sell aspiration, hope, and a lifestyle, which get them to valuations higher than shoe, yoga pants, and luggage companies do. There are of course variations on design and differentiation in technology in each o
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by nrp 7y ago
It’s a financial decision. Building a competitive console game wasn’t cheap by that generation, and passion only goes so far. Publishers ultimately want to recoup their investment, which means developers targeting the common subset of fun
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by nrp 7y ago
Is that that different from human fears? We’ve presumably also evolved to be instinctually afraid of categories of things capable of harming or killing us, like snakes and spiders. Our intelligence lets us more carefully sub-categorize th
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by nrp 7y ago
On Apple (as opposed to Magic Leap), I believe a lot of it is figuring out a customer need and audience that can be satisfied by a set of technologies that are just at the edge of mature, and then not shipping the product until it actually
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by nrp 7y ago
I strongly suspect $2300 was at or below their breakeven cost, even not including amortization of R&D, NRE, or CapEx. They are presumably well aware that building a platform dependent on applications requires network effects that can o
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by nrp 7y ago
Karl Guttag estimated in the same range last month: https://www.kguttag.com/2019/11/10/all-magic-leap-patents-ha... His whole blog is a pretty compelling read on the current and near future state of AR.
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by nrp 7y ago
The same thing that happens when wired ISPs oversubscribe their infrastructure. Users get less than than theoretical maximum speed. Wireless infrastructure doesn’t inherently have this problem and wired infrastructure doesn’t inherently s

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