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by nrp 7y ago
Yes, this is what I was getting at. Somewhat selfishly, I asked this question because one slice of the company I just stated involves developing open source hardware. I want to pick the right EDA tool in terms of capabilities and usabilit
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by nrp 7y ago
It's fantastic that LibrePCB exists to solve the key pain points around KiCad, but I wonder what the end state is. Network effects come into play pretty strongly here with libraries, reference designs, and community knowledge. It too
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by nrp 7y ago
Between Backmarket and Amazon Renewed, I believe we’re seeing a resurgence in refurbished electronics. Note also that a lot of consumer electronics brands refurbish their devices to use for warranty replacements rather than using new stock
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by nrp 7y ago
Freedom of speech as a legal concept certainly impacts platforms. Platforms can choose to enforce their own rules that are more restrictive than strictly what the law requires, and in doing so they are making market-based choices. However
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by nrp 7y ago
Rtings pretty comprehensively catalogs and reviews mid and high end TVs. The only TV released in the last two years without WiFi or associated smart functionality is a pretty mediocre 49" TCL. While you can certainly still get smalle
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by nrp 7y ago
My hypothesis is that dumb TVs don’t need to be more expensive, and that the savings of not needing a beefy SoC and more DRAM and Flash offsets what would otherwise be coming in from advertising.
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by nrp 7y ago
The data on your viewing habits isn’t worth that sum (making it even sadder that TV OEMs are selling you out). The price deltas are driven by what the market will bear. As expensive as the commercial monitors are, they are a small fractio
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by nrp 7y ago
A “Dumb TV” is something I’m exploring developing. There is a gap in the market for a TV with a great panel, no internet connection, and only the processing strictly required for various types of signal processing and format conversion. T
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by nrp 7y ago
I left Apple to join a startup that was then acquired by Facebook. I recently left after five years there to start another company. It takes a few months to get back out of the mind-set of consensus building, socializing ideas to avoid sur
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by nrp 7y ago
Many video conferencing/calling applications already do this, allocating more bits to regions recognized as faces when encoding. You can test it out in FaceTime for example by showing your face vs obscuring enough of it that face dete
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by nrp 7y ago
Library management is a little messy, but on the other hand it’s great that the master version of it is just a GitHub repository. That makes it really easy to pull down the latest, add new parts as you work on a project, and submit pull re
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by nrp 7y ago
Despite all the press around the specifics of MCAS and the 737 MAX, the broken relationship between Boeing and the FAA, and the poor state of Boeing pilot training in many developing countries, this article reads as the single most damning
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by nrp 7y ago
Apple Notes is wonderful until you decide to replace your MacBook with anything else and attempt to get by with the painfully slow iCloud web version of Notes. The same goes for Apple Reminders.
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by nrp 7y ago
I still have my Thinkoutside keyboard from the Dell Axim days as well. I’ve tried a few more recent folding keyboards, but nothing has met the rigidity, compactness, and key feel of that old thing. It was truly a magical product for its t
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by nrp 7y ago
This issue was the genesis of the short-lived VirtualLink effort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualLink VR headsets wanted four lanes of DisplayPort, USB 3.1 for data, and power over a single connector, and no exis
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by nrp 7y ago
I checked out Hudson Yards as a tourist, and I would also agree it’s not a great example of a mall. Both the architecture and the shop selection seemed to be tuned more for Instagram-worthiness than for being a place you’d want to spend ti
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by nrp 7y ago
Fair. Karl is probably close to the mark with his estimate of 5-8k. I would also guess that the vast majority of those are in the hands of other companies in the AR space rather than end-users of AR experiences.
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by nrp 7y ago
It wouldn’t be $0, since they have likely sold a few tens of thousands of dev kits. Gross profit on those devices is likely zero or worse though.
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by nrp 7y ago
I don’t disagree that neighborhoods are fairly delineated, but in the context of this article, everyone rides the same MRT lines. They all sit next to each other too!
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by nrp 7y ago
There’s also the impact of Prop M, which caps new office square footage created yearly. Stripe may not be able to find contiguous space big enough for their expected growth even if they wanted to stay in San Francisco.
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by nrp 7y ago
Somewhat ironically, Singapore is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse places in the world, demonstrating that ethnic non-uniformity shouldn't be a proxy for unknown dangers.
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by nrp 7y ago
Payroll tax is based on apportionment of payroll expense, rather than headcount. It also includes stock based compensation. I'd guess most of their payroll expense is in San Francisco.
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by nrp 7y ago
San Francisco has probably the most complex payroll and gross receipts tax system of any city in the world. The calculator you're supposed to use is: https://sftreasurer.org/sites/default/files/2019-08&#
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by nrp 7y ago
Taxing material use and refunding at material recovery is not totally unreasonable, but it ignores the energy that goes into both processing steps and the people required to do labor. Repair is totally compatible with this, since it reduce
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by nrp 7y ago
It’s kind of hard to follow in the article, but the painting was moved to a different location within the same church complex that was converted into a museum. It’s hard to call that stealing it, and beside the public benefit. it’s likely
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by nrp 7y ago
I believe that quote was in reference to the Rift DK1, which had a 1280x800 full persistence, slow response panel but pretty poor panel utilization. The usable resolution per eye was something below 600x600. It was plausible to build a DK
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by nrp 7y ago
The linked website attempts to quantify the impact with some stated assumptions. You’ve stated some alternative assumptions, but haven’t quantified the conclusions to determine if they hold. I’ve been long on Bitcoin, but I am exiting my p
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by nrp 7y ago
Conveniently, there are two running right under Market St! Muni Metro, and then BART below that. I assume some aspect of that also drives up the cost.
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by nrp 7y ago
There’s a little more information at https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Market-Street-ma... The $600m includes upgrades of sewers and utilities so it’s likely all of Market street is getting dug up some w
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by nrp 7y ago
Not to be excessively cynical, but the purpose of this opinion piece probably has more to do with: “Marc Benioff is the chairman and co-chief executive of Salesforce and the author, with Monica Langley, of the forthcoming book, “Trailblazer

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