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by patrickk 12y ago
They actually already exist. Google "solar panel cleaner robot" or similar.
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by patrickk 12y ago
I think the overall attempt is humour, look at the Loch Ness monster for a great example.
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Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense(crispian.net)
4 points by patrickk 12y ago|4 comments
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by patrickk 12y ago
Sometimes it's not so simple. I recall Google issuing bonds because it was cheaper than repatriating non-US revenue from abroad to fund US investments (it would have been taxed twice, albeit at an extremely low rate on it's non-US
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by patrickk 12y ago
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll definitely take a look.
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by patrickk 12y ago
"Dune" the classic sci-fi novel for the first time and I've just finished the Fountain series. Before that was Snow Crash. On a classic sci-fi reading bender right now.
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by patrickk 12y ago
I live in Frankfurt, I've noticed the market here being really expensive. It appears from my perspective a lot of it is companies who own property investments, or individuals who own property as investments. Lots of regular people simp
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by patrickk 12y ago
> Moving their Euros into bricks and mortar This one is certainly untrue, most Germans rent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owner... It's certainly true about debt, you have to have cash
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by patrickk 12y ago
The German numbers are heavily skewed by East Germany, which is still below the living standards of West Germany. If you live in a wealthy, West German city (as I do), the quality of living is very high indeed.
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by patrickk 12y ago
No one is saying to make German goods worse. This is completely missing the point. The real problem is that the German export sector is benefiting enormously from having a currency that is tied to economies that have high levels of debt, cr
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by patrickk 12y ago
And the backup battery business for homes and business: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-08/musk-revea...
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Provably Fair Decentralised Poker with Ethereum(reddit.com)
1 points by patrickk 12y ago|0 comments
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Too Much Finance Is Bad for the Economy(economist.com)
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by patrickk 12y ago
I'd love to read a blog post about this. Some dream features I'd like personally in a smart home: * TV-aware lights - lights dim/turn off according to a preset pattern when the tv comes on * Voice control - saying "Bed t
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by patrickk 12y ago
On the Moon or Mars was my immediate thought too. A team of robots could build a bunker by sealing off an impact crater for the first humans to live in. However on Earth, I could easily imagine these robots being useful too. When they get m
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by patrickk 12y ago
Even more closely related: http://asoftmurmur.com/
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by patrickk 12y ago
How would this work in practice? Maybe some form of corporate patronage, like Facebook and Stripe did in this story, and giving the inventor a generous slice of the returns from the invention (I can imagine several downsides to this too, of
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by patrickk 12y ago
> Their common features: they tend to be single-purpose devices, they tend to have crappy displays like e-ink or black-and-grey LCD, and to the extent they are general-purpose, they aren't effective or much fun. I like the fact that
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by patrickk 12y ago
That's an exceptional visualisation!
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by patrickk 12y ago
Email sent!
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by patrickk 12y ago
Perhaps its simply to get a different revenue stream other than ads. Very vulnerable to adblockers.
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by patrickk 12y ago
Pretty sure that link was public before... the mods must have made it private. Your site would not be accepted into the Useful Resources section (lots of spam in the gambling industry, affiliate stuff etc). You have to be careful about how
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by patrickk 12y ago
No worries, I like the idea, happy to help. Might pick your brains about it a bit if that's ok. Some traffic stats for that subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerBetting/about/traffic/ Email away
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by patrickk 12y ago
Ya good idea. I'm a moderator there so if you need tips about promoting it correctly without being spammy let me know. Also, posting your picks to oddsportal picks (e.g. http://www.oddsportal.com/profile/DPT/
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by patrickk 12y ago
Cool! Shoot me an email if you'd like to chat further, myself and a friend had a betting tips site and facebook group going at one point, I like talking about this topic.
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by patrickk 12y ago
Do you track your results? That would be a good thing to have on the site for marketing purposes. Also, ever consider writing a betfair bot to automatically bet on your tips through their API? How do you decide on bankroll in your tips? (th
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by patrickk 12y ago
Nice job! You're probably aware of this site https://betegy.com/ maybe you can get some ideas from them (not affiliated). You should discuss your site at /r/soccerbetting my email is in my profile if you want
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by patrickk 12y ago
But there is infinitely more atoms out in the Solar System and beyond... isn't a more likely scenario that the AI would quickly figure out how to blast out of Earth's gravity well and spread throughout the universe? It might accid
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by patrickk 12y ago
Julian Assange has some interesting things to say about Jared Cohen: Later that year the two co-wrote a policy piece for the Council on Foreign Relations’ journal Foreign Affairs, praising the reformative potential of Silicon Valley techno
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by patrickk 12y ago
Superb, hilarious article on this topic: http://www.kenrockwell.com/business/two-hour-rule.htm

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