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by patrickk 12y ago
Maybe a vote weighting that gradually gets heavier, the more honest your account is measured - you are observed upvoting good content, and flagging spam or viruses (imagine if the top HN commenters votes counted more than regular commenters
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by patrickk 12y ago
Or the idea of abandoning Earth because it's too hostile to grow crops with some dust storms, yet the idea of colonising a distant, extremely harsh-for-human-life planet is a more realistic idea. Surely building massive "vertical
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by patrickk 12y ago
Add to that, SEO, web design, etc.
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by patrickk 12y ago
> ... with all VCs funding available today I just don't get any anti-monopoly laws. Are you implying that there is a sum of money that could dislodge Googles stranglehold on the search (and therefore search advertising) market? Look
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by patrickk 12y ago
>This is great, but misses one important fact. Knowing the level of corruption in the Brazilian government, this assumes no one who works on the optics can be bribed by the NSA. I suspect that is improbable. It likely doesn't matter
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by patrickk 12y ago
A lot of the so-called innovation of the past 10 years seems to purely piggyback on Moore's Law, cheaper storage and cheaper bandwidth, i.e. incremental, sometimes useful improvements via the web, but no nanotech robots that detect can
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by patrickk 12y ago
> However, much can be built and done in that time. Rent caps are one thing that is changing, also the real estate agent's fee must now be paid by the landlord (which is a great idea, why the tenant has to pay it seems crazy to me)
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by patrickk 12y ago
Exactly, the effects of reunification are still being felt. Not to mention battling a low birth rate for quite some time, although this is partially offset by immigration from other parts of the EU.
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by patrickk 12y ago
> Even a billionaire has his driving license revoked if he's repeatedly caught speeding. More likely his driver. The billionaire can just hire another one.
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by patrickk 12y ago
Thanks for the information. I was thinking of the implications of the dream scenario, not that I think it's actually plausible. From what you've said it really sounds like a compact, low maintenance fusion reactor is still way, wa
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by patrickk 12y ago
One way or another, if a successful fusion reactor is actually built, the design will eventually get out and be reverse engineered and copied. It's too important for it to not happen.
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by patrickk 12y ago
> Travel would be inexpensive. This would be particularly exciting. Ships, trains and physically large forms of transport (maybe even aircraft/spacecraft?!?) could have fusion reactors built in. Electric cars charged by cheap power
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by patrickk 12y ago
> What's to stop them from selling it to each other? Nothing. This is what we call luxury goods. > Could we see a completely stratified economy, with rich people selling each other the fruits of their automated factories' la
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by patrickk 12y ago
Most likely algorithms trading on technical indicators, nothing to do with this news. Short term price movements are almost total noise.
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by patrickk 12y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up hurting tech development in Ireland in the long term. I'm not sure there is much tech development to hurt. "The talent pool here is much smaller than that of Silicon Valley. The si
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by patrickk 12y ago
The issue isn't about lower tax rates, or moving to lower tax jurisdictions - these major companies don't pay anywhere near the relatively low Irish corporate tax rate of 12.5%. It's about closing tax loopholes, which are sep
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by patrickk 12y ago
Similar problem when trying to find good articles on online marketing (nature of the subject matter). So much crap, so little substance. You have to really look to find the good stuff.
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by patrickk 12y ago
Time by Hans Zimmer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k Powerful stuff. Maybe Beethoven would've been a movie composer if he was alive in the modern era.
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by patrickk 12y ago
It's already been done (LEDs for growing weed, impossible for cops to spot growhouses using FLIR helicopters and much lower power usage so spikes in energy consumption are far less dramatic). I think in terms of impact, growing vegetab
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by patrickk 12y ago
Another interesting application: growing vegetables very efficiently (potentially in urban areas). " Plants mainly need blue and red light for photosynthesis and far-red, a colour not even visible to the human eye but visible to the pl
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by patrickk 12y ago
> If you want to avoid paying a lot of taxes, build a multinational and set up tax avoidance schemes like the Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich. It's probably cheaper to simply pay Irish corp. tax (12.5%) for all but the biggest co
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Scotland’s ‘No’ Vote: A Loss for Pollsters and a Win for Betting Markets(nytimes.com)
1 points by patrickk 12y ago|0 comments
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by patrickk 12y ago
No 3G, no app store(!!), no copy and paste, no GPS, worse call reception than the phones it replaced, the list goes on. It was still a massive success.
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by patrickk 12y ago
I feel exactly the same about Facebook. There should be a protocol for social networks and should be federated with no one controlling everything, similar to email. If fact, I believe it will go this way at some point in the future, despite
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by patrickk 12y ago
One use case I can think of that might be suited to real time updates/shopping would be when a football/soccer team releases a new season shirt. I follow the EPL, there's always a huge fuss in the media when the big teams rel
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by patrickk 12y ago
Lawn mowing robots have been around for a while already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2_AIWFO77s
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AirEnergy 3D – A 3D printed, opensource, mobile wind turbine(kickstarter.com)
3 points by patrickk 12y ago|1 comments
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by patrickk 12y ago
> In their case, it seems like most of the business is "coaches" to help SMBs with their content/inbound marketing. The amount of software/technology behind it is questionable. This is absolutely spot on. Lots of webi
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by patrickk 12y ago
Sivers on SRS (great info): http://sivers.org/srs
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by patrickk 12y ago
Would appreciate some also. The connect with Facebook button on the Stellar dashboard isn't working. Username is keanemachine ;)

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