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by patrickk 13y ago
Valve is a gaming company who gets VR so it would make a lot more sense for their core business. Listening to Palmer Luckey talk about how the headset won't come out before its ready makes you think they have a very specific vision the
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by patrickk 13y ago
Short term perhaps, but longer term a huge reduction/elimination of human-caused accidents is really bad news for car insurance. Here's a quote from Warren Buffett (big investor in Geico): "If you end up with no accidents, we
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by patrickk 13y ago
> "...which typically happens in 10 minutes..." Which is too long when waiting at a counter in a retail scenario. Imagine if every customer had to wait around for 10 minutes to verify the transaction, it would be chaos in a bus
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by patrickk 13y ago
Would you have to consider letting some companies that are executing these ideas reside outside of Silicon Valley for the YC program, due to geographical constrains? For example, let's say Mate Rimac, the founder of Rimac Automobili (
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by patrickk 13y ago
>"There are no ads..." >" The Pirate Bay has made the same defense" The Pirate Bay certainly makes money from ads, without adblock the site is choked with nsfw ads everywhere (not that you should browse TPB in work
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by patrickk 13y ago
That looks amazing. Would you mind sharing any links you have on how to get started? How did you accomplish the voice control?
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by patrickk 13y ago
Hopefully a combination of superchargers, EVs in public parking spaces in shopping centers (for example, to attract wealthy EV owners to shop there) and arrangements to have EV charging points near work places will serve people in this situ
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by patrickk 13y ago
> Tesla has better getting their supercharger network ready before the sales catch up.. Given the fact that average distances in Europe tend to be shorter will likely mean the majority of EV owners (e.g. commuters) will simply charge up
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by patrickk 13y ago
> The big potential in this space is building a new banking platform from scratch, instead of relying on existing/legacy technology. It's likely nearly impossible to build a bank from scratch because of regulatory hurdles. That
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by patrickk 13y ago
http://mashable.com/2013/07/10/hemlis/ NSA proof messaging app from the co-founder of the pirate bay. The website says they will open source it, however it only runs on their infrastructure.
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by patrickk 13y ago
Cyclical means they'll come back up. Somehow I doubt that's the case with MySpace, bebo etc.
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by patrickk 13y ago
> The reasoning for not using hi-tech refereeing equipment in football is apparently a desire to keep the game played at the top level the same as that played in streets and fields the world over. That's already gone with goal line
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by patrickk 13y ago
The Irish people rejected the EU Constitution(Lisbon Treaty) in a referendum as well[1]. The Irish government laughed at the people, deployed a bunch of scare-mongering tactics in the media, and held another vote to get the "right&quot
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by patrickk 13y ago
I find it depends on the subreddit. It's like HN, if there's a consistent effort at civility and on-topic discussion in a particular community, then it can be ok. All of the default subreddits are a disaster for discussion, some o
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by patrickk 13y ago
We're going to enter into an interesting new phase of spying and counter-spying efforts if drones-as-faux-cell-towers are widely available. "Citizens of [major urban area]. Do not use your cell phone, rogue foreign agents are spyi
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by patrickk 13y ago
> "to get in before the IPO you have to be an accredited investor." Exactly, or a company insider with options, preferably an early-stage employee. Being an accredited investor or early employee in a successful company dramatic
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by patrickk 13y ago
You would be amazed what's possible. I remember being dumbfounded upon learning that a guy wrote an algorithm that could mimic the style of Johannes Sebastian Bach so well, that classical music experts praised the musical output, until
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by patrickk 13y ago
The consensus of almost everyone, from mainstream economists to the man on the street was (and continues to be) that the Irish bank bailout was insane. Bailing out unsecured bank bond holders is madness. There was some extremely murky polit
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by patrickk 13y ago
> This could really hurt consoles. Absolutely. I really disappointed by the lack of 4K in the Xbox One and PS4[1]. When blu-ray was new, it was the PS3 that really drove adoption. Now, the newer consoles will drastically lag behind the s
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by patrickk 13y ago
Exactly. Any company has to be focused on executing one thing well for several years into it's life if they want to succeed at all. The article struck me as being very poorly written for this reason. As if offering some generic web wid
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by patrickk 13y ago
Wall Street also bets on other basic commodities like food and oil, which drive up their prices. If two parties want to sell each other stocks bonds (asset classes likely purchased by deep pocketed, sophisticated investors), and the asset b
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by patrickk 13y ago
> Where I live renters pay a $300-500/mo premium over what they'd pay if they had a mortgage. >I sure would like an extra $6000 a year to go to building my wealth vs building someone else's That's the crux of the a
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Wall Street Unlocks Profits from Distress with Rental Revolution(bloomberg.com)
44 points by patrickk 13y ago|102 comments
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by patrickk 13y ago
You would think that queuing lots of files would be where TerraCopy really shines- faster copying combined with a nice view of the copy queue, with percentages and so on. I was disappointed to uninstall it because it worked well for normal
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by patrickk 13y ago
A word of warning about TerraCopy- it can cause annoying errors when copying. I transferred many gigs of data from one computer to another over a LAN, some files transferred fine, others looked like they copied ok, but were actually 0kb in
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Launch Codes: Automate Tasks, App Launches & More for Windows(patrickkeane.wordpress.com)
1 points by patrickk 13y ago|0 comments
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by patrickk 13y ago
Some radical ideas: http://startupboy.com/2013/11/07/bitcoin-the-internet-of-mon...
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by patrickk 13y ago
That's an amazing demo. I thought the multi-monitor simulation setup was very impressive, you can imagine all kinds of non-gaming applications for this! Any environment where you need to be utterly focused and shut off from distraction
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by patrickk 13y ago
Yeah what you're describing is a well known phenomenon in financial markets called counterparty risk[1]. Those betting against the subprime mortgage bubble prior to 2007 for example feared that those institutions accepting their exotic
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by patrickk 13y ago
The problem with predictious is the same as the author identified unfortunately - the currency used is bitcoin, so if you're right and the price falls, you could still lose money. I would love if one of the major european bookies (e.g.

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