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6y ago
~450,000 employees over 300M people, equals about 37 employees over 25K people. Plus 500K delivery drivers , it's another 37 employees. So 74 employees. How many did work retail in that 25K town ?
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6y ago
I wouldn't count on that over the long-term. Currently Amazon has better ways to use their money to grow. When that's over, a lot of the 3rd party sellers will be at risk.
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6y ago
It would be really great to have in-depth smart medical questionnaires that I can do in private app, so that when I go to the doctor, he can easily get all the information that's possibly relevant, in a very short time.
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6y ago
Complexity isn't only about transistors, but also about delay. And sure, there's pipelining but than your limited by latency.
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6y ago
Since Intel mostly fabs it's own chips, what will it serve with older nodes ? And will that be enough ?
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6y ago
What's missing from this system(and P2P systems in general), is automatic pinning - i.e. the system automatically choses which files to pin on which user, to ensure every file is available on the net. It's a bit of tricky problem,
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6y ago
A wafer generally costs $4K-$7, last I checked, I'm not really up to date. The server around it, with it's packaging and unique cooling device, could certainly become much cheaper with volume. So with competition - sure, this may
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6y ago
But how much does it cost? How much will I need to pay for it, hourly on the cloud ? And what's the perf/$ compared to GPU's ?
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6y ago
async has another benefit: the mcu can sleep while the program is waiting, which offers an easy way to write low-power systems.
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6y ago
Why is it so hard to explain to employers the value of using 2 displays ?
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6y ago
I believe the pharma supply chain is heavily regulated.
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6y ago
I believe patent protection on medicine is strong - because it's possible to write strong patents , because those companies have big pockets and because, like you said, regulators(FDA) will in all likelihood won't be happy.
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6y ago
The bin mixing issue is the result of Amazon's marketplace. Afaik, Amazon Pharmacy doesn't work in a marketplace model.
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6y ago
Thank you. If that's the case, why did the bioweapons expert I cited, think that DIY bioweapons don't carry great risk ? What's the missing piece, the thing that when DIY guys or terrorists gets a hold over, we should start t
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6y ago
What did you pin your Wifi to ?
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6y ago
How is Nuvia conncted to Apple?
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6y ago
So basically given the same process, all companies have almost a similar offering?
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6y ago
Still, it requires RNA fragment synthesis, and DNA sequencing. Those seem like regulate-able technologies, right? And this is by Vivek Wadhwa, is he considered a serious analyst of such subjects ? Edit: this is the opinion of an expert in b
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6y ago
>> - Terrorists cause a worldwide epidemic. Scary. But how ? isn't the access to epidemiological viral knowledge and bio-manufacturing highly regulated?
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6y ago
Banks get their low collateral rate by the power of regulation. How does a private company able to have only 2% collateral ?
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6y ago
I'm not sure this is an open, non-patented secret , because there are only 2 companies that make their burger quite similar to meat, and even with that, impossible is much more similar.
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6y ago
Let's compare this to QubesOS: Which adversary can hack QubesOS while not being able to hack this ?
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6y ago
The impossible has v2. Did you taste that ? How is it compared to beef for you?
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6y ago
From what i've read, the impossible burger is pretty close to meat, unlike other plant based burgers. On the other and, burger king already sell those. So i'm curious, why doesn't McDonald's sell those too ? Is the suppl
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6y ago
//What the App Store is definitively not, however, is conducive to innovation, experimentation, and risk-taking. Are there any signs that iOS is significantly worse than Android with regards to innovative apps?
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6y ago
Yes they can, but this makes the barrier to entry much higher.
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6y ago
Why won't you build any meaningful community ? If you only charge from big companies , why does it matter for some lone developer? And as for big companies , as long as there's decent value and reasonable fees, why won't they
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6y ago
What about docker? Doesn't it solve the toolset setup problem for embedded ?
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Is that attributation problem applicable to B2B where most buying decisions are well considered, unlike B2C ? So the best you can do via ads is to show your offer to the right guy, and that's enough to be considered ?
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6y ago
Yep , In order to get some free chapters , I need to enter my email , and login to a site. That guy sure knows how to sell.
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