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6y ago
If one wants serendipity online, maybe it's better to look for it at small independent sites, like whichbook.net.
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In 2019, "The utility-scale capacity additions consist primarily of wind (46%), natural gas (34%), and solar photovoltaics (18%), ". Seems like renewable are having a big impact. From: https://www.eia.gov/todayinen
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6y ago
Probably, it's been a long time since. The best i've found is recoll: https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ But search quality isn't good.
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6y ago
Great search engine for an eBook collection. Gives higher ranking to sections i annotated. Must be a desktop app.
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6y ago
Lhdc ll has 30msec latency.It's included in Android 10. Maybe this would be ok?
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6y ago
// low latency wireless audio transmission is quite common. The new Qualcomm aptX adaptive standard supports lowish latency - ~80ms. list of official supported devices: https://www.aptx.com/product-listing?aptx_ty
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6y ago
It's hard to say love is a frivoulos need. Adults that are loved do thrive, usually. On the other hand, lonely people do suffer a lot.
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6y ago
Many hard useful things, which once we're more accessible to small-scale entrepreneurs, have became scalable industries by using technology and free money. Solar installations certainly seems that way - it probably runs by big companie
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6y ago
What about reverse-engineering, is it a real possibility for creating fab equipment ? or are those too complex and opaque ?
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6y ago
Amazon has 38% e-commerce market share, Walmart has 5.8%.
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6y ago
That's an interesting view. How can tacit knowledge be learned without being in the same room with someone ?
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6y ago
Investors will provide the capital, robots/software can be hired.
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6y ago
So from your insider vantage point, how will the insurance job market look in 5-10 years ? What jobs, if any, would be left ?
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6y ago
But femtocells are very close to Wi-Fi[1], and owned by oligopolies. Where's the benefit in that ? [1]the biggest difference of 4G over WiFi is concentrated coordination , but this could be achieved for Wi-Fi too.
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6y ago
Well, mental models are basically the BuzzFeed of thinking tools. So no wonder it has become a trend.
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6y ago
23% is a very good return. So just invest in VC's that are in the top quartile. It's probably not that hard to find that information , with reasonable accuracy.
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6y ago
I'm not sure. They did sell cars in Israel. They did have battery replacement centers. They failed because they we're too expensive. That's mainly because they had really large fixed costs - cars, selling them , deploying cha
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6y ago
Partly, this could be explained by culture: a democratic culture produced more innovation. And the best US companies have developed an internal culture that might not be easy to develop.
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6y ago
Can someone explain that last sentence ? My Mom has kidney problems, so it would be very useful to know about that.
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6y ago
Have you found it useful to non-mechanical problems?
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6y ago
I find the instant messaging is even better(for informational conversations). It gives you time to think, can decrease miscommunication and the psychological element of conversation(giving more clean space for the informational element) and
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6y ago
I usually to write in short sentences instead of long paragraphs. I find that it improves clarity. It also seems the readers respond well to that. With that in mind, why are bullet points so bad ? they seem like a simple technique to simpli
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Wasn't it GE's CEO who pushed the idea that the company's goal is to optimize share value ? Karma's a bitch.
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6y ago
Will a good demo of self-driving increase Amazon's stock by more than 0.2% ? That's enough to justify the purchase.
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6y ago
If given private rooms, and not cubicles, i bet many programmers won't mind going into the office that much.
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6y ago
Printing traditionally deals with 2D objects. Manufacturing deals with making 3D objects.I think 3D printing belongs there.
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>> it will simply bring even more businesses into the fold When we look at various platforms, we see that big business and startups are extracting all of the repeatable, low-risk tasks of most businesses(supply chain, customer servic
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6y ago
With support of today's API's/datasets , you could build more complex apps with similar levels of effort.
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Table 2 shows negative job growth in the printing industry in the last 10 years: https://collegegrad.com/industries/printing
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It's even easier to do so with no-code, low-code tools.
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