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by petra 7y ago
The theoretical maximum is higher than gasoline(1700Wh/Kg[2]), and that's what matters: rechargable Li/CuCl2 could offer 1166.4 Wh/kg[1], while recyclable, non-rechargeable aluminum-air could offer 5200Wh/Kg[1]. Som
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by petra 7y ago
>> You can call to regulate but it’s hard to know in which direction. Sure, there are risks in everything. So we'll take no responsibility and just wait to see what the worst that can happens ? You know, historians believe that t
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by petra 7y ago
They didn't fit well in most places. Now they might.
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by petra 7y ago
The thing is: robot videos are viral. That doesn't mean white collar jobs, even those that are high-skilled aren't at big risk. You just need to look at the rate AI is advancing, the amounts of startups and money aiming at white c
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by petra 7y ago
This probably also applies to cognitive jobs. Maybe, if we're lucky, we'll be left with jobs that require interpersonal skills.
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by petra 7y ago
Could this process of making the dough be done in a factory, while restaurants get premade dough ?
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by petra 7y ago
Ideas are easy. Having valuable, proven insights that nobody knows, and are possible to extract value from , that's harder.
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by petra 7y ago
What's missing is a resource that would let you understand each activity, it's tools, processes, problems, etc.
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by petra 7y ago
Self-repair can be made tempting too. If it can be made simple[1] and affordable - it becomes a nice home project. [1]How easy it's to repair a broken drain pump in a washing machine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv
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by petra 7y ago
Some of those changes are note very expensive. often times reliability is compromised for minor savings. The question is that of marketing. Can we make a marketing page that shows an easy to repair washing machine - and shows us that over 1
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by petra 7y ago
Does Bing shows better respect to search operators, than Google's attitude - "i already know what you want" ?
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by petra 7y ago
The radeon VII already has 1TB/s memory bandwidth, using HBM2, with HBM2E offering almost double the bandwidth. Also if we're looking a bit forward, Intel recently demoed, with Ayar Labs, a 2.5D chip with a photonic chiplet that c
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by petra 7y ago
Yes "avoid learning anything new" is a bit weird. There are some things that are relatively easy to learn, and would make it so much easier on you. How, as a poor programmer, can you afford not to learn them ?
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by petra 7y ago
After knowing many sex workers, if a poor friend came to ask you to choose a career - in what context would you recommend her to work as an escort ?
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by petra 7y ago
That's just an historical artifact, and in some countries it's changing - now the clients get arrested instead of sex workers.
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by petra 7y ago
Buffet is sitting on $120B of cash: https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/warren-buffett-has-a-122-bill... Bezos isn't a VC, he owns the greatest demand engine the world has ever known, and that matters when spending mon
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by petra 7y ago
What about scaling a VC organization ? With hundreds of managers, A lot of institutional knowledge, helpful infrastructure for said company, and deep ties between companies ? Come to think of it, it has many similarities to Google X. But th
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by petra 7y ago
Sure, database driven WP features, don't work - As they should. You just need to select your plugins from a smaller set, and use external services like disqus for database based service. And i think with time that thinking could lead t
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by petra 7y ago
It should be pretty easy to auto-generate static sites from wordpress. Shifter and HardyPress already do so. That gets you all the advantages of static sites, combined with all the advantages of WordPress(ecosystem, tools, affordable labor,
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by petra 7y ago
But leasing becomes ownership - and than it's a "high fixed costs, low marginal costs" situation.
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by petra 7y ago
Could Amazon force companies that this protocol - to sell only in Amazon.com ? Is this legal?
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by petra 7y ago
look at vanilla forums, or discourse. i believe they fit.
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by petra 7y ago
// problem.. is an inability to discover things it's not trained on. What happens if we take all the hard, weird cases, from across the country, diagnosed by the best doctors , and train a system on that ? Would that system
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by petra 7y ago
Israel is an extremely entrepeurial society due to many reasons , both historical and current. But beside that, there's a simple explanation: it's quite hard to earn a decent salary in Israel, without being either an Entrepreneur
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by petra 7y ago
What does "small companies" mean in this context ? Do they do engineering or manufacturing? And how could they maintain an advantage over so many others and of course over large companies ? Where's the r&d budget coming f
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by petra 7y ago
How ? $10K doesn't go very far in most areas of deep tech, where most significant inventions are usually created.
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by petra 7y ago
I like the idea of complex knowledge being protected in code. But what happens when a key employee leaves for a competitor ?
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by petra 7y ago
Not necessarily important as in "single handedly curing cancer". But taking part in an important thing , even in a small role, is important. But so much talent is wasted on insignificant things.
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by petra 7y ago
I don't agree that founders are unique in inventing "important stuff". In reality, most important inventions, are efforts of large groups of people(that may be distributed across organizations), and most of it is work - not c
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by petra 7y ago
How many talented people , in advanced economies, with good technical degrees , do take part in inventing important stuff ? Very few. Educating more kids and having more "ideas" won't change that. We're not lacking ideas

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