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by petra 7y ago
Do wood houses just appear flimsy ? Or do they last significantly shorten than concrete ?
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by petra 7y ago
Also, the article doesn't explore whether electric cars could be manufactured in a more friendly way.
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by petra 7y ago
>> significant innovations in per-transistor performance What kind of innovation ? anything concrete - i.e. on research/dev ?
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by petra 7y ago
Those are good points. In addition many things require experiments or building large scale factories/businesses and those take time.
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by petra 7y ago
Could mcu's made using modern processes be as cheap ?
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by petra 7y ago
They want to share this opportunity with people who don't have a driver's license. It's the sharing economy, after all.
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by petra 7y ago
Smallest irsc-v core i know: https://devhub.io/repos/kammoh-picorv32 ~1000 Luts. 1 Lut = 6-24 gates on average. a bit pmore but still pretty close.
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by petra 7y ago
I wonder - what usually determins delivery costs is how many deliveries a person does per hour. That usually depends on the georphical density of deliveries. And cars are faster. So that means more deliveries. So order aggregators should ha
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by petra 7y ago
Here's this experiment sort-of running: WCH, which sells cheap mcu's(like $0.25 8051-mcu with usb/16Kflash) is working on a risc-V bluetooth mcu: https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/02/16/wch-ch57
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by petra 7y ago
>> low engagement/low value to Google’s ranking analysis. Measuring engagement is great for shallow content, if you even can call it that. We see that all across the net. But high-value, in-depth knowledge, is very often relative
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by petra 7y ago
Anybody read the original research ? If so , how big was the effect ? What are the stats ?
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by petra 7y ago
>> Advances in technology allow people to offer news services and new technologies that previously had not existed That's the real interesting question. What will they be ? Some i can see: - more machines -> more machine main
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by petra 7y ago
That was kind of true, until the existence of the communist USSR, and the great depression and it's results(among them WW2), made the ruling class in Europe/US pay more attention to workers. Do we need to pass through that kind of
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by petra 7y ago
>> attorneys could benefit from basic programming knowledge (e.g., simple scripts, macros, and SQL). Can you give a few examples of practical uses of those tools ?
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by petra 7y ago
// 1 accident every 1433 LLV trips. So an accident once per 1443 llv trips * ~400(average packages per llv trip) -> an accident per ~600k packages -> will need an accident per 600k drone trips * ~ 10mile/trip -> an a
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by petra 7y ago
Will we be seeing a similar process happen to "deep tech" startups ? And if so , what's the infrastructure behind that ?
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by petra 7y ago
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, but it is always kept in balance and the air cannot hold more than it is. All that will happen is that it rains. And no amount of water vapor from hydrogen cars compares to what all the oceans contribute to
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by petra 7y ago
>> The fact that young women are getting educated is a victory for everyone, Sure, for those Women it's a victory, and many others in society. But for everyone ? I'm sure some people in society do lose from that extra econom
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by petra 7y ago
The last one may be from cache.
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by petra 7y ago
Google seem to solve that by spinning-out while keeping significant(probably) equity. What's wrong with that ?
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by petra 7y ago
"rockets should be reusable" is a trivial idea. Most ideas are trivial, or very hard to protect, even while building a business. But what about patentable ideas ? What about fully formed ideas coming from professors, backed by dee
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by petra 7y ago
Re: 1 - that statistic about 10% extra premium for private labels is supposedly data. I'm assuming it's correct(just a Google search, sorry no link , on mobile). // You don’t need many companies to erase margins if they
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by petra 7y ago
Let's see: 1. Private labels enjoy about 10% extra margin. Amazon is currently scaling private labels and exclusive products(same thing), like mad. 2. Low margin doesn't mean a business is bad, just hard. Walmart is an amazing bus
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by petra 7y ago
Yota Phone tried that and didn't succeed. They we're also sold on Amazon, so Bezos had the sales data, and he chose not to invest.
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by petra 7y ago
Interesting! Are we starting to see that effect of culture change on results ? How ? Or did they somehow managed to prevent that ?
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by petra 7y ago
About the last part,regarding the buying experience: The way Amazon likes to solve problems is by creating platforms. So they created FBA, and now others discover products for them. They also created their affiliate program, and that's
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by petra 7y ago
Apple's main value is it's brand. Being a status symbol. Second is their customer lock-in. Those can carry lots of value. And even strength, maybe. But growth ? And design ? Google can design well enough. Their interfaces are easy
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by petra 7y ago
How is the local religion ? does it include visible deities ? Maybe those become part of inner worlds of children inn SE Asia ?
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by petra 7y ago
Imagine you're the kind of person who is willing to compete on YouTube as a way to make a living. Well, it's safer than playing poker. Would "platform risk" matter that much ?
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by petra 7y ago
This is just click-bait. some bullshit to manipulate our emotions so he'll have lively discussion and page views, and leads to sell his course.

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