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by pwaai 9y ago
I feel like this is another "Sprint" acquisition in the making for Masayoshi. Uber like Sprint has - undefensible core business model - overvalued market cap - assumes capital markets will hold https://www.forbes.com&#x
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by pwaai 9y ago
Have you tried answering that question? Or does the answer require some deity? I mean how dare somebody who dedicated their entire life to this particular field to suggest not claim as assumed, a solution that offends the Gods.
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by pwaai 9y ago
> My impression as a layman is that quantamagazine.org is leaking a lot of ... ambitious ... physics headlines into HN; I've kind of stopped clicking on them after the first few. I find this to be a repeated pattern where some faul
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by pwaai 9y ago
I was hyperventilating as I read this as ESP8266 runs for months on a charge but still ePaper is a great move on a path to finding self sustainable internet connected (w/ extending wifi possibly falling back on 3g) devices in the wild.
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by pwaai 9y ago
what software do you use to design the 3dhubs? do you need to know basic CAD? thank you.
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by pwaai 9y ago
I see...seems like I'll just get one of these https://www.amazon.ca/Aoyue-Benchtop-Solder-Smoke-Absorber/d... and stick with lead when I get the chance....I'll be sure to do it in well ventilated area.
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by pwaai 9y ago
ah this is a perfect gateway for noobs like me! thanks for this. I'm super excited about 3dhubs! I didn't know such service existed. Wonder what the pricing is like.
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by pwaai 9y ago
I've read another comment saying that actually produces more toxic fumes?
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by pwaai 9y ago
This is what a lot of us have figured out and stopped using facebook. I briefly checked in last year and was overwhelmed by the number of engagements, marriages, newborns, relationships. The eerie thing is everybody's life looked very
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by pwaai 9y ago
so not very difficult and not far off either it seems. It must've been an existential crisis for Uber to go as far as try and steal it from Waymo, allegedly. It seems they underestimated just how difficult and expensive it can be....pe
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by pwaai 9y ago
ah no worries...just wanted to see how much we are behind the rest of the world. so 15 pounds in CAD is ~ $25 so 15 pounds for 500mb/month in Canada...
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by pwaai 9y ago
curious how much you are paying for 15GB / month? just wanted to compare with Canada.
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> I think these are great for people with experience using embedded electronics and comfortabke with soldering and low level programming (I.e probably a significant portion of HN readers). Those days are over. The new chips come with a h
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by pwaai 9y ago
curious, where are these tends of thousands of transactions occuring directly from consumer to paying for a product at a brick and mortar location? Let's not count bitcoin mixers and drug transactions.
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by pwaai 9y ago
This makes me think and I'm pretty excited about it... How far off/difficult would it be for Tesla to create their own ride sharing app? I mean both Lyft and Ubers "moat" seems to be their app which is not defensible aga
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by pwaai 9y ago
> Probably not. But not everybody who has a hard drug addiction will do this either. You won't steal from your family because sugar addiction withdrawl pales in comparison to heroin withdrawl, which you claimed to be less addictive
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by pwaai 9y ago
I don't get why this comment is being downvoted? There's nothing that suggests that blockchain is seeing mass adoption other than the people pushing it. So far it has proved to be a fantastic vehicle for transferring wealth from u
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by pwaai 9y ago
> but for once, I actually know what the tokens will be used for Do you seriously believe that people will give you the benefit of the doubt when you are repeating the exact same hype and promise that almost all blockchain/ico proje
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by pwaai 9y ago
Yeah I actually couldn't believe what I was seeing when the other day I was actually thinking this about Red Lang, 'this actually could be onto something'... It completely erodes trust and confidence when a project just bolts
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by pwaai 9y ago
so does your withdrawl symptoms get so bad that you would steal from your wife and children? are you willing to risk your life and commit crimes to get a hit of sugar?
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by pwaai 9y ago
> You do know that sugar is more addicting that heroin right? Do you seriously believe this? Do you get physical withdrawl symptoms like you get from heroin? Are you willing to steal from your wife and children just to get a hit of sugar
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by pwaai 9y ago
This is a fact that cryptocurrency maximalists love to conveniently forget. Despite all the ramblings about how corrupt and centralized , they are cashing out through a centralized bank. The noose is tightening on all fronts and I believ
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by pwaai 9y ago
One attack vector here might be trolls creating large number of accounts or manipulating the algorithm to share suicidal messages....I've seen far worse, the internet in all purposes does a lot of good but it's also emboldened inc
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by pwaai 9y ago
> Anonymity also permitted the American Revolution, among other things. Not sure what that has to do with anything. > Meanwhile the most prominent example that comes to mind for attempts to end even the pretense of anonymity online is
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by pwaai 9y ago
Every company was once a single person with an idea, as were every company that never came to be. While it's humbling to think that these large companies used to be just in the brains of a few individuals, it's so easy to not look
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by pwaai 9y ago
I miss the 90s web I used to browse with Netscape Navigator. I really liked static navigation menus where I didn't have to stop and infer the functionalities from an icon or hidden expendable/scrolling menus. I made my first websi
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by pwaai 9y ago
> Bowden: Text in HTML is the way to go here; you cover accessibility issues and SEO bots, while simultaneously also being usable on the maximum number of devices possible. HTML and CSS are forgiving in the sense that you can make mistak
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by pwaai 9y ago
> Step 1: Be popular/famous enough that people know your name. This is what irks me about articles like this being posted on HN and indie hackers--You too can have a six digit MRR if you've spent the past X years building a com
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by pwaai 9y ago
I hope that she can get the appropriate justice. $25,000 is a pittance compared to the psychological trauma from having to relive the trauma over and over from being discussed. I mean, fuck man, why even become a lawyer if you are going to
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by pwaai 9y ago
Seems pretty one way: > One woman said she was riding a Ferris wheel at Coney Island after a company event when a co-worker suddenly took her hand and put it on his crotch. So basically the letter the women sign is a license for certain

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