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by schwabacher 11y ago
The benefit of creating oil like this is that it is energy dense, the downside is that it is hugely inefficient at every step compared to battery storage and burning it still produces air pollution.
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by schwabacher 11y ago
I just moved and ended up ordering a lot of furniture from them because they have better prices and are easier to search (for furniture) than Amazon.
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by schwabacher 11y ago
I can think of three reasons that it matters: - We base regulations and taxes on absolute MpG, so overstating efficiency weakens the regulations and allows automakers to cheat on taxes. - It misleads consumers about the cost to operate the
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by schwabacher 11y ago
This is really exciting, and I think this shows that the government is starting to 'get' software development after the healthcare.gov fiasco. They released the data under an open source license and have the source of the website
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by schwabacher 11y ago
It's 'web real time communication' - you can use it for peer to peer voice or video chat, as well as passing arbitrary data between peers w/ javascript.
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by schwabacher 11y ago
It's different research, and yes.
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by schwabacher 11y ago
why doesn't that bode well?
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by schwabacher 11y ago
there is a limit of 16^6 24 bit colors
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by schwabacher 11y ago
I have just written a library to make building something similar over webrtc easy: https://github.com/charlieschwabacher/ultrawave
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by schwabacher 12y ago
I am asking for it - I think online shopping is one of those those things, like driving to the store, where you will not realize how annoying it was until you no longer have to do it. I definitely would like to read reviews and compare pric
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by schwabacher 12y ago
Echo seems really smart to me - the reason Amazon is in hardware is because they are terrified of 'ok google, order me lighbulbs', or 'hey siri, i need a new pair of socks' becoming the way people shop for things online.
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by schwabacher 12y ago
Yeah - I know this is how it has been proposed in the US, it is absurd and corrupt to hand out credits for free.. but I think cap and trade would be great if it were implemented by setting a cap that shrinks over time, and then auctioning t
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by schwabacher 12y ago
To answer your question: Proponents of net neutrality are asking the FCC for new regulation on the internet in order to prevent ISPs from prioritizing certain traffic over others. If we were to shut down the FCC, ISPs would be unrestrained
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by schwabacher 14y ago
Out of curiosity, why only the legal industry? I understand a narrow focus might make sense starting out from a marketing point of view, but if you have some new technology that could benefit multiple industries, why not pitch it more broa
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by schwabacher 14y ago
I think this is a bad idea - salaries paid to different fields are a good (although imperfect) way of measuring the value of those skills to society. If we subsidize education towards less valuable skills at the expense of the most valuable
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by schwabacher 14y ago
Imagine the position Evernote will be in if (when?) wearable computing becomes ubiquitous - it could be a private, searchable, and seamlessly created record of everyone that you meet, everything that you eat, everything that you see and fin
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by schwabacher 14y ago
I agree that function calls like that can get weird in coffee - I like to write them like this, which i think turns out to be a little more readable: foo( -> bar() baz() quux() (error) -> throw e
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by schwabacher 14y ago
My problem isn't really with the changes - there is nothing they can do if they can't source the previous panel, and I am sure they chose the best one available. My issue is with how the changes were presented - instead of 'we are sorry, w
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by schwabacher 14y ago
Also worth mentioning - they announced this to backers in an email titled: "Update on Oculus Rift Developer Kit Technology, Shipping Details". It is easy to skim the email without realizing they are announcing a delay at all. This is the k
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by schwabacher 14y ago
The way they chose to present this delay is really infuriating - they have doubled the time to delivery from when the kick starter campaign ended, and made the product worse (a heavier screen farther away from your head). I understand how h
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by schwabacher 14y ago
I am with you on all points until your last - Newspapers take great pains to keep news and editorial departments separate. I don't think it is common practice to disclose past editorials on the same topic as news articles, and if it were, t
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by schwabacher 14y ago
The Daily Caller analysis misses an important point - there is a much larger volume of polling data for presidential elections than for congressional elections. Drawing conclusion from one about the other is largely meaningless.
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by schwabacher 14y ago
There are a few reasons logins are still needed for most apps: - you want users to be able to use the service from multiple devices - (relatedly) you want users to be able to get a new phone without loosing their account - you want to colle
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by schwabacher 14y ago
Most comments are interpreting this as a 'death to hackers' message, but it seems more likely to me that it's a memorial to Steve Jobs. I would think that apple employees designing something like this view themselves as a part of hacker cul
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by schwabacher 14y ago
Textmate and terminal look amazing.
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by schwabacher 15y ago
Speech recognition on new voices transmitted over the phone is a lot harder then something like speech recognition in android or siri. Is there anything that beats google voice at transcribing voicemail? As far as I know there isn't.
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by schwabacher 15y ago
I hadn't heard of an Aldrin cycler. Very very cool! Here is an animation of how one could work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVfUlFZQ4U
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by schwabacher 15y ago
Ruby / RVM hasn't broken homebrew for me (thank god!)
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by schwabacher 15y ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho... Google, Microsoft, and Facebook among others use tax dodges to pay negligible amounts of tax in the United States.
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by schwabacher 15y ago
You know they can turn that right back around on the tech industry, right?

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