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by sebleon 9y ago
What kind of energy consumer adjusts their electricity usage based on price? Seems like this doesn't apply to households - people will just switch stuff on when they need something, they probably don't even monitor prices. I'
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Ha, so the idea is to keep nuclear arms around so that we can bluff aliens and prevent an invasion? I don’t think humanity would opt for mass suicide if aliens showed up.
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> supernatural event would fundamentally shake up our scientific understanding Surely we're due for one of these soon. Given our infantile understanding of quantum mechanics and physics, it's a matter of time before we observe
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by sebleon 9y ago
The burden of proof should go the other way - is there any proof that these nuclear tests were safe, and wouldnt give millions of people cancer? It’s incredible how many things humans do without considering long term consequences: nuclear t
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by sebleon 9y ago
> “protect ourselves - even just by blowing ourselves up” Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
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Wikileaks is possible because of the blockchain. No question that the world has been changed by this kind of organization. I’m happy that the cartel of financial institutions can no longer shut folks out arbitrarily, looking forward to seei
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by sebleon 9y ago
Any stories?
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Saavy consumers will definitely evade this. However, this tax is likely targeted at finance companies looking to “get into crypto” and will do everything by the book
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Winklevi
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by sebleon 9y ago
For consumers, Lyft/Uber/etc = best things to happen in years in transportation. Private car experience at the price of a subway ticket is great, while making car ownership optional in places with lousy public transit. Surprised y
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by sebleon 9y ago
While $2/hr sounds low for the US, this seems viable in countries with super low cost of living. I suspect language barriers are holding back more people from taking advantage of this opportunity.
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by sebleon 9y ago
Singapore seems like the most likely place where self driving cars will take off first. Easy to imagine them banning human drivers altogether, making it much easier for autonomous cars to coordinate between eachother.
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Ha, I took the same screenshot
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Ah that’s fair, different cultures will have different heresies.
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by sebleon 9y ago
As someone with many “heretic ideas”, I disagree with this article - people that execute on crazy ideas are thick-skinned. Hard to believe that smart people would actually leave SF because of PC culture (although it is annoying). Even from
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by sebleon 9y ago
While KNNs are simpler conceptually, DNNs are fairly easy to put into practice, thanks to Keras and other libraries. A KNN approach would likely involve more code - for things like Data prep
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by sebleon 9y ago
Ha, I believe Duolingo is doing the same - getting their users to translate huge bodies of text while learning new languages
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by sebleon 9y ago
Kudos - 100k MAU is an extremely impressive feat. This is an excellent post, very succinct and punchy advice. Especially interesting to hear about the role of web and email in growth, advice around using ads to develop company positioning i
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by sebleon 9y ago
Finish every sentence by saying “over” ;)
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Ha, article commenter suggests that angels have shifted to investing in crypto instead of startups. I’m curious if there’s truth to that...
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Very interesting move. Curious to see if they find investors they couldn’t reach through traditional financial institutions.
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They’re definitely already on this. Likely they have a deal in place with Comcast already.
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The limitations you described are true for a wired approach to last mile internet delivery to every user. You can get around these problems as a wireless ISP using spectrum in the public domain. Idea is that you beam connectivity to a route
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Kinda sucks for near term, but this is going to create economic pressure and consumer demand for a Comcast killer. One possibility is a wireless ISP via satellite or city-wide mesh.
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Ha, the trouble is that pitchforks are more fun than facts.
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What does Huaweied mean?
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by sebleon 9y ago
Are these strategies actually effective? I want to believe this will help, though wondering if we’re better off pitching in to fund a lobbying campaign like MegaCorps do.
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by sebleon 9y ago
Meh, Uber is one of the good guys, compared to other American multinationals. For starters, Chiquita Bananas intimidated farmers and union leaders with AK 47s and hired militias in Colombia [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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Unless you find alternative brands that are not Chiquita :)
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Chiquita Bananas intimidated farmers with AK47s, death squads(en.wikipedia.org)
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