tdaltonc

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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I don't think that "personal curation" is a longterm workable solution. It's too much of a burden for most users. We need audit-able personal algorithmic filters.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> He holds simultaneously the highest religious and political offices of his people. No, he doesn't. Since 1959 the government is exile has had a prime-minister/Sikyong/Kalon-Tripa[1]; since 2001 it's been an elected
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Other big difference: * The Dalai Lama doesn't want to form a theocracy. * The popularly endorsed government of Utah was not violently overthrown by the US. * The Dalai Lama doesn't want Tibet to secede from China, he just wants i
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
There are two things that you might be seeing. One is the 'religion/mysticism vs. science/engineering' argument. The other is that many Chinese nationalists see positive comments about the Dalai Lama as a cover for anit-
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I wonder if one day the UE will license 'historians' who are allowed to search the unedited version of history.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Is the long game here to make it so hard to operate in Europe that all foreign search engines (Google, Bing, Baidu, etc) are replaced by a politicized european search engine that can keep up with all of the EU's "right-to-be forgo
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20B nanoparticles talk to the brain using electricity(newscientist.com)
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Are those phone companies breaking the law when they let the call on to their network?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I doubt he would, but just as a though exercise: What would happen if he started answering http requests from space for free? Would that be a crime?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Interestingly, Facebook just announces that they are giving up on a project to do just that. http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-scraps-secret-plan-t...
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Facebook scraps secret plan to build satellite to provide internet(businessinsider.com)
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Add it to the terms of funding. When you get a drug trial approved you're obligated to publish the findings no mater what happens. By analogy, investors could require a post mortem when they provide funding.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
It seems super weird to me. There are not many places on earth where cities capable of holding millions are built by decree. Even fewer where they are built and then no one moves in. There are good reasons why this happens in China, but it&
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Why would they use OAP as apposed to their own blockchain based system?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
At a University the point of a professor is to get grants.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
I think that the driver behind this is to create synergy across tesla and Solar City. Solar City gets requests for storage, and the financing to distribute it, and the giga-factory has a lot of surplus production.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Did USAToday break their embargo? http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/04/30/tesla-st... http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/04/3
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
I have no doubt that there are people who are demotivated by fuck-you-money in the bank. I also have no doubt that there are people who have their ambition liberated by it. Hopefully a good investor can tell the difference before they write
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
I think that you are totally wrong about these founders in particular and what taking money off of the table revels about founders generally. Most founders are extremely protective of their startup. It's their baby, and their livelihoo
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
The investors got exactly the behavior they wanted. They let (encouraged? obliged?) the founders to take money off the table so that they would double down on a high-risk/high-reward go-big-or-go-bust strategy. The Founders did that, a
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Changes to Google Contributor: it's more expensive and only removes some ads(contributor.google.com)
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Would it be sketchy if feathub built a bot that periodically posted feathub summaries in the github issues system?
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
> . . . in particular as fuel costs continue to rise. The long term trend is for a megaWatt (in any form) to get cheaper (in real terms) and less carbon intensive. There is every reason to believe that energy will be cheaper 5, 10, 50, 1
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
I'd love to see more genetic engineering talent put toward greening deserts.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
GE is pushing hard to stop being a bank. http://www.economist.com/news/business/21648681-announcing-c...
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
You might want to clarify what you mean by "fragile" because some people are going to interpret you as saying that women are emotional/physically fragile by virtue of being women.
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Duracells Wireless Charging Ring(gizmodo.com)
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Not office space so much as housing. "But for the tight limits on construction in California’s Bay Area, they reckon, employment there would be about five times larger than it is. In work that has yet to be published they tot up simila
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Wow, a pay-to-win version of Reddit. I guess there are probably people already guiding their own comments for visibility.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
> It's really easy to become hyper-critical and respond to every idea with "yeah but that won't work because of x". This is lazy, don't do it. This should be one of the HN guidelines.

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