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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Do you have an unlovable problem in mind? I guarantee I can recast it as the sexiest most important problem there is. Edit: On second though, if you can show that there is big money in solving [unlovable problem], I wont have to recast it.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
I don't think that information bites is a good analogy for what brains do.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Avoid gratuitous negativity.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
I think that you should be allowed to hack your self driving car. But you should have to submit the compiled code to the NHTSA and your insurance agent so that they can run it through a bunch of black box simulations to determine if it&#x27
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
A gallon of water delivered to your toilet and a gallon of water delivered to an orchard have very different infrastructure, quality, and leakage costs. I'm not saying that water prices are reasonable, but neither is your comparison.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
That sounds exhausting. I need my decision-making-juice[0] for more important things. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Consumer_behavior
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Question about the third party doctrine. If I hand google drive an encrypted file, do I have a reasonable expectation of the privacy wrt the decrypted data?
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Good on them to for resisting the urge to preempt every reasonable objection. Kill your darlings.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
I can't believe they didn't mention their big US navy contract! Cartridged rounds are a big plus at sea!
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Compared this to apps friends have shown me, this is really concise.
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Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Collaborative Commons(medium.com)
1 points by tdaltonc 12y ago|0 comments
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Part of what's great about the "two people and a laptop" startup is that it empowers outsiders. You don't need buy-in for the established players. You just need to be able to execute. I wonder if the shift away form &quo
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
It;s not the progress that would make them look bad. it's that cement production produces a huge amount of CO2.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Has anyone made a "March Madness pool" style game for YC demo day?
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
I wonder what the procedure is for subpoenaing a whole virtual cloud . . . I wonder how many cloud services have given data to the NSA without knowing . . . I wonder how many CEO's would even want to know what the NSA's been takin
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Amazon doesn't want you to know how many data demands it gets(zdnet.com)
4 points by tdaltonc 12y ago|1 comments
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
I try not to read primary research papers. Most of them are wrong[0]. Even the one's that are right are written for consumption by a very specialized community that I'm rarely a member of. If I decide that i absolutely need to und
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Depending on how they're handling the "tech transfer", they might not actually have much to do with the company. A lot of academics prefer to keep being academics and just collect their royalty checks.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
That's what academic engineering labs are for. The state foots the bill, and everyone gets to share in the progress.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
It's trivial to show out that rent control increases the cost of rent for new renters. It's been talked about in the academic literature since the 40's[0]. The harder question is, "is it worth it?" Do the people who
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
I don't think that "do what you want" is going to cut it. The world of ubiquitous-automation is going to need an ethics. Some principles to guide people toward wise activities and away from unwise activities. Addictive, abusi
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Antiwork – a radical shift in how we view “jobs”(contributoria.com)
202 points by tdaltonc 12y ago|124 comments
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Then someone should write a meta-driving-service app. I tell it where I want to go, and it picks which of the commodities is cheapest. Or I go out driving and it automatically shuffles through the apps to tell me where I can make the most p
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
ITT there are apparently two sides: 1) the heartless capitalists who want to abuse labor and 2) the nativist nationalists who want special treatment because of where they were born.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
HFT liquidity vaporizes at the slightest hint of unusual behavior. These algorithms are designed to function in 'typical' markets, and their authors don't want to have them running in an environment they're not built for
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
It's basic control theory. There's nothing wrong with one way speed (google or my remote), but you can get in to trouble when you have a low level control loop that runs orders of magnitude faster then the hierarchical control loo
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
It's absolutely not democratized. The opaqueness of the trades and the fact that the vast majority of trade volume passes through pools with centralized (and again opaque) rule-writing means that the those centralized authorities can a
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Apple’s Health Research Kit Makes IPhone Users Test Subjects(bloomberg.com)
1 points by tdaltonc 12y ago|0 comments
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Why not? More volume = more stable.
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Hands on with the Huawei Watch(youtube.com)
2 points by tdaltonc 12y ago|0 comments

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