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by tdaltonc 10y ago
The most convincing thing I've heard is "IP". Mars' competitive advantage will be an education and legal regime that is very good at producing engineer/inventors, a quasi religious social narrative to bind the colon
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Fabs require huge amounts of liquid water.
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I don't think it took 100's of years for people to figure out that a continent teaming cod, timber, and beavers might be a good place to set up trade. Grated, early on, they thought it was a continent full of gold and spices. I do
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
So what companies have gold standard developer offices?
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When we get the political consensus to put a price on atmospheric carbon, it will give a subsidy to anyone who can make a solid material out of carbon. What will be the most economical way to get those subsidies? I don't think it will
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Globalisation’s critics say it benefits only the elite – Why They're Wrong(economist.com)
3 points by tdaltonc 10y ago|1 comments
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How good do labels need to be for you to be able to get good results on something like this? There's a lot of data, so that's great, but the labels seem a bit spotty.
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
He can have Mars. I want Ceries. Mars will be nothing more then a research station for 500 years. Ceries and the space stations at L1-5 will be economic powerhouses before 2100.
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It's possible to have municipal deign standard for public facades, but still build new stuff.
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bag
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A paper bag is disclosed. – Apple(pdfaiw.uspto.gov)
5 points by tdaltonc 10y ago|2 comments
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I entered "minecraft" in to google scholar, found a few you might find helpful. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=minecraft&btnG=&a...
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TL;DR: Bigger taptic engine.
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Uber drivers go to war against self-driving cars(marketwatch.com)
4 points by tdaltonc 10y ago|0 comments
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Nvidia releases Pascal GPUs for neural networks(zdnet.com)
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Would you call trying to drown didi in driver subsidies an 'investment'?
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I wish them the best of luck. It's easy to become resigned to finance being an insiders game. But the efficient allocation of capital is to important to leave to "the professionals."
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Or they read the news. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-26/kleiner-p...
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Any tips on how to tell what I should actually be worried about from FUD or WOO wrt/ drinking water?
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
CA is the state with the highest number of people period, so that's what you'd expect.
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Die Dashboards, Die Why Conversations Will Reinvent Software(nirandfar.com)
1 points by tdaltonc 10y ago|0 comments
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Just because you cannot precisely identify the location of an electron, that does not imply that it does not exist.
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You only get famous if you produce a new order that replaces the old one. Throwing stones at the old order doesn't actually get you very much unless you provide something better. Especially in psych/bio, a negative finding can alm
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How to Write Unmaintainable Code(github.com)
28 points by tdaltonc 10y ago|5 comments
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Yes and no. The analogy of 'attack' and 'defense' in hacking comes from the military. So to extend that analogy, defensive missiles are still missiles, but they are unquestionably different from offensive missiles.
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All kinds of architectures and algorithms can be implemented at the chip level in silicon. But, until recently, the "just make a faster Von Neumann machine" school of chip design has always beaten the "make a task optimized c
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I imagine it's bad for the energy minimization (or uptime maximization) function if the environmental control system goes down.
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They need to find some medium sized city that will let them play with their traffic lights.
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The next step, of course, is to let the AI know which servers in the server-farm itself is running on so that it can optimize for self preservation.
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Do you think that the vision is bad or just the implementation?

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