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by theprop 9y ago
Yes, true. It's basically good for someone who's never programmed before and thinks "there's no way I could do this"...it gets someone going that way I feel...
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by theprop 9y ago
Correct & important to grow awareness about! Sadly many so-called private email or other services claim just encrypting your content brings you privacy...while ignoring/failing to discuss the metadata.
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by theprop 9y ago
Great way of putting things: "I’ve discovered that most people are really good at finding obstacles."
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by theprop 9y ago
Forget books, start coding!! To get going, CodeAcademy.com is amazing!!
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by theprop 9y ago
Less than bus fare. Significantly less bus fare depending on where you live e.g. Japan (where bus fare for short rides can be $20!). I think electric self-driving cars should cost less ten cents per mile.
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by theprop 9y ago
Great post! Fascinating that some church leaders were against the fork because “God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks – his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to Him to substitute artificial metallic forks for them when eat
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by theprop 9y ago
If you don't have any great ideas, I'm looking for partners...I have way too many ideas than I cold realize in a lifetime. I'd suggest not to read too much...start building! Get stuff out there. Be careful in terms of what
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by theprop 9y ago
I want to genetically engineer extremely intelligent mice...what tools should I use? Is this possible?
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by theprop 9y ago
1. Gigantic longevity. Electric Vehicles will likely run 1 million miles or more without requiring any significant repairs except a net battery pack. Internal combustion engines develop all kinds of problems related to burning petroleum
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by theprop 9y ago
I thought Rubin's other new product, Lighthouse, a security camera which uses an AI backend to analyze video for anything "suspicious" and notify you on your phone was much more interesting & promising.
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by theprop 9y ago
I wish you'd just write out (at least some of) the newsletters, reach/audience, and pricing. I'm hesitant to give you my email address without knowing any of that.
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by theprop 9y ago
This looks really cool!! Are there similar tools or equipment available today? How does Serotiny compare to them in pricing, speed and effectiveness?
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by theprop 9y ago
Argh..too much jargon, had to stop reading..
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by theprop 9y ago
This is on a renting economy. Sharing economy I feel usually refers to a person-to-person marketplace where asset ownership is decentralized (i.e. airbnb you rent out your room or uber you rent you a ride in your car). That said, I agree wi
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by theprop 9y ago
I wonder if the most effective cheaters in school end up being more or less successful both as coders and professionally in general. "Hacking" is in a sense related to cheating (finding easier solutions to problems...).
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by theprop 9y ago
Around eight years ago, there was an internal slideshow Reed Hastings put together on the future of Netflix as on-demand streaming that leaked, amazingly prescient. Netflix is a firm that has had the right vision & execution. Entrepren
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by theprop 9y ago
I'm not sure about that data. Definitely lots of engineers and physicists as it has been noted have programming experience. Beyond that, tons more people are majoring in computer science as of the last 10 years. It's become the
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Child Marriage in America(nytimes.com)
45 points by theprop 9y ago|51 comments
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by theprop 9y ago
1. There are supposedly new lidar systems coming out in the hundreds of dollars. 2. You can be "superhuman" with just image sensors (i.e. without lidar). That said, I believe lidar is effective for precise object determination e
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by theprop 9y ago
Probably a good idea thus to use all copper pipes in your home!! Using copper vessels would've been great in an era where there weren't industrial pollutants like lead or PFOAs or other things...nowadays in India just a copper ve
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America’s prisons are failing. Here’s how to make them work(economist.com)
3 points by theprop 9y ago|1 comments
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by theprop 9y ago
I'm not convinced that Shakespeare's genius is nonsense. The nonsense poets like Ionesco while really good are not comparable to Shakespeare precisely because there is sense in Shakespeare, even in Shakespeare's "nonsen
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by theprop 9y ago
I do not use any Facebook mobile app (may track my microphone, location, etc...terrible!). I use Facebook's site in a browser (usually Chromium) in which I don't otherwise browse the net or do anything else except email. For bro
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by theprop 9y ago
"Sprig, which had raised $56.7 million"...a lot of money to be on a company that including delivery costs probably had negative gross margins. Blue Apron's model of delivering just ingredients has a big advantage that they do
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by theprop 9y ago
"The scores don’t account for severity, however. The injuries at Tesla appear to be related to long hours and ergonomic design." Not to say that any harm to your health should be avoided, but by auto industry standards (other than
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by theprop 9y ago
Or the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Both are fantastic...
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by theprop 9y ago
Evan Williams of Twitter/Blogger I think said that the CEO's job is to say No No No!! No to new features, to partnerships, to things that lose focus from the core mission.
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by theprop 9y ago
We're lucky to be living in amazing times where the largest creatures that have ever lived on this planet are alive...and their explosion is size is just 3 million years old.
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by theprop 9y ago
The ocean and the diversity of life in it is immense and needs to be explored a lot more.
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by theprop 9y ago
LetsEncrypt is just awesome & a superb mission to make every website easily secured!! SSLs were otherwise a big scam! (Yes i know I love them!)

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