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by tomerico 6y ago
If the clothes could somehow tap into your smartphone battery and processor that would have at least made the whole thing simpler to use. As it stands right now, you need to have a separate “tag” that you charge separately and connect to yo
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by tomerico 6y ago
This is one of the Google projects that I'm surprised still exist. The new technology here is integrating touch sensors into fabrics. You can see examples on the website of clothing and bags. The main problem is that it's just tha
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by tomerico 6y ago
You only earn money if the stock price appreciate
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by tomerico 6y ago
Interesting datapoints (summarized on reddit): If you had bought the SPY at the last second of trading on each business day since 1993 and sold at the market open the next day — capturing all of the net after-hour gains — your cumulative pr
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The Stock Market Works by Day, but It Loves the Night (2018)(nytimes.com)
4 points by tomerico 6y ago|3 comments
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by tomerico 6y ago
When looking for the cheapest tickets, I tend to search all three (which tend to give dramatically different fares for some reason): flights.google.com fareboom.com skyscanner.com
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by tomerico 6y ago
Reddit ads suck - and that's exactly the reason why the company is worth so much (and probably more). The predominant consumption pattern is similar to the other major social networks - scrolling through an infinite feed of dopamine in
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by tomerico 6y ago
An example is the large hadron colider, where each experiment produces an enormous amount of data from all sensors.
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by tomerico 6y ago
Check the second link. On another note - the third link captures the back button and doesn’t let you get back to hacker news (at least on mobile). What a shitty site.
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by tomerico 6y ago
#0 - Be pessimistic about the stock market. This is by far the most meaningful way most people lose money over the course of their lifetime.
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by tomerico 6y ago
It's also hard to believe that their margin based algorithm doesn't have parameters that can be tuned easily. It's not the first time that a single stock has crazy volatility and speculation.
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by tomerico 6y ago
Very likely. The focus stacking software (such as Helicon) can output the 3d object in addition to the stacked image
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by tomerico 6y ago
He declared bankruptcy, hence walked out much poorer than he started. At the end of the day it was IP theft, which for regular people creates more competition and can accelerate the "life-saving R&D". IP laws exist for a good
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by tomerico 6y ago
To add to the Adobe alternatives recommendations - DaVinci Resolve is a much better video editor than Premiere, and it's free for personal use. I still pay for my creative cloud subscription, but prefer to use Resolve for its ease of u
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by tomerico 6y ago
The broader concept of genetics affecting human behavior is a social landmine.
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by tomerico 6y ago
If you want to read more about how shady sellers abuse the system, and why it's so hard to deal with it, I recommend this well written medium article: https://medium.com/swlh/unaccountable-chinese-retailers-thre...
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Hubble Identifies Strange Exoplanet That Behaves Like the Long-Sought “Planet 9”(spacetelescope.org)
3 points by tomerico 6y ago|1 comments
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by tomerico 6y ago
One thing to note is that Apple is using a different pricing strategy in headphones then with their traditional products. They are pricing them higher, but are offering very deep discounts on sale. For example, AirPods and AirPods Pro sold
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by tomerico 6y ago
Re: Money transfer - it's not clear why money going to criminal organization is better than the government. Also, since most people actually have negligible savings, it's not clear that inflation actually "steals" money
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by tomerico 6y ago
The problem with Bitcoin and is that it creates real negative effects, with little positive effects to show for it. The most prominent negative effect is the huge energy waste, which doesn't help when we are trying to cut on our carbon
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by tomerico 6y ago
Apple is the one company that has proven itself as extremely capable of going more vertical when it is unhappy with its suppliers. This could be a case where if they don’t fulfill apple’s requests, they could lose Apple completely long term
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by tomerico 6y ago
Microsoft is definitely doing maneuvers in that direction - see this for example https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-to-permit-block-on-...
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by tomerico 6y ago
Why do you say that the results aren't impressive? 49% reduction in all cause mortality when High intensity interval training is compared to moderate intensity continuous training seems like a very strong result.
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by tomerico 6y ago
Assuming 50% split between placebo and vaccine group, it's a 9:1 ratio - so 85 : 9 for Placebo : Vaccine COVID case.
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by tomerico 6y ago
Addressing the price difference between RTX 3090 and 6900 XT: 3090 is priced at $1500 for its 24GB RAM which enables ML & Rendering use cases (Nvidia is segmenting the market by RAM capacity). AMD's 6900XT has the same 16GB of RAM
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by tomerico 6y ago
Well, if it did show up in the late heavy bombardment, it could have also arrived from outer space.
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by tomerico 6y ago
Ironically, this is likely good news for Uber & Lyft. It makes Prop 22 more important, and makes the effects of not having it more real.
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Unaccountable Chinese Retailers: Outdated Laws Not Keeping Pace with Technology(medium.com)
2 points by tomerico 6y ago|0 comments
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by tomerico 6y ago
It's not uncommon to use chemo treatment to shrink the growth prior to removal.
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by tomerico 6y ago
This is a really insightful point. I spent the last few weeks pondering on why California's governance is evolving into more ineptitude, slowness, and wastefulness, and whether there is something wrong with the democratic party values

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