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Alright, startup idea: A service that, for a subscription fee, provides product reviews/recommendation lists, plus a concierge "recommend a product for my requirements" service. Maybe throw in basic troubleshooting help as we
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Rumor has it that a certain US retailer has an online store that tries to determine whether you are checking prices from inside their physical store, and raises the advertised price to match those of the store you are in.
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The Rats of NIMH is a series of children's books about a colony of uplifted rats that escaped from a NIMH facility.
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This is probably not quite what you're talking about, but: I'm convinced there's a bunch of interesting single-purpose Android devices that simply aren't available to the general public. The manufacturers are large compa
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My understanding is that the ketamine dosages used for treating depression are much, much lower than the dosages used recreationally. (I could be remembering wrong.) Otherwise, the big advantage of getting a nurse to do it is that they are
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The problem is not that psychiatrists won't prescribe off-label ketamine. The problem is that insurance companies won't cover off-label drugs, and ketamine is too expensive for most people to pay for out of pocket.
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Venture capitalist. Someone who invests in startups.
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Most of the ones I got looked like they were generated from replies to other tweets. The lack of context made them boring, even if that makes it easier to make them comprehensible. (I would love to see this experiment run on a dataset that
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I think the fundamental message here is that there isn't a solution that can be systematically applied.
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Typically you get a commercial license for mobile development. That's the only way to distribute Qt apps through Apple's store. https://www.qt.io/start-up-plan/ I thought there was a small business license av
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GTk has zero out of the box support for mobile.
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That issue goes away if you purchase a commercial license, which is quite affordable. That's the only way to legally distribute Qt apps through Apple's app store.
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> I know it was quite a hassle to create background services I think I finally understand why everyone keeps saying that Qt on Android "isn't ready for prime time."
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A tangent: There's this fascinating (to me, anyway) line between "viruses" (including worms, Trojans, and similar malware) that antivirus programs will tackle, and adware/spyware that they usually don't. The differe
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Celebrate EDU: Teaching Entrepreneurship to People with Disabilities(celebrateedu.org)
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Behold, robot sumo fights: https://youtu.be/4qHe5K3KktY For the most part, nobody is insane enough to battle autonomous robots with destructive weapons on board.
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All of those services rely on manual intervention from staff in a call center. If any of those services have reached the point that the end device can detect an emergency and contact local emergency services by itself, then they've don
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Solar requires water too, though: Those panels need to be cleaned regularly. This source suggests that parabolic solar plants use about one quarter the amount per acre as agriculture: https://www.seia.org/initiatives/wa
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Immutable Linux with Silverblue(redhat.com)
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I would imagine that dang has access to HN's internal metrics which probably aren't public. Also, when dang contradicts me about HN, that means I'm wrong, lol.
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Hacker News has always been like this. The site is specifically targeted at people associated with venture-capital-funded startups. A very large percentage of those people are former FAANG employees, employees of companies trying to get ac
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I didn't know about the ISRU test on Mars 2020, that's very exciting!
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Zubrin's plan is specific to Mars in that it relies on chemicals present in the Martian atmosphere. The only equivalent option I know of for the moon would be to collect water ice and break it down to oxygen and hydrogen. The process i
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Is anyone exploring modeling an unmanned sample return mission after Zubrin's Mars Direct plan? It seems like something that could be done with little fundamentally new technology. Demonstrating the real-world application of the synthe
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> Searching for “Goyard,” a French company whose bags usually retail for thousands of dollars, often displays a $25 knockoff as Amazon’s Choice. Wow, this sounds like lawsuit material. It's one thing to unwittingly carry counterfeit
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For a lot of the authors of technical books, credibility is the whole point. The goal is not to write a book that directly makes money. The goal is to write a book that gets the author hired or promoted, or to land consulting gigs, or to ge
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American internet service providers.
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NVScene took place in San Jose in 2014 and 2015 (and previously in 2008, it's been a little irregular). The organizers are now trying to create a new event without Nvidia's involvement.
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Is there any good resource for finding US demoparties? It's hard to find anything that's not five years out of date.
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One of the "primary care practitioners" in my provider's directory was actually an osteologist. His receptionist informed me of the mistake, and informed me that they've been trying to fix the mistake for a very long tim

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