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by xt00 10y ago
I don't get the lame excuse that somebody who is a manager has some high technical breadth or is a high performer. From working in Silicon Valley I can't recall thinking that some random manager would be irreplaceable. Verify the
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by xt00 10y ago
"Also we found challenge near Kremlin where car appeared at airport." /s
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by xt00 10y ago
By the same logic the person who was put out of work by a piece of software made by Microsoft should result in the company using the Microsoft product to create value should be taxed as well. Right? So his statement that robot companies sho
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by xt00 10y ago
Pretty simplistic because obviously this is an extreme case to average all scores. But if you took 10% of the top score and added to the bottom scores it's more like a tax and the people at the top probably don't mind as much. I t
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by xt00 10y ago
So how much energy was transferred? The charging icon easily could come on under many different situations and also if the phone receiver pack was engineered to detect the presence of an ultrasonic signal that would then tell a battery pack
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by xt00 10y ago
Misleading title.. TLDR: they made graphene in a soybean solution. Which can be stronger than steel. These guys didn't test the materials strength of what they made. They made graphene in an interesting way.
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by xt00 10y ago
Yea the smart play Microsoft is making is to go to businesses and say "look you could go with us or AWS.. AWS essentially says "good luck you're on your own" and we will hold your hand and our premier support people will
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by xt00 10y ago
It looks like the king on the white side is sitting dead on the side?
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by xt00 10y ago
I think for the chess game we have the play the game backwards.. I am trying to play the game forward, but not clear what is the delineation for the comma or period in the lat lon.. maybe black can put white into check?
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by xt00 10y ago
Yea I've stopped doing that more recently.. Good point.. ;)
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by xt00 10y ago
Yea I've worked for a long time with people in asia (I'm in US), and basically I send emails to them around 4pm my time so that they get the email when they get in in the morning, then I expect to need to answer them up until arou
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by xt00 10y ago
Working hours being at 9am-5pm is not optimal for plenty of people. Working remotely has never worked for me, but a flexible work schedule time and the option to work from home occasionally is a really good strategy for companies. I always
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by xt00 10y ago
Using a Segway on a college campus would be great.. Wish they had convinced campuses to buy them for students. The unveiling was so lame.. People wearing khakis and super lame helmets and going over little bumps and looking so non-cool.. I
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by xt00 10y ago
Saying that rich people who earn money from people paying rent on houses/apartments that they own or investments paying back over time, is like saying that a farmer who planted the crop earlier in the year is "getting it for free&
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by xt00 10y ago
Oh I had thought that the asymmetric shape with the tapered cone shape was an important feature from the original inventor. But yea, hard to guess without more systematic theory to leverage off of yea..
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by xt00 10y ago
If they have two versions of the resonant cavity, one that is tapered and one that is just a simple cylinder that to me would be a big step in the right direction to address many of the concerns. Basically the cylinder with no taper should
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by xt00 10y ago
Companies in the US essentially can kill somebody "accidentally" and nobody from the company will go to jail in the majority of cases. There has to be some sort of obvious scheme or negligence on the part of the company leadership
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by xt00 10y ago
If the goal is to have more people working and we assume that the government would be paying the money for this "basic income", why don't we just subsidize companies that hire lots of people based upon how many people they ha
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by xt00 10y ago
interesting.. would be interesting to listen to your explanation while listening to some of your music mr. glass. :-)
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by xt00 10y ago
The good thing about solar is that it leverages off the semiconductor industry, whereas other renewables do not. For example, in the case of smartphones, before they existed accelerometers and GPS IC's were crazy expensive, but now the
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by xt00 10y ago
Title of the article uses the word "Engineers" rather than software engineers, and if you lump together virtually anybody who makes changes to a code base (testers, sw architects, sw leads, etc), it seems like its easy to have the
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by xt00 10y ago
It would be interesting to have somebody who was knowledgable in the area of self driving cars to analyze his code. I mean it seems like he might benefit from a combination of learning a few things and some level of humility. I mean, Kalman
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by xt00 10y ago
This is why AWS/GCE/Azure exists.. so glad to see this happening.. I mean, I don't feel like managing a linux server that I easily could setup myself.. so if AWS manages TensorFlow for me.. um yea I will almost assuredly use
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by xt00 10y ago
Agree this is rapidly turning into false advertising in my opinion. Basically the problem is that when it shows the "Prime" logo, its becoming much less meaningful. 2-day shipping but ships out in 2 days from now, but the 2 day de
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by xt00 10y ago
I hope this cuts down on negative reviews from obvious competitors too. I've seen that a lot on products where the product literally shows up on Amazon (a product I am selling) then within 12 hours has like 3-4 1 star reviews from non
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by xt00 10y ago
Any particular example of a problem you had with products that you could point to? It's fairly easy to link to a particular "home good" that you had problems with. I use Amazon all the time for virtually everything and have h
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by xt00 10y ago
In all seriousness, I was expecting the article to be like "on nov 5th, I went to Shenzhen to attend the annual Shenzhen I/O hardware hacker conference.. and boy was I blown away.. lots of cool stuff people are working on..".
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by xt00 10y ago
Yea I understand that the goal of the california HSR is to get you from SF to LA in its current form, but I guess what I'm getting at is that these systems become much more viable when they truly get you from point A to point B for com
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by xt00 10y ago
When people talk about using high speed rail in the US and talk about how it doesn't work, I think the problem is exemplified by how any rail system seems to get implemented in the US. Basically what I have seen in virtually all cities
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by xt00 10y ago
I had thought the concept for hyper loop was that the infrastructure cost would be cheaper because it is a tube that does not require power or rails. But it does seem like saying instead of two rails that allow for deviations both horizonta

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