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by yholio 6y ago
The life time of TVs is simply on a different time scale than most smart thingies you connect to them. It's an appliance like the air conditioner or dishwasher, not a gadget you throw into the bin and replace. The intelligence of your
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by yholio 6y ago
As long as human drivers are still in the mix, no, self-driving cars will not solve congestions. But fully self-driving cars could improve road efficiency by an order of magnitude. There is no need for trafic lights, they can drive in very
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by yholio 6y ago
Yes, the auto-pilot is easy on rails (Morgantown built one in 1975), but rails are expensive, many to many rail networks are even more expensive, and grade separated rail networks are insanely expensive. The Morgantown system final price wa
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by yholio 6y ago
The goal is not to never encounter a car, but that the encounter is mediated with very robust and proven technology that is compatible with both human and current level AI, like a V2X enabled trafic light or a steel bollard. A car can still
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by yholio 6y ago
They can route people from fixed point A to point B, and some locations along a predetermined rute from A to B. Personal rapid transit allows a Many to Many mapping, just like cars.
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Well, it would be the same network, with some road space dedicated to cars being repurposed for public transit. Cities do this all the time for buses.
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by yholio 6y ago
Clearly, we should aim for a less ambitious goal: ultra-compact self driving vehicles on dedicated and physically separated lanes, where cars cannot be encountered unless it's their fault, similar to bike and tram lines. This could inc
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by yholio 6y ago
They are doing much more than simply deep learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8qypWV2L2g Deep learning alone has long since been considered a faulty approach (see ALVINN), since it could produce a car that can sort o
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by yholio 6y ago
More like someone nervously talking their book, first and foremost trying to reassure themselves. I think the GP can relax, no one interprets the "Tesla nemesis" in the title as anything else than sensationalism. The two EV market
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by yholio 6y ago
Platonists don't need to renounce empiricism. Assuming that I am real, if I can think about what mathematics is and arrive at answers, then logic exists and reality is non-uniform, it has some form of structure that permits non-uniform
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Seems like they built a wonderful machine for answering "42": https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/ten-year... Or will build, if they are granted the additional money they ask fo
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by yholio 6y ago
I think both of you make interesting points. Clearly, the US market-driven model is more successful at producing companies that can internationalize. But there is little doubt the explosion in venture funds is tied to the financial climate
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I think following any of those links and comparing them to the https://www.ycombinator.com/deal/ page is a good illustration of how these programs fail. The bureaucracy for applying is daunting. The Accelerator will no
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by yholio 6y ago
The EU fought hard to create a single market, but the language, cultural and market fragmentation is still strong. It exists to some degree in the US (see for example Tesla's plight with protectionist dealership laws). But at least you
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by yholio 6y ago
The European Union should devote some of the untold billions they rain on farming subsidies and bailouts, and provide a EU-wide venture fund. YC model, other alumni and successful tech leaders select the most promising startups in a competi
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by yholio 6y ago
It's debatable if this should be a lumped and mandatory feature of the payment system. For all in-person transactions, payments should be non-refundable and any fraud should be considered a technical weakness. This concurs with the lon
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by yholio 6y ago
Because the buying would be indiscriminate, while the market can (and will, to an extreme degree) discriminate.
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Well, the payment system facet of the banking sector is so tightly regulated by laws and central bank regulations that you could as well consider it controlled by a single entity - the government. Nothing much changes, and in fact you can
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by yholio 6y ago
Banks as private middlemen providing society with a payment system is an outdated and baroque system. Today, the whole payment system of an average nation can work over a single cluster of computers in the basement of the central bank, ther
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All it takes is one rookie mistake and it wipes out the other 99.9% perfect. Yes, there are guys and girls that can do 100% of what you need to run a darknet market perfectly, but they are typically in very high demand on the employment ma
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by yholio 6y ago
> Where we have separate property earthing rods ... these are not permitted to be connected to a TN-C-S supply earth because practically no-one else in the street will have such a setup and then a broken PEN conductor sees your earth rod
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In a properly executed TN-C-S distribution, the TN-C and TN-S sections are separated with a 4 way single junction point where the PEN conductor coming from the station is connected to the local grounding rod and after this the separated PE
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by yholio 6y ago
But the timescales are entirely different. To prevent +2°C a few decades or a century down the road, politicians need to make today moves that are guaranteed to leave them unemployed in the best case and and possibly even guillotined. It&
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I have an all glass Electrolux induction cooktop with touch buttons. The idea is not necessarily bad because it allows very easy cleaning in an area where gooey spills are frequent, very hard to clean complex features like buttons and knobs
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A few years down the road, the radio switch transmitter breaks down and is no longer manufactured. The receivers, wires and the mechanical switches blocked in the ON position are hidden somewhere under multiple layers of drywall. But the f
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That's a fantastic life story.
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The 8 level deep stack of 8008 precluded most complex software though. It was also 4 to 6 times slower than an 8080 running at 2MHz, had a very small package that required extensive demultiplexing, slowing it further. There were multiple ki
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by yholio 6y ago
In the great scheme of things, sure, that's true. But we need much cleaner energy at current prices. If you watch from around the 1h22m mark, you will see that he conceeds there is no such thing as "energy conservation", and
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Emitting carbon is just that, an (unintended) transformation of having energy. Yet we are trying to curb it, and we could do the same with the rest. It't not necessary that all transformations will leave permanent ecological effects. F
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Currently, the entire energy consumption of servers stands about 2% of global electricity consumption, which itself is just one of the major emissions sources that include transportation and shipping, agriculture, residential heating etc. A

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