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by zild3d 9y ago
> the number of people who can survive on five hours of sleep or less without any impairment, expressed as a percent of the population and rounded to a whole number, is zero. Pretty deceiving claim, the author starts with "the numbe
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by zild3d 9y ago
I agree we're heading in that direction. There's actually a group of us that talk regularly about this, if you would like to join, here's our group on faceb...
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by zild3d 9y ago
What is weird/interesting about buying a dremel or printer? They are pretty normal, casual purchases
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by zild3d 9y ago
Or raise prices...
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by zild3d 9y ago
> People would easily pay, say, 3$ per month for Facebook and 5$ per month for Google if it was the only option If people had to pay a monthly fee for search or social media, it would very quickly not be the only option anymore
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by zild3d 9y ago
Not really relevant, it's not the revenue that is a problem. It's their massive network effects that are, as the author puts it, platform monopolies. Walmart, Toyota, Apple, do not have entrenching networks that lead to a monopol
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by zild3d 9y ago
wouldn't amphetamine be closer? (adderal)
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by zild3d 9y ago
I have been wondering recently if we could be in an "advertising bubble"
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by zild3d 9y ago
Simple and easy to apply. I will start using some of these, thanks
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by zild3d 9y ago
airpods aren't transmitting video, not a fair comparison at all.
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by zild3d 9y ago
isn't a factor that the "open office" subscription costs typically an order of magnitude less than the private office? (thinking of wework)
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by zild3d 9y ago
True, still the color choice is poor. Strong red color brings to mind, personally, a high value. I thought it would mean 90-100, except it actually meant 0-9. If red isn't clearly good or bad, then don't use it. Use light to dar
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by zild3d 9y ago
People just tweet @ceo or @company these days, same effect
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by zild3d 9y ago
gmail does the same (to drive of course)
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by zild3d 9y ago
isn't it already flying in europe?
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by zild3d 9y ago
Sure but the entire "society" of Japan is smaller than just California
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by zild3d 9y ago
Yes we hear in log scale, but why would that be intuitive? Ask someone how loud or soft any sound is - a dog bark, a cymbal crash, a whisper - and you won't get a numeric response. We're used to measuring distances, weights, etc
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by zild3d 9y ago
The similar complexity with weed is that you push people to find it through illegal channels, dealing with drug dealers of various levels of severity
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by zild3d 9y ago
Yep, 8 bit 8MHz microcontrollers are already plenty of power for a lot of hobbyist applications. And if not there are plenty of super cheap (<$5) boards with ARM 32 bit processors, or wifi/bluetooth built in
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by zild3d 9y ago
Definitely, although the inability to receive can be considered a security feature for some applications. Wireless hackers have to go through a receiver :)
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by zild3d 9y ago
It's the radio that is consuming most of the power. Even using your IR transmitter to send a short burst every 5 minutes wouldn't be as much power as if you had an IR receiver that had to listen to incoming signals. But still, st
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by zild3d 9y ago
Depends on the application of course. A 5 minute sampling time for some applications (erosion and climate studies comes to mind) may be overkill. And a system that needs to respond to random events would be designed differently, with extern
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by zild3d 9y ago
I had a professor that did his thesis on a 10 year coin cell powered wireless sensor. Although it was a transmit only protocol. Pretty well understood area - send less data, put the system to sleep for as long as feasible. http:/&#x
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by zild3d 9y ago
>he was able to provide several meaningful contributions Don't you think that's severely downplaying his role? He invented the field of information theory, not just made several contributions. He founded digital circuit design.
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by zild3d 9y ago
> I still see large numbers of people taping over their laptop webcams even when they are turned off. Good. That isn't a demonstration of technical illiteracy. There have been plenty of vulnerabilities shown in webcams and micropho
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by zild3d 9y ago
For mobile and desktop, sure 32 bit is fading, but embedded 32 bit is so far from obsolete. I don't know how you can even claim that when even 8 bit platforms still have a huge market share. ARM cortex-M (32 bit) has only recently been
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by zild3d 9y ago
500ms is not "ridiculously fast".
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by zild3d 9y ago
Well if he's getting paid $600/month he is homeless or living with parents, we can know that.
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by zild3d 9y ago
Why the choice to not pull from other boards? Seems like it just forces me to use your competitors, as there are only 4 "programming" jobs listed
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by zild3d 9y ago
don't most frequent flyer programs require the name on the ticket to match the rewards account? E.g. I can't buy my sister a flight, she flies it, and I get points for it.

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