Heinleinian

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by Heinleinian 14y ago
In general, tech companies probably shouldn't do any preview videos at all -- they should just show a product demo when it's ready. I do think a video like the one described in the link could be done in a way that it was clearly so far in t
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Last I checked you still have to get users/customers to be a winner in business. YC has clout with investors, so their companies are more likely to get investment, but that's not the right measure of who is a winner. The millions of consume
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Apparently Vincent hasn't figured out how to pre-filter people before he gives up 30 minutes to meet with them... Perhaps he should look for a new associate or two.
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Exactly. It really is a shame that the true implications of augmented reality got lost in all the Google glass mockery. Forget the text message pop-ups and map overlays, that's all basically meaningless. Just a slightly easier to look at ve
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Partially. The insurance policy still cost a couple million dollars, which they had to raise. And they didn't purchase the insurance policy until several years after the competition was launched.
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
The original, $10 million X Prize (for the first private space flights) was launched this way. They did a huge press conference to launch the prize competition, and got the head of NASA and a bunch of astronauts there. Peter Diamandis late
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Um, no. Valentina was the first woman in space in 1963. However, the Russians didn't fly another woman in space for the next 20 years, not until we flew Sally Ride. We've flown a female astronaut almost every year since, they've flown one.
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Twitter could beat Google+ to the punch at social search(kottke.org)
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
It's the Locksmith Institute. Locksmiths are who you call to get into a door to something own, but to which you lost the key. So presumably there's situations where a hotel can't get their keys working, and they'd like to have locksmiths
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Isn't all software, always, just a few weeks away? lol.
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Presumably there's some kind of legal construct that could act as a poison pill. i.e. some kind of contract that says "if this patent is used for [insert evil purposes here], it is immediately converted to GPL." Also, I refuse to lump defen
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Relevant: "Putting creativity on a pedestal can also be an excuse for laziness. There is a lot of cultural belief that creativity comes from inspiration, and can't be rushed. Not true. Inspiration is just your subconscious putting things to
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
I love what I work on, I also love knowledge. Turns out the internets isn't just a place where people go for the latest Success Kid meme or double rainbow video, it's a link to the entirety of all human knowledge. Oh yeah, and it's a link t
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
> that the laws of the universe prevent interstellar travel Not true: Hawking: Humans must colonize other planets http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15970232/ns/technology_and_scien... 'by using "matter/antimatter annihilation," velocities j
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
The problem with any hypothesis that involves Earth being visited by extraterrestrials isn't the almost unthinkably large distances involved, it's the timescales involved. For any two given planets in the galaxy that could support intellige
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
It's not about size. Human brains produce consciousness. Can't argue with that.
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
This is what drives me crazy about the dieting issue. People will cite a study that involves 21 people. 21! Think of all the pain caused by people being overweight, and the insane costs imposed on our healthcare systems. With all that pain
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
I'm sorry, this needs a citation. I'm not trying to be a jerk, it's just that with a subject this controversial you can't simply assert claims like this.
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
I was seriously trolling, also known as taking an idea to its logical extreme to make a point. You're presenting a false choice here. There's lots of other ways to attack the drunk driving problem without taking everyone's drivers licenses
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
I have always wondered why the Adkins diet seems to work. The article basically says it is both more successful and yet has no physiological reason for being more successful. So why? My first guess would be: carbs/bread is cheap and usually
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Seems to me like they are often not actually out to delete the article, instead they're using the threat of deletion to try and spur the author to clean up an article to wikipedia's standards. Otherwise they'd have to do it themselves. In t
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
P.S. For added hilarity, the story directly below this one on HN is about cell phone tracking, where the top post is all talk of going without cell phones because the device's tracking could infringe on people's freedom. Which is the scarie
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Um, you must be joking. Frame it like an opponent would who is running for political office against you in the year 2050. So you're saying take away people's privilege to operate a vehicle they own and paid for with their own money? You wa
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Just off the top of my head, I'd guess it's due to a lot of e's in words that, depending on the language, you'll see in almost every single method or function. Things like return, end, else, true, include, self, private, etc.
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Don't forget to copy it locally, in case they (or their acquirers...) ever take it down. The Evernote web-clipper plugin is great for that. I also did the same with all the folks who posted technical details on their experience dealing with
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
To be clear, I wasn't saying that Stripe and Github receiving funding was a sign there was a bubble. I was responding to the other poster who was saying this was a sign there was _not_ a bubble, to which I'm saying, that's not so clear. (i.
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
There's an argument to be made that there's not a macro-economic bubble right now like there was in 1999, but that there IS a "Silicon Valley bubble". That is, there are so many early-stage startups proliferating and getting angel funding
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
As I said above, I started brushing my teeth in the mornings in college for breath reasons, so this was when I was a teenager. That was a long time ago, so I don't know. I was staying up absurdly late, passing out, and then having to get up
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
I do think this is key. My Dad drinks no sugary drinks of any kind, including not just soda but fruit juice, etc. And I've basically stuck to that. Not big on sweets either. That stuff is killing us, seriously.
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by Heinleinian 14y ago
Random observation -- my family seems to have a gene that makes us basically immune from cavities. My father has, to my knowledge, never had a cavity, despite being born in the 1930's, when health care, hygiene and regular dentist check-ups

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