Tloewald

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by Tloewald 8y ago
The principle here is people can agree to surrender some of their privacy for safety. The problem isn’t that searching my bits is a greater violation than searching my atoms, but that it’s not useful. Right now there’s no pattern of bits
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Twenty years ago, Nicholas Negroponte pointed out the irony that when he passed through Singapore customs, they searched his atoms but not his bits. Is being searched before you get on a plane or enter a customs checkpoint some kind of hide
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by Tloewald 8y ago
They used it for WoW patches.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Of course America got all its technology fair and square.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
It's definitely not easier to manually set a timer than it is to use Siri. Also, you can do multiple timers at once and they follows you around (versus being screamed at because the timer in the kitchen is beeping and no-one has notice
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by Tloewald 8y ago
If there’s one thing Apple did, with Steve Jobs, other than build fantastic user experience out of mature but unapproachable technologies, it was communicating the fact that it had done so. Not only has Amazon failed to do this, the writer
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by Tloewald 8y ago
If I understood the details I would never have signed the contract. At the time I was pretty desperate for a job (I’d moved to the US from Australia and my own company had gone belly up and I was living in Santa Barbara with a mortgage).
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by Tloewald 8y ago
A healthy human diet is 8700 kJ/ day. A gallon of gasoline has 120,000 kJ. So, we are very energy efficient. But no so awesome in terms of energy storage density.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
The exit was in 2005, and several hundred million was not bad (although it came after a failed effort to go public for somewhere north of a billion). I was very new to the startup game and had comparatively little at stake and didn’t unders
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by Tloewald 8y ago
I joined a successful startup about ten months before it was acquired for several hundred million. The deal somehow led to a lot of employees losing their options (myself included). There was some discussion of a lawsuit but it fizzled.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Um, CO2 is the problem. Also, no actual fuel you can buy just produces water and CO2.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Energy storage technologies are all about nasty chemistry. Nasty chemistry is where the energy is. Commercializing the chemistry isn’t easy or everyone would do it.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
It doesn’t lose energy density in cold weather. Batteries have all kinds fo thermal issues too.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
No clue if these guys are viable but the science is solid. You do understand that the whole point of hydrides is addressing hydrogen’s storage issues (energy density and need to store under pressure). Using hydrides with fuel cells was what
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Interesting idea. But is the cloud version a complete image (perhaps out of sync)? If so then it’s a performance disaster, if not it’s very fragile. It seems to me what we really want is a cloud file system with local cache (like Dropbox or
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Wait, isn't that just Arial?
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Is there a single example in business of someone taking a huge amount of money, and plopping a famous CEO in charge of a dozen people and saying "go" and generating a successful business? (Let's set aside investment funds, ob
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by Tloewald 8y ago
My favorite result was “should I propose?” -5!
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by Tloewald 8y ago
More like he’s extrapolating from differing bumps on two populations of nautilus that evolution is less important than individual variation.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Node he's making about that much a month, which is apparently around the average income where he lives. Still, it seems low.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Upvoted based on your selection of Lotus Notes as the apotheosis of good ideas wrapped in awful implementation. I've never used Leo but just looking at the installation process turned me off the entire idea.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Actually it told me that simple stuff is unnecessarily complex, so that’s not nothing. [this todo list]( http://bindinator.com/#source=todo.component.html ) example is shorter and does more.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
He has a lot of competition.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
FB was able to obtain SMS data from some android handsets. Tons of people found this out when they obtained their data from FB.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Yes. Unlike FB they don’t do secret backdoor deals with phone manufacturers to spy on you. Also they don’t spy on you. Also they don’t make ALL their money from advertising creating an unavoidable incentive for violating your privacy (and w
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Or maybe not.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
You should look into the career of B.J. Fogg. https://www.bjfogg.com/ He literally teaches his students how to make psychologically addictive products and is proud of it (and rich). His disciples are the priests of "en
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by Tloewald 8y ago
I look forward to seeing the summary of this discussion thread on n-gate. If Earth were hit by a dinosaur killing asteroid it would be more habitable than mars before, during, and after. Any ridiculous boondoggle might have beneficial side
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by Tloewald 8y ago
I got one of the first PowerPC computers in a lab full of high end spare no expense PCs and it cranked. If your experience was otherwise, I suspect you were running software under emulation so the fact it was “no better” was a borderline mi
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Maybe it was really because NeXTStep could print.

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