TomAbel

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by TomAbel 5y ago
Whats Wool?
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Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?(2020)(interconnected.blog)
1 points by TomAbel 5y ago|1 comments
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by TomAbel 5y ago
Kevin Xu of Interconnected wrote an interesting analysis post about Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business[1] its worth a read, he points out that they have the tech for it but they don't seem interested and even if they were the ha
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by TomAbel 5y ago
“When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom!? No! It’s when… they are forgotte
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by TomAbel 5y ago
https://archive.md/kB5F4
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Tin-Can Collector Died a Millionaire(wsj.com)
2 points by TomAbel 5y ago|1 comments
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by TomAbel 5y ago
Here is a story of a man who collected cans and bottles for cash and invested the money he got in the stock market, he died a millionaire. "Curt Degerman, known to many as "Tin Can Curt," Degerman spent nearly 30 years roamin
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by TomAbel 5y ago
"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once... until he found the object of his research. I was sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculations would have saved him 90 percent of
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by TomAbel 5y ago
Here is a YT video of Lars Doucet(the guest author of this newsletter post) discussing Georgism, Lars is a video game designer and developer by profession. Henry George, Land, and Video Games with Lars Doucet https://youtu.be&#x2
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by TomAbel 5y ago
Here is two interesting articles from The Economist where they analyse the success of Hamilton[1] and where they see if you could have predicted the success of Hamilton[2] and here is a in depth post on the data and methodology of the mode
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by TomAbel 5y ago
Thank you, I will check those out.
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by TomAbel 5y ago
Thank you for the recommendation.
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by TomAbel 5y ago
Off Topic but I finished my last exam today and I wanted to start watching Gundam. I wanted to know if you have any recommendations for which Gundam series I should start with first as someones who likes anime but has never watched Gundam.
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Management lessons from Terrible People(erikbern.com)
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by TomAbel 5y ago
Here is a insightful blog post from Erik Bernhardsson on Business secrets from terrible people[1] where he writes about management lessons from the Taliban, Theranos, Al-Qaeda and The Black Kings a crack-dealing gang in Chicago. And here is
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by TomAbel 5y ago
The Asianometry newsletter wrote a really insightful newsletter about the US Government's Semiconductor Chip Buying Problem[1] (He also has Youtube video[2] you can watch on the same newsletter) In the newsletter and video he talks abo
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by TomAbel 5y ago
Relevant: This Week's IoT news posted(4 years ago) a newsletter on GE Digital GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale https://mailchi.mp/iotpodcast/stacey-on-iot-if-ge-cant-maste... Also the HN discuss
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How to Get to Space(jerrypournelle.com)
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by TomAbel 5y ago
After the 2011 Japan earthquake automakers ran into a the same problem, they ran out of a pigment called Xirallic made by Merck >After the earthquake, automakers worldwide were forced to stop making cars of certain colors because they co
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Thanks for the submission and links, That question is something that i have been wanting to research.
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Interesting is this what you are referring to >In the Soviet Union, the first production of feed protein from hydrocarbons took place in the 1970s. In total, the country built 12 plants with a designed production performance of around 1
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by TomAbel 5y ago
Off topic but do you have any other interesting recommendations for books you've recently read?
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by TomAbel 5y ago
>chickens High-tech chickens are a case study of why self-reliance is so hard https://www.economist.com/china/2020/10/31/high-tech-chicken... (archive) https://archive.is/TKZwr >Pi
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by TomAbel 5y ago
Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan practiced corporatism[1] rather than capitalism [1] https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/corporatism.htm
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by TomAbel 5y ago
Controversial thought(not my opinion) Fossil fuels are good for the world, The reason we used them was because we did not have any real alternative at the time. For the vast majority of history, people were dirt poor. By utilizing fossil fu
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by TomAbel 5y ago
What type of rotor system did it have? Youtuber Peter Sripol has a video where he designed a rubber band powered helicopter with a working tail rotor to show the mechanics of how a helicopter works. In the video he shows and explains why a