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by gduffy 4y ago
> 10lb of muscle (easily gained by a "newbie" who is eating well) will add about 1,500 calories per day to your baseline metabolic rate Per month? https://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/metabol
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by gduffy 6y ago
Wow, “can’t work”. That might be the strongest signs of cognitive dissonance I’ve ever seen. Trivial logic disproves your statement and in 10-20 years it will be proven empirically through disruption from the market (including mini-Apple sp
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by gduffy 6y ago
If you saw, for example, how deals that lock up fabrication resources (and the surrounding global politics) work to prevent competition, you’d see one small example out of many that illustrate how smaller competitors can’t keep up. As for t
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by gduffy 6y ago
I am actually spending a good chunk of time on the process of extracting myself from the ecosystem, I’m about 50% there. Two problems make your solution a non-solution: 1. Apple is “best of the worst” i.e. the other platforms suck more on a
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by gduffy 6y ago
I have the same problem, and also often people show up twice but only one bubble works (invariably the second one I try). I tried to get stuff like that fixed, impossible when there’s 35 people who “share responsibility” and can point finge
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by gduffy 6y ago
> The M1's and Airpods lineup are absolutely magical. Read again, I said as much & agree so much that it’s actually a fundamental part of my characterization of Apple. > I think Apple’s products are better than ever, on the w
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by gduffy 6y ago
I worked for an SVP at Apple as an “entrepreneur in residence” from 2016-2019. Apple’s best-of-the-worst products now suck in a million subtle ways; and they’ve become so complex that they suck in different ways for each user so we can’t
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by gduffy 7y ago
Disclaimer: I left Apple in June. Processing on local devices is slightly better but ultimately it’s cold comfort when those devices are locked down, closed source, and opaque to anyone but hackers. From the end customer perspective, the on
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by gduffy 7y ago
Land is not scarce. I know this because I've both surveyed a large part of the world from the air myself, and from data. Please cite data. PG&E's failure is because of poor capital investment, bad infrastructure decisions, and
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by gduffy 7y ago
If you are advocating for capitalism with externalities priced in using fair (by democratic vote) and absolute/equal valuation methods, that is what I am arguing for as well. SF doesn’t have that by a long shot. That’s the actual point
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by gduffy 7y ago
No the incentives are not there, not when you can vote yourself richer by freezing property taxes and preventing building up or out. Citation needed on cities being fundamentally more efficient. A suburban home can be powered by pure so
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by gduffy 7y ago
I'm not counting paving farmland, friend. Also, go look up aeroponics and 3D farming. We don't need PG&E. The sun gives us free energy, and batteries + thermal energy storage can cover the cloudiest of days. Well-designed subu
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by gduffy 7y ago
The first part of the response is to the parent comment, not the article. That said, intelligent legislation to encourage all types of housing and development (with externalities like carbon priced in as taxes, not government prescribed s
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by gduffy 7y ago
No offense, but your thinking here is actually a bigger part of the problem. There is nothing fundamentally unsustainable about suburbs, single family homes, low density, or cars. 50% of the USA is totally uninhabited, and it is possible to
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by gduffy 7y ago
Anytime!
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by gduffy 7y ago
Erasmus also said “What is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?” “With all due respect”, which part are you playing right now? My comments were not meant as logical proofs. But, I am content to say tha
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by gduffy 7y ago
This is exactly right, and way better than my reply. Your polish can improve as you scale and get more resources. That doesn't mean there isn't a min-bar of basic security practices and ethics, but if min-bar is perfection on all
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by gduffy 7y ago
I'll try when I get a moment. I think it might actually be better and easier to open-source SW and HW modules that do the right things.
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by gduffy 7y ago
That's not a very generous interpretation of what I wrote, and honestly hints at an immature understanding of good engineering and security. Dropcam v1 was one of the most secure internet products in existence at its inception, by desi
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by gduffy 7y ago
Being capable of changing one's mind is a great thing. Thanks for the honest conversation – that's what's great about HN these days! We competed head-on every single day with companies that lied like it was a national pastime
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by gduffy 7y ago
Thanks, I appreciate that! I feel you about the lights. Ultimately, I have grown to think that users should have ultimate control over the software running on their devices. If I want a light you can't disable, it should be by designin
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by gduffy 7y ago
I think I understand where you are coming from, and I've thought similarly before. But billion-dollar companies have been made almost purely on "NAT punching". I've written the code, and it's more complex than it se
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by gduffy 7y ago
Every rung you climb between client-server towards fully distributed increases software difficulty non-linearly. It seems simple at the outset, but once you actually try to build a complex business/product like this one you realize you
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by gduffy 7y ago
I know what you mean. Product engineering gets weird when you remove all constraints, and you actually end up hobbled instead of empowered by the "resources". I think if they made projects require independent profitability (after
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by gduffy 7y ago
I've got a table of a zillion different methods with myriad categories of benefits and drawbacks. And a weighted scoring system. And ... I may be slightly obsessive about this topic! :)
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by gduffy 7y ago
That seems true. I'm a fan of empowering users, with safeguards in place that they can disable if they opt-out and know what they are doing. For a product like this, though, you need to make sure everyone who is ever in eye or ear-shot
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by gduffy 7y ago
No, for two reasons: 1) You get no credit with customers for security features, only blame if they get hacked. You must invest in good security engineering because you believe it is a good thing and a good long term investment, it will only
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by gduffy 7y ago
We'll have to let god balance that out on the scales of morality when I reach the pearly gates someday. There's a lot of good and bad that came out of Dropcam but I think it's been mostly good. Lives saved, murderers in jail,
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by gduffy 7y ago
My quip about QR codes was kind of tongue-in-cheek, but any step that can be eliminated should be and there are just better ways to do it. QR codes can also fail in interesting ways, e.g. bright sunlight or cracked screens. Most QR code
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by gduffy 7y ago
Sorry, but that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem space. We entered the "IP camera" market in 2010, when all the competitor products booted a 7-year old Linux kernel with busybox and UPnP'd a port to the pub

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