ghobs91

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Britain should join America (1999)(forbes.com)
7 points by ghobs91 5y ago|4 comments
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by ghobs91 7y ago
The Netflix show Stranger Things was loosely based on this. It was originally going to be called "Montauk" and take place on Long Island, as there were conspiracies of mind control, time travel, and other experiments going on at M
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by ghobs91 7y ago
The next evolution will be foldable phones that can unfold into tablets. Smartphones in their current form have essentially peaked, I agree.
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by ghobs91 7y ago
The least they could do is have a V1 of their smart glasses ready by this event. Several startups have managed to create ones, why hasn't Apple?
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by ghobs91 7y ago
The incredibly dull pace of innovation coming out of Apple lately is the logical result of a supply chain expert becoming the CEO.
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by ghobs91 7y ago
Interestingly, from a technological standpoint, container ships could switch to nuclear propulsion tomorrow if they wanted to. The 2 main reasons they haven't is the large up front cost, and the fact that very few nations like the idea
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by ghobs91 7y ago
Most versions of the Green New Deal that I've seen heavily incorporate resilience into the plan, it's not solely focused on trying to reverse climate change.
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by ghobs91 7y ago
1. Even if we can't completely prevent it, we can stop it from being much worse. 2. Regardless of the climate changer factor, polluting the air causes cancer, damages ecosystems, harms our food supply, etc. The mentality of "we ca
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by ghobs91 7y ago
Same goes for solar panel/roof installation, backup battery installation, burying power lines to improve storm resilience, etc. There's no shortage of infrastructure that needs to be built to modernize our system. Trying to artifi
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by ghobs91 7y ago
"Genius" is a very generous way to describe the slimy crap he does.
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by ghobs91 7y ago
If it's this easy to hack Trump's Twitter account and say things that could trigger war, maybe we need to reconsider allowing elected officials to use social media as their official communications channel. Instead, they should hav
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by ghobs91 7y ago
If it's this easy to hack Trump's Twitter account and say things that could trigger war, maybe we need to reconsider allowing elected officials to use social media as their official communications channel. Instead, they should hav
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by ghobs91 7y ago
and yet when clicking the link, the headline says "Canada’s household debt levels higher than any other country, report says"
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by ghobs91 7y ago
Here's a thought experiment I like to use whenever this comes up. If someone were to approach you on the street and ask you to do something for them that will take an hour of your time, what amount of money do you think would be a fair
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by ghobs91 7y ago
Road traffic is caused by two main things: congestion and bottlenecks. Congestion is solved by properly designing cities and their transit systems so that there's an optimal ratio of car/bus/train/bike use. Bottlenecks a
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by ghobs91 7y ago
Good luck proving that political differences were why you were fired.
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by ghobs91 7y ago
My point is that as long as donations of any kind are legal, politicians will continue to optimize for fundraising, rather than optimizing for policies that benefit the largest number of people. Who is most equipped to donate large sums to
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by ghobs91 7y ago
and it will continue to be, so long as political donations of any size are legal.
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by ghobs91 7y ago
In the case of an article that lists 82 startups, their comment is essentially saying "Here's a startup I think is notable". Hence their opinion.
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by ghobs91 7y ago
What's your meditation routine? As in, how do you actually meditate, do you use something like Headspace?
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by ghobs91 7y ago
Right after their sleezeball CEO and all their VCs cash out, leaving small time investors holding the garbage at the end.
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by ghobs91 7y ago
If anything, the biggest inadvertent feature is that its resemblance to Slack means you can browse those things at work and look like you're being productive.
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by ghobs91 7y ago
Maybe "quality of life" isn't the best way to describe it. I meant things that are more focused on entertainment or making life more convenient, as opposed to completely changing culture/life for people.
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by ghobs91 7y ago
Nope, what I'm thinking of is a much more macro/long timeline focused phenomenon that looks at how innovation progresses over hundred year spans.
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by ghobs91 7y ago
I can't remember the name of the phenomenon, but there's a theory that technological progress happens in cycles. The first half of each cycle contains large spurts of innovation and change which result in big shifts to how the wor
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Trump’s paid Thiel’s Palantir $1.5B so far to build ICE’s surveillance network(thenextweb.com)
129 points by ghobs91 7y ago|34 comments
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by ghobs91 7y ago
For new infrastructure specifically, it costs a ton in the US because of a combination of non-transparent bidding system from contractors (politicians give their buddies bloated contracts) and construction unions overstaffing construction s
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by ghobs91 7y ago
A) Why would they be in an adversarial relationship with Google? B) What benefit do they get from doing something like this?
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The World’s Biggest Building to Be(egypttoday.com)
2 points by ghobs91 7y ago|0 comments
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by ghobs91 7y ago
Based on what I'm seeing in this comment section, I'll be doing as much of my online shopping with Costco as possible. They have just as much, if not more of an emphasis on customer service, and they actually treat their employees

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