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by go37pi 11y ago
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -Tolstoy
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Why Remote Engineering Is So Difficult(blog.learningbyshipping.com)
74 points by go37pi 12y ago|40 comments
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SF and Silicon Valley via the Google Bus(lrb.co.uk)
10 points by go37pi 14y ago|0 comments
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by go37pi 14y ago
I liked the article but would agree that it may have benefited from being more explicit in its writing. Here's what I got out of it. Maly asks, "Why would you continue to wear a hoodie even though you're hot and would feel better not wearin
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by go37pi 14y ago
That reminds me of a short science fiction story, (I think by Isaac Asimov?) but I can't for the life of me remember what the title was. The protagonist was a writer, who began begrudge the time he would wait for his bus and time waiting fo
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by go37pi 15y ago
I'd think that the non-invasive restriction is most likely related to the FDA's distinction between significant risk devices and non significant risk devices. In addition to traditional study approvals(Independent Review Board etc.), signif
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by go37pi 15y ago
Really cool article, I learned a bunch. It's cool that she talks about the role that imitation plays in a creator's growth. A different sphere but reminds me of this rap from the song Dr. Carter. Good afternoon Dr. Carter I don't know
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by go37pi 15y ago
I believe he is saying that traditional metrics of mastery such as the "10,000 hours" of work metric are incomplete because they are extrinsically defined metrics. Venkatesh makes the point that except for a few well defined fields such as
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by go37pi 15y ago
You're right about the financial expected value, but I think you might be disregarding the trust aspect of the transaction, which I think was why Airbnb was so successful. Buying into the brand reinforces a particularly optimistic world vie
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by go37pi 16y ago
I think its a good problem solving tactic to try to look for analogous situations and gain insight into our current dilemma in doing so. I think a better analogy might be a sit in. If you occupy all the seats in a restaurant, I think it kin
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by go37pi 16y ago
The control protocols are not well documented at all, starting in 1996, all cars are required to have OBD ports. The manufacturers don't want people to know the control protocols for various reasons (security, manufacturers make money selli
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by go37pi 16y ago
While I can agree that jumping through hoops to meet regulations sucks, the cost of failure and the potential for unintended consequences justifies the high market entry costs. To be fair, the FDA is constantly making decisions (with regard
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by go37pi 16y ago
We can stop using it, and create or support alternatives. We're used to the cost of a service being its monetary price, or more recently, the demands it makes on our attention. Perhaps a new type of model is being developed in which the pri
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by go37pi 16y ago
I can say with pretty strong confidence that its due to 1. On long trips this situation can get pretty interesting if you end up finding groups of other cars that are on the highway for similar amounts of time. You could say that the group
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by go37pi 17y ago
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1914020220100319 has a year by year summary
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by go37pi 17y ago
Kevin Kelly has a blog dedicated to "self quantification" and has a bunch of interesting resources and thoughts on the process. For example, one interesting study he did was on the efficacy of caffeine on his daily productivity. The blog is
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by go37pi 17y ago
I guess we both agree on the long term trend and at this point, that's all that really matters. But the task of creating highly reliable industrial robots is really quite difficult and quite a bit more expensive than $50,000. We have 12 rob
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by go37pi 17y ago
I echo that sentiment. To share another testimonial, I work in a vaccine manufacturing facility with control systems and robotics. The only reason biologics manufacturing facilities haven't been built overseas with the same zeal as other fa
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by go37pi 17y ago
That's a good point, I was implicitly assuming that the lost power due to efficiency losses would be greater than the gained power due to cheaper costs.
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by go37pi 17y ago
This solar cell has a "conversion efficiency of 9.6 percent, which is 40 percent higher than previous attempts to create a solar cell made of similar materials." Current solar cells have approximately 20 percent efficiency. Unless this sola
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Anonymous hacks Australian Government in response to Internet censorship(smh.com.au)
58 points by go37pi 17y ago|46 comments
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How Peyton Manning's obsessive-compulsive behavior makes him great(slate.com)
4 points by go37pi 17y ago|0 comments
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by go37pi 17y ago
When reading this article, I was reminded of a passage from Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground": "But I repeat for the one-hundredth time, there is one case, only one, when a man may intentionally, consciously desire something even someth