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by guimarin 9y ago
A very good heuristic is to compare their total $ costs for purchase and use, and then think about what sorts of externalities that doesn't cover. I've found over and over again that $ cost pretty much equals energy and therefore
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by guimarin 9y ago
Child has it. The way this study is written, we're asked to compare more or less the carbon impact of an empty gas tank and the battery pack. That seems a bit unrealistic to me. yes the drivetrain is different and therefore more costly
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by guimarin 9y ago
that study is problematic because while they look at the cradle to gate cost of the electric drivertrain including battery, comparing to the ICE car drivetrain, they don't look at all the cost of Petrol + all the unaccounted for extern
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by guimarin 9y ago
This is true, but centralized power generation is a lot more efficient then creating the power individually at the point of consumption like ICE cars do today. I believe that an ICE motor is something like 30% fuel efficient, Electric somet
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by guimarin 9y ago
This is a follow-up from their announcement a year or so ago that the two would combine forces to create an open sourced framework/playground for AI learning. This announcement is simply that promise made publicly manifest.
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DeepMind and Blizzard release new tools to train AI using Starcraft(theverge.com)
3 points by guimarin 9y ago|1 comments
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Apple and Cochlear team up to roll out the first implant made for the iPhone(techcrunch.com)
3 points by guimarin 9y ago|0 comments
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by guimarin 9y ago
This seems like such a small thing right now. Looking forward to the interconnectedness of people and machines, this is going to be a watershed event for a lot of people. Cochlear implants are in 10s of thousands of people today, and being
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Cochlear unveils hearing implants that work directly with Apple's iPhone(reuters.com)
4 points by guimarin 9y ago|1 comments
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by guimarin 9y ago
I have a friend at Intel who works in the AR division and their comment to me is that in one way or another all AR/MR glasses are running Intel silicon. I asked them specifically, does that include, Hololens, Apple's Project, and
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by guimarin 9y ago
Altera, an Intel subsidiary. [1] 1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-24/quest-for...
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by guimarin 9y ago
My dad was not a successful founder. He quit his job at 40 or so to start a company. He failed miserably, and despite us being fairly well off, went into a downward spiral. He is divorced, alone, and living in a trailer park. Every time I v
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by guimarin 9y ago
This is the craziest thing I've written in 2017 but: I sincerely believe we will have consumer fusion reactors by 2030 if not sooner. The work of MIT SPARC combined with graphene manufacture will make this a reality. Combine this with
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by guimarin 9y ago
10% -> 2025; 20% -> 2030; 50% -> 2040; 95% -> 2050. India/Africa are included there. I think 95% of potential GHG emmissions (not just indexed to today but to 'present time') will be crossed in like 2060 or so. Re
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by guimarin 9y ago
for the most part, I don't consider commodity equipment to be 'expensive' even if the price point is expensive. I've observed that there are usually two classes of products in any market, the commodity bottom 80% and the
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by guimarin 9y ago
Textbooks? Seriously though I think there is a movement among the rich in America/world to buy products that are simple to use, high quality, and durable. The problem in my view is not that these products don't exist but that it&#
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by guimarin 9y ago
We should not be employing people in jobs that can be automated. We should try and automate everything. We should develop technologies, processes, and abilities so that everyone can learn new things. The people that want to learn will be in
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by guimarin 9y ago
One easy way around this is to do what all the NYC foundations do. That is, give to other people's charities, and they in turn will give to yours. That is only small potatoes compared to donating to a political campaign and taking the
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by guimarin 9y ago
1. Seems like a business opportunity. 2. I believe we're talking about network accessible devices here. Otherwise why would parent make comment about air-gapping infeasible?
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by guimarin 9y ago
seems like a false choice. why couldn't i understand what functions these machines exactly needed and then put a small linux box between them and the network which monitors all incoming/outgoing traffic and only allows allow-list
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by guimarin 9y ago
You've just described buildzoom.com exactly. Check them out.
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by guimarin 9y ago
Pinterest, Houzz, and build.com are all really interesting points on the same spectrum. Pinterest currently doesn't do a great job of monetizing it's various communities, but is the leader in terms of customer volume and is gettin
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by guimarin 9y ago
You're absolutely right. Totally missed that nuance (damn word ordering). It does change my point to be a bit less strong, but I guess I'd say that I'm still happy that the number is large in the rest of world. This is a glob
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by guimarin 9y ago
It's interesting to me that Norway is such a leader in deployed EVs simply because of their Sovereign Wealth Fund getting so much of its revenues from Oil interest. That would be like Saudi Arabia having 30% EVs, seems crazy. The other
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by guimarin 9y ago
Is there a case of an iPhone or iPad combusting like this? I haven't heard one. Not to say that there isn't but I'm more likely to believe it was a Samsung device than an Apple one simply because the former actually has a lot
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by guimarin 9y ago
As a Princeton Alumnus whose application data might actually be released in this probe[if they go back a lot of years], I have the following thought. I think people put way to much weight/stock in standardized test scores. I scored ver
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by guimarin 9y ago
Youth is wasted on the young.
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by guimarin 9y ago
This might be a case where no one has actually tried it with a maker mentality. Musk was saying the other day that you need 1 atmosphere of pressure capability to create a vacuum, but 5-6 to hold back the watertable related to his tunneling
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by guimarin 9y ago
good argument that all internet businesses were invented in the late 90s bubble. nearly all were too early.
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by guimarin 9y ago
Or of course, things could take an altogether different turn. I remember when GPS was introduced in 96 for civilians and no one could have predicted Uber at that time, though all the pieces were there. BE does a great job of synthesizing po

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