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by gwicks56 1y ago
"If you took a Tesla or a Waymo and dropped into into a tier 2 city in India, it will stop moving." Lol. If you dropped the average westerner into Chennai, they would either: a) stop moving b) kill someone
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by gwicks56 3y ago
I think it will be more like: "Pixie, reply to that email for me" "Pixie, book that car service for me and remind them they promised a free brake fluid replacement" "Pixie order all the ingredients I need to make my
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by gwicks56 3y ago
Similar. Waited ages in Australia for the Y to arrive, then Elon went nuts, then real competition started to arrive. Everything from Audi to BYD here now, some even have buttons where buttons make UX sense.
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Thoughts on Apple’s Entry into XR(twitter.com)
1 points by gwicks56 3y ago|5 comments
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by gwicks56 3y ago
Found this thought provoking.
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by gwicks56 3y ago
I randomly chose a Spotify playlist recently called "Programming music". Was a few hours in, and was like, "hmmmm, this music sounds weirdly familiar", checked the playlist, it was a few hours of Deus Ex music! It was pe
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by gwicks56 4y ago
I don't think they expect to do they? They are just using an unlimited bankroll to punish people they perceive as their enemies with hugely expensive and stressful litigation.
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Ask HN: LastPass hack: deleted LP accounts?
3 points by gwicks56 4y ago|2 comments
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by gwicks56 4y ago
Worldwide? Definitely. Enough that also have the resources to pay? Not 100% sure, but I would imagine so. I think I read 500,000 Australians alone live in places with very little internet connection, or are currently served with Geo-Sync in
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by gwicks56 4y ago
Similar story with my Mum. I bought her a Chromebook, and haven't had an IT support call from her since.
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by gwicks56 4y ago
My $20k Mazda won't allow me to rear-end somebody even if cruise control is switched off. Neither will my wife Subaru.
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by gwicks56 4y ago
Why would we not tax the source of the problem. ie dirty energy generation via a carbon tax? That would then incentivize all energy use to become greener, rather than ad-hoc singling out individual use cases? A decent carbon tax would elimi
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by gwicks56 4y ago
The problem with that approach is that nobody agrees on what is frivolous. So it ends up being counter-productive as everyone squabbles about why their most hated thing is frivolous and should be banned/regulated, whilst the thing they
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by gwicks56 4y ago
People have been hyping up small modular reactors for as long as I have been alive. They make total sense. And yet, there is not a single one is operation? I don't really care what tech gets us to cheap, abundant power, but given the c
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by gwicks56 4y ago
Tether should be making money though right? You give Tether $1b USD, they issue some tethers you can redeem later, and in the meantime, they invest those tethers, in say treasuries, and earn 4% or something? You earn no return, so don'
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by gwicks56 4y ago
With enough energy we can pull CO2 out of the air, and turn into a myriad of useful things[1], not just making $$ off the things produced, but also lowering CO2 concentrations. The biggest cost input is energy itself. We need MORE energy, n
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by gwicks56 4y ago
If the energy is clean, what difference does it make how much we use? Should a break through happen in fusion tonight, and clean limitless green energy became available cheaply, would you still argue we should use less? The fact remains tha
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by gwicks56 4y ago
Are you making the argument that we should be striving for a decrease in consumption? Because I can see no compelling argument that that should be so. In fact, we should be using way more energy. It should be green, but trying to tell peopl
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by gwicks56 4y ago
I hope you quit your job after that? No way I could keep working for someone after they did that.
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by gwicks56 4y ago
It's not quite so simple though is it? Electic cars require a lot more resource intensive mining to make, and I believe you are looking at around 50,000 miles before a Tesla is better for C02 ouput than a prius? And an electic Hummer i
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by gwicks56 4y ago
Do you think SciHub has a reason or right to exist? Financial censorship is real and growing.
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by gwicks56 4y ago
"He is free to leave Russia any time he likes." That's not true is it? I thought the state department cancelled his passport?
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by gwicks56 5y ago
The most famous must be the Skype story right? Have a bunch of language in the employment contract, which gives the employer the right to take back all the vested shares you have been granted if you are "fired for cause"? Then fir
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by gwicks56 5y ago
I'm sure Trump could have come up with reason BLM protesters were doing something illegal, and needed to shut down their bank accounts.
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by gwicks56 5y ago
Travel. Content is licensed to geographic areas, not people/billing areas.
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by gwicks56 5y ago
doesn't the internet route at scale?
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by gwicks56 5y ago
If you want to eliminate trust, with Bitcoin and lightning you can. If for you it's too much hassle, you don't have to. Unlike every single other blockchain, in which you have no choice but to trust centralised solutions, because
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by gwicks56 5y ago
As someone who runs a full node, this is not accurate at all. Space is cheap, bandwidth is expensive. I frequently upload > 1TB a month via my full node, if blocks were twice as big and full, then I would be uploading > 2TB a month. H
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by gwicks56 5y ago
Everytime the balance in the channel is updated, a new transaction is created and signed. If one party in the channel publishes an old state ( which they could have more bitcoin than they should), you have to be online to detect it and publ
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by gwicks56 5y ago
All of them is a slight exaggeration. 999 out of every 1000, definitely.

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