minthd

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by minthd 11y ago
Actually ,people in the end do pay more, but it's subtle. Say you we're a customer that bought an iPhone every 2 years. Now Apple's yearly plan looks like: 1. A new iPhone every year + Apple care 2. Same price 3. Don't h
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by minthd 11y ago
You say that one key is experimenting on pets(which will have huge barriers in the west). In china, eating dogs is legal.So why haven't we seen such research coming from china, and especially successful drugs from there?
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by minthd 11y ago
"Woz prototyped the guts of the Apple II, but needed a lot of help from people like Fernandez to turn it into reliable, repeatable hardware": https://www.reddit.com/r/business/comments/3jyovw/wo
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by minthd 11y ago
The 10000x improvement is improvement in power * size. So you might be on the same ballpark. What abut large scale neural networks - they aren't mentioned in your site . No plans for that ?
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by minthd 11y ago
In hong kong 90% of journeys are done using public transport.So the metaphor can be broken.
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by minthd 11y ago
The bottleneck actually is arithmetic. "GPUs have much higher ALU throughput since the GPU chip area is almost entirely ALU" http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/bidmach-machine-le... Also on the horizon
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by minthd 11y ago
>> Is Apple Radio really going to add that much to your bottom line? They will try to use radio in 2 way: 1. Make it unqiue and hard to copy, to add one more reason for people to use their device. 2. When making content deals, it&#x27
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by minthd 11y ago
But still , that calls for something like UBER with democratic vote over it's decisions. And since most people will be consumers ,not employees of that service , the incentive towards how to manage it's drivers would be the same.
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by minthd 11y ago
>> no worker protections Worker protection should apply equally to everyone, not give preferential treatment to one group(taxi drivers) at the expense of most other groups who just have minimum wage laws and osha.
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by minthd 11y ago
Android supports pressure sensitive touch at the API level since 2009, and There's a phone from 2015 that supports this from huawei. But they didn't create useful interactions with it.
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by minthd 11y ago
But haven't things changed? Google can do good design today, unlike before.Do consumers not believe this ?
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by minthd 11y ago
There's nodered, an IOT dataflow engine. Seem to fit very well. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/node-red/
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by minthd 11y ago
I'm not sure. With proterro working on making sugar at 1/3 of the cost(5 cents/pound) using synthetic bio, with solazyme selling specialized food components to the food industry, and with genomatica's technologies alread
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by minthd 11y ago
In general i agree - on the innovation front, Apple isn't so strong.But like it did with maps - through the sheer power of investment ,together with owning the platform/user and a bit of time ,now maps dominate IOS mapping apps. M
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by minthd 11y ago
20 years is a long time. What if virtual reality becomes the preferred entertainment method ? What if something other than phones becomes the new status symbol ? What if android manages to create an android status symbol phone or a unique a
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by minthd 11y ago
Not really. For example it was maybe possible to reliably warn other Jews. Or maybe help other Jews in countries that might in the future be aimed by Hitler find refuge. Potentially they could have saved many.
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by minthd 11y ago
How does the work for stowers is arranged ? do the computer give them specific sets of items to stow ? or is arranged according to the order the goods arrive ? And what is this pallet land ? what's the benefit?
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by minthd 11y ago
>> the horror of the concentration camps was not well known to the public during the war But it was pretty well known for the british and american governments(since 1941 or at the latest 1942) , and even to this day, some details of s
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by minthd 11y ago
I don't think it's really random.Since it's dictated by the computer, even though it looks random, i'm sure there are some patterns in the order(for example there are items that statistically sell together) ,But maybe th
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by minthd 11y ago
>> yet it's hard to find good content regarding how company X got to know their users and build what they really wanted. Isn't all the work by steve-blank and the lean-startup deals with it?
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by minthd 11y ago
I'm curious - since we know that a sales-like-process works for this kind of problems, didn't the private sector invent more scalable sales methods - and maybe they will be useful here ?
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Uber 2.0: Human Self-Driving Cars(stratechery.com)
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by minthd 11y ago
And by effective you mean easy ?
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by minthd 11y ago
Because the advancements in the field are interesting and wide ranging: neural networks doing vision, speech, natural language understanding, reasoning and general learning over data.
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by minthd 11y ago
But driving from the outskirts of a city to the inside, is just a 1 hour journey.
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by minthd 11y ago
Elon musk has don a lot of myth building around himself,for example claiming to invent the hyperloop(which was invented in 1999 by ET3). And his employees are mad about him taking all the credit for all kinds of results.So i'm not sure
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by minthd 11y ago
Even with such limitations to prevent violence, it's extremely easy and cheap, today, in the digital age, to enable communication between prisoners.
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by minthd 11y ago
What's wrong with growing vegetables and berries outside of cities in greenhouses?
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by minthd 11y ago
I think it depends on what you want to achieve. If you want to design algorithms, and not just reuse an algorithm from a catalog: "Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach: Udi Manber" Is very good. If on the other you;re i
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by minthd 11y ago
Maybe a different question need to be asked - people who bought VR headset - how do they feel after months of ownership ?

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