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by pinkyand 12y ago
I think dang, the moderator of this forum decided that we should stop doing those, if i remember correctly. But there's this: http://firespotting.com/
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by pinkyand 12y ago
The gender balance is equal for law/medicine mostly at the school level[1]. And with regards to school[2]: "Research finds that men engage in more abstract thinking about many topics—using categories, generalizations—while women a
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by pinkyand 12y ago
With all the fake electronic parts coming from china, are those companies a trustworthy long term source for such companies ? Not sure. One common advice is to buy from authorized sources, and looking through octopart[1], arrow is the only
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by pinkyand 12y ago
Bill Gurley's post is very interesting and in-depth. One thing he doesn't mention is the potential of UberPool(combining multiple passenger trips into a single car) to further increase demand. I wonder why is that ?
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by pinkyand 12y ago
Have you tried something like f.lux ? it can remove the black spectrum of colors from computer/tablet displays ,and they claims there's research that this is the spectrum most critical for messing up with sleep. With regards to ei
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by pinkyand 12y ago
Maybe with UberPool(sharing rides with other people on the same route) they'll have more access ? and if you combine that with Uber's SUV service, which enables sharing rides between up to 6 people, you'll get to something m
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by pinkyand 12y ago
What's the big difference from downloading a cross-platform app using torrents ?
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by pinkyand 12y ago
I'm not sure it would take the long term to determine reliability: there are engineers who specialize in that,and there are software tools to simulate the reliability of a mechanical systems. Whether this company did this or not is unk
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by pinkyand 12y ago
Of course those are factors , but qbotix has raised investment, has managed to get some commitments for solar projects, and there's even a company using their system in the UK offering to finance projects on a long term electricity pur
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by pinkyand 12y ago
Yes, it's not very nice to collude. On the other hand, were programmers get very good salaries. To some, maybe even Sergey, it might not seem like an urjent and critical moral issue,in the way that saving lives is.
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by pinkyand 12y ago
As a practical matter, especially for the robot ,it might not matter who is observing. The fact that one can observe oneself enables further capabilities like better feedback. And by the way i think this observing robot has(or can have) an
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by pinkyand 12y ago
I think good understanding of conciousness comes from the meditative tradition, and their definition for it is "the part of the brain that observes the other parts". BTW we've already implemented consciousness in a robot: ht
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by pinkyand 12y ago
Watson understands natural language(to some extent).That's a general capability, not a specific task.
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by pinkyand 12y ago
The article ends in a non serious fashion.So the author discovers his books outside of Amazon.Does this fact has any relevance to how people in general discover books ? On the other hand, Amazon is Google's biggest threat in general pr
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by pinkyand 12y ago
Maybe for some people, their passion lies in money/fame/etc ,but they see very clearly how attacking said opportunity would lead to those, and it gives them enough "passion" and motivation?
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by pinkyand 12y ago
Another sensational title. We have many "virological penicilins". We call them anti-retrovirals. We even got some for influenza(Oseltamivir ). The only difference is that this is "natural" ,which appears to matter to som
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How Big Pharma Undermined Medical Innovation for Financial Gain(forbes.com)
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by pinkyand 12y ago
They forget that Google also own a high resolution satellite company and they're working on a drone project - all which could be very useful for real time mapping. About parking, this is less important for a taxi company. And the incen
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by pinkyand 12y ago
I think they're betting on software and mostly on "cognitive computing" and watson. And they're focusing on that, leaving aside businesses that won't really give them a competitive advantage, like their fab. If they
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by pinkyand 12y ago
The cheapest node today and for a long time is 28nm. But there are many applications where people are willing to pay more for performance, like processors. Second there's a debate whether SOI is more expensive once it reaches volume. T
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by pinkyand 12y ago
IBM had a unique process call silicon-on-insulator that gives you something like an extra step in moore's law with regards to power and speed(but not cost). They also had their EDRAM technology , which is much more efficient memory typ
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by pinkyand 12y ago
1. There are already systems that before your appointment , gather detailed data and history and display it to the doctor is a condensed and efficient manner. For more details, see[1]. In general : " history taking in this manner is mo
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by pinkyand 12y ago
Basically, low status leads to a lot of stress.So unless the community as a whole is educated towards non-consumer ways , everybody is in a trap.
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by pinkyand 12y ago
> I have ever confidence that the TOR developers are trying to do something about it. The basic architecture of TOR is limited theoretically with regards to some types of attacks it can handle.TOR developers probably cannot do anything a
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by pinkyand 12y ago
Many businesses today have a relatively strong network effects of some sort.With that kind of business , growth is what's needed to achieve competitive advantage.
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by pinkyand 12y ago
> to try to find the best prices and to find competing products. Most often, that leads me to Asia. The problem with the Chinese goods is that it's very hard to locate high quality goods. The review systems are useless(full of junk)
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by pinkyand 12y ago
There's something wrong with the claim of "1Watt idle when connecting to a network", since the maximum power of that module is 1Watt at full performance. Maybe the person who measured this hasn't used sleep modes properl
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by pinkyand 12y ago
Wouldn't something that uses consensus on multiple servers, at the price of more bandwidth , possibly also with replaceable IOT card on your device - to give you more options in case of something suspicious happens ?
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by pinkyand 12y ago
> My opinion is that once you meet someone that really clicks, then it works out quickly and well. Usually that feeling of "click" passes after 2 years and transforms into a mellower , longer lastin kind of love. So if you stay
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by pinkyand 12y ago
But what if you've got a parcel machine on your regular route ? And don't forget, the costs can be much lower when using parcel machines. For example in latvia ,it costs 2 euro to send a package from a postal machine to a postal m

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