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by sadlyNess 9y ago
"Geothermal is currently at 533.8MW (of which 81.1MW is from the innovative wellheads technology raising geothermal capacity to about 32% of the total installed capacity. Our total thermal capacity is 253.5MW while wind comprises 25.5
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by sadlyNess 9y ago
Is it fair/unfair to chalk this down to plain objectivism? That the source of money isnt that important as long as it gives me a chance to Change The World™..?
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Uber Launches No Annual Fee Branded Credit Card(pymnts.com)
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by sadlyNess 9y ago
Read you some Kevin Mitnick. 'Social engineering' as he calls it is very effective as an intrusion technique.
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by sadlyNess 9y ago
It's supposed to be a long-term purchase, which is how they will explain low sales volume. But this makes it hard when they'll want to release a better version of the phone. Or not. Not sure though about their long-term pricing st
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by sadlyNess 9y ago
There's been a debate for a while now about this. Clay Shirky, Walter Isaacson, Jakob Nielsen, Norman Hardy, Kevin Kelley and others have expressed arguments for and against(mostly for) micropayments. But there's yet to be a succ
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by sadlyNess 9y ago
By 'better than free', are you referring to this[1] by Kevin Kelly. To quote from it:When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. And goes ahead to list 8 qualities of what can be sellable once distribu
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33 ideas that will change the world(bbc.com)
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by sadlyNess 9y ago
I think WhatsApp is where Twitter was during their Ascend-to-protocol Vs Just-push-Ads phase[1], only that WA is dead-set on not going down the Ad route. IMO their options are whether to become an app platform for businesses(Service delive
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How Kickstagram's Non-Technical Founders Built a $100k MRR Software Product(codementor.io)
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by sadlyNess 9y ago
Hope its going to be added to the payments ISO standards. If that's a fitting home along with the W3C move, is it?
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by sadlyNess 9y ago
Sidenote: Which parses better: buzzfeed-esque, buzzfeedesque or buzzfedian?
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by sadlyNess 9y ago
Any direct relation(real or hypothetical) between the arrest and the movement of the ransom coins? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918545
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by sadlyNess 9y ago
Erm, how does taking money off the table when raising a round work? (just never heard of it)
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by sadlyNess 9y ago
Not failing to mention how handy that 'Menu-523' came in handy when the dpad wore down(usually the first keys to fail on a feature-phone). It kept me from having to buy a new phone for months.
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by sadlyNess 10y ago
There's this http://imgur.com/a/livAB . They go around schools and get kids to work on simple electronics projects. Just started and only concentrating on primary schools, but I think they plan to expand to high s
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by sadlyNess 11y ago
Related Read: Paper Money (1981) by 'Adam Smith' George J. W. Goodman.
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by sadlyNess 12y ago
It's true that it's useful but its the same mathematical talent that was (ab|mis)used by Losada, according to the article. What was useful here was Brown's scepticism, borne by him being an amateur(having no bread to lose ove
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by sadlyNess 12y ago
Or give him a drone(or parts/instructions to build one). That could be a better starting point I think.
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by sadlyNess 12y ago
Related: On that left-brain right-brain roles split(it's not really that way): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8989685
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The Real Neuroscience of Creativity(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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What (good) book/s are you reading?
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
FB & G+ are pushing so much to have data on their users actual identities, I wonder what they want to do with that database. Considering the move polarises some users.
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
This reminds me of an episode in Medium(Patricia Arquette) where people regretted jumping from buildings but only after they had jumped. i cant recall the exact plot(google effect?).
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
so we can start farming kyrt...and psycho-probbing spatio-analysts...[1] if only Asimov was around to see these events start to unfold. [1] Currents of Space - Isaac Asimov
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
In what is usually described as a sweet spot or what Steve would call good design.
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
What does the government want to achieve with this program? Has it been done elsewhere (Im thinking India but its not the same, is it?) You're right, visual appeal is key but I'd go lower and start with something physical, lego-like and ki
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
1. Make programming a compulsory subject in high/secondary schools. 2. Hope that some of those students become teachers after their tertiary education where programming is included. Now you have 8 year olds being competently taught how to
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
Is this abandonment a side effect of the 'work on a popular OS project' advice I've seen around?
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
Almost every item of 'suckery' listed is something that can be fixed or rather, finished. And it's OS.

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