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by sofon 8y ago
Project starshot does have a history, beyond this press release. And they have thought through the issues. There's a great youtube video here that goes into the details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbi1hHPpTjY They
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by sofon 8y ago
Yes, I think throwing out the CEO of an established company with revenue is quite a bit different than throwing out the CEO of a pre-product startup however. With a startup, you've invested in the founding team. If you throw them out..
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by sofon 8y ago
Yes, survey data. And to be clear, the world value survey has asked questions covering racism. In particular: "Would you accept someone of a different race as a neighbour?" and "How often do you see racist behaviour in your n
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by sofon 8y ago
If that were the case, you'd have a better managed transition. Ideally you'd have the CEO onboard with this from the start. Alternatively when it came time to boot them, you'd a) already have someone in place to take over b)
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by sofon 8y ago
Why would this be a good plan? Booting a startup CEO always looks bad in my opinion and would likely concern anyone doing a follow on investment.
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by sofon 8y ago
ok, so... no data then, just a series of quotes and observations about individuals. I'd honestly be interested in learning about racism in Japan, and if it is different/worse than other countries. But all that's been presente
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by sofon 8y ago
You're talking about the Japanese PM, and it's possible to make a case that current and past PMs have been racist. That's not the same as saying that the population in general are racist and Asians are oppressed i.e.: "i
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by sofon 8y ago
"The plural of anecdote is not data." Then present some data other than a wikipedia article which doesn't appear to support your case.
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by sofon 8y ago
Valued at 3.2B USD, by investors who have just fired him... It's a sign of how crazy things are when 300M USD can be considered a small amount of money to spend on technology development (particularly for a product that doesn't ac
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by sofon 8y ago
"Kentley-Klay, 43, is an improbable entrant into the crowded race to develop self-driving cars. He has no engineering degree, no background in computer science. Through his early 30s, he was a successful artist and designer—creating mu
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by sofon 8y ago
I'm curious as to why automated translation seems to be so bad for Japanese<->English. Is Japanese really such an outlier? English <-> Chinese seems more reasonable. Translation between European languages I would guess is a
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by sofon 10y ago
For reference, it appeared to be 20cm away from the transmitter and held exactly facing it.
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by sofon 10y ago
In the video she holds the phone 20cm from the charger, and directly facing it. This is a scenario that's well known can work (at high power levels which are not generally legal). What doesn't work so well is charging off axis and
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by sofon 10y ago
In case anyone is wondering about the feasibility concerns the FAQ on the web blog is very comprehensive: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/the-ubeam-faq/ Overall, it seems unlikely to work, even for tric
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by sofon 10y ago
And if it's operating at <10% efficiency that will be a disaster for the environment too. In any case, it sounds like you want one of the inductive charging mats that are already available. My guess is that in real life the performa
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by sofon 10y ago
I don't think blaming "fraud" is really helpful. If the majority of leave voters failed to investigate the facts that seems like a bigger issue with referendums in general.
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by sofon 10y ago
Entertaining read. It takes a while, in any business/other relationship to learn to stick to your guns. Reading this, and somewhat projecting, I would say you lack confidence in some of your decisions. You therefore seemed opened to di
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by sofon 10y ago
It helps that employee costs in India are competitive with China... (92¢, compared with $3.52 in China) https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2014-11-06/india...