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When Words Fail: Where our minds go when words let us down(nautil.us)
2 points by thesash 7y ago|0 comments
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by thesash 7y ago
“Become the person you want to be” might better capture the sentiment we tend to express with advice like this.
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by thesash 9y ago
Again, I'm not saying it's not possible I'm saying that it's going to be really, really hard and that saftey is the critical path to making this viable. I'm sure they are spending all of their time and resources
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by thesash 9y ago
What am I missing that addresses the math?
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by thesash 9y ago
Loss rate for Space Shuttle program was 1.5% 135 missions, 2 lost. http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a6611/us-space-shuttle...
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by thesash 9y ago
Are you motivated by money in this situation?
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by thesash 9y ago
Yes, totally, I get that they have a plan to make it safer -- my point is that a 20,000x increase in saftey is a massive leap, and that will be the limiting factor for this technology.
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by thesash 9y ago
The loss rate for manned space launches over the past 20 years has been 0.79%. What you're pointing out (only once every few decades) is a factor of the small number of manned launches per year. Actual loss rate is very high. 1/
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by thesash 9y ago
There are three things that would factor into my decision about whether to strap myself to a rocket rather than fly in a plane: time, cost, and safety. Musk & SpaceX are talking a lot about time and cost, but safety is obviously a lot m
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by thesash 9y ago
This is actually a pretty good reason to move from group 3 to group 1. If your goal is to be part of group 3, but are unable to find an organization with a healthy culture, then there may be an opportunity to build your own.
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by thesash 9y ago
Facebook is doing some pretty interesting work in this area https://www.facebook.com/spaces
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by thesash 12y ago
Your privacy policy page returns a 404...
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by thesash 12y ago
What if you read that statement as "URLs are the basic interface of the web"?
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by thesash 12y ago
Precisely this. The examples in this article are all examples of innovation UI design, which is just a small, albeit highly visible edge of design. That being said, startups like Uber, Waze, AirBnB, and Nest have all reached staggering leve
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New theory suggests way to teleport energy long distances(m.phys.org)
5 points by thesash 13y ago|0 comments
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by thesash 13y ago
I think the answer is more or less that transportation costs aren't going down. We produce more than enough food to feed the entire world population, but the poor can't afford to buy it because of the cost of transporting it to th
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by thesash 13y ago
Love the idea. Love it so much that I bought the domain reread.co a while back with the intent to create something very similar!
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Tencent Goes From Snapchat “Role Model” To Potential Investor(techcrunch.com)
1 points by thesash 13y ago|0 comments
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by thesash 13y ago
It has nothing to do with virtue, and I'm not suggesting that entrepreneurs aren't ambitious, I just think you're confusing ambition and drive. If your goal is wealth and security, then starting a company is a terribly risky
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by thesash 13y ago
In my experience what drives great entrepreneurs is not a desire for wealth, power, or fame; it's a burning desire to make a small change in the world, usually in the form of bringing their product to market. Whatever success may come
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by thesash 13y ago
Can someone who understands the strategy behind fundraising explain why they would want to raise at such a high valuation? To be clear, one point left out of the article is that the $3.5B - $4B valuation is a rumored valuation being "c
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by thesash 13y ago
I can't wait to explain to my grandkids someday that back when I was young we used to let humans drive big hunks of plastic and steel at breakneck speeds, with nothing more than our laughably slow reflexes standing between life and dea
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by thesash 13y ago
Sounds similar to BoxBee[1], although they don't photograph & inventory, they just catalog & store individual boxes and make them available on demand. https://boxbee.com/
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by thesash 13y ago
Well, look at the centuries of violent war that preceded most modern, stable nation-states. Europe was pretty much in a constant state of conflict from the fall of the Roman Empire until WWI. Nationalism is also an interesting phenomenon, i
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by thesash 13y ago
People don't generally accomplish something immensely creative or interesting by setting out to do so. Instead, they stumble upon that great idea after some amount of time spent pursuing their own curiosity. The process looks something
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by thesash 13y ago
This is super cool! I can't tell you how many times I've been driving between LA and San Diego or LA and San Francisco, and just wanted to find a coffee shop, edible food, or even a gas station. For all the things Google maps is g
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by thesash 13y ago
It refers to the ergonomic problem inherent to the "minority report" style interface used for any extended period of time[1], though to be fair to the creators of this project, this is very clearly presented as a casual, alternati
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EBay Exact: on-demand 3D printed goods(blog.ebay.com)
1 points by thesash 13y ago|0 comments
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by thesash 13y ago
A few on my "re-read every few years" list: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Speaker for the Dead, Infinite Jest, Watchmen, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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by thesash 13y ago
There are two actually: http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/zombie-startups/ and http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/04/double-tap/

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