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110,929karma·51,750submissions·October 26, 2011
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Forward deployed scholar
"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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If I recall correctly, the DOE loan is very low interest rate, repayment is based on metric milestones, and at the time financing via traditional capital markets was fairly difficult for almost anyone…
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So I'm not the only dude with an Elon Man Crush. I'm off to go buy a ton more TSLA stock. And apply at an Elon company. Doesn't even matter which one.
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You guys and Dr Chrono are doing some great work; keep it up!
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Drop the expensive part. Make healthcare more efficient.
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3D prototypes before having them made at larger scales with injection molding.
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Nest has an awesome feature called AirWave. When you're running the AC, it actually learns how long it can continue to cool by just running the fan due the the lingering coolness of the coils after th…
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You're paying for higher resolution.
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If the request is async, it shouldn't cause any problems.
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Current cost for the Form 1 substrate is ~$150/liter.
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I'm a Kickstarter backer of this; I have the original Makerbot Replication, and decided on this instead of Makerbot's 2.0 version due to the higher precision (25 microns) of the Form 1 version.
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Built in Windows support of the zip format can't handle compressed archives over 2GB.
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Which strikes me as somewhat funny if the review is true. Ivy league isn't about what you know, but where you went and who you know. Isn't Y Combinator turning into Ivy League? People want to get in e…
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So I could integrate a web-based IDE into Google Docs, and commit code directly from Google Docs onto a webserver? Awesome.
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How dare that person get cancer, become unemployed because of unforseen shifts in the job market, etc. Social safety nets exist for a reason. You may opt out by moving somewhere else if you would pref…
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Let them eat cake?
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Already bought another $10K worth. /bargin hunter
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I'd actually argue it'd be better if SpaceX could gobble up more taxpayer money; they are far more likely to use it for research/development/innovation than either costPlus space contractors or othe…
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You're demanding the convenience you get from gasoline from a rapidly developing technology that's still having tens of billions of dollars poured into it, and I'm absurd? You're not going to get th…
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Get that Honda Civic then; I'm going to hold onto my Model S reservation. I have to drive more than 180 miles in a day? Oh no! I'll have to rent a car from Enterprise or Zipcar! Fueleconomy.gov says i…
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Wireless is a shared medium. There is a limit to how much you can push through the air. Laying fiber once is long enough to last at least 100 years (based on what we know now). Should we not lay fiber…
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We've used PostalMethods with both Quickbooks (invoicing clients who don't take email for invoices; Quickbooks emails the invoice to PostalMethods, who prints and mails it for us) and for our clients …
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I am! Will have an email off to your shortly!
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I spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with service providers and vendors as lead developer/devops/sysadmin/etc at a tech consulting firm in Chicago. I don't give a damn how the site looks; i…
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http://www.postalmethods.com/
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If I want to "keep" my digital books, I'll dump them from my Amazon account and send them off to Fedex Office to be printed/bound. At the moment, I'm fine having a copy of all of them (with the DRM an…
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Agreed! This is not necessarily a bad thing.
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FTE at the moment. Salary, full medial/dental/life insurance paid for by the company, 6 weeks paid vacation, flex time.
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Chicago here. Devops/Sysadmin/Developer (.Net, Ruby, Python). I've been able to name my price for the last 3 years ($130K/year+), and still get opportunities several times a week from both recruiters …
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Expensive is relative. 12 cents/GB/month for %99.999999999 reliability is cheap in my opinion.
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Computing time will ALWAYS be cheaper than human labor.