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110,917karma·51,749submissions·October 26, 2011
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"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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http://nimbus.io (yeah, not live yet, but at only 6 cents/GB, its worth keeping an eye on)
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If you can replicate material at will, you can spend all your time perfecting robotics to perform service work. Said robotics can than be replicated en masse across the world with previous "replicator…
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Everything you described with regards to your contacts lists I've already been doing with Google Contacts (work contacts, shared contacts with wife, etc). My Android phone lets me easily sort and cate…
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Dropbox already has a platform (it's API). You can already save directly to your Dropbox from a variety of sites. Still, not a whole bunch of folks use this functionality.
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I was late for a United flight several months ago; when I boarded the plane, they did not scan my boarding pass. They still found a seat for me, but without scanning my boarding pass, United assumed I…
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Republicwireless is beholden to Sprint for the cellular side, and handles the Wifi/termination with Amazon AWS and their Bandwidth.com hardware (Republic/Bandwidth are the same org). Free owns more of…
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The mortgage interest deduction is subsiding those who make the choice to reduce their labor mobility; why would we subsidize people who want to reduce their competitiveness in the labor force? Hopefu…
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The Library of Congress should step into the "super library" role as authoritative archive, with the Internet Archive serving as DR/backup; buy the content once, and heavily subsidize Kindle-esqe devi…
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You just need ILECs or CLECs willing to terminate SIP connections onto an SS7 switch; doing so is trivial for an organization that is getting into a Twilio-like business, but non-trivial for a typical…
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He who controls OSI Layer 1 controls the profits.
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Agreed. 3 ads in a row every 5-7 minutes Hulu? To the Bay!
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Thanks! I'm in Chicago and not looking to relocate, but am looking to contribute.
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What Apple charges for, and what developers/engineers will pay for, are drastically different. How many people have downloaded Angry Birds vs how many people have paid for Tasker on the Android platfo…
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And have it easily replaced by whomever will run it cheaper. What does Instapaper cost? $1/month?
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Other side of the coin: Need my Dropbox access? Sure, here you go. Need my Gmail access, meh, why not? I'm not horribly concerned with allowing them the access I've granted to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail…
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$2500 is enough of a loss for some people to show up at the buyer's door; great lot a TOS does when police response is a good 8-12 minutes away. (Yes, people have done physical violence against anothe…
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I think the problem is that no one is going to step forward to provide the open standard for high power/current DC power transmission for these devices. USB is amazingly ubiquitous, as is DC power in …
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Any jobs or volunteer (intern) positions that don't require you to be in Mountain View?
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Tesla is building the drivetrain and batteries for Toyota's new all-electric Rav4.
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Or like a more intelligent non-POSIX compliant filesystem accessible via HTTP/HTTPS.
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Too much dead wood, as well as no financial incentive to increase efficiency (with resources of any type).
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Or just lie and have someone you know in the industry say you worked for them during that period of time. Hate the game, not those who must survive within it.
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Reducing the number of carriers reduces the amount of competition. Improving the quality of AT&Ts network has nothing to do with increasing competition amongst carriers.
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This is the exact opposite of my experience working on the USCMs Tier 1 team at Fermilab (we took data directly from the CMS detector at the LHC, processed it, and distributed it across the world). We…
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Google Apps and either Dropbox/Box.net (Dropbox is cheaper, Box.net has more features). I have this setup in production for ~68 users, some who are in the office, but most who are mobile.
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Oil changes can easily be automated. Electric vehicles? All they need is a parking spot to automatically pull into and charge at until required to move to their next waypoint.
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I believe their exit strategy is to be acquired by Amazon or someone of their scale. They drive their entire platform on Amazon AWS and the Rackspace cloud system, and Jeff (one of the Twilio co-found…
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Which is really sad when you consider the problem. API accepts SMS and inserts into database; workers take queue from database and action against SMS gateways (works in reverse for messages going the …
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Its been proven often enough that the masses will take cheap over quality in (almost) any scenario (unless you're talking about a niche market). Sometimes good enough is just that.