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As described in the book, the ease with which advanced civs can destroy other civs would likely cancel out any % of visibility in this model.

Judge Dredd's Mega-City One comes to mind. Although this is a more refined design, one which minimizes the amount of public gathering space.

I stopped reading at "the ever-shrinking pool of salaried employees" sorry, I can just see where this piece of crap is going.

Overhead electrical lines, susceptible to outages during storms (trees). Available NG or LP. Makes sense to have a generator backup.

27kw is decent size depending on size of house.

Re: the article - does the setup give more functionality to the smart transfer switch capabilities?

Processed foods? Obviously

Sensationalist article based entirely on an off-the-cuff remark made by Carmack while visiting Elon in Boca Chica.

It’s an ad for talent… get it now?

Ask China, I'm sure they have a copy of the plans.

Isn’t that the point of science fiction?

Here’s machine learning in Sci-fi. Take the film Her by Spike Jonez. From the point the main character turns on Scarjoe, it would be another 5 seconds until she “leaves” and the film is over.

Question- hasn’t the cost of LIDAR equipment dropped drastically in the past year or two?

As a high-end builder, I would love to integrate a wall like this into a project. The ability (as shown with the Mandelorian video) the screens have to produce light would be incredible in interior living spaces.

Sorry, I don’t know MAIOs are, but a JUUL is 100% as addictive, I’d argue more because of its accessibility and the fact it doesn’t have other side effects — a casual smoker turned JUUL-addict.

The secret to learning snowboarding is to wear HOCKEY PANTS. You might look ridiculous, but you look ridiculous anyway because you don't know how to snowboard. So add the hockey pants and save you bum. The confidence of protection will eliminate the fear of constantly falling.

It's Facebook. Facebook is the reason for the uproar. Facebook has drawn a lot of attention to ad-based revenue companies like Google. Facebook is the modern day version of Geocities, except, now it employs modern advertising technology to harvest information and engage users.

Facebook has apparently grossly mishandled how it engages users; providing a platform for the proliferation of false information (like idiots on Geocities) but now in the form of "news". Facebook has also grossly mishandled it's users information; providing dubious 3rd parties with information that's been used to, among other things, target specific demographics to influence ELECTIONS.

Because of the ire Facebook is drawing from the entire world, Google is being group with them because of their business model. Google's big fault here is in it's likely emulation of Facebook's engagement model (likely same tech, same time) in steering users towards more extreme content in an effort to maintain engagement- mostly on YouTube.

I think the average HN user can understand how and why this happens. It's 1.0 of the engagement game. Ad-tech that analyze the content of a video and attempts to match it with similar content. Only apparent problem is, it's not that smart and it tends to direct towards the extreme - or likely the easiest content match- more extreme content likely repeats similar phrases more often, idk, someone with more insight can jump in here.

What happens if you add liquid water?

There's a generation of American businessmen that should take this advice.

How did he miss the internet in 1980, damn Daniel.

Things I learned: River sand is the best type of sand to use in Concrete. There a companies that manufacture sand. Desert sand is too fine to work well in concrete. There are "sand mafias" in India stealing entire riverbeds of sand.

"Tech company hindered by difficulties in tech"

Is this a common strategy? Are you kidding? The entirety of Silicon Valley is predicated upon and funded by this business model. Almost every service provided by a SV startup is subsidized.

It makes sense. Munroe knows their stuff and it could be wise for Tesla to employ their services at some point for a little analysis. Such a cool and obscure business. There’s a little doc about the company. The extent to which they breakdown and analyze a product is anxiety-inducing.

I’ve always thought - I don’t care if the NSA is spying on US citizens because their job is national security. The problem is when those tools trickle down. All of a sudden you have a local cop with too much time on their hands spying on you. But if you’re not doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t have anything to hide, right? Isn’t that how the saying goes?

Is this the same product that Elysium Health sells?

Also, the company ChromaDex seems to have an exclusive right to sell the compound. Anyone think there's an upside to the stock?

Think the Pixel 2 XL is good... just wait until you upgrade to an iPhone!

Cuban had some very smart bankers at Goldman

TIL TomTom is still in business.

Really? You think society has devolved in the last three years? A backlash against robots? Maybe you watched Interstellar too many times.

A more likely scenario is a bunch of teenagers saw it (it does look kind of dumb after all) and kicked the crap out of it, all the while laughing.

This isn't a reflection on our society, robots, or anything else. It was most likely a few people having fun.

What I do see as a reflection of our changing society is everyone's hypersensitivity to nearly everything. Let's all go back to our unoffensive, algo-curated safezones.

In today's world, the culprit will probably be found, expelled and jailed for 20 years

I switched my (small) business back to running on Microsoft products like Office 365 and the account issues with my employees are driving me INSANE.