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marblar··on Samsung Develops Battery Material with 5x Faster Charging Speed
At this rate, in 2025 it will be at least 10 times more powerful.
marblar··on I totally mean it: Inflation never solved the flatness problem
Inflation
marblar··on Microsoft headquarters now has tree house work spaces
> Not every employee “got it” right away, according to Bret Boulter, the Microsoft real estate and facilities manager who led the project. He was quoted on the company’s blog, saying, “A lot of people are like, ‘where’s the AV?’ And I’m like, it’s a treehouse.”

Gold.

marblar··on How do i make 1M friends who always respond to my messages within 1 min
The response time requirement is even easier if the friends are also AI.

Tom from Myspace probably has a shot.

marblar··on Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS
When we first started getting AMZL packages they'd show up at lunchtime when nobody was home and call me on my cell phone asking if anyone was around to pickup the package. That seems to have stopped, though.
marblar··on The huge significance of the BTC-e bust
Hyperinflation of government-issue currency or bitcoin?
marblar··on Kalashnikov’s new autonomous weapons and the “Terminator conundrum”
Serious question: why would a non-poorly trained army select a more maintenance-heavy weapon? Would it have other benefits?
marblar··on Jodie Whittaker Is Doctor Who’s Thirteenth Doctor
> Los Isoles

This is the Mos Eiseley Cantina, in case anyone else is stumped.

marblar··on Used GPUs flood the market as Ethereum's price drops below $150
It seems like if you were located in a "mining valley" the last thing you would want to do is have it mentioned in a top comment on Hacker News.
marblar··on Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
There are aspects of truth to this.
marblar··on The Town of Innisfil partners with Uber for transit instead of buses
The horse was fairly popular with people who lacked drivers licenses. Maybe check back in a few millennia.
marblar··on SNAP has left millennial investors underwater
Who decides what goes in the index funds?
marblar··on Uber CLI
There's no need for a middleware service. Just store it outside of the repo.
marblar··on The $99B Idea
Wasn't it called Ubercab at the time?
marblar··on Silicon Valley Needs Startup Drano
> (which may not be liquid for a while longer).

(Or ever)

marblar··on Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco
"Not very well."
marblar··on MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
I'm pretty sure it was meant to be OS 10 the whole time. It succeeded OS 9.
marblar··on Web fonts, boy, I don't know
So users reaching a site through google have a better experience than users accessing it through some other method? This seems like a pretty good thing from Google's perspective...
marblar··on Apple Is Said to Be Rethinking Strategy on Self-Driving Cars
> Google pioneers like Anthony Levandowsky and Chris Urmson are talking 30ish years now before we'll see unmanned cars driving across the country. This may have something to do with why so many google vets have jumped ship over the last year.

Source?

marblar··on People are still bad at gauging their own interview performance
> A company's bad interview process might have nothing at all to do with the rest of the company.

Everyone who works at a company, got there by passing through the] interview filter. A bad interview process has everything to do with the company, particularly in organizations that have grown a lot in the recent past.

marblar··on Who's on call?
Why not pay a flat rate for taking the on-call responsibility, regardless of actual work performed?
marblar··on Uber launches flat fares in San Francisco through subscription
Woah, they explicitly excluded Bernal? Harsh.
marblar··on Zika Infection May Affect Adult Brain Cells
> Aedes aegypti is not even native to South America- it's African. So eliminating it from the New World can't do that much damage given that the ecosystem got along fine before it arrived.

Could it not have crowded out some other niche that will be left empty if they were removed?

marblar··on Ask HN: Why isn't there a professional body for Computer Science?
> The industry is well developed now for us to stop asking about reversing binary trees and start asking about how many friends you one had in high school

Could you explain?

marblar··on Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation
Do you wish that because you work there?
marblar··on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?
I love that quote.
marblar··on The management myth (2006)
Guess whose job it is to implement the necessary measures.
marblar··on Amazon search was down
I solved this problem by putting it on the wishlist and buying everything I still want at the end of the week.
marblar··on Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Takes $1B Position in Apple
> That's why there are a lot of ownership stakes of 4.9%.

Is reporting speed really important enough to change the size of your investment?

marblar··on iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
That’s a logistic function, not an exponential.
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