Screw Elon Musk and the horse he rode in on. There is
no way I'm going to give that character my content or
collaborate in anything he owns or has a stake in.
Still looking for an alternative.
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Hi, I don't think tomhow or 'pocksuppet' meant me, I think that was a reference to the current CEO of YC misbehaving himself. I don't drink, so I don't have any handy excuses for posting here or anywhere else. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39162499, contrary to Tom I don't think that being drunk excuses anything, alcohol serves to reduce inhibition and tends to reveal the real person more than that it inspires you to make death threats against politicians.
As for my comment: I really don't think I was glorifying violence or calling for violence for specific persons as both Thomas and Tom seem to be implying (and both of them have known me through my comments for more than a decade so I'm a bit surprised by them jumping to conclusions so badly).
I just answered a question and later followed it up with a longer explanation, we get taught about the French revolution and what led up to it in history class here and that is the - to me obvious - context. Tom has my email address, we've exchanged plenty of email over the years. If he was unclear about my intentions he could have simply checked up or asked in the thread but he choose to interpret the comment in the worst way possible and immediately acted accordingly. Which - ironically - is itself against the spirit of HN.
But I recognize this is his - and Dan's - website, that being a moderator is stressful at the best of times and that these are not the best of times and that they get to make the rules and call the shots, and all of us have to abide by their interpretation of those rules.
Yes, they did, but this was on a TV set, a - for the time - large color TV. It was a pretty weird little box, I have been searching but can't find an image for it.
That's true, but not so dire that they are motivated to act, besides, they are too gullible to even properly register how far they've been duped to act against their own interests. I used to have some kind of delusion about how democracy was 'good enough' because of my implicit assumption that people on average were smart enough, educated enough and in general wise enough to realize when they're being played. That seems to have been a pretty serious mistake on my part.
You'll find half the voting population is aligned with the capital against that. So I don't think that will fly until the situation becomes quite dire.
Blaupunkt (in the early 80s) had a similar system which was a lot more reliable also based on ultrasound, they used an encoding that was a bit less likely to show up in normal environmental sounds.
Not a chance. Drywall will absorb this like a sponge. These frequencies are really high and will reflect off hard or thin surfaces, drywall is relatively soft, more often than not has insulation packed into the center and is usually covered in some kind of stucco or grout. Zero chance of penetration.
Just stand on the other side of a drywall and see how well high pitched normally audible sounds get through vs the much lower frequency sounds. It sounds decidedly muffled because all the high has been absorbed.
So, in the true spirit of the HN dismissive comment, but this time I think it really does have its place.
Ultrasonic is DOA, sorry, but that just won't do. It's already a nuisance to have all these switching supplies that mess up your hearing (and some can be surprisingly loud), using it for power delivery is really a non-starter.
There was a company that planned on using ultrasonic for power delivery to smart phones, every engineer with some ultrasonic experience said it wasn't going to work and they just kept going until they - predictably - went out of business.
Just wishing it exists does not mean it is possible or practical, that's right up there with Theranos (and I think Theranos actually had a better chance of working even though that chance was extremely slim).
There are interesting start-ups around the theme of energy scavenging though, that's a far more realistic but still extremely challenging proposition.
I think both Elsevier and the people that appropriate IP for training commercially deployed AIs purpose without the consent of the author(s) should be legal.
I don't think that's the reason. Modern supercars have so much power that the average person that can afford them is going to wreck the drivetrain in a very short while if they have to manage all that power themselves. Automatic gearboxes are far more forgiving. You see the same with Porsches that have manual gearboxes, if you read out the ECU you'll see them overrev many times more than with the autos, if at all (in fact I don't recall seeing an auto that had overrevved).
Unite, a 32 bit protected mode OS, micro kernel, real time, message passing
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Founder of modularcompany.com , we do Technical Due Diligence for investors (early stage, VC, PE), vendors and acquirers in Europe and the Near East.
Partner at Tablomonto.com. If you have an interesting early stage startup in The Netherlands I would like to hear from you.
Founder of camarades.com / ww.com, creator of the first 'streaming webcam software'.
Small time angel investor, > 20 investments to date, > 20K < 100K Happy to report that now three of those have exited with nice returns.
My email is [email protected], phone + 31 6 30 366 241, Netherlands, but have lived in Canada, Poland, Romania, and a shorter time in Colombia and Panama.
Feel free to contact me anytime, except for large money transfers from African countries or such.
And please don't even think of approaching me to get your stuff posted or upvoted, if you want something posted do it yourself, if you want stuff to be upvoted post interesting stuff!
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