jn1234 | 9 years ago | on: Valve funding VR projects, exclusivity-free, with pre-paid Steam revenue
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jn1234 | 9 years ago | on: uBeam's insider story by ex employee?
They are getting shit-talked by their VP of Engineering, you know that person who is actually responsible for creating that hard tech and is saying that it's impossible.
This is one of the better posts that explains it. http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2016/04/tilting-at-wind...
jn1234 | 10 years ago | on: Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked
Bitcoin, but like any of those could be hijacked by a group with an ulterior motive.
LSD and Tor were developed by the US government, but took on a life of their own, quite the opposite of what is described in the article.
jn1234 | 10 years ago | on: The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town
> Younger generations don’t want to be stranded in a “Dilbert” cartoon.
That's funny because Dilbert now almost exclusively deals with tech. This is from the Dilbert's author's blog http://scottadams-tttt.tumblr.com/post/124285032091/top-tech...
jn1234 | 10 years ago | on: Reddit Chief Engineer Quits After Less Than Two Months on the Job
They aren't in that bad of a position. They already have $8.3 million. http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/18/reddit-charity/#.nwugnp:l4S... It's just a matter of growing the community and not pissing them off too much when they are able to successfully do so.
jn1234 | 10 years ago | on: Details Emerge About Victoria Taylor’s Dismissal at Reddit
Except /u/kn0thing reported Ellen according to a former SVP, /u/kickme444 who was the other employee getting fired that started this whole thing [1]. Additionally, Dacvak was fired by Ellen for having cancer proving Ellen was making the personnel decisions. His comments were deleted due to a non-disparagement clause but could be found here [2].
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3d2hv3/kn0t...
jn1234 | 10 years ago | on: Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge
If she wanted to punish KP, she should've said that she would donate whatever she wins minus legal bills to a charity.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: When Exxon wanted to be a personal computing revolutionary
Highway self-driving is pretty much consumer-grade now. Infiniti already has it in their vehicles. Telsa is planning on rolling it out this summer. The main problem is urban and suburban driving and dealing with unexpected situations such as jaywalkers or a cyclists running stoplights or a kid running out after a ball.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: When Exxon wanted to be a personal computing revolutionary
Except Google's core competency is software. Google has the advantage of being essentially controlled by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
They only need one of those things to succeed (cars). It's hard to imagine that one of the existing car companies has developed a reliable urban self-driving, that is better than Google's.
Google's fiber play has nothing to do with actually making money. It is about making sure that cable companies abide by net neutrality and not cutoff or strangle Google's bandwidth intensive services like YouTube.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: Why Energy Storage Is About to Get Big – And Cheap
It makes sense to have the base load be something that is easily dispatchable and reliable. Renewables are an option in the short term, however the holy frail is nuclear fusion, which is clean, reliable and relatively cheap (building the infrastructure). In the short term, it actually only makes sense to replace generation that becomes retired with renewables because of the carbon costs associated with building new infrastructure. It makes sense that an inefficient natural gas plant that runs a couple of times a year at extreme peaks, will have a smaller carbon footprint than building new infrastructure.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels?
Despite, the inefficiencies (losing 20-30%) there are large environmental impacts associated with turning a large amount of land into a lake. Additionally, when a drought occurs almost all the storage capacity is lost.
We are at the stage with battery technologies, where it would make absolutely to build hydro storage, even given the current trend of removing dams.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels?
Over building renewables and transport capacity would probably be worse than the status quo in terms of cost and carbon generation. Peak power, which is dictated by people's general schedule, dictates both the generation and capacity requirements. It doesn't make any sense to over build renewables when everyone is using power after the sun went down or when you can't control when the wind blows. In ERCOT, (Texas) the price of electricity overnight (when the wind is blowing) often goes negative meaning that the power producer pays you to use electricity.
This is why the next generation of battery technology is going to be so groundbreaking. It will allow batteries to become more economical feasible both on a small and large scale. It simply cause renewables to become more societally efficient.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: Costa Rica Is Now Running on 100% Renewable Electricity
Except hydro isn't really that great of a power source, when the environmental impacts are taken into account. In the US, the most recent trend has been toward removals.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: Update on Sony Investigation
You rather ironically left out the most historic event this week, the US normalizing relations with Cuba. To say the news this has been a busy newsweek is an understatement.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea
Except the major theme was if it was a closed system vs. an open one. The machine in the show would probably be constitutional given that it goes to a significant length to protect people's privacy.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea
They have the malware and the malware basically wrecked all of Sony's Entertainment. The reason why everyone keeps saying it was a disgruntled employee was because unless someone spent a lot of time gathering information on Sony's IT infrastructure, unless you didn't in which case you would need intimate knowledge of the infrastructure.
The timeline for North Korea doing this or hiring someone to do this is off. They would've had only 3 months to put together the project.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea
I think he meant that the malware that was used was pretty advanced and the information that was hard-coded would've taken a lot of time to gather. The movie's premise was only publicly announced last June.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers
The best hack to get around this is to create a holding company, so then that holding company name appears instead. This might be a costly measure, but well worth it if you value your privacy. However, in most property records also include an address to where the yearly property tax bill is sent, so you might also want to set up a PO box.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers
The best hack to get around this is to create a holding company, so then that holding company name appears. However, in most property records also include an address to where the yearly property tax bill is sent.
jn1234 | 11 years ago | on: Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers
Except is that information public? That information actually has an extremely legitimate use, which is to better manage peak grid usage and how to optimize that.
Valve has some of the most valuable franchises (Dota 2, Team Fortress, Portal etc) around and are under-utilizing them, not to mention they operate the largest PC gaming distribution platform.