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Nice. I flipped the LCD and added ram to my HP 48G. Reverse RPN! :)

I'm wearing a Newton Digital which is already negative in the default state, and it seems possible to convert it to a regular positive display. Wouldn't look as cool though.

Distributed battery banks would allow demand to "debounced" (smoothed) such that load could be much flatter and more predictable. That might reduce costs and wear/tear on infrastructure.

Large battery banks would allow demand to "debounced" (smoothed) such that load could be much flatter and more predictable. That might reduce costs and wear/tear on infrastructure.

Large battery banks would allow demand to "debounced" (smoothed) such that load could be much flatter and more predictable. It would be an adjunct at most, definitely not a replacement because it would be temporary storage. Further, any new tech never replaces the previous completely (just look at DC-power grid for elevators in SF. Records, 8-tracks still exist in a post CD world.)

Cool. Looking forward to it.

Gracias.

There seem to be ever more folks ready to overreact with pitchforks and cudgels calling for the draw and quarter anyone over misinterpreting the color of a bikeshed.

It's too bad folks choose to disagree, point out something as an excuse to be uncivil and with the cowardice of anonymity.

Sort of related, neat history of another toxic gasoline additive: tetra-ethyl lead

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-ethyl-poisoned-earth/

The last mover advantage of waiting for other people to do the heavy lifting for them and then swoop in for the win.

I think people want high SNR value before a clever triple entendre, but accomplishing both is far better. Failing that, expressing a clear, reasoned sentiment is also another tact.

Signals FTW.

Yup. It's not a geopolitics IRC chat. Only the tech aspects of evading censorship would qualify but only if they were novel.

"Hide" after "link" would be handy.

"Highly biased" probably isn't fair. Thomas goes looking for heated discussions, but what's the point if HN we can't have a good thesis defense every now and again. :)

Possibly. But I think people shouldn't be able to up or down vote on threads they're in, it's a conflict of interest. (If they did vote, give it back to be fair.)

It would be cool if HN opened up a read API so that folks could build alternate frontends / scoring algos.

Definitely gotta give you guys a standing ovation for yeomen's work.

Yup. Speaking ill of the dead is awful.

Rushdie can be hit or miss, hits are really good though. Language is decadent.

If I had a hundred up votes button that could only be used once, I would have pressed it now.

Similar genre to Rushdie, how might you contrast their styles?

Hmmm. Stashed in BTC or LTC?

Maybe one em gambled it all away.

Thomas, sounds like a possible new client or two.

This is a good driver for tech. It makes sense for everyone to have their own battery at home to be like a google server ups... Distributed is far more reliable than centralized. Heck the power grid wouldn't even have to be 24/7 anymore if it could handle both the peak current and deliver enough average power.

Might want to also watch Cloud Atlas.

Page with ingredients, don't know how to interpret:

http://blog.soylent.me/search/Ingredients

Animal protein isn't a human requirement there are plenty of other amino acid balanced sources.

Also, the way it's produced is horrible for the animals and for the land that it takes to grow the feed and the land to raise them. That's just highlights of the problems.

Finding them, contacting them, money, paperwork, lawyers and stickytoitiveness. In the end it saved like a few pct over just paying taxes, but this curly haired Cornell grad doesn't like paying The Man if at all possible. In the end it was a hassle but having something badass seemed worth it to them.

This person also has/had a privacy-oriented domain registrar, so no stranger to putting in the work.

There's already been some disruptions (Paypal, BTC (Coinbase, USV)), but copying isn't sufficient for disruption. Chase although mostly evil was the biggest to roll out check deposits by mobile camera. Also citi offers a basic card that has an online sorta crappy Flash widget that will generate limited time / amount virtual cards on the fly, good card optimized for travel and online purchases.

I would see what is the biggest customer hassle and find the MVP to test offering that. Also, chatting up bank employees can be a way to see what's going on and what's missing in terms of oppy... There's a bank manager in downtown PA that's aching to join a startup, not in the BS small-talk sense, but passionate to escape corporate backwards-processes hell.

It's techshedding, not focused on how they're going to provide a better or different service.