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rootedbox··on Do People View All 360°?
I'm surprised porn wasn't a genre type.. That would have been interesting.
rootedbox··on Show HN: An audio only social network
problem.. most people aren't good story tellers.. people are ok decent of at least taking pictures of something to create a story without words.. hence snapchat and instagram stories.
rootedbox··on The sad truth about depressive realism (2006) [pdf]
This is why i'm so concise on Mondays.
rootedbox··on I am an investor in The Style Club. Or, at least, I thought I was
In a interview with cuban I read.. half the deals don't go through after due diligence.

I'm sure it's hard to find companies for the show, and it would be harder to find them if you did due diligence first.

rootedbox··on Leonard Cohen Has Died
If it be your will. That I speak no more. And my voice be still. As it was before. I will speak no more.
rootedbox··on Cities spent millions on gigabit networks. No one is sure what they're good for
Almost sounds like this story I heard once about this guy selling monorails to cities.
rootedbox··on What Makes Texas Texas
the stars at night are big and bright....
rootedbox··on The Snakes and Ladders Game of Startups
Looked into gobble which this article is about... $13.95 for each meal minimal 4 meal order??? I see limited revenue growth long term for them at those prices. The person that can afford that can also order take out any time they wish; or run into whole foods and buy a ready to cook meal for 30% cheaper.
rootedbox··on Show HN: Open-source atmospheric water generator – first lab reports
Like I said.. There isn't a 'lack' of water.. there is a lack of energy for purification in rural places.. In these places you should be figuring out purification via chemical and physical methods.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/83/a6/d9/83a6d9886...

rootedbox··on Show HN: Open-source atmospheric water generator – first lab reports
The problem places have with lack of good water; is a lack of money. Not a lack of water.

There are way more energy / cost efficient ways to produce water than a dehumidifier.

If you want to get into solving clean water; you really should be working on cheap energy.

rootedbox··on PayPal Withdraws Plan for Charlotte Expansion
What's wrong with announcing "we don't approve and here is your punishment" of bigoted laws.

Many a company did not work with or in South Africa during apartheid for the same reason.. Was that wrong of them?

rootedbox··on In San Francisco and Rooting for a Tech Slowdown
The city can't support the 30k cars that would be needed for the people taking tech busses (no room to park that many cars).. so if we stopped the tech busses some of those people would move closer to work without busses; others would take Caltrain. Both of those things would reduce congestion, and pollution more than tech busses.

We don't know the exact number that this would reduce because the tech bus legislation passed without the environmental study that is required (hence why there is a lawsuit right now).

rootedbox··on The Twitter Contradiction
Think the real contradiction is.. that something so valuable is something that is so hard to monitize.
rootedbox··on How Elon Musk Stole My Car
Over 16 million cars are sold each year.. So really in comparison to the actual market they are small; If they wish to scale without a buy network they need to answer the phone.
rootedbox··on Magic+
Wouldn't it be more price effective for you to hire a personal assistant; through one of your companies?
rootedbox··on Magic+
If you make 3x of senior dev salary in the SF then you are in the 1%. So i'd probably consider you super rich.
rootedbox··on Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age
this cat is 31 and is hot https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/50837/483192/6w...
rootedbox··on Proposal to build electrical pylons as statues
Proposal to make something that is expensive; but simple in design, and easy to fix. Into something that is super expensive, complex to fix, and some may say.. cheeky in design.
rootedbox··on Notify by Facebook
Uh... Why do we need a notification middle man???
rootedbox··on How I get my employees to work 80 hours a week
I won't work at a company with an 80 hour work week; nor can I support a company that asks that of their employees.
rootedbox··on Gobble (YC W14) Raises $10.75M for Its 10-Minute Dinner Kits
They do have this at the grocery store.
rootedbox··on A guy tried to sweep leaves with a drone
Has enough money for a really nice drone.. doesn't have the money to buy a 15 dollar push broom(the proper tool for this job).
rootedbox··on The FCC has voted to end exorbitant phone fees for prison inmates
Probably not much.. From what I can tell they are only at 8 facilities.
rootedbox··on Thoughts on Campus, a Failed Housing Startup
And do you think all that is sustainable??? For Common to be profitable it should be charging you way more than 250 market rate.

Though the person you are replying.. was uncouth in how he was saying his thoughts. There is validity in those thoughts.

rootedbox··on Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
But the paradox says...

infinite number of rooms are all occupied by a person.. then a person shows up. There is one to one ratio here... of all rooms are occupied by a person.. infinite rooms.. infinite people.. if the infinity of people are all ready in the infinity of rooms..

Then who is showing up? Everyone is already in the rooms.. So no need to worry about moving anyone.

If we change it to be numbers it still doesn't work.. If we have an infinite amount of slots.. and in each slot is a number.. and all slots are full.. how can we make room for another number..

If you say that oh well there were only even numbers in the slots.. well then what you told me isn't true.. all slots aren't full with numbers.. only even numbers..

I understand what the paradox is trying to explain about sets.. but to me it just falls apart as a metaphor.

rootedbox··on Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
Maybe this is my ignorance of the understanding of countably infinite. But if a hotel has infinite amount of rooms, and all rooms are full. Then why would anyone ever show up to take another room.. To me it would seem that all persons are in the hotel already.
rootedbox··on Ultrasonic Power Transfer Investigated Using Data from uBeam Patent Filings
One other thing.. Look at all there demo videos, and pictures. The size of the amp they are using to produce this volume of sound is pretty insane.

So..

1. This is going to add to your monthly electric bill considerably.

2. I wonder what kind of EM those amps are putting out.

rootedbox··on Ultrasonic Power Transfer Investigated Using Data from uBeam Patent Filings
you would also be spending $200 extra on your electric bill
rootedbox··on Ultrasonic Power Transfer Investigated Using Data from uBeam Patent Filings
If you have a room filled with speakers basically.. You are going to have phasing issues.
rootedbox··on Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group
"tax stamps from before and after Prohibition's passage"

because the after part?? less stamps sold post prohibition than pre would be an indication of less use.

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