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worldburger··on Cary Grant's LSD Therapy in the 1950s
This and above comment: what is the purpose?
worldburger··on Tesla hugely exceeded expectations last quarter
What are the other EV’s you’re seeing?
worldburger··on At 88, doctor pursues a long-ignored treatment for strokes, heart attacks
+1. How does one come to such a conclusion if one is not a medically trained professional? I found your comment insightful, would you expand upon your own context to the topics of the article?
worldburger··on Pass-Through Businesses Are Rethinking Their Status in Wake of Tax Law
Use private mode in your browser.
worldburger··on South Korea considers cryptocurrency tax
Precisely. Tight currency flight controls (see Korean Anti-money laundering laws).

$50,000/year is the limit per capita for personal use.

BUT even then, you’d need a Korean bank account which is difficult for non-resident foreigners to get.

worldburger··on Bitcoin (BTC) is up by +22% in a single day, valued at over $14,600
This is provably (and factually) incorrect.

Crypto mining has been a portion but in no way “most of” the reason NVDA and AMD have risen. Machine learning, AI, and self driving are completely reliant on the products provided by the aforementioned.

worldburger··on Hardware Isn’t Hard, Competing with Apple Is Hard
>Apple doesn't actually need to make a profit for its accessories, but you do.

Do you have data to support that claim?

Amazon might sell hardware at cost or a loss, but Apple most certainly only sells hardware when two conditions are met: a) they can make a better device and b) they can make money

worldburger··on Joseph Campbell’s daily routine for “the most important period of my study”
Newsflash: you didn’t enjoy the process of archery?
worldburger··on Nobody Thinks About EBay
Re: Amazon comment. How do you see this playing out?
worldburger··on Apple Watch Series 3
Agreed. The thing isn't going to congest the bandwidth all things considered. $10 is just too rich for the value proposition, but people just love their internets.
worldburger··on Show HN: 3D Packing for 3D Printing
Could this be optimized for the SLA Form2? I.e. No flat sides oriented horizontal?
worldburger··on “... it's my fault that Google shut down Google Reader”
Am I the only one who's becoming more tuned into these thinly veiled self-promotion tweets/comments/stories which are actually about something else?

I can't speak to this guy's motivations, but my tuned-up sensitivity to marketing/advertising has my radar going off.

worldburger··on What it took to save the Twinkie
Your point isn't without merit. It's also important to remember that it's usually only under great pressure (like successive bankruptcies) that creative solutions like this level of automation can occur. More so in a stale industry like baking.

Re your better way to handle the situ: if a business can operate with larger fixed upfront cost but significantly less operational labor cost, why would you not take this route?

Probabilistic thinking would have you believe the union would not negotiate anywhere near the labor cuts Hostess was able to accomplish with the bankruptcies.

I'm not talking bonuses and profits, their decisions look like sound decisions, albeit sterile and perhaps insensitive.

worldburger··on Deep Learning Robot
$400 bot base $200 TK1 $200 Asus camera $50 speaker $25 shipping

That leaves $125 for Autonomous. And they're installing TensorFlow, Caffe, Torch, CUDA, cuDNN, Ubuntu?

Is this the deal it looks like?

As an aside: I just recently bought one of their standing desks. It's amazing. After looking at MANY other desks, I was amazed at the build quality they were able to get at the price point for the desk.