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Comment Re:There we go (Score 2) 30

Much the same way that you colonize a planet, you let robots do the ground work and move in once the wifi is set up. Its not economical to make people work in any hazardous environment if the robots have free electricity a la Sol. Let Branson build a orbital skydiving resort up there if he wants, the quicker we get construction robots in space the quicker the rest of us can move up there.

Comment Re:Meh (Score 4, Informative) 129

The resolution at this point doesn't matter, this is a demo product that will only by bought by future investors and camera heads (quite possibly myself included). The
rest of your lens woes don't really apply with a plenopitc camera, the DOF is calculated when the image is made, if they can get DOF with unlimited depth they can
get ultra thin just the same way. They also boast that you can use lenses with no aspherical elements which means making addon lenses would be very cheap on
future versions of this camera. A tilt lens is not required with a plenoptic camera, it captures all parts in focus and then calculates the distance and angle you pick for
a plane of focus, you could even have a calculated "surface of focus" that is wavy or bent.
 
If they make enough on this one their next camera should be photographer's dream.

Comment Re:here's how stupid this is (Score 1) 146

That's why cars and trucks are all directly air cooled right? Liquid cooling lets you increase the surface area of your radiating element while moving it away from the important parts of your process, without using heat pipes (also liquid cooling) you can't get anywhere near the same surface area as a radiator on a CPU/GPU cooler. The only time you see direct air cooling is to cut costs or save space or weight.

Comment Re:Not everyone is destined to be a rocket scienti (Score 1) 870

All of those interesting, niche, "hobby" jobs are more than saturated by people who excel at them. If I could get by on my hobby YouTube channel I would but there are already 100 others out there who have filled the market, extract more revenue and can devote more time to it.
 
Doing electrical maintenance on automated lines I see a lot of people who are only cut out for braindead labour, when they get replaced by new equipment they don't get offered a new job doing something more "human" they go to the next factory and pack boxes, or load materials into other equipment. Without some serious education changes there is a BIG demographic of people who can not do anything but the most basic of jobs. It will be a problem sooner than later.

Comment Re:More Corporate Greedmeisters (Score 3, Interesting) 466

You mean like right now? You don't get rich by working hard. You get rich by being born rich, by fucking over other people, by being really lucky or by being REALLY fucking smart. Of all of those cases only one of them involves hard work and not many people are born smart enough to come up with a real money making idea.

Comment Re:Slippery slope (Score 4, Informative) 187

Their business is to get people to click some links more often than they click others, there is nothing strange about this. Not to mention you have to be braindead not to notice the big yellow "Ad" button, there is nothing evil about getting free clicks out of people to dumb or lazy to read the entire link before they click it.

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WhatsApp Founder Used Unchangable Airline Ticket To Pressure Facebook 144

McGruber writes "In a post on the Flyertalk website, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum provides another interesting detail about how he steered WhatsApp into a $16 billion deal with Facebook: 'we announced the deal with Facebook on wednesday after the market closed. during the process, we realized there was a chance we might not be able to get the deal wrapped up and signed on wednesday and it could delay. when the risk of the delay became real, i said: "if we don't get it done on wednesday, it probably wont get done. i have tickets on thursday to fly out to Barcelona which i bought with miles and they are not easily refundable or even possible to change. this has to be done by wednesday or else!!!"...and so one of the biggest deals in tech history had to be scheduled around my M&M award ticket."

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