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"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -Tolstoy

I liked the article but would agree that it may have benefited from being more explicit in its writing. Here's what I got out of it. Maly asks, "Why would you continue to wear a ho…

That reminds me of a short science fiction story, (I think by Isaac Asimov?) but I can't for the life of me remember what the title was. The protagonist was a writer, who began beg…

I'd think that the non-invasive restriction is most likely related to the FDA's distinction between significant risk devices and non significant risk devices. In addition to tradit…

Really cool article, I learned a bunch. It's cool that she talks about the role that imitation plays in a creator's growth. A different sphere but reminds me of this rap from the s…

I believe he is saying that traditional metrics of mastery such as the "10,000 hours" of work metric are incomplete because they are extrinsically defined metrics. Venkatesh makes …

You're right about the financial expected value, but I think you might be disregarding the trust aspect of the transaction, which I think was why Airbnb was so successful. Buying i…

I think its a good problem solving tactic to try to look for analogous situations and gain insight into our current dilemma in doing so. I think a better analogy might be a sit in.…

The control protocols are not well documented at all, starting in 1996, all cars are required to have OBD ports. The manufacturers don't want people to know the control protocols f…

While I can agree that jumping through hoops to meet regulations sucks, the cost of failure and the potential for unintended consequences justifies the high market entry costs. To …

We can stop using it, and create or support alternatives. We're used to the cost of a service being its monetary price, or more recently, the demands it makes on our attention. Per…

I can say with pretty strong confidence that its due to 1. On long trips this situation can get pretty interesting if you end up finding groups of other cars that are on the highwa…

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1914020220100319 has a year by year summary

Kevin Kelly has a blog dedicated to "self quantification" and has a bunch of interesting resources and thoughts on the process. For example, one interesting study he did was on the…

I guess we both agree on the long term trend and at this point, that's all that really matters. But the task of creating highly reliable industrial robots is really quite difficult…

I echo that sentiment. To share another testimonial, I work in a vaccine manufacturing facility with control systems and robotics. The only reason biologics manufacturing facilitie…

That's a good point, I was implicitly assuming that the lost power due to efficiency losses would be greater than the gained power due to cheaper costs.

This solar cell has a "conversion efficiency of 9.6 percent, which is 40 percent higher than previous attempts to create a solar cell made of similar materials." Current solar cell…

When reading this article, I was reminded of a passage from Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground": "But I repeat for the one-hundredth time, there is one case, only one, when a man…