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The article is misrepresenting the situation. Jack Dorsey isn't attempting to sell anything here. The site allows anybody to make an offer, unsolicited, on a tweet of their choosin…

I've been playing around with a Nest Hub Max, and with that you can pause/play a video by holding your hand like a stop sign in front of it. Kind of gimmicky, but occasionally usef…

If we're talking about 1980s Japan, all of the talk about trade war could be a greater risk to Chinese stability. As with Japan back then, China's growth has been breathtaking, but…

Correct, but that was just the cost to develop the core booster of the Falcon Heavy. That doesn't include the original costs to develop the Falcon 9 and all of its subsequent varia…

Worth pointing out however that the Saturn V cost roughly $1.2B per launch, compared to $90M for the Falcon Heavy. So it was roughly 6x more expensive per kg to LEO. Not to mention…

The Chinese government's R&D initiatives are what's making the difference here. They've further laid out specific goals for particular technologies such as automated vehicles, dron…

Since that article, Kadowaki's actually now listed as a 2-star Michelin restaurant. Don't know what's happened since then, but I remember the name because it's the only Michelin re…

China undoubtedly faces many challenges, as you fairly point out. However, there's a long history in China that determines the thinking of both the government and its people. That …

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This has also been making the rounds, Deep Photo Style Transfer: https://github.com/luanfujun/deep-photo-styletransfer

Sounds like you've already tried plenty of productivity apps, but in case you haven't tried it, I've found Todoist quite good. The "Apple-ification" as you put it is done pretty we…

Not sure why there was such a knee-jerk reaction, but it's actually fairly straight forward and not scammy at all. You're performing two trades, using a money market ETF that trade…

If you have a need to transfer large amounts of USD-to-CAD or vice versa, have a look into Norbert's Gambit. It'll effectively let you perform the transfer for 0.2%. Probably not w…

With multiple stations between SF and LA, this could be mitigated with an emergency system that pulls the train off at the next stop. Similar to how some buses or trains have emerg…

The mentions of his security concerns reminded me of this: http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/06/14/you-cant-get-there-fr... "As a thought experiment, imagine that Osama bin Laden wa…

As others have noted, this capability was intentionally removed. From http://redis.io/topics/virtual-memory "Redis VM is now deprecated. Redis 2.4 will be the latest Redis version …

I'm inspired by this man's dreams and the way he's striving for it, even though the end goal is decades off. Musk makes no secret of the end goal: Create a new civilization on Mars…

While I agree with some of your sentiments about the author, it feels like you're doing a bit of the same by claiming that everybody who wants to change the world are doing so only…

As someone planning to build some iOS games as a side project, I really appreciate this info. Some questions for you: Have you considered offering your game for free for a limited …

Based on monetary losses alone, the Yukos incident of some years back overshadows this by orders of magnitude, with claims that $98 billion was lost in the liquidation of company a…

Checked out the video, and it seems like a well designed app serving a niche audience. If you find some success with it, might I suggest skinning the app to serve other niches that…

For those that want a free service and don't mind ads, there's also http://hotspotshield.com and http://expatshield.com which will let you access US and UK services respectively. T…

> While the VM backend helped, we found that it still wouldn't stay within the bounds we set, and would continually grow no matter what we set. We did report the issue but never ca…

When you said that they decided to hire you, was that something they told you right after the interview? If so, I think it would've been prudent to follow up with both the CTO and …