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tobydownton

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About tobydownton

http://solarversia.com/about/ @tobydownton

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    Do they format correctly that way? I use Calibre to convert EPUBs to MOBI and then email them to my Kindle account.

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    Comment #15909687

    Except that all Chinese exchanges / ICOs got banned a couple of months ago. The US is probably that largest market, it's the home of Coinbase ... I just don't see what you are basi…

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    Comment #14517058

    I came here to see if anyone would mention blockchain technology (which I personally believe is an important part of the solution). Yes, there are the DApps you've already mentione…

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    Comment #11411183

    An interesting article that I thought was flawed in one major way - the omission of her paintings. Was the one at the top of the article by her? (it doesn't say, and I'm not about …

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    Comment #10290945

    As a new author looking to get his work out there I was interested to take a look around ... and slightly disappointed that you don't tell me anything about the site! (the kind of …

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    Comment #10260106

    I wrote and published a novel about a game played in virtual reality in the year 2020 ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZFF6NVK ). It came out three weeks ago and has been prov…

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    Awesome, thanks for saying so. I'll dm you website details, but for anyone else reading the thread: http://solarversia.com/about/

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    Comment #8452488

    Hey, sorry the late reply! I already read RPO as soon as someone else told me about it, and I absolutely loved it! Thanks so much for mentioning it. I'm even going to brand Solarve…

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    This is the single best article I've read that explains why I'm writing the novel I'm writing. It's called Solarversia, and it's about a game played in Virtual Reality by 100m peop…

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    Comment #5644773

    I just started as a BA at Westminster, currently working on customer journeys and user stories, redesigned website and content to follow early next year....watch this space...!

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    Video: Autonomous Quadrotor Mapping, Localization and Trajectory Following

    This is a fully autonomous flight, following a pre-set trajectory, but without any prior map. Localization and mapping done with two Hokuyo lidars and a servo motor.

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    Comment #4920393

    I found the suggestion that there will only be 50 billion things connected by 2020 a little surprising, given that "in 2008, the number of things connected to the Internet exceeded…

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    Comment #4853256

    Wow. The first comment on HN in a long while that made we wish for a down arrow.

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    Comment #4832788

    Why is it lame/appalling? I've read the comments on the blog post and apparently the "duino" name isn't trademarked, and therefore they are quite within their right to use a variat…

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    Comment #4821969

    This was the line that really grabbed me: "I’ve come to believe that a good cry is like a carwash for the soul." Beautiful!

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    One of the most interesting investigations into luck was last year's show The Experiments: The Secret of Luck, by Derren Brown. The entire episode is avaiable on YouTube here: http…

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    Comment #3982132

    People love start-up stories and case studies, this will be a real-time version, I'm off to make some popcorn, best of luck!

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    Comment #3021516

    That's good to hear, thank you very much!

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    Comment #3015205

    Thanks StavrosK, yes, I probably should have provided some more detail around that. We're addressing what we see as the "Game Show problem" i.e. the fact that there aren't any Game…