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VR. Next two years are going to be pretty stagnant. The resolutions, etc. just are still enthusiast tier.

But 10 years time? We could be seeing the beginning of the end of TVs, smartphones, cinema, social media, etc. as we know it today. VR arcade warehouses popping up in many places. Perhaps even starting to impact the layouts of newly architected houses to have less walls, focus more on wide one-story dwellings (but stacked on top of each other) and more open space to roam wide in virtual reality.


Oh man, I hadn't thought of this before but yeah I'd funnel a few quid to the right guys.

Like Koan Sound are late on releasing their first full album, I'd pay to even just get an inside sample of the unfinished product right now.


Yeah they introduced ads in the past few months. Already looking for alternatives that have some resemblance of my existing SC library because of it.

I will mourn the loss of SC as it has been a superior product to Spotify, but it's all about two things:

1. Does it have the music I listen to? 2. Is it obnoxiously in my face trying to make money while I'm trying to concentrate with background music?

Right now, they're starting to ruin criteria 2 and there isn't much reason to be loyal to the brand. The only problem for me now is, that whatever alternative I find is. Inevitably it will befall the same fate.


It can me infinite collisions. It does not matter. Conservation of momentum still applies. The system of collisions only have a finite amount of energy. And it's chaotic rather than engineered. So it's not cumulative, much more likely to happen at numerous different angles cancelling previous collision trajectories out.


Between 6 months and 4 years ideally. 25 years max. If you can't prove reentry within 25 years in simulations you do not fly on the rocket at all in the first place.


Spain has just come out last week and said that they are OK with Scotland joining the EU as long as England has signed of on Scotland leaving the UK first and the independence process being completed. The implication being that it would not set a Catalonian precedent as Spain would be inclined to never sign off on Catalonia leaving in the first place.


> England has signed of on Scotland leaving the UK first

England doesn't 'sign off' for whether Scotland is in union or not as that is Scotland's choice, not England's. England acknowledge this and would never say otherwise.


I've not been paying attention to 3D printing for quite a while now. Which companies are ruling the roost of desktop 3D printing these days?


FormLabs if you have the cash and don't care too much about the strength of your parts; their laser/light resin system is amazingly accurate. Otherwise, you're often best served by buying a cheap-ish commodity printer (the one from Monoprice is surprisingly pretty good) and repairing or replacing it (to the tune of 400-500 dollars for a replacement). Unless you need both strength and super high print quality, the cheap printers are getting to be plenty good enough these days.


Here in Ireland anyway for a university to be accredited at all ethics has to be part of the engineering curriculum.

First Semester of our first year we got a dedicated ethics class.


Regulation. Having a full record of important conversations to fall back to for legal reasons is a big part of both corporate and governmental policies. Clinton's emails being deleted being an example of why ethereal messages are not taken lightly


The best businesses need to raise less money because they can fund themselves via profit or manage burn rate to a high degree via cost cutting. If you don't do one of those, you will need to raise more outside capital. Thus sell more of your company. Notice how the most successful companies have leaders who sold the least of their ownership? There's a reason it correlates.

Revenue is not profit. Only reason Amazon had so many losses over quarters during the years because it was a managed tax avoidance measure, not because they had unfixable costs.


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