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Why isn't wireless charging ubiquitous? The tech is available yet cables abound
I googled this, but can't find a good reason why we are still using a cable to charge our "low powered" devices.

I have had a SoniCare™ toothbrush since I was a kid ( 1999 ). The first one had wireless charging. Who wants to brush their teeth with a wired device plugged into a 110/220 volts and put that in your mouth. Talk about "chewin' on tin-foil".

My brother still has his original SoniCare™ toothbrush. ~19 years old and still going strong. The model is now so old… e-Bay is one of few sources for replacement heads. Though It keeps chugging along…

I understand that a toothbrush is not a phone, camera, tablet, laptop, etc., but these brushes are able to hold a charge for ~three weeks. No wires, all you do is "dock" your toothbrush into a stand — some of the newer ones have a cup that you store your brush in — it charges from there.

From ~2011 forward they charge over USB. I was planning on traveling, and wanted to stay away from packing different power adapters with me.

Anyone with a background in wireless charging ( Inductive Charging I believe ) care to take the time to explain to me why I can't have a "pad" I set my devices on to charge them?

Maybe it is a safety issue, though I can't imagine a less safe environment than a bathroom:

* Steam
* Water
* High Voltage Power
* DC Converting Power Transformer
* Need To Be Water Resistant/Proof

All of which could fail and cause problems — all of which you shove into your mouth.

Thanks.

* I was going to link to the Sonicare™ website in the url field, would that have been bad form?
It's so totally not suspicious that an account that hasn't posted for over a year all of a sudden pops up to make a post in support of the author?
> Most of the "progression" seems to be more style than substance.

If you discount fat bikes (I think they are a different category of bicycles), the biggest tech improvement has been dropper seatposts.
My revisionist view of the mountain bike craze is to see it as a natural reaction to what politicians, planners and motorists were doing to our roads.

I disagree with this entirely.

Mountain biking (and BMX) grew entirely out of the motocross and desert motorcycle racing scene that exploded in the 1970's and early 1980's.

BMX riders were entirely mimicking motocross riders. These downhill mountain bikers were mimicking the berm-riding, rooster-tail-shooting cornering of dirtbikes. Around the time of the photos in this article, people started adapting the front suspension from motorcycles for their downhill bicycles.

There was even a sidecar phase in BMX racing, which is very obviously taken straight from sidecar motorcycle racing.
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The answer is that, as one moves into more behaviors and more detail, the chance to meaningfully correlate outcomes with lithium exposure becomes more difficult. Also, because no one knows why those correlations exist (why lithium has the effect it does), it's not possible to turn a correlation into a rigorous, scientific cause-effect relationship.

The gold standard in science is not a correlation, but a cause-effect relationship accompanied by an explanation. With respect to lithium, we're a long way from that goal.
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Not necessarily, like you rightly pointed out. Some require computation. while others can be worked out by hand.
First, she is an adult. It is very likely that she already did multiple foreign (most likely another EU) country trips without parents. If your adult child travelling Asia is so stressful to you, then you need to step back a bit.

Second, she was supposed to be travelling. It usually means changing towns and hotels every other day. The only reasonable way to send her money is to transfer them to her usual bank account. Moreover, hotels in Asia are often cheaper if you find them in place and negotiate. You do not know the address in advance.
“The reason mountain biking is so popular,” says Charlie Kelly, “is that it’s one of the only ways in modern life that you can turn on your adrenaline pump, and leave it on for a long time. You can go big-wave surfing or skydiving, but downhill bike riding gives you all the adrenaline you can handle.

I find that quote funny and sad, given that any skidding on trails in that area are now highly ticketable offenses, and have been since at least the early 1990s.

Given the popularity of mountain biking these days, it's ironic that I now find it easier to get my thrills by doing downhill road cycling. I don't have to worry (much) about coming across a cyclist or pedestrian in the middle of the road, and cars are the only thing slowing me down.
That is quite a film, thanks for the link. The rest of the convo in this thread is a bit pointless to me now!
Because bottled water doesn't have real or imagined therapeutic properties, and lithium does. Eventually someone unfamiliar with the rules will advertise a lithium/water product as having medical effects, and that will end the game (advertising medical benefits is a no-no without both research backing and FDA approval).

EDIT: this is another example of the "fact rule" -- if you post something factual and uncontroversial, you will be downvoted with a probability of 1.
Safety depends on where you travel to. Traveling alone in several foreign countries for more than a month is pretty normal thing to to for college aged people with enough money to pay for it.

"Foreign country" is not necessary more dangerous then the country you live in.
Look up Bokeh Inc. (Seebokeh.com) They have a strong list of company's whom they have worked with and tend to understand start-ups extremely well (as they are a start-up themselves).
I agree with this. Often the colors are there, that edge is warm and that edge is cool, but sometimes a shape is just not very interesting, the color isn't interacting and your job as the artist is to make everything work. Through that process you learn to see color.
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Well of course there are exceptions. Personally I've tried the "emailing from my laptop while riding a bicycle" thing - you take your hands off the handlebars, swing your backpack around (that's the hardest part and most likely to bring you of-balance), take out your laptop, open it, wait for it to come out of sleep and compose and email with one hand while holding it with the other. Of course on an empty park path with a friend to watch out for other people. Depending on the inherent stability of the given bike frame, and the weight of the laptop, it's actually not that hard...
Look up a company called Bokeh Inc. (Seebokeh.com) They have a great website, and a pretty impressive list of clients considering they are a start-up themselves. They have also worked with Y-Combinators before like Watsi and Caviar.
What exactly is he saying to do, that is going to lead to these deaths? I can't find any mass death approval in the linked article.
> I can't but help wonder whether higher levels of lithium also correlate with a clean water supply, which would indicate a more affluent community.

Not likely, because the water supply of an affluent community would have highly filtered water containing few "impurities" including lithium. Further, if the community in question were conservative in their political views, the water might even lack fluoride, another component with known beneficial traits but one that has become a political issue in some places.

> Also, why is it that you have to have a prescription to get certain compounds, but other ones you can just purchase yourself? Is it simply the potential for toxicity?

No, it revolves around the issue of medical applications. If a substance has known medical applications, then its dissemination will likely be controlled by the FDA. Even advertising a substance's possible medical benefits is not permitted in the general case, without FDA approval and substantial controls. For example, if I sell willow bark as writing paper, no problem. If I sell it as a pain-killer without possessing medical authority, I will be in a heap of trouble.
In my opinion, the problem is that drivers, by and large, are absolutely terrible at driving. They're so bad at driving that they have no idea how bad they are at it.

We're a nation of self-promoting, self-obsessed, angry narcissists, incompetently sitting behind the wheel of multi-ton, wheeled death machines. We have a single license tier for a ridiculous variety of vehicle shapes and sizes. We have zero ongoing driver education requirements, and only require retesting if sufficient complaints are received (when's the last time that's even happened?) or we reach sufficient age.

Demand better driver training. Stop engaging in inane behavior when you have greater responsibilities. Demand that others in your life do so as well.
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Thanks for the suggestion. However, for now I'd like to avoid building my entire app "the Heroku way", and keep the PostgreSQL server hosted on the same server or at least the same network as the rest of the app. But you are right in that perhaps a fully managed PostgreSQL server is the way to go for reliability.
Why not try selling it on Flippa?
I can't help but remember this:

"Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at its beauty... its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious."

Don't get me wrong, I'm not on the fear-mongering bandwagon when it comes to AI. But I think you do have to keep a place for some of those concerns open somewhere in the back of your mind.
I evacuated from (my hometown) New Orleans just prior to hurricane Katrina, leaving a startup that hadn't paid me for months. I used freelancer.com (then getafreelancer.com) for about a year to get started on my own (in Oklahoma, long story).

It was a horrible experience that I wouldn't wish on anyone, for the reasons already mentioned (impossible competition, losing rates). But I made contacts that led to later work, and to this day I am working full-time at a good rate for a client that originally traces to that site.

My strategy was to make a "niche," specifically, a focus on quality over speed and price. I crafted custom letters for each bid, and my "English skills" paid off in some important cases.

So, if you have an alternative, I'd take it. If you don't, play the long game, and be zen about it.
> People know they shouldn’t text and drive.

People know they shouldn't drink and drive either. But the legal BAC limit is not zero. We tolerate a small amount of increased risk to be able to enjoy a beer or glass of wine at a restaurant.

So why this absolutist, zero tolerance approach for texting? Are there no legitimate reasons for texting while driving?

I found out my wife was in labor via a text message that I received while driving. When I reached a stoplight, I sent back omw (expands to On my way!) and drove home instead.

Another time, I was returning home from a long road trip, and hit bad stop-and-go traffic. After sitting in it for fifteen minutes, I texted my wife to let her know I would be delayed.

Obviously texting while joyriding at 70 mph is stupid and ought to be illegal, but I don't see the harm in sending one or two quick messages while stopped or moving at very low speeds. We should have a balanced approach to texting while driving, like we do with alcohol.
Find an understanding partner. Since you obviously don't have a clue about anything besides programming (sorry, harsh words, but I don't have the time to type out a list of mistakes you did here), it'll have to be business dude that handles stress and load well.

Have him insulate you from the support, monetization, PR, and so on, and let him assemble Terms of Use to be very generous towards you as a programmer in a way that you don't have to respond to reported bugs (especially concerning monetization) immediately but leisurely.

Agree with him on the priority of types of fixes/improvements and have him deliver lists of tasks to you on a weekly/monthly basis.

Have that business partner on a probation period first, to see is he supportive of your persona and then split profits with him 50/50. It'll be a great opportunity to learn from him strategems of handling stuff you cannot.

Aim long-term. These types of games are something people stick around for quite some time. Adjust monetization model accordingly. These numbers you have or project right now are meaningless from that context.

Do the right thing and good luck.

As a side note, an analogy to first-time parents is an appropriate one here. A lot of them panic a lot when they find out baby is on its way. But I'm not ready! I'll make mistakes during parenthood! Will I be able to support it!?

And most kids still turn out just fine.

Cheer up. :)
Nope, my post was just meant as some random fact. You can easily put a price on an infinite stream of constant payments.
I don't believe the project is able to generate an infinite stream of 750$ payments. But if it could, that would be roughly it's value.

By the way, for an investor it does not matter how much effort (1 year, 5 years, 100 years) the author did put into the project. For the present value of the project only matters what monthly payements there will be. If someone can forecast these payments, he can also put a price tag on the project.

So it might also be, that there is no more interest in the game in one or two months ... then it would be roughly worth 0$ to 750$ (even if it took much effort to implement it).
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If you've not already done so, you should really get with a doctor. I grew up with social anxiety (didn't get diagnosed until senior year in college) and know how bad it can be - feeling like you just got punched in the gut for days at a time is not something anyone should have to live with. And you don't have to, there are various treatment options that a good doctor will help you navigate. Getting treatment can really change your life for the better.

I wish you the best of luck!
Agreed. That was immediately my first thought when I saw this.
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And yet, they will.
>This is your baby. You are by far the best person to nurture it and turn it into something you're extremely proud of.

That comes through in all the meticulously detailed, earnest and honest information you posted about it. It sounds kind of like you're trying to find a good home and trustworthy owner for a beloved cat who you can't keep in your apartment any longer. Just remember, your cat (i.e. your audience) loves you too. Good luck whatever you do!
Suggestion:

Ignore it for a week, don't think about it.

I would hardly call that going viral, plus it's only been two days. You're too optimistic, thinking too big.

If this is anything average you'll find that most of the traffic will die off after a month.
There may be people out there who could provide a great solution to the problem we're trying to solve before we can. I welcome that possibility because I've experienced the problem myself, and I want a great solution to exist. The reason I didn't mention our idea is because my cofounder is still under the impression that ideas are very valuable, and asked me not to divulge it unnecessarily. I may not agree with him, but I've respected his request because I don't believe including our idea is necessary for this question.
For those unfamiliar with Erdős --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s

-- he was a very prolific mathematician whose dedication to his craft was such that he became a vagabond with no home of his own, moving from place to place, living with people who welcomed his visits, offering out-of-pocket rewards for the solution of problems he posed, and remaining very productive for his entire life.

Not unlike one's Bacon number, the number an actor receives by working with Kevin Bacon (1), or working with an actor who in turn worked with Kevin Bacon (2), mathematicians have an Erdős number, based on whether one is a co-author with Erdős (1) or is the co-author of a paper along with someone who is a co-author with Erdős (2), etc..

BTW his name is pronounced like "air-dish":

http://pronouncemath.blogspot.com/2013/04/paul-erdos-pronunc...
>his focus and moral goal is healing patients

How do you know that for sure? Is it impossible for a doctor to be motivated by money?
It presupposes that there are no defectors, in a game-theoretic sense: Every company that could develop a cure or cheap therapy doesn't, even though that would be a very lucrative product: A cheap lithium pill would sell in huge volume and be profitable even with a minimal markup.
Networking is important. I know many people whose first jobs were because of schoolmates. How to network is different for different schools; it can mean club involvement (eg, the local ACM or Linux chapter), or it can mean working on a local university research project which hires a lot of students.
From the article, ITER is currently projected at $15B which is not that much for a construction project of this scale. The crossrail project in London is costing ~$25B. Heathrow terminal 5 cost ~$6.5B. Also, it's not unusual for the costs of a major infrastructure project to be double or triple the estimate. I think they are doing just fine.
I wonder whether that's a comparable confusion to our cycles and epicycles when we still assumed that the earth was the centre of the solar system. Movements of objects through the sky wasn't exactly simple either, but there was an explanation that simplified things immensely. I guess figuring out that there is a binary star might just be such a discovery that simplifies explanations for them. Might take a while, but sooner or later someone should think of it, I guess.
Yeah, I am also bothered by the fact that the options only seem to be 'it remains a controlled substance which people have to show a significant need for in order to acquire' and 'put it in the drinking water'. I realize it is very popular in modern society to think that if something has benefits that it should be forced on everyone, and if benefits can't be shown then the government should step in and forbid anyone from doing it, but I can't get comfortable with that. I would think what should be aimed for is easy availability of low-dose lithium supplements paired with education. Give people a choice. This isn't like vaccines where we have a legitimate reason to exert control over people (herd immunity, the safety of those too young or immunocompromised to be vaccinated, etc).
1-800-273-TALK is the nation suicide helpline in the US. http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

Please don't kill yourself over a game. Release it AGPL and be done if you have to.
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Does audit2allow suggest appropriate labels e.g. "this file cannot be written to. ...._t might be a more appropriate label for it" ?
> 6000 registered users in a couple of days is hardly going viral

Going viral isn't a certain number or speed of adoption. It's a method of adoption. If most of these members joined because of referral by other friends, and they in turn are continuing to invite others, then yes, it's going viral.
>As in Lem’s novella, however, this future promises not social and scientific progress, but technological hedonism and senescence.

How does one qualify such an extensive and penetrating understanding of human consciousness as to make books an edible substance as "not ... scientific progress"?
Long after the contraian-chic journalists are gone, we will still be here, making a difference. They'll run out of wannabe headlines, same old, same old.
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> A cheap lithium pill would sell in huge volume and be profitable even with a minimal markup.

The problem should be obvious -- lithium is an element that cannot be protected by trademark, patent or copyright. Anyone marketing it is sure to be undercut as soon as the product begins to win public acceptance and show a profit.

The other issue is toxicity. Without professional advice, people might think that, because a small amount confers benefit, therefore more is better. But, not unlike vitamin A, lithium becomes toxic above relatively low levels. For that reason it's not likely to be sold over the counter.
14% of CS grads in the UK are unemployed.

Tony Blair told a generation, don't learn a trade, get a degree. Now we have graduates making coffee, and we import all our skilled labour from Eastern Europe, because no Brits know how to be plumbers, electricians and carpenters anymore.
This is great! Best of luck. Can men help and, if so, in what ways?
I think it's meant more as an exhortation than a description. Is your disagreement an observation that some business models work that way, or is your disagreement that a business with an advertising based model should work with the advertiser's needs foremost, rather than the non-paying end-use (aka "customer" for purposes of this essay)?

If the former, then I don't think there's an actual disagreement.
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> Are there no legitimate reasons for texting while driving?

Not if you're driving -- it's inexcusable. It's hard enough to type on a small device's virtual keyboard while sitting at a desk without any distractions, much less while trying to move a massive, potentially lethal weapon along the public roads.

> I don't see the harm in sending one or two quick messages while stopped or moving at very low speeds.

That's a classic slippery slope -- society would rightly forbid texting simply because different people would define "quick messages" and "very low speeds" differently.
please do this. I just signed up (sorry for the additional load) and it looks fantastic. Reminds me of Uplink in a modern setting.

Plus, as a dad of a 4 month old, this looks like the perfect pasttime when the small one wakes up in early morning.

Please reach out. You have done an amazing job and should keep it up.
It's actually a brand name. A while lot of different consumer- and professional-grade products were sold under that brand (follow the link to Russian Wikipedia to see the full list)
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Unlike Oz, Mercola, and many, many others, he doesn't seem to be one of those.
Techcrunch Disrupt is not "Silicon Valley", it is a small part of it.
> decipher TV by watching the flickering on the wall.

Off topic, but... this has been done. Amazes me to this day.

"Optical Time-Domain Eavesdropping Risks of CRT Displays" http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ieee02-optical.pdf
Hey -- enough already?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=fake+cellphone+towers#!/story/fore... (6 posts in 12 days)
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Thanks!

I guess keeping it "as is", without any support, is better than shutting it down, but I don't know if I could simply ignore it.

I would try it before (if) shutting down, though.
Firstly, luckily for everyone, Silicon Valley is not equal to TC, and best startups in SV != startups that got the most votes from TC Disrupt judges.

Secondly I strongly support the POV that throughout decades of SV history the biggest successes weren't (and aren't) usually the ones with the most hype, the most money, or the most hyped TC publications behind them!
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Please remember, that even if you don't do anything at all - ignore it, let it fade, or whatever - you had a great success. Be proud, let yourself feel the satisfaction. Working for years on something and having people connect with it is an amazing accomplishment. If nothing else comes of it, that's OK. You won.
This is the best analogy someone could come with. It feels exactly like that.