I have been looking for something that would ingest a decade of old Word and PowerPoint documents and convert them into a standardized format where the individual elements could be repurposed for other formats. This seems like a critical building block for a system that would accomplish this task.
Now I need a catalog, archive, or historian function that archives and pulls the elements easily. Amazing work!
This is what makes Hacker News such an astounding resource for thought provoking insight. I take the American perspective on free speech as nearly a theological imperative despite the problematic side effects. The alternatives strike me as far worse. Free speech drives faster resolution and remediation to the socially unacceptable. The ideas and behaviors highlighted by the reviewer are not new to society and collectively we do not stand in a place in a place, "never before seen." Our tools for communicating, identifying, and correcting the evils in this world are better than ever. Evil is just so damned ingenious. That isn't speech's fault.
The kimberlite source of these phytoliths and their age makes me question our confidence in their origination from the arctic surface. Is it at all possible this material was cycled through plate tectonics which subducted it from a southern source and eventually ejected far north through volcanic action? I mean, a lot could happen over 48M years...
Real sailors arrive using the "colada" effect but lately there's been a growing reliance on the "chelada" effect since Modelo introduced those tasty red cans! They go down fast and make a day of sailing go even faster.
This problem has already been solved by the MRI machines at your local airport. Cost and performance are not the issues. For $25 your luggage gets an MRI that automatically differentiates between organic molecules in seconds. How easily could this be adapted for free annual screenings at the mall?
But that's not the objective, and so your research is doomed
The medical equipment industry will not suffer fools who don't understand 'regulatory capture' and 'rent seeking.'
Those hospital machines are expensive and rare for reasons that have very little to do with cost or performance
Providing up to 6 MW of electricity to a battery-electric mining truck while traveling
Existing options are based on 100-year-old overhead trolley lines which work ok, but come with dramatic downsides in capital costs and operational limitations.
Static charging takes too much time and happens frequently due to battery size limitations. (There's a huge tradeoff between carrying a lot of battery versus payload.)
Induction efficiencies are too low, so direct contact is required at these power levels
As mining transitions to zero-emissions, these infrastructure systems require the same attention and innovation
PORN will drive answers to all your technology market questions
What will the PORN industry decide?
Does this new platform drive new, exclusive revenue sources for immersive PORN?
If the answer is yes, then the technology and commercial infrastructure will follow. I suspect the answer sounds like an out-of-context Carl Sagan quote, "...Billions and Billions..."
Whoever drives that content through those goggles will be rich beyond measure... unfortunately.