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by 205guy 8y ago
I love geographic puzzles such as this one. Here are links to some other interesting ones. Longest straight lines of sight, modulo some atmospheric refraction (has been discussed on HN before): https://beyondhorizons.eu/line
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by 205guy 8y ago
I agree with bvinc in this debate: those claiming to be scientific and saying MSG can't cause any reaction are rudely dismissing the real experiences of strangers. There are many reasons for the perceived MSG reactions: other additives
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by 205guy 8y ago
There's something about 80386's comment that bothers me. I agree with the overall tone that there are interesting and unexpected discoveries to be made in pre-history and archeology, but all of the examples are unscientific. Frank
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by 205guy 8y ago
I think the point is that floating structures can be more easily designed and automated, whereas beaches and rocky coastlines require man-power and access. Plus nearly all trash on the beach/coast came from the ocean over time.
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by 205guy 8y ago
After a recent trip to Hawaii where I saw plastic on many beaches, I would say that by weight, fishing nets make up the majority, but land-sourced trash is by far more numerous. There were some big tangles of nets in piles 2 feet high, but
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by 205guy 8y ago
I didn't see this mentioned in a quick scan of the comments: no data plan. I originally did this with my wife to save money: 2 AT&T grandfathered unlimited data plans for $160 down to $15 for 2 phones on an MVNO talk+text family pl
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by 205guy 8y ago
I hesitate to write this, but it seems that face-blindness could be related to autism spectrum. I know someone who is diagnosed on the spectrum and has face blindness and feels the social anxiety of it in much the same way as the author. Al
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by 205guy 9y ago
Other instances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_drainage_sys...
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by 205guy 9y ago
I agree with your observations about the US (as an inhabitant myself), a lot of people forget or deny these points. I do disagree with your conclusions that it must stay this way, because I feel that on the gun issue, the resulting policies
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by 205guy 9y ago
10,000 human drivers a day handle it just fine. Again the night-time video is poor and a human can pick up so many other subtle clues. I'd bet all the non auto-pilot accidents at this spot are from drivers cutting across at the last se
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by 205guy 9y ago
In 2008, I looked at renting on Treasure Island, back when it was just starting to be developed from a derelict military base into a neighborhood. The townhomes being rented were the old military housing, in rows along the streets. One sect
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by 205guy 9y ago
I would point out that this article focuses on Samoans who work in Utah, home of the Mormon Church. Sure enough, Mormons have an odd zeal to convert Samoans and bring them into their church [1]. So while the actions of individuals can be ta
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by 205guy 9y ago
This is really the crux of the issue: control over local land. It doesn't really apply on a contiguous mainland (though I'm sure Native Americans would disagree, and to a lesser extent Portlanders and Seattlites), but the issue is
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by 205guy 9y ago
I think the point of articles like this one is to raise the question of whether autism as it is currently diagnosed in young children is actually only diagnosing "male-pattern autism." By looking at adult female cases, where the s
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by 205guy 9y ago
Article did not mention whether the autonomous berry picker crushed a strawberry by accident for the first time.
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by 205guy 9y ago
Perception, or rather expression of color is cultural, so that question is quite astute. https://www.sapiens.org/language/color-perception/ Similarly, when my cousin from Ohio asked if the French people I was visi
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by 205guy 9y ago
The reasoning is that mouse stops the border of the screen no matter how far the mouse is moved, making an effective target that is huge off the screen, so easy and quick to hit. This would hold true even with large screens, unless you dial
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by 205guy 9y ago
Thank you for this and the child comments, I've been looking for the tl;dr of the political explanation. While the discussions of network frequencies, generation, phases, and propagation were all very educational, HN couldn't see
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by 205guy 9y ago
Seems like a lottery ticket scanner (+OCR +scripting) would be the next thing to hack together. And then I realized how/why your most recent tickets were digitized.
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by 205guy 9y ago
My wife uses a vinyl cutter at a local hackerspace, and I wanted to make the same comment. When I saw it, I realized it was a 2-d printer. Somebody else put in a pen to draw huge mazes. I wonder if the smaller cheaper pen plotters could be
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by 205guy 9y ago
How about silicon (from the reflections off of orbiting satellite solar panels)?
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by 205guy 9y ago
Yes, thanks for putting it more succinctly than I could. I got the impression the author set out to understand 'cd' (which I would love to read about) then didn't, and I don't think we can tell from her article how much
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by 205guy 9y ago
On the one hand, I admire the search for knowledge, taking things apart and seeing how they work. On the other hand, this seems a bit cargo-cultish. It's as if I took apart a record player, trying to see how it plays music, and I told
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by 205guy 9y ago
I came to mention this as well. I wish more people would look at all the factors before saying "X elevation and Y latitude is what we need, therefore this place fits the bill." Given the active volcanoes and weather in Ecuador, yo
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by 205guy 9y ago
What you're forgetting is that the same mechanics that make Chimborazo the furthest from the earth's center (the oblate spheroid shape due to spin) also applies to the atmosphere (though probably to a different degree). So over Ch
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by 205guy 9y ago
I find the interpretation of the event to be interesting. The atlas obscura link here and the Wikipedia link in the other HN thread both make it sound like the intention was to be a hoax, to make people believe something false. But most of
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by 205guy 9y ago
I'm not sure which ax you need to grind here, but electric cars surely solve the pump-gas-in-the-cold-problem you brought up (not to mention a whole lot of other gasoline-related problems).
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by 205guy 9y ago
That's fixed already: it's called an electric car. Get in your car in the morning and it is charged up and pre-warmed. Drive sportily but quietly and without pollution to your destination. If it's far away, plug in while eati
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by 205guy 9y ago
I drove a Leaf for a while, and while I do agree the center console had its share of UX issues, I think you are being a bit too demanding. For the default paired phone, the Leaf will re-connect with zero taps, just do it automatically. So y
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by 205guy 9y ago
I love history and this article presented the history of Rome in a captivating way. I really like how the author described the layers going down, but then tied all the stories together through time back to the present, including the current

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