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by 205guy 10y ago
I submitted this but am neither the author nor subject. Like many, I've been awed by wingsuit videos (starting with Jeb Corliss several years ago), but this accident analysis is one of the first articles I've found that explains w
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Wingsuit crash with honest analysis(topgunbase.ws)
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But before Palm Pilots, there was the Newton so loved by techies, just like Glass. So snap may end up the palm pilot or one of the dozen PDA knockoffs that were around (I seem to remember some Microsoft ones too). It seems like concepts flo
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The arstechnica article linked in another comment calls it "artificial."
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It seems to me that both the manuscript and its annotations are being entirely misinterpreted by the other commenters here. It doesn't help that the article in question is giving so few details or context. Near as I can tell, the manus
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The at symbol looks like it has a long tail wrapping around over its head, like a spider monkey sometimes sits.
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Replying to myself to address several different replies. I see history as a "hard-enough" science. You can gather a lot of various evidence, use a lot of tools based on science (carbon-14 dating) and evidence published by others t
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by 205guy 10y ago
I can't believe there is only one (other) top-level comment in this thread, and it's basically anti-science. It doesn't matter what you "subscribe" to, what matters are theories backed by scientifically collected da
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One the one hand, this would be good for people who overeat (more calories than they usually expend). On the other hand, in absolute terms, it is just turning agriculture into a source of power very inefficiently (a methane digester would b
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In a Nissan Leaf, you can get around 5 miles per KWh average. You can plug in the 1.1 kWh charger and realize you will get 5 miles per hour. If you use a bigger 6.6 kWh charger, it's 30 miles per hour. Better yet, you can fiddle with t
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by 205guy 10y ago
Quite likely. I knew of a shamanism-based group that had conversational and spiritual meetings within second life.
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S/V Seeker! I love it when two different interests of my own find a match somewhere. I've spent way too much time catching up on his videos, but he's phase inspired me in some of my own projects.
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You think they would fall for free luau tickets and high-pressure sales techniques?
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2 issues I have not seen addressed by this article or others: 1/ interference. Having one lidar-beaming car going down the road works. What happens when there are many? I suppose it just means more illumination, but could there be an i
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by 205guy 10y ago
You're equivocating. A random person knows his culture in a general way and is competent to make comparisons. The op was essentially saying his overall observation of espresso in the US does not overlap with his experience in Italy. Ha
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by 205guy 10y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not (Poe's law), but here are two rebuttals anyway: 1. 5 minutes to drive anywhere in the suburbs---bwahahaha, you must be joking. When everyone lives in the suburbs, it's all sprawl, and so
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by 205guy 10y ago
Yeah Science: http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal... It was linked from the footnotes. Your uninformed beliefs or opinions are irrelevant and your "bs" bravado is juvenile.
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by 205guy 10y ago
Another article about this family said they died of kidney failure not because of their harsh diet, but because of the reintroduction of salt [citation needed]. Similar but not as unavoidable. Then again they craved salt but it's plaus
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I believe Hawaiian fish ponds were for pisciculture--raising fish. Saw a rock marked with a sign in a park, the Hawaiians used the hollowed out part to store fish while transporting between streams and ponds. They were not hunter-gatherers,
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And Ada's repetition could easily be automated in the IDE or smart editor (does sublime have an Ada-syntax--and I probably don't even need to ask for emacs). The repetition is there for readability and maintainability, so the auth
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by 205guy 10y ago
I'm in a similar boat. I bought my child a cheap PC, it came with Windows 10, and it took a lot of careful configuration to turn off all the tracking and advertising. Then it kept nagging to update Windows 10 (what we used to call a se
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by 205guy 10y ago
I really like this. When I think about the most interesting comments, they are the ones where a reader adds something to the article, whether an anecdote, a correction, an educated opinion, etc. This system preserves that and removes the mu
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by 205guy 10y ago
There are many candidate theories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth#Claims_of_historici... I like the Persian gulf one, after all the Sumerians who lived there later had a myth of which the Noah story seems lik
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by 205guy 10y ago
Errata: it's calcium oxalate crystals in taro and related plants that cause irritation and rashes, not oxalic acid.
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Rat lungworm comes from the slime from snails (maybe slugs too). Presumably you peeled the mangos and didn't eat any exposed flesh which would have been overripe and discolored. It's the unwashed raw produce in Hawaii that has a r
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by 205guy 10y ago
Expecting a comment like this. I got more than a few points for "bons mots" so giving back to you.
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by 205guy 10y ago
Hear, hear! Add the rss protocol and feed readers, and who needs Facebook either. Short tweets or long form, you can write either or both on your own blog.
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So you think that capital investments (in this case property) should have zero risk, in other words guaranteed returns?
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For someone new, I agree the setup is daunting. It was almost comical that "hello world" took 10 pages. I think the tutorial could really use an explanation of what a web app is (a bunch of files in a particular structure that the
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Wow, 7cm/yr seems fast. I thought I read once it was 1-2 cm/yr, about the same as your fingernails grow (it was a rule of thumb). Probably different plates are moving at different speeds. I think it's exciting to see examples

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