ASlave2Gravity

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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
That's very interesting RE prominent voices. I guess getting into an ego-war with whoever likes to crit your ideas probably happens from time to time. But I do remember reading about a physicist who wasn't allowed to edit the Wiki
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
thank you very much. Will get in touch when the time is right. Also, that link doesn't work. think you need a dot! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Yes._We_are_bia... )
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
I've heard bad things about writing articles on Wikis. Lots of ego-wars. Not really sure it's worth my time? If it's a good place to be, I'm happy to help. EDIT: But I do trust it. So maybe it doesn't matter?
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
What can an every-person do to help keep Wikipedia free and open? Thank you for the essay btw.
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
Mmm. Yes. That would be perfect!
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
Ironically, I'm having to constantly check this submission to see if anyone has posted a solution!
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Ask HN: Email updates on comment replies for non-OP?
5 points by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago|6 comments
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
Yes, have corrected! Yeah, I just thought PKD liked that Horselover imagery so much, that Greek version of the name. (Philippos, lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"). Just thought this might have been a bit of a nod
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
Gaff: Lófaszt, nehogy már. Te vagy a Blade ... Blade Runner. [Hungarian: "Horsedick , no way! You are the Blade ... Blade Runner." Horsedick, is that a call/ref to VALIS? I.e. Horselover?
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
Great read! Thanks for sharing. Highly encourage anyone who is on the fence about reading the whole thing to go for it. Steve, and others like him, do make me wonder. On the one hand, I work four days a week, never stay late at work, and
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
Do you have a place to get a good copy of this? Amazon seems to be turning up those dodgy PDF rips to print.
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
What sort of applications would this be used for? I see in the article housing electronics, but isn't plastic pretty good for that? Aren't ceramics super brittle?
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
The Natural History Museum in Sofia was pretty much empty this May! My partner and I had the whole place to ourselves. There's an absolutely incredible array of gems and stones, plenty of taxidermy--and I presume models--of all sorts o
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
Well, I work 30 hours a week, so it's five hours less than that! Plus I don't even need to travel on Fridays for a half day. :) I was working 25 hours a week, 5 5-hour days, which was good fun too. But I kept bumping heads with pe
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by ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
To chime in here, I've only ever worked part-time as a programmer. I'm in the UK, so YMMV, but if you're looking for part-time programming roles (i.e. 4-day working week, what I work) just ask. A lot of places are pretty open
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by ASlave2Gravity 8y ago
I'm just wrapping up reading The Confusion by Neal Stephenson. The collection, the Baroque Cycle, dramatizes much of Newton's alchemikal endeavours. It's a brilliant read.
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by ASlave2Gravity 8y ago
Doesn't China buy up a lot of US / EU plastic waste via recycling programmes? Are these numbers offset because once China buys the waste, they simply dump it? Are we knowingly selling our plastic waste to a state that will miss-ma
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by ASlave2Gravity 8y ago
Would be very interested in hearing HN's opinions on unionising in the games industry.
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by ASlave2Gravity 9y ago
Isn't that somewhat paradox-inducing?
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by ASlave2Gravity 9y ago
Does anyone know of a study/meta-analysis on current fission reactor safety/standards? I would also like to see research/data on the capacity for fission to decrease the rate of CO2 emission. It's a question of which ris
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by ASlave2Gravity 9y ago
A little off topic, but the novel Japan Sinks [0] by Sakyo Komatsu is a wonderful insight into Japan and its fears/feelings on natural disaster. Also, more generally, just a really great disaster novel. [0] https://en.wikipe
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by ASlave2Gravity 9y ago
Greybeard was the story that first came to mind. It was totally absorbing and I ended up reading it over a weekend.
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by ASlave2Gravity 9y ago
What's caused the price to rise so much the past few months?
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by ASlave2Gravity 9y ago
Not really. If anything, the metaphorical dog has caught its tail. Maybe you can retire in peace? Whatever that means. Or maybe the goal posts start shifting on the definition of 'health'.
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by ASlave2Gravity 9y ago
This sounds like the plot for an Elmore Leonard novel.
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by ASlave2Gravity 10y ago
An aside from the article: What are the best ways to get access to journals? Is there some sort of subscription program like Spotify / Netflix but for journals?
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by ASlave2Gravity 10y ago
Why's that?
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by ASlave2Gravity 11y ago
This is crazy! You could sell these, I'm sure there's a market for them. Great hack!
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by ASlave2Gravity 11y ago
Game AIs, Stock market bots, character recognition, adaptations to game of life, computer art wherein you get an AI to paint or to draw and can seed it values. There's lots of cool stuff you can hack away at. Even training a neural net
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by ASlave2Gravity 12y ago
With this section 215 and myriad others like PRISM, Upstream - my question is why? Surely the overheads for looking at every single thing are so costly it borders on inefficient? I understand the 'deputising' of Facebook, Google e

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