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by Arbalest 7y ago
That's actually a really good question. It does make me question the hypothesis, which is essentially, is the entropy any different to a lifeless planet just re-radiating solar energy. The answer is probably, not in the long term. You
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Life reverses entropy only locally, it still needs to "spend" entropy to do so. In this way, life is an efficient entropy accelerating machine, and we're the pinnacle.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Huh, maybe I'll look into that for my own search needs. If the whole issue is people aren't paying, and this comes without all the other strings, it'd be worth it.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
IPv6 bans in transit fragmentation. If any part of the network can't forward a too large packet, it informs the host and puts the onus on them to resend it.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Reading articles like this makes me want to check our local reservoirs more. We build a desal plant to feed about 10% (I think?) of our city's consumption starting in about 2007, when we had some pretty major drought. I believe it is o
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Curious about the mesh, what purpose does it achieve? Strength, insulation, shatter resistance, shatter size control? Are there any documented examples of the technology that I could read about?
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I feel like these sort of articles are somewhat doomed on social media sites, HN included. The general agreement is that these sorts of things should be deplored. There's not much to disagree on. This lack of back and fourth is going t
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Pascals wager is garbage, it underestimates the time, effort and thought cost if there is no god. What sort of reflections would otherwise be meaningful? All the regrets they have? It's a kid, he had cancer, what could he have done dif
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I like that the headline on this one actually gives a number. 1 Trillion! Something like 139 trees per person. I read an article similar to this earlier today (not on HN like I posted before I edited this). https://www.abc.net.au
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by Arbalest 7y ago
They did have it available opt in for a short while, but it broke so they stopped doing it.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
(2016)
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by Arbalest 7y ago
> but humans will still be here Yes, but how many, and who. It's still an existential threat to invididuals, when you don't know what conditions that will make up that survivability. Now that it is apparent that there is the di
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Possibly not. I was reading somewhere that I should actually get an older stock rom image and flash that first, but no I just flashed the rom zip and that was it.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I'm attempting to do that, but I've bumped up against an issue in which I have no radio access from the custom rom. Need to be picky with the hardware, and the stuff most likely to be supported is the most expensive.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I forgot about the running in the background thing. Arguably a strength and a weakness, depending on what's actually running.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
When we say firmware, are we talking about a binary blob? Can it be replaced if we're willing to take an efficiency hit?
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by Arbalest 7y ago
You've pretty much covered the bases. The snappiness you describe is because iPhone is more strict with it's app quality. You've also nailed the main use cases for customisability. The big question is, are you ready and willi
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by Arbalest 7y ago
If something is going to be ad free, it had better also be tracking free.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I suppose Trump thought that the company was pure evil and forgot how trade worked. This signals that Trump is, in fact, quite soft. However, I'm not certain it is a good thing or not. For so long we've been wanting politicians wh
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Just go on the twitter thread. There's plenty of actual articles to do the same on here...
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Yeah but what about the gaming platform itself? How long will Google maintain the runtime environment? Games tend to to be superseded, as they can be a form of story telling, which has little bearing on the technology in use. Will Google be
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Nevermind that economies are built on real people's labour (ultimately). If we consider the value that this asteroid actually delivers to people, it probably isn't that significant. Iron is already pretty common, Nickel might be c
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Baoshang Bank collapse threatens China's economy may trigger central bank action(abc.net.au)
3 points by Arbalest 7y ago|0 comments
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Fair enough, I was going to say time as well, but money is time as well, just means you have to multiply it a bit more.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Is the fix here really just, lets build more infrastructure? If so, who is going to fund it? AI/ML is already mostly a marketing term at this stage, it's all just people who want results now now now. Maybe this is the reason that
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by Arbalest 7y ago
So, is this film available in China itself? That would tell us interesting stuff. If it is on Netflix, not officially, but I mean, is it something you can get hold of a pirated version of without attracting the attention of censors.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
The RWD thing is definitely important here. Given that the majority of cars and a significant number of SUVs are now FWD, this doesn't hold water. Given it is the front brakes that are more powerful than the rears, and if your brakes a
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by Arbalest 7y ago
With a couple of exceptions in the enthusiast sector, where they are well regarded. Or at least they did at one point. I am of course thinking of the cars with the 1JZ and 2JZ engines. I have an inkling that my heuristic might also correlat
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Maybe a better way of stating it is, no longer busy with children, where millenials are busy with that as a distraction.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
The real spanner in that works is that he wrote the same "notes" twice. It may be that it is his go to, but he has at least measured its impact and rehearsed it. Having a go to may well be a time management strategy. It is also so

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