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by Cushman 14y ago
I hate to be that guy, again, but I still feel like I haven't seen a very clear explanation of why this is a good idea. It'd be a great tourism experience, but what's the ultimate value to humanity? Especially in light of Curiosity, why is
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by Cushman 14y ago
If we included every Rails internals article, that'd push everything else off the front page too. HN catches the highlights, and I like that that includes a lot of different stuff.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> What if the car was smart enough to identify situations where it was unable to auto-navigate safely? It could pull-over and ask the human to take-over for awhile. This is precisely what the Google car does, in fact.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Just cribbing from Wiki, the generator contains 11 pounds of Pu-238 and produces ~150W of electricity from ~2000W of heat. It's hard to put an exact price on it, but it's definitely in the $millions per kg. It's theoretically feasible, but
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Josh Bloch, who wrote rangeCheck, testified that “[a]ny competent high school programmer could write” that method. RT 815:13-16 (Bloch). Even Oracle’s expert Dr. Mitchell conceded that “a good high school programmer” could write range
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by Cushman 14y ago
> More so the vehicle is designed to be able to withstand an engine exploding, even at launch, without damaging the other engines and without preventing the launcher from reaching orbit. That is absolutely incredible. Gives new meaning
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by Cushman 14y ago
Sure, and that's the point-- you can't even do something as unimportant as wear a particular kind of clothing without subjecting yourself to serious social pressure, but we're being asked to believe that gender roles don't really affect peo
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by Cushman 14y ago
You ever worn a skirt? They are freaking comfortable. Especially if you're just sitting at a desk all day. Lightweight, breezy, totally stylish. I don't expect you to agree with me, of course, but just try one on for work one day. You'll be
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by Cushman 14y ago
Can you describe this in the form of a testable hypothesis?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yes, I'm sure most men learned what they know about feminism from Atlantic articles. That is the simplest explanation here.
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by Cushman 14y ago
As cool of a guy as Elon seems like, I find myself way more excited about what Planetary Resources is doing. I get the space tourism aspect. People want to try new things, and especially things no one has ever done before. But that aside, I
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by Cushman 14y ago
I can never understand why this comment pops up about every Kickstarter. Why on earth would you take out a loan when you can take pre-orders instead?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Carmack answered this in a comment: The display is a single 1280x800 panel; each eye only sees a 640x800 image stretched across the huge field of view. The perceived resolution is therefore much lower than even previous generation consumer
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by Cushman 14y ago
Thanks for the recommendations! I do tend to avoid media about meditation as a matter of course since it's so hard to escape the mysticism. I'll definitely check those out.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Definitely a very good point. I'm obviously quite biased toward mindfulness, since it's such an easy thing to get started with, since it has experimentally validated therapeutic value quite apart from any New Age-y "Eastern" philosophy, sin
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yeah, I tried to avoid saying that you were wrong, because you're not-- in practice, meditation does result in a quieter state of mind, and does enable altered forms of consciousness. It's just that's not the core, and for someone who's nev
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by Cushman 14y ago
I worry that my fellow commenters may be glossing over the really important aspects of meditation. Here's my understanding: There are many different types of and approaches to meditation, but the essence of all of them is mindfulness. The c
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by Cushman 14y ago
That would be Samsung's claim, and thus the release of other, earlier mockups from Apple which more closely resemble the eventual iPhone. And again, Samsung's claim is based on an interview with a Sony designer about a product[0] which lo
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by Cushman 14y ago
You mock, but it's true: Apple wasn't the first [redacted] [Redacted]. That honor belongs to [redacted], who [redacted] in [redacted].
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by Cushman 14y ago
Right. Did you see the part where Apple produced a "Sony-style" mockup[0], complete with SONY branding, that most resembles the iPhone 4? There was never a Sony Style. [0] http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/early-iphone-mockups-show-s...
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yeah, I'm mostly with you-- I'm not totally convinced myself, but I can see where Apple is coming from with all of this. Of course it doesn't necessarily do anything to refute the obviousness objection. I suppose it's just it makes it a lit
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by Cushman 14y ago
Depends. Are you talking about the SONY-branded "Sony-style" prototype produced at Apple in response to Sony's redesigned Walkman? (Which, so we're clear, did not look like any Sony phone on the market at the time?)
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by Cushman 14y ago
To be fair, that pretty much matches what I've heard about Facebook's click quality.
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by Cushman 14y ago
That's an interesting point. I don't think it makes a small difference, though-- in particular, there's a perverse incentive to spend money marketing something you know isn't perfect rather than on making it better. But I guess that's just
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by Cushman 14y ago
Of course, I don't really think that, I'm sure they spend a great deal of time and effort on design. I was just struck by how many of the designs Apple thought were almost good enough to sell other companies took a look at and thought, eh
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by Cushman 14y ago
I see what you're saying, it just isn't very hard for me to take them at their word: They're not claiming that it's Facebook, not out of some sense of propriety, but because they don't have any evidence that it is. It could be anyone. And i
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yeah, obviously a lot of people misunderstood that. I apologize for the confusion. I was using "preference" in a more generic complex-systems-analysis sense. We begin with a potential workforce, at birth, of half men and half women. Over ti
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by Cushman 14y ago
It's fascinating how you can see other manufacturers' production designs hidden among these prototypes, too. It makes it pretty obvious that although some designs are obvious, where most companies design a product, produce a prototype, twea
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by Cushman 14y ago
> (or that hit the page and left it before the js executed, which seems improbable for such a large number - 70%). That's actually an interesting proposal-- 100% of the time when I click on an ad, I didn't mean to and I try to close i
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by Cushman 14y ago
I don't think so, there's lots of reasons that would be a stupid idea for Facebook. But there's clearly something shady going on, and Facebook is being dicks to them in other ways, so they're out. That's the subtext.

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