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by DaniFong 7y ago
That stood out to me as well, indeed the numbers vary a lot nationally and ethnically. How are you supposed to study it, though? Not exactly a good situation for an exit poll. Imaginably the government could be in a position to grant a gift
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by DaniFong 7y ago
This study suggests that from DNA evidence that natural human lifespan is 38 years old, the same age that was the life expectancy during Wunderlich's 1851 survey. https://elifesciences.org/articles/49555 Additio
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by DaniFong 7y ago
do i have to invent the system for ~1 ms latency? serious question. needed for music. anyone trying to solve this yet?
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by DaniFong 7y ago
really interested in latency here
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by DaniFong 7y ago
Pay attention Hacker News! In this, finally open source software/hardware has a giant market opportunity and a population with demands: onwards; go and solve this need! make something people want: good, reliable, sustainable (in ever
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by DaniFong 7y ago
has someone explored what the state of the art is if you just use two 1080p LG laser projectors and 2+ cameras and clever software https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1453431-REG/lg_hf80la... it's 108
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by DaniFong 7y ago
Love these kind of analyses on HN (still where you can find them!) where someone will describe how the details matter. Thank you to all involved. If anyone can point me to the generalized best studies for safety margins and laser energy, pl
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by DaniFong 7y ago
Great post, but I would like to add that the critical question for whether an invention because a useful innovation is usually not "is this novel" but rather "is there a currently viable project here with people who care
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by DaniFong 7y ago
It takes about 134 ms for a signal moving at the speed of light to go around the Earth. You can do no better if you have to cross such distances (unless you want to bore through the earth somehow). So making it possible for people to jam to
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by DaniFong 7y ago
Commercial vanadium metal, of about 95% purity, costs about $20/lb. This is a tiny layer, so even at the 99.9% purity level cost of $100/oz, materials cost is not likely be a critical factor. The main constraint is that it's
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by DaniFong 7y ago
Lots of people do the equivalent of this, early college classes and then they go to a top tier school for undergrad. I think Reid Barton did this. There are caveats, I know someone who finished the CS curriculum in high school, when he got
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by DaniFong 7y ago
I suppose it depends on when this all kicks in. In my case, in kindergarden I was tested into 11th grade; in response I was placed into 1st grade. Which was fine, honestly, I spent a lot of time drawing and so forth, but things got really u
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by DaniFong 7y ago
How would taking the AP exam in high school be appropriate in this case? That would be the equivalent of taking an AP exam in math 5 years after graduating EE in college. People are going to have different opinions on whether or not it&#x27
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by DaniFong 9y ago
You're right, but it would depend a lot on the weather conditions downwind
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by DaniFong 9y ago
This.
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by DaniFong 9y ago
These guys are selling data to "advertisers" that are actually trolls trying to subvert our democracy. They specifically target pain points and make things unbearable online for people. They use their data to alter the subliminal
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by DaniFong 9y ago
Thermoshocking rock; thermoshocking the establishment.
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by DaniFong 9y ago
This is so great <*3
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by DaniFong 9y ago
It's also delicious
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by DaniFong 9y ago
hells yeah, jack white; }={ell$fucking yeah...
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by DaniFong 9y ago
oh this is terrific! well done, knights of waze!
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by DaniFong 9y ago
this is really great for understanding what has been happening to people. glad we built this time machine!
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by DaniFong 9y ago
good idea; nikki tesla says, high five!
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by DaniFong 9y ago
No no, we've still got this. We can do it.
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by DaniFong 9y ago
Mary Lee Berners-Lee has ascended to Valhalla.
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by DaniFong 9y ago
people drop out of shitty things that undervalue them, which is much of the modern world. welcome to the world, 2.0.
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by DaniFong 9y ago
we're just going to have to go ourselves.
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by DaniFong 9y ago
do you have friends inside at the launch team? would help to share some of the conversation here, given what we're planning
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by DaniFong 9y ago
yes!
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by DaniFong 9y ago
In the USA we crucify our heroes and our workers and our ethnic and sexual minorities. LGBTQ people are constantly hounded, and people belief the worst rumors and smear articles about women, but nothing about men. luckily my friends and I

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