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by Detrus 16y ago
Biorobot refers to the people who cleaned up the reactor roof with shovels after a remote controlled shoveling car, a "robot" had its electronics fried from the radiation. The pun is robots are expendable, so are biorobots. It's not related
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by Detrus 16y ago
The Battle of Chernobyl http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5384001427276447319... is a good documentary to check out. They sacrificed hundreds of men in a rush to stave off a secondary explosion that would have made a far larger uni
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by Detrus 16y ago
That notion is covered by Adam Curtis in his "A is For Atom" film. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1860517361048002456... Western and Soviet engineers that made nuclear power stations happen could not refuse because nuclear was t
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by Detrus 16y ago
A healthy economy needs a balance of small and large businesses. Today's technology is making it easier to make incremental improvements to existing ideas, which are usually small businesses. This is a safer strategy and people could flock
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by Detrus 16y ago
http://www.cfah.org/hbns/archives/viewSupportDoc.cfm?support... http://edrv.endojournals.org/cgi/content/full/24/5/668 Could be chemicals, could be nutrition or genetics, doesn't look like they pinned it down. But in the context of this
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by Detrus 16y ago
So, did they do brain-scans of "teens" and "adults" in societies where the distinction doesn't exist? Seems like the critical piece missing from the argument. It's also possible that there was a smaller difference in the brain a few hundred
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by Detrus 16y ago
There are many many attempts at solving this problem, both libraries and preprocessors. None seem to satisfy a large audience, most people seem to deal with the callback nesting and hope to avoid cases where it gets super ugly. I have a lot
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by Detrus 16y ago
The scientific fact is it changes how your brain works, it's obvious on a brain scanner. That's when they scanned experienced monks, champion meditators. A better life is something else though, hard to quantify.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Article is pretty weak on the details. This guy http://nodetuts.com/ has video tuts on using Express, Jade and Mongoose to make a simple web service.
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by Detrus 16y ago
That "art" had a purpose, a social function. Tabloids had very real effects of starting popular wars, similar to how the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts were started. It's a lot of speeches and rhetoric, very little concrete information. Now
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by Detrus 16y ago
Real hummingbirds are the most energy intensive birds. They have a very low margin for error, a few hours without feeding at best. http://www.blurtit.com/q890088.html "A 4-gram hummingbird has a basic metabolic rate of 1,400 calories per
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by Detrus 16y ago
It's a bit strange comparing Chrome's releases with the others. Firefox had many more pestering minor updates in that time, which are comparable to Chrome's, only Firefox labeled them differently. Safari also had major changes between versi
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by Detrus 16y ago
Watson needs to at least start off with a large curated dataset. Without that it would be very vulnerable to the inevitable influx of spam. Spam and content farms are a big problem for Google, because of the market share it's in a spot wher
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by Detrus 16y ago
http://www.quora.com/What-language-is-IBM-Watson-programmed-... Current guess is Java, at least in part.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Nice idea but runs slow. Seems to be reloading the editing widget each time.
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by Detrus 16y ago
My first few searches took a while, then every search was pretty fast. Is it the load?
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by Detrus 16y ago
AI is extremely distracting for me. I can't wait until it can handle my drudge work, so I don't take those tasks very seriously. And believing progress in that field will be very noticeable in 10-20 years can influence a lot of plans and pr
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by Detrus 16y ago
The best data is just hard to collect online. Photos of person in their social group to deduce personality type would probably fail since there are so many variables. Lab scientists can measure biological or physical properties http://www.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Yes. Haven't taken a proper vacation since I got hooked on these services and realized the whole lifestyle is insane. I wasn't in my right mind, couldn't focus, had horrible productivity. After a few months the noise crept back, it was a wa
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by Detrus 16y ago
Ballista, scorpio exist only in re-enactments and are far from the functionality of the originals. The originals required human hair, it was the springiest, had to be processed very particularly and it's very labor intensive to recreate, so
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by Detrus 16y ago
Funny and emotional 1 hour lecture about how startups are already a form of socialism and a magic cure for our economic ills http://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/f35gs/capital... Not sure how widespread this view is among econom
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by Detrus 16y ago
So what is this really? Starting to move things that were once handled by bloated databases into the application layer? I've heard Redis is pretty far from a full featured database, but I don't see why you couldn't build most features on to
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by Detrus 16y ago
Climate science is not something you can philosophize away. There are no arguments. There used to be more pessimistic models that predicted some linear progression of current warming. So the new mainstream models fit measurements better, ma
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by Detrus 16y ago
Most renewable power equipment comes with stats about how long it takes to recover energy used to create it, or recoup cost. Usual solar panels say 1-5 years to generate the energy used to create them and last 20. The consensus among scient
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by Detrus 16y ago
Can it run NTLK http://www.nltk.org/ ?
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I think he uses the word communism to show a contrast with our current form of capitalism. In the current system established corporations keep increasing their profits while keeping the workers' wages flat since 1970. Because of computers,
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by Detrus 16y ago
YC always seemed like a plan to reorganize corporations. In Capitalism Hits the Fan lecture http://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/f35gs/capital... the professor concludes that startups are really communism, because the workers ow
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by Detrus 16y ago
The development team proposed NaCl as a potential solution to many of the format problems. We could make a lot of custom compression formats that would be better than gzip. A multitude of image formats tuned for various categories of images
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by Detrus 16y ago
Big discussion on that here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2101210 Ryan was developing Node for certain use cases. He chose the name "Node" because it was supposed to be a small piece of a larger web app. A few nested callbacks, prog
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by Detrus 16y ago
The visualization in storage pods is most helpful. Just put the drives, in their current size in a physical space you can compare to your office. The skyscraper comparison is fun but misleading. The stack of drives would be very very thin.

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