Detrus

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by Detrus 12y ago
The original computing vision, the Mother of All Demos, was philosophically against designing text in the ways of the obsolete print medium. The focus was on inventing a new way of writing information altogether. Instead of having paragraph
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Never say never. Most accidents happen during launch and re-entry. Once you are in space the potential for accidents is smaller. The accident rate should drop if we built a space elevator. Energy expenditure too.
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Yea that's pretty well hidden in the UI. My attention span didn't last to the end of the video.
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by Detrus 12y ago
I don't get the final result. It's in grams? I then have to figure out how many eggs or chickens make up 300 grams? Weighing everything gets annoying. I'd rather eyeball. For me it's clearer to work by pictures of the fo
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_tower_(downdraft) Downdraft tower seems similar. In theory could produce 400MW in a small area and solve our energy problems.
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by Detrus 12y ago
Yea he was also wrong about web apps taking over the desktop. They're not even close and it's 2015. Mobile really put the breaks on that.
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by Detrus 12y ago
Stuffing yourself with solid food is indeed a chore. Shakes are an easier way. As is dumping butter and olive oil in your carbs. 1 teaspoon is 100 calories. Funny I was in the same boat for first 2 years of working out, starting bulking wit
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by Detrus 12y ago
Those were particular humans and the method worked in hot weather. Wolves hunt the same way, wound the animal then exhaust it. I don't think humans used this approach in Europe. And the reason people need technique bootcamp is they&#x2
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My personal experience as well. I squatted for years and the secrets of perfect form eluded me. I had anterior pelvic tilt. Certain muscles were tight, others underdeveloped and correcting the issue was very tricky. The advice may work for
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First a few nitpicks 1. Walking around a gallery and waving your arms is not enough exercise 2. Incremental progress is giving us VR through Tactical Haptics, Oculus Rift, etc. He says his thing is not VR but R or dynamic R. The distinction
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by Detrus 12y ago
It would be interesting to know about eating and lifestyle habits in such situations.
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My original point was taking medications to suppress symptoms. For example they'll open your sinuses in 5 minutes and keep them open for hours. Typically food will reduce symptoms by stimulating the immune system to work faster. Attemp
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Yes and certain foods can also be used to reduce symptoms, but of course they're not as powerful. Did that option fail for you? The case I see more often is people get obvious cold symptoms and are back at work the next day. Thanks to
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I did say healthy adults. Not that most adults are healthy.
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I think the real racket is that people are taking medications to suppress cold symptoms in the first place. A healthy adult should be out no more than a week from a strong cold/flu. That wouldn't be a big deal except people get so
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by Detrus 12y ago
There was this article recently that being poor is a set of bad habits and someone commented "poor is a permanent condition, broke is temporary." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2590535 Stating it that way se
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by Detrus 12y ago
Here's some more oversimplification. If you find a group of peasants better than local peasants at task X you can import them and the locals will either move to do task X elsewhere, accept lower salaries or switch to task Y. Task Y can
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by Detrus 12y ago
Throughly trained gladiators were expected to last several years because the training was expensive. Blood from being wounded was usually enough, as soon as a gladiator was wounded he would have to plead for mercy because his chances agains
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Athletes tend to stick to the same ritualized routine for months and years, which minimizes variables and helps them figure out which remedy really works.
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Yea someone said historical analysis says more about the culture doing the analysis. The article spins Amazons as an equal society of men and women, where the Greek stories strongly imply the men were subordinate. And it could make sense wi
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by Detrus 12y ago
I remember from a documentary about IQs that it gives no advantage to hunters. At least hunters who use hunter gatherer technology. It may be correlated to better brain quality or whatever, but it is an adaptation that gives an advantage on
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by Detrus 12y ago
They could have left the old font for old screens. This is a push to make people buy new hardware. It would be one thing if the hardware offered a significant improvement over 2010 for productive tasks. Not really the case these days. Hardw
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by Detrus 12y ago
Yes. There are few serious attempts to come up with better artifacts because we're so used to existing ones. And another point of Doug is we're too lazy to learn complex new artifacts. Reading and writing takes a while but it&#x27
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by Detrus 12y ago
Doug Engelbart of Mother of All Demos fame talked a lot about artifacts. Books are an artifact of paper and text. WISIWYG is an artifact of print media. The technology of the medium determines the best way to convey information through it.
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Same was true in Germania when Rome invaded it. And Roman law at the time called for execution to punish murder, which did not go over well in Germania. And at one point in ancient Rome theft carried more severe punishment than murder. Germ
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The first world had problems with the single patient in Texas. He was not quarantined white showing symptoms and came in contact with many people. Then those people were not immediately quarantined. All it takes to get a pandemic going is t
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I grew up in a "radical" concrete neighborhood built by the Soviets in the 1980's. Closest thing to the "garden city" dream promised by concrete utopia planners. Looks something like this http://www.nieko
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The author's point is it's not only self interest.
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Is Joel Shapiro special and famous? His work looks boring but there is more than enough aesthetic mastery in art today, someetimes on par with Rodin. Abstract, surreal, real, take your pick. Just took a quick scroll through a popular portal
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We also needed tighter security for running untrusted code. And a way to run small snippets of code quickly. Tight security can be solved by some sort of sandboxing that takes a performance hit and a web of trust. Computers that ran the pro

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