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by GuiA 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon
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by GuiA 8y ago
Forum post detailing how he got there: http://www.fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12120
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by GuiA 8y ago
There’s definitely arguments to have on the actual impact of Wolfram’s mathematical/scientific work vs the impact he claims it has, but there are no doubts regarding his skills at running a scientific software operation.
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by GuiA 8y ago
> how does one actually go about finding an unfulfilled niche? Start with things you already have some domain knowledge of (better even, try to find unrelated things you know about that overlap in interesting ways and where few people
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by GuiA 8y ago
It’s a good thing people are looking at it from a pharmacological perspective. However: > In very, very, very low doses, tetrodotoxin causes numbness, tingling, and the slight lightheadedness that fugu, the Japanese preparation of raw p
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by GuiA 8y ago
> But it seems [dolphins] share some worrying vices as well. It's interesting how the author construes it as a "vice" by the second paragraph. That's a very Anglo-Saxon take on it (i.e. I doubt a Japanese or Brazili
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by GuiA 8y ago
> As a designer I realized I wasn't just delivering a JPG, but a design experience. Yes, a lot of "craft" oriented people don't realize that until they have a few painful experiences with clients. They spend hours a
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by GuiA 8y ago
Wireframes are not deliverables! Your client has no more business seeing them than they have seeing the random diagrams/pseudocode your programmers are whiteboarding as they build out the infrastructure of the product. Clients are typi
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by GuiA 8y ago
> This is why phone numbers were initially 7 digits. I cannot find anything to substantiate this claim. Is your statement applicable only to a single country? In the US, it seems like phone numbers started with a few digits only and pr
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by GuiA 8y ago
> LSD and DMT always made me see "infinite skulls" so immediately I was drawn to this HN submission. In case you missed it, this is a good article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015
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by GuiA 8y ago
Yeah, I didn't particularly care for PE as a French kid growing up, but in hindsight I can play pretty much any common sport decently because of it. One unexpected side effect is that it makes socializing quite easy - I can accept when
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by GuiA 8y ago
Generalizing, this equates to “projects fail as result of poor/dishonest communication”, which is definitely accurate.
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by GuiA 8y ago
It's unclear from the article what Gravity Sketch offers that absolutely requires VR to get the several orders of magnitude improvement that is claimed: > "If you wanted to make an interior and an exterior, you're still t
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by GuiA 8y ago
To this point, there is great photography from mid 2000s camera phones (crappy noisy VGA sensors). See for instance Robert Clark's work: http://www.robertclark.com/new-gallery-1/
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by GuiA 8y ago
Raising kids in Japan means that you’re raising them in a culture that has an alarmingly high youth suicide rate [0], and that your daughter taking the subway on her own is likely to be sexually assaulted [1]. And since the original link is
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by GuiA 8y ago
> how strange is it when you learn something new of which you haven't known about your whole life only to several days later see it appear on hn.. is there a name for this sort of thing? https://science.howstuffworks.co
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by GuiA 8y ago
> We don't have a good way to name the origins of populations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup ?
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by GuiA 8y ago
Would phenomena like rocks crystallizing or stars forming also be a battle against the second law of thermodynamics?
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by GuiA 8y ago
You want to minimize the time where employees who are not being laid off are wondering “am I being laid off?”. Ideally you want that time to be 0, because it can wreck havoc on morale and those 24 or 48 hours of doubt can be enough to push
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by GuiA 8y ago
Nah. Bird is a high profile startup with lawyers who know exactly what kind of BS they're peddling, and have likely successfully intimidated smaller blogs in the past with those same tactics. Boing Boing + EFF are 100% right to make th
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by GuiA 8y ago
Based on what you’re describing, is this specific to dating as an Asian? Or to dating as someone who has specific socio-cultural criteria they want to restrict their search to? Ie is there a difference between the scenario you describe here
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by GuiA 8y ago
The counterpoint of that being that if you can’t be happy with what you have now (assuming of course no abusive relationship/living in need of food/shelter/etc), what tells you that changing what you have will meaningfully af
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by GuiA 8y ago
No, but everyone still lines up to watch Marvel movies and wants to drink Starbucks and wear Levi’s jeans.
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by GuiA 8y ago
Oh, clearly you haven’t dug deeply enough. The wood is handchosen to minimize resonance, handcrafted by an artisan coming from a generation of Italian woodworkers, etc etc. Exactly the same as wine.
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by GuiA 8y ago
While it might feel good to admonish people and tell them that they have to get tough and suck it up and pull themselves by their bootstraps, it typically does not do anything to help them; particularly if they are taking the initiative to
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by GuiA 8y ago
I get this error at an extremely high rate when using twitter web. I am convinced that they are fully aware of this “bug” but don’t fix it to push people to the mobile app; and even suspect that they might trigger that error on purpose to t
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by GuiA 8y ago
People realizing that marketing is all smokes and mirrors BS and starting to not give a crap, and instead buying things from local producers and manufacturers based on how it contributes to and benefits their own community. It’s the holiday
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by GuiA 8y ago
L7 = layer 7 of the OSI model, ie where the stuff most humans care about lies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
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by GuiA 8y ago
Indeed. For commercially useful applications, collecting the data, labeling it, etc, costs orders of magnitude more than a team of PhDs building the models.
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by GuiA 8y ago
VC money being burnt, yes. The true cost is additionally being offloaded to the drivers - taxi fares factor in things like insurance, wear and tear, etc, which Uber fares do not.

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