KVFinn

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by KVFinn 14y ago
I really want to a real time version of this as a Desktop. There are a million virtual Earths but there's something alluring about the idea of seeing a real time image of the planet.
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by KVFinn 14y ago
Wow, that was way better than I expected. Damn onions.
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by KVFinn 15y ago
Does anyone know if you buy this unlocked, can you use it on wifi without a cellular contract at all? Basically, can you use it like an Android iPod Touch?
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by KVFinn 15y ago
They could verify this easily. Just get a couple of news crews down there to film another trial. The fact that they haven't makes me think it's fake. I wish it were real though.
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by KVFinn 15y ago
I quoted the parts of the email that led me to that impression in the original post.
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by KVFinn 15y ago
My takeaway from the TAL email is that the conditions he describes are true the most part, with the exception of underage workers being common. This doesn't match the media coverage at all -- I suppose we'll all find out when they release
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by KVFinn 15y ago
Happy to know that _why's alive and kicking somewhere. I hope he didn't quit out of sadness.
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by KVFinn 15y ago
Awesome work, I really appreciate tutorials in this style.
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by KVFinn 15y ago
Like a lot of people, I wondered what the heck kind of arguments could ever convince someone to let the AI out if you were determined not to. Eliezer has not released any examples. Someone in the comments came up with this, which Eliezer
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by KVFinn 15y ago
>I think this claim contains a pretty elementary mistake. No bonus is a disincentive, because base salaries can be relatively low; not receiving a bonus is a large opportunity cost. If I could get a 400k salary, but I instead opt for a
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by KVFinn 15y ago
Yeah, it's ridiculous. I have enough repos that I'd need the Platinum 200 dollar a month plan. All the repos are small and most are updated once or twice a year -- but the pricing is the same as if I had a whole team of people pushing to g
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by KVFinn 15y ago
Yes, he seems to think Apple's got some magic system in there, not realizing that it's just a basic calculation that anyone else solving that problem would have come up with. I bet if you put 10 decent programmers in a room, more than half
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by KVFinn 15y ago
At least in the TV market, less glare is considered a feature. Modern plasmas are vastly better at toning down reflections that the old ones.
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by KVFinn 15y ago
Firebug is a boon to humanity. Seriously. The second it came out, it personally started saving me hours of work every single week. If you multiply that by the number of people working with the web, damn, that's like millions of hours? Bi
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by KVFinn 15y ago
You guys should do a kickstarter with each flight. Spondors get their photo taken into space or something.
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by KVFinn 15y ago
People don't consume it just to stay functional, there are positives associated with caffeine that may outweigh the negatives. In particular, if you have any dementia in the family, it is one of the only known effective ways to reduce that
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by KVFinn 16y ago
I feel the same way, but there are benefits too. If you know you are high risk for Parkinson's you can get screened earlier and potentially start treatment earlier. And you can do things known to lower your risk, like start drinking caffei
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by KVFinn 16y ago
If you missed Creatures, it was a series of games something like the Sims but with a much more advanced biological simulation running underneath. It's been over a decade and nothing since has even approached the ambition of these games. T
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Spore? Black & White? Meh. 'Creatures' creator working on new alife game? Nice.(kickstarter.com)
6 points by KVFinn 16y ago|2 comments
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by KVFinn 16y ago
Few points: There are multiple reactors, each larger than Chernobyl, including the fuel rods in unit 4 which was down at the time of the accident so the fuel isn't spent. The real worst worst case is that loss of cooling causes a containmen
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by KVFinn 16y ago
I'm a bit lazy to look up for the source, but one article mentioned that the engineers were surprised that humans could get down to the 10 - 15 ms range by anticipating the light rather than reacting to it. They said this beats the mechani
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by KVFinn 17y ago
>>What a mean-spirited thing to do to someone who just wanted to stay anonymous. If this is the reason _why decided to pick up and leave, I understand it. If that's why he quit though it's going to have the opposite effect. I doubt