M_Grey

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by M_Grey 10y ago
We're talking about using this in the context of "artificial gravity"... you're going to have a lot "outside of the coil" regions.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I just want to say how much I appreciate you leaving the ~50% of energy released as neutrinos out of your explosive yield estimate, you almost never see that.
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Stretching the Boundaries of Neural Implants(news.mit.edu)
2 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
...Plus anything metal on/in you would be violently ripped out. This would make the fields used for a typical MRI look mild by comparison.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's much harder to come by then traditional "incredibly hard to come by" substances like precious metals or coral snake venom; harder to store, harder to study, and consequently much more expensive. Keep in mind that som
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Most people simply lack the ability to understand reality to any reasonable approximation, and are too easily led by pathos. For them, it's not what you say, but who you are. People like those on HN are a tiny minority, and that&#x27
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App Screens for Arrhythmia Using Smartphone Camera(news.mit.edu)
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by M_Grey 10y ago
>The technology community must pick between enabling universal surveillance and censorship, or protecting the privacy of the vulnerable, including those who hold minority opinions and express themselves in ways that could be deemed &quot
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Trolls, in a broad sense, win life in the same way. "This is why we can't have nice things," is a practically universal sentiment, and much of our human endeavor is geared to managing the activities of its edge cases. Technol
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The tragic reality is that in modern conflict you often engage with people you can't readily identify as an adult or child until after the shooting is over. If someone is trying to kill you, often from a distance with an AK-47 or morta
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I just use my cell phone as a phone... just a phone (it's not a smartphone); the rest I do on a device that isn't networked. The convenience of a smartphone comes with far too many hooks in my opinion.
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KSA meeting focuses on digital globalization, emerging technologies(news.mit.edu)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I know, I know. I'm in the uncomfortable position of being both pro gun, and pro gun-control, so I get the worst of both worlds. On one side people think you should be free to transfer a gun without a scrap of record keeping, and the
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Realistically more people could learn to run a CNC milling AR-15 parts, than could learn to write code of similar efficacy.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
At the very least, if we're holding people responsible for their software, we should be holding car manufacturers responsible for crashes and firearms makers responsible for murders. "Oh, you were drunk and crashed your Prius? Put
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by M_Grey 10y ago
As far as I can tell the problem is a series of disconnected motives. The VC's have money to burn and want to become the next level of rich, which requires striking gold, often in fields they have no real conception of. The "disru
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Of course every action you take to hide your tracks potentially leaves detectable tracks of their own. At some point you trade the ability to claim a lack of premeditation if you've clearly and extensively premeditated.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
A huge amount of early schooling is little more than basic socialization, literacy, numeracy, some vocabulary, and most of all daycare. Later it ostensibly becomes more focused on learning, but really it mostly just teaches people how to
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Whatever you think about Musk, or Mars, this aspect of his business is just amazing. SpaceX is incredibly impressive, and the novel approach to landing and reusability is really moving things forward.
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Ex-South Korean president Park Geun-hye arrested in corruption probe(bbc.com)
2 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
No, that isn't my logic and isn't what I said. In the case of the US it's been a continuous legacy that began with indentured servitude and slavery, continued through slavery and sharecropping, and now exists today in various
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Flexible electronic devices with roll-to-roll overmolding technology(sciencebulletin.org)
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I agree completely, and anecdotally it's the ad-free option that finally got me on Hulu.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
In context, what do you think? Did your people found the US, or practice indentured servitude and slavery? As I understand it you were part of a very different and much older nation that predated the current one. Again, as I understand the
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It was literally founded on those things, in the sense that the original inhabitants were about 50% indentured and they built the damned place. Saying that the US wasn't founded on these realities is like saying the AU wasn't
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's one of the most inspiring bits of practical experimental science in our lifetimes I think, but I'm a big fan. That's not to say that it's putting us on the cusp of fusion reactors, but it's definitely going to
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's been about a year for me, and it's blissful. I tried to watch some Channel 4 UK on demand, and even that small amount of advertising had my teeth on edge. It's amazing how quickly you stop calmly glazing over for the hig
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by M_Grey 10y ago
How is that a trend, and not just the reality this country was founded on? How many of the original people here were either indentured, or just enslaved? We just keep shuffling the verbiage and the optics every few decades while refining
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I've found that fusion is one of those topics that's exceedingly difficult to discuss with most people. Most people I've met in the tech world know what they've read in popsci articles here and there, and a lot of scienc
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Hiro's love interest in 'Snow Crash'.

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