ValleyOfTheMtns

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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
You're changing the meaning of the word to suit your philosophy.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
They still look absolutely ridiculous. The way they hover above the nose just looks silly. It feels like these types of glasses suffer from an effect similar to the uncanny valley. They either need to look EXACTLY like a normal pair of sung
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Any chance of getting this for Firefox?
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Have you asked yourself what is worth more to you?
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
cmd+f "enhance" Nice one HN. I'm not disappointed.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Oh man, I remember that game. It was THE shit.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Generally I'm pro-colonisation of space, but does anyone else feel uncomfortable about changing the face of the moon? Initially, any human presence of the moon will be indistinguishable from Earth, but if we look forward 25-50 years fr
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
I think before we tackle "smart glasses" from technical and social acceptance perspectives, we should explore "smart headphones". Perhaps it already exists, but while I'm walking around with my cordless Bose headpho
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
I'm reminded of the Black Mirror episode "The Waldo Moment". It's the 3rd episode of season 2 (6th episode overall). Worth watching.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Agreed. His work shines in short story format. The full length novels I mentioned (Permutation City and Diaspora) are the ones that I think hold up the best to the longer format.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Greg Egan has some great sci-fi books. Some of the concepts are a little beyond me as he dips into advanced mathematics and physics, but he does a pretty good job of keeping it accessible. Permutation City, Diaspora, and his various collect
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
I use uBlock in Chrome and it seems to load fine.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Yeah, there's something about a map for a kid. I remember carefully studying the ones in J.R.R. Tolkien's books.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
... and the name you came up with to match all that criteria?
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
I think all these comments about wood eventually releasing the carbon back into the atmosphere are missing the point. We don't need to capture it forever, we just need to get the ratio between carbon output and input under control in t
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Still seems like a kind of magic to non-magic folk like me i.e. a muggle.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
I've been wondering why shipping companies haven't been doing this for years now. Whenever I brought it up with friends they would say it's probably not worth the effort, but I can't see how it wouldn't be worth it.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
This makes me think of Plato's Cave.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Leapfrogging-from-the-front-using-a-trampoline-and-taking-the-trampoline-with-you?
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Who are your audience? What is their level of knowledge? What do they want to know? What DON'T they want to know? Why should they care what you've got to say?
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
It's about the story and the people behind the objects. You could create an exact atomic replica of the Mona Lisa, but it still wouldn't be THE Mona Lisa that Da Vinci sat in front of and painted with his own hands. From a purely
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Not to downplay the absurd amount of wealth he has, but it's interesting to look at richest people in history, adjusted for inflation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_... https:/&
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
In the final one (Operation Teapot - Turk) there are these criss-crossed diagonal streaks in the background. What are those from?
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Why not both? Sacrifice a little from each so that you can do both, and they will give a bit of context to each other. If you only go tools-first you risk treating the tools like "black magic" without really understanding what&#x2
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Perhaps in more honour-bound cultures?
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
>Should any substance which enhances the risk of schizophrenia be legalized? Sure, as long as the risks associated with legalising it are less destructive than keeping it illegal.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Well it says in the article that De Beers developed a machine to spot synthetic diamonds, so I presume so.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
I read somewhere that installing a powerful magnet at one of the Lagrangian points between Mars and the Sun would be sufficient to shield Mars from the solar winds that strip away the atmosphere. That would be a far cheaper and less disrupt
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 8y ago
Nice, I'm in.
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by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago
With lab grown meat on the horizon as a main stream consumer product, it's only natural to wonder whether we could also grow lab grown skin to create synthetic leather. Perhaps that defeats the purpose of mushroom based "leather&q

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