WhoBeI

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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Very nice. Thank you.
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
You don't even need to capture a photon coming from the object. Shoot a red laser at a couple of non-linear crystals to split the photons into a red/infrared entangled pair. Now, send the infrared ones through the object and into
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Night vision uses the photoelectric effect to translate a few photons from the lens into a picture you can see. It doesn't change the frequency of incoming light - it absorbs it and transmits an electron. Basically you are carrying aro
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Without fire you need to huddle together to keep warm. That becomes interesting when there are no clothes involved. Language becomes unnecessary at that point. :)
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Stripped of modern technology you mean? I imagine they would just visit the library.
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
The human brain is incredible at making connections and finding patterns. When you feed more and more information into the brain and think about it the potential for better, more accurate and more profound connections increase. You see an a
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
The bulletin: http://www2.nccos.noaa.gov/coast/lakeerie/bulletin/bulletin_... And a report from last year: http://www.ijc.org/files/publications/Draft%20LEEP-Aug29Fina...
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Look at it like this: Suppose you made a comment on an internet forum that people got very upset about but it turns out there is no edit button so you can't change it. Would that piss you off? Would it make you feel like you are being
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
They did find the treasure in the end though. :)
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
> If any one country developed such technology could they keep it to themselves? I sure hope not because they shouldn't. Fusion has the potential to solve many environmental problems and since those problems typically don't giv
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Fusion does not have the same problems as fission does, they are very different. A fission plant produces radioactive waste that needs to be transported to a safe site and then stored for thousands of years. In the case of fusion only the r
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
You'd want to keep some of those people around though. Computers are great for detecting anomalies and known patterns but you need the human brain to invent new patterns to look for. Of course, sometimes a brain will invent a really we
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Yeah, I know. That's what 410 means. 404 means that the server couldn't find what you are looking for but says nothing about why. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html Not a big deal. I
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Yes, everything can be questioned including this theory. I'm saying that focusing our efforts on all the different ways we could be wrong doesn't really help us move forward. So it would be "silly" to spend our time on t
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Hmm.. good comment. Not how I understood the paper but I'm willing to accept that I could be wrong. I agree that we can't generalize from trends but I felt he went a bit further and questioned the validity of any theory that makes
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Fair enough. I'll check back in a few months.
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Well, nobody wants to be the bearer of bad news. Being honest about these things usually means it will be seen as bad news. So you try to shift the focus to make it seem like the opponents (customer in this case) need was the trigger instea
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
This smells of mitigation and not patch. Simply require the supreme court to publish all their opinions, rulings and changes so that they are available to the public. We can review them... We have the technology.
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Got to love this. I'm reading the comments on the earlier thread and thinking 'shit, people are really negative'. I refresh the page and this thing shows up. Nice to see that at least on HN people possess Second Thoughts or w
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
If it was anyone else I'd be a lot more skeptical. There is something different about this guy so he might just mean exactly what we would like him to mean. Mmm hmm, yeah, I'm going to stay positive until proven I shouldn't b
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
Agreed. I was just summarizing to save you a long read :)
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
That's the silly part of the question. Basically Hume and others are saying that because we don't know every single little piece of information and because there is the possibility, however remote, of an unknown we can't be s
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
This is a philosophical question about knowledge, what it is, and how we arrive at it OR it's a linguistic question about the meaning of the word 'knowledge' and what it implies. In summary: It is not possible to determine th
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by WhoBeI 12y ago
I have a hard time taking this site seriously. Most popular project in the chemistry section seems to be a hand drawn picture of a cat. The entire site seems very focused on gigantic thumbnails instead of, you know, comments. I file it unde