YaxelPerez

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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Yeah, see that's the whole point of those institutions. It's all just signaling. Harvard could let in twice as many people easily, but then it would stop being the "best school" because acceptance rate affects school ran
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
In response to #2 and #3: https://xkcd.com/1732/ Also, yes. Earth has been substantially warmer in the past. Earth's atmosphere also had higher oxygen levels in the past[1], but it would be very bad for most life
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
The explanation I've heard is that it's just space being created everywhere at once. There's no center from which everything expands. This VSauce video explains it better than I can (later in the video): https://yo
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
They would accelerate indefinitely, but it wouldn't break conservation of energy. Gravitational force is inversely proportional to distance^2, so potential energy (integral from 0 to infinity of Force dx) still converges to a finite nu
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
You might be interested in this mod for KSP which adds n-body physics: https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257811
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Is it possible that alien civilizations are using gravitational waves to communicate? Maybe that's why we've literally had "radio silence" so far.
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
sign of d/dx e^(discretionary income) perhaps
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Usually the devil is the one that plants fossils to "lead people astray"
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
It technically also has "stories"
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
"We can't preserve species over millions of years, so we might as well make them go extinct now" is not a good argument. It's like saying "we can't stop people from dying eventually, so it doesn't matter i
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
There used to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%E2%80%93V_distinction#Englis...
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
I don't think cryptographic authentication will help very much. It's probably safe to assume that most people susceptible to fake news are computer-illiterate. Or at least, not as technical as the HN crowd. Why would normal people
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think advances in video streaming tech were pioneered by "cam girls" (porn).
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Haven't noticed a sizable difference on my phone.
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Should be fixed now. Thanks.
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
I used Tasker to make my phone vibrate in Morse code. Now I don't have to take it out of my pocket to read a notification.
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
I'm waiting for EEGs to get vim keybindings
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Your brain uses a whole lot of calories.
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Care to explain why?
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Right, but nostalgia is a powerful thing. I'm sure if advertisers knew you watched some movie 20+ years ago they would target you even harder to make you watch the unwarranted reboot/sequel.
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Right, but it's difficult to establish those institutions when your country is ravaged by war and corruption...
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
I was devastated when I got a rejection letter from <script>alert('hello')</script>.
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
To be fair, if someone switched out the lenses on my glasses I would have a hard time too.
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Mars is 140 million miles away from earth on average. Even if you could detect signals from GPS satellites on earth they would all be at a single point in the sky. However, that does bring up an interesting idea. Maybe rovers could navigate
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
GPS requires a bunch of satellites to be in orbit first, and we haven't sent them to Mars yet.
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
My guess is a normal quadcopter doesn't have a big enough thrust to weight ratio in Mars' atmosphere.
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
In Spanish I think "El aerodeslizador mío" would sound better.
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Isn't this going to just exacerbate California's housing crisis by making homes more expensive by default?
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by YaxelPerez 8y ago
Here's a video of the lasers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfagq8PjpM

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