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   by __sy__ 7y ago

   > socially awkward to opt out random aside, there was a kid in my Texas high-school who stopped saying the pledge around the time of the 2003 Iraq war. While I didn't necessarily agree with the method, a few of us did appreciate the
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   by __sy__ 7y ago

   I'd like to add one to this list: La Crema, in Taipei (克立瑪咖啡). It's technically not in Japan, but the concept is exactly the same. The owner has run the place for 30+ years, and he's fanatical about two things: coffee and his
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   by __sy__ 7y ago

   Just wanted to chime in about how happy with their residential service in SF. I have their 1Gbps package. With Comcast, this would most often translate to a real-life asymetric 250mbps download, 50mbps upload speed. With Sonic: I'm con
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   by __sy__ 7y ago

   Oh, this makes me sad. +1 on people recommending his book "Flight". I very much enjoyed it too. I'd also recommend watching his lecture at MIT a decade or so ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPpq1YNVKQY
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   by __sy__ 7y ago

   Sorry, you are correct; what I had in mind and should have written was more along the lines of "within the same order of magnitude." I'm guessing/hoping India will be caught up by 2035-2040. Anyways, I'm not denying
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   by __sy__ 7y ago

   That's actually correct, though you can also tune them for harsher local weather. I actually visited a heat-pump factory in Guangdong back in March. They make heat-pumps for residential projects in both freezing cold Harbin (Northern C
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   by __sy__ 7y ago

   Frankly, I'm not even sure you need to regulate against natural gas. Product-wise & economically, it's already lost. Electric heat pumps are fantastically more efficient [1] and work both for heating & cooling. Electric wa
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   by __sy__ 7y ago

   I wish people would stop arguing that democracy and lifting millions out of poverty are mutually exclusive. They're not. Taiwan. South Korea. Japan. Though the first 2 were fairly authoritarian in the 1950s, they all progressively marc
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   by __sy__ 7y ago

   Yes and yes again. This is so key for people to understand. And this is why google should have never touched this fucking project in the first place. Many continue to push this logic that somehow we should continue to engage with the PRC.
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    by __sy__ 7y ago

    this. I wish this comment was at the top of this thread. Saying that end-to-end encryption will somehow fix the Huawei threat is utter nonsense.
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    by __sy__ 7y ago

    There you go: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3415726
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    Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies(twitter.com)

    200 points by __sy__ 7y ago|166 comments
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    by __sy__ 7y ago

    Don't forget to account for the initial SSL handshake...
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    by __sy__ 7y ago

    > People are using the free internet there perfectly, using obfs4 This is not entirely true. It's been getting tougher and tougher to get past TGF, even with obfuscation.
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    by __sy__ 7y ago

    Most likely subsurface ice
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    by __sy__ 7y ago

    Their sweet spot is specific energy density of the fuel source. The higher the requirement, the better off you are from not having to carry around your oxidizer.
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    by __sy__ 7y ago

    I've been super curious about alternatives to the Sabatier reaction. Nice work! Maybe I'd encourage you to think of yourself less as a fuel company and more as a chemical precursor one. Outside of combustion, there are a ton of ot
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    by __sy__ 7y ago

    Halcyon Labs | Interns for Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, and Electrical Engineering roles | San Francisco, CA We are a frontier-tech company currently in stealth developing the future of urban housing. We are looking for 2-3 in