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by aedron 9y ago
I am always amazed by the images the USSR missions were able to send back from the Venus surface in the freaking 70's and early 80's [1][2]. For a very long time that were the only 'real' pictures from another planet. So
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by aedron 9y ago
I think people need to state what kind of work they do when offering their preferences in these discussion. Some complicated development tasks require 100% uninterrupted concentration for several minutes at a time. You're sitting there
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by aedron 9y ago
You couldn't pay me enough to work in the office pictured in the article.
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by aedron 9y ago
Seveneves is in two distinct parts (near future and far future). Let's just say the last part is ... different than the first part.
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by aedron 9y ago
Google's strategy is to make something so good that they don't need to market it. This harkens back to when Google won search. I think they've done alright with this strategy, whereas whenever they try to 'go mainstream&
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by aedron 9y ago
Here in Scandinavia kids are definitely a lot more sheltered today than 30 years ago. We used to roam the streets in our free time when I was a kid, being out all day (without even mobile phones). I don't know of any parents today that
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by aedron 9y ago
So annoying to see triumphant declarations of victory of bitcoin, based solely on the price increasing. Speaking as a bitcoin owner and proponent, there is zero (actually negative) market uptake of bitcoin as a payment platform (which I hap
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by aedron 9y ago
It's a poor design where a site is allowed to throw up a dialog like that (also goes for the "this site wants to know your location! yes/no"). It should work like the popup blocker, just show a red cross somewhere, that
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by aedron 9y ago
It doesn't help that (red == good) and (green == bad).
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by aedron 9y ago
It's marketing. "Tesla, made by rocket scientists" is the message they want to implant. Musk does a lot of that kind of thing, like the mock 3D gesture controlled CAD rig [1], or the Jetsons manned rocket [2]. It's smart
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by aedron 9y ago
This is great, the points he made really resonate with me. Not sure I could stick with it if I actually ever had infinite money, but I hope so...
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by aedron 9y ago
I think instrumenting the roads in one way or another will go a long way to enable real autonomous vehicles. Sure it's expensive, but on the upside it might actually work in this century. We just need to define a standard and let the f
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by aedron 9y ago
The 'prepping' phenomenon is an expression of the extreme individualism (or less graciously, ego-centrism) of our time and society. Rather than assuming that society will come together in a crisis and help each other out, we need
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by aedron 9y ago
What is the safer place in a 'doomsday' scenario - the city or the country-side?
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by aedron 9y ago
I went to a VR arcade. It was the best setup for VR I can imagine: Big, spacious clean booths, great hardware, knowledgeable instructors (one per booth) to get you up and running and guide you through the different experiences. I feel like
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by aedron 9y ago
Elon-envy.
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by aedron 9y ago
Apparently the fact that the site had administrators (i.e. more than one) made it an association. By that definition a newspaper, TV network and anything else are associations too I guess?
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by aedron 9y ago
Same experience. It was like it was written by two different authors (one fantastic and one awful).
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by aedron 9y ago
I can't believe how much this looks like 1999. Remember "Will code HTML for food"? Prepare to see a lot of JavaScript developers hanging around the back of Home Depot...
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by aedron 9y ago
I've always been convinced Donkey Kong is named thus because some Japanese guy mistook 'donkey' for 'monkey'. (Haven't bothered to look for the history though so feel free to set me straight)
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by aedron 9y ago
Different type of sitting. I would guess the cross-legged, straight-back position is great for your core, as well as improving hip and knee flexibility.
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by aedron 9y ago
And have you noticed how they are never actually at that desk?
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by aedron 9y ago
> In control since day one I don't know much about bitcoin, but I do know that the original people who took over from Satoshi (Gavin Andresen, Mike Hearn) were ousted in rather ugly and public ways a couple of years ago. As far as R
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by aedron 9y ago
> If I used Kickstarter, there would be no fancy videos of me trying to look charming (as if I could). No concept art or lofty promises or crazy stretch goals or ridiculous reward tiers. It would be raw and honest. It would be free of
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by aedron 9y ago
A seastead with a couple of these could be interesting.
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by aedron 9y ago
Okay, umm... Why is he an incredibly bad leader?
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by aedron 9y ago
I think it reads like typical corporate CYA double-speak, the opposite of brave leadership.
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by aedron 9y ago
Could be an interesting experiment, actually.
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by aedron 9y ago
The daily volume is something like 20 million dollars. So yeah, a million will be moved quite easily.
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by aedron 9y ago
> Anyone got kidos who grind crypto? I just overheard my kid's friend talking about how you buy everything you want on "the dark web" using bitcoin to pay for it.

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