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by akozak 5y ago
Doesn't appear to have a payload in the picture. That would add weight & power draw.
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by akozak 5y ago
Is that consistent with their claim that it's a fundamentally new chemistry?
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by akozak 5y ago
I'm sure there is an answer to that but this is DIY, so maybe just touch the fan while its been operating for a while, say "damn that sucker's getting hot!" and add more surface area until satisfied you won't burn y
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by akozak 5y ago
You just need to increase the total area of the filter material that the fan is pushing air through. I've seen people shape them into a triangle or box with plastic/tape over seams or openings.
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by akozak 6y ago
Running is a good analogy for another reason. Lots of amateur runners push themselves way too hard, to the limits of perceived effort, especially early in a run. It's important to have a sustainable pace during a run, which actually me
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by akozak 6y ago
I personally don't believe that very many people would dump their cell service because their car can get broadband.
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by akozak 6y ago
Assuming it's not free (satellites / modem aint cheap) - what do you think the subscription rate would be? Especially given most people already pay for connectivity via their phone? Would that justify the BOM cost and complexity i
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by akozak 6y ago
That's the HN I know and love.
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by akozak 6y ago
This is great! I've been wondering about the discrepancies for years now. Thanks Josh :)
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by akozak 6y ago
Immortality is totally selfish and uninspiring, and really just a bad comms strategy to recruit more tech progressives. We need a better vision for how it'll make the world more Good and Just, improve lives, and make things more egalit
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by akozak 6y ago
It's sort of that way today, except there are disempowered wage workers powering it all and not-so-clean energy.
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by akozak 6y ago
What stories don't make sense? A novel coronavirus caught fire in China, spread internationally, killed a lot of people, and some gov'ts fumbled the response and some didn't.
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Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by akozak 6y ago
Seriously? No benefit, no logic?
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by akozak 7y ago
I don't think we're forced to choose between behaviorism and epiphenomenalism. But my point is more internal to the paper. They make claims about the physical basis for consciousness and seem to believe they've generated evid
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by akozak 7y ago
> Here, we conservatively use the term “unresponsiveness” instead of “unconsciousness” to allow for the possibility that covert or disconnected consciousness could occur in the absence of behavioral response. Conservatism is very wise! G
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by akozak 7y ago
See also Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/the-ibuprofen-debate-reveals-the...
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by akozak 7y ago
Is that really worth an in-person ticket and hassle? It's not like they mingle anyway.
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by akozak 7y ago
What if computers caused the collapse though? Doesn't this risk reseeding the problem? Maybe it'd be better in the long run if we have to reinvent.
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by akozak 7y ago
I don't know how much executives should be paid, but it does seem pretty high right now. (But it's generally equity so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
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by akozak 7y ago
I don't disagree with 1000x, but it also strikes me that - at that level - you're more like a pro athlete than a regular salaried employee. Your career and job is on shakier ground as responsibility grows, with less direct control
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by akozak 7y ago
There are definitely international agreements and institutions in place to regulate and help avoid this exact situation. The ITU-R sets the rules and encourages int'l coordination between countries on spectrum. Borders are a big concer
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by akozak 7y ago
This focuses on hiring channels - but wouldn't an economist recommend competing on salary/equity or other benefits? Why isn't that a part of the strategy in such a competitive labor market?
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by akozak 7y ago
Why not at least buy a 1yr CD? Rates were around 2.5% last I checked.
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by akozak 7y ago
A lot of what we do can be explained (or "reduced") to chemical processes that reward or reinforce behavior. Is there a chemical difference between this and the pleasure some get from reading great literary works, building a birdh
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by akozak 7y ago
Blame is the wrong word, but YES we should expect that they would hold their own employer accountable too.
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by akozak 7y ago
Appears in 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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by akozak 7y ago
Interesting that a typo could actually create value.
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by akozak 7y ago
Don't need to wait, they said so. https://libra.org/en-US/compliance-consumer-protection/#over...
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by akozak 7y ago
I recall reading some news recently about studies of the microbiome in immigrants that suggest it can be a relatively quick shift. e.g. see: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/11/how-immig...

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