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by andygates 7y ago
That's the lazy old "and yet you participate in society," non-argument. Try harder. We can't get to "better" if we don't try.
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by andygates 7y ago
AR would allow each athlete their own personal pacing grid, or ghost racer, or ideal line. You can run that on a watch or bike computer (or heads-up display), but AR would be that much more intuitive. It doesn't apply to this one-perso
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by andygates 7y ago
Very much a non-elite runner here, but yeah, "run vs my previous best pace" is a standard mode and seeing "you are 12 seconds ahead and will finish with a time of xx:yy" is very, very motivating.
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by andygates 7y ago
Investors buy into the notion of gas as a transition fuel. I'm not sure we have the time for the luxury of that sort of transition any more.
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by andygates 7y ago
We didn't hear about all the other hospitals that easily switched over to generators, just the one that failed. There's room for investigation there, but it's on the site, not the system.
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by andygates 7y ago
Parallel reinvention happens all the time. Consider steam engines, web browsers. Once a way has been found to do the thing, it's surprisingly straightforward to redo the thing.
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by andygates 7y ago
This isn't about silencing the bad actors, it's about muffling them enough that they don't contaminate daily discourse. Fine: let them be on onion boards. We know de-platforming works.
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by andygates 7y ago
IKAROS used this technique. The bird was spin-stabilised and a section of the sail had LCD shades that could be dark or light. It could darken its, say, venus-side segments as they went round. Gloriously over-engineered.
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by andygates 7y ago
One of the limits of cubesats is that they're so small they have very limited propulsion, if any. Prop levels are correlated to mission lifetime; this presents a nice way to extend missions.
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by andygates 7y ago
In the UK, it used to be the norm to see a plastic bag tree, all aflutter with collected trash and generally foul. Since the free bag ban, those have disappeared. You may be young and/or wealthy if you don't remember trash everywh
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by andygates 7y ago
Personally, hemp doesn't wear as well as cotton. Cotton just keeps on going, hemp wears out fairy fast.
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by andygates 7y ago
"Dumped in landfill" is an optimistic worst case for plastic waste, though. Dumped outside the waste-processing stream so it ends up in the food chain or bobbing down the river - that's the problem case we're trying to a
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by andygates 7y ago
It's reasonably well-separated from IRL identity, so long as you use a burner number and not your IRL number.
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by andygates 7y ago
New Reddit remains slow, which engendered badwill. New Twitter, on the other hand, messes up its primary product - the users' feed - to give unfollowed content. It breaks the idea that the user is curating their personal feed, and that
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by andygates 7y ago
That's the evo argument for the "gay uncle" (et al) as a noncompetitive but good to have around person. I'm not sure it's true, but it's a tale as old as at least the 90's.
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by andygates 7y ago
Cheaper location data than they'd get licencing one of the other map providers.
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by andygates 7y ago
That works for regular cabs too! /s
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by andygates 7y ago
It's never been 15 y-- oh heck, it has. Damn.
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by andygates 7y ago
The stitching is interesting - there are lots of near-term implantables with clinical benefits that this could benefit. I'm less convinced by the overall concept of "I know kung fu", but easy deep brain stimulation or cascade
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by andygates 7y ago
Researchers typically use what's easily available, cheap and well understood. Back in the day it was serial connectors. It's just a bog-standard connector. A mature product may well use a proprietary connector that isolates agains
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by andygates 7y ago
That's a huge range!
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by andygates 7y ago
To the second question: since each mission is expensive and time-consuming, scientists reasonably want the best sensors for each mission. That's both the tech upgrade during the n-year coast phase, and the investigation upgrade as they
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by andygates 7y ago
Send them all, just pick a likely-nice one for sending while the eyes of the world are on Mission Control. Caching everything then sending it at leisure is working nicely for New Horizons.
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by andygates 7y ago
It has extraordinarily high levels of bots, too. Unverified accounts can't get through the quarantine, so it'll be fun to watch that traffic tank.
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by andygates 7y ago
It won't clear itself up. And we can educate the misinformed.
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by andygates 7y ago
My (UK) commute is 10 miles each way, so 3 hours of daylight would keep it topped up. And I have to park outside. It would be _perfect_ for my use case. If their numbers add up this could be a game-changer.
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by andygates 7y ago
We've got enough CO2 in the atmosphere right now to offset the next ice age millennia from now. Offsetting something that will happen as far in the future as all of recorded history sounds a lot like looking at the horizon and ignoring
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by andygates 7y ago
> Why doesn't this ever come up? Because it's not responsible: it's currently a tiny downward trend that is only noticeable over millennia. Science doesn't bring up every damn thing every damn time, because life is to
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by andygates 7y ago
Isn't it just getting one instance more of the bad stuff?
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by andygates 7y ago
I mean, technically better than majority-hijackable crypto, but it's still just corporate scrip. Sixteen Tons is applicable.

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