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by api 12y ago
It's easy to say because radiation diminishes with the square of distance. Someone would have to be blasting out a ton of RF in our direction for us to notice. I'm talking about gigawatts at a minimum, probably more like terawat
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by api 12y ago
Side point, but I have heard shielding proposals for dealing with the matter collision problem. Basically you could create a plasma cloud ahead of yourself and hold it there magnetically. It would take a ton of energy to generate and mainta
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by api 12y ago
Yep. The awesome power of installed user base.
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by api 12y ago
There's certainly a lot of truth in that, but for whatever reason -- game theoretic or otherwise -- I would practically fall out of my chair if I heard a president today say stuff like what's quoted at the top of this article. Eve
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by api 12y ago
I can't speak for the Atom devs, but JS-based apps that use a browser rendering engine to do UI (node-webkit and similar) are currently the least ugly way to do cross-platform desktop UI development. Qt is a close second, but it's
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by api 12y ago
In virtually all societies, land owners tend to hold more power than younger people and renters. So far the land owners are doing well from this.
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by api 12y ago
I don't disagree. It would be our shamanic experience, not theirs. It would have a different set, setting, gestalt, mythology, and symbolism around it. I'd be fascinated to know then if certain underlying themes and insights would
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by api 12y ago
It's prohibition in Wastern countries, which drives a "drug tourism" industry that distorts local markets and encourages that kind of "tourist trap" predation. Prohibition tends to export the corruption it breeds. I
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by api 12y ago
Real estate hyperinflation is a scourge of the modern world. It is time for cities and even countries to act to curtail absentee landlords playing Ponzi games with real estate to the extreme detriment of cities, culture, and the real econom
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by api 12y ago
All that kind of shadiness is a consequence of prohibition -- since it's illegal, black and grey markets staffed by crooks and irresponsible flaky types fill the vendor niche. Without prohibition you could go to a professionally run ce
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by api 12y ago
It's used almost entirely to write async code, and had no good native constructs for async other than cascades of callbacks or non-standard libraries implemented on top of callbacks that are confusing to use. So it's horrible for
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by api 12y ago
Piracetam is not scheduled and can still be ordered. I've tried it and noted some mild apparent positive effects, and there is some study data backing this. The effect is not dramatic.
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by api 12y ago
Seconded: statistics such as these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77525 ... seem to show that very successful sole founder stories do exist. But nearly everything from the YC orbit says "find a partner or you&#x
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Headhunter: simple script to pull all GitHub projects from a specific location(github.com)
2 points by api 12y ago|1 comments
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by api 12y ago
Yup, but you left out the part where it is traveling at relativistic velocities and thus also causes the gases in the atmosphere to go thermonuclear on impact from kinetic energy alone. So a "hypervelocity critical mass" might be
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by api 12y ago
You just won the thread. Congratulations.
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Most stars have planets in their habitable zones(phys.org)
3 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
Things like water distribution are natural monopolies. Or are you suggesting that we have several independent water vendors built completely separate water pipeline infrastructures?
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by api 12y ago
I heard an interview with Brandenburg a while back. He sounded sane, smart, and his understanding of physics seemed sound. I can't stand this secular inquisition bullshit of cherry picking any sign of possible 'out there'-nes
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by api 12y ago
The problem is liberals and conservatives. Liberals tend to block infrastructure for "green" or NIMBY reasons, while conservatives de-fund it because infrastructure is socialism. It's time to smash the whole political continu
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by api 12y ago
Because for the end user it offers a clean high-quality user experience with minimal friction. That is more powerful than anything else. It's more powerful than cost or freedom, and the developers can suck it. Microsoft was always shit
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by api 12y ago
San Francisco is a city with an exploding economy that sits on a fault line and is geographically constrained by mountains and the ocean. If that wasn't bad enough, it's also got quite a bit of NIMBYism among its residents who wan
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by api 12y ago
You must not have worked in a huge organization. They are everywhere: people doing nothing at all, or working on projects that any fool can see will never ship. A lot of this boils down to a very old question: why do we operate this machine
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by api 12y ago
Dentistry is not a bullshit job. It's not even an edge case.
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by api 12y ago
Agricultural and home use are inelastic, but irrigation of suburbs and similar luxury uses are not.
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by api 12y ago
While the possibility of entrapment certainly adds a bit of grey, I know that I would never consent even under pressure to "ordering a hitman" under anything but the most extraordinary self-defense circumstances. I would never d
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by api 12y ago
"I felt relieved: gone was the posturing so obvious in the previous candidates. They worked in advertising, at startups—Twitter employees who talked about how much money they made and the exotic locales where they took their vacations.
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The observable universe at logarithmic scale (artist's impression)(upload.wikimedia.org)
1 points by api 12y ago|1 comments
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by api 12y ago
Only dumb investors. Hate to put it that bluntly, but I can't imagine anyone who really thinks much about investing falling for this bias.
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by api 12y ago
Exactly. I don't want what I already have. Give me what I don't have, or better yet something so creative I don't even know I want it yet. But that's hard, while stupid hill climbers and infinite monkey machines are easy

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