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by asafira 10y ago
You are actually totally correct, clouds would worsen cooling power.
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by asafira 10y ago
To be clear, this is actually a very small amount of plastic. Let's say a roof is 300 square meters; that amounts to < 2 cubic centimeters of plastic. I would guess that there are examples of much larger consumers of plastic.
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by asafira 10y ago
So that's definitely a limitation, but I wouldn't call it an issue --- this would have plenty of application!
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by asafira 10y ago
I fell in love with this idea when it first came out! Here is the first demonstration of it a couple of years ago: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v515/n7528/abs/nature13...
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by asafira 10y ago
Hey, sorry I do not, but it was the first thing I saw with Gary Taubes' name on it so I figured it would probably be good. He has a few books out, and other articles online, that I recommend looking up (that does, in fact, have example
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by asafira 10y ago
This right here. I would love to read an article that addressed these in their analyses as well.
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by asafira 10y ago
I am not sure if you are being sarcastic, but here is one reference: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-makes-you-fa...
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by asafira 10y ago
This, unfortunately, is not true. Unfortunate cause I think great things would happen if it were that easy. It's also super simple to understand, which is at least part of why people cling to it so tightly. There is a huge amount of sc
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by asafira 10y ago
I believe that is why he/she said they haven't seen someone do this well yet...
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by asafira 10y ago
In my field of quantum information processing, the current hype is all about "Quantum Supremacy". The field currently has its sights set on the goal of producing an experiment where a quantum system performs a computation faster t
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by asafira 10y ago
This is still an awesome project, but anyone else notice the machine makes a mistake? @ 1:10, in the background, you can see a purple skittle with green ones. (Technically it we don't see it make the mistake, but it probably had made a
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by asafira 10y ago
I'm glad my question was finally answered! During the paranoia in September/October, I remember reading everything and wondering why nothing seemed to explain why the issue happened in the first place. Note7's aren't e
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by asafira 10y ago
This was quite a gem when I was practicing some advanced SQL. I find the problems become legitimately hard and take me quite a while to solve. I recommend it to anyone interested in seeing how certain datasets can require quite a bit of cre
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by asafira 10y ago
How would you recommend searching for those sorts of roles that aren't just cog-in-a-machine but require a good bit of technical ability and creativity on the job? No offense, but if you look at most job listings (even on hacker news),
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by asafira 10y ago
Pencil and paper is where it's at.
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by asafira 10y ago
Whoa! I am actually currently in a physics PhD program, in my last 1-2 years, and have been pursuing internship opportunities for the summer. For me, I've actually wanted to get my PhD in physics and then work in tech for as long as I
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by asafira 10y ago
At the risk of sounding cliche', just do work at something you enjoy. If you think there will be valuable knowledge in the degree certificates, go for them. If you have a cool idea you want to explore, go for it.
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by asafira 10y ago
This is a little unfair, it's not clear to me why academics would always have worse predications than any other body of people. This especially goes for the presidential outcomes predictions.
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by asafira 10y ago
Doesn't this story just beg for companies to advertise their "culture"? This may be just exactly the targeted advertising they need, right?
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by asafira 10y ago
Welcome to America!
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by asafira 10y ago
So I have always wondered this, but what is the most common way to realize that your data was hacked? Is it from very careful monitoring of connection logs? Do hackers typically leave notes and/or obvious traces? Do you start to notice
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by asafira 10y ago
This might get lost in the comments, but I wanted to ask anyway: I am actually currently doing a physics PhD, and am considering becoming a PM. Am I crazy?
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by asafira 10y ago
Thinking about your last statement: If the price were an average of beliefs, we would have people that believe it's worth more and people that think it's worth less. Those that think it is worth more would, logically, buy Google s
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by asafira 10y ago
Would this be interesting for Google's Daydream efforts?
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by asafira 10y ago
Can anyone on hackernews comment on the specific issue in the Note 7? And why was it (seemingly) easy to screw up the replacement phones as well? Are we taking for granted the lengths that other hardware manufacturers go to to make sure suc
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by asafira 10y ago
How were these countries chosen? This could just be a faux vacation for the YC people, but I feel there are some countries in Asia for which this would well received and be a huge success. (For example, Singapore)
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by asafira 10y ago
I apologize if I made it seem like I meant great reflexes meant good driving. Instead, I included it because great reflexes might help people get out of accident situations (say, like properly pulling the handbrake when the car starts spinn
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by asafira 10y ago
Also, let's say the accident rate was slightly better than that of an average human's. Among people, there are some good drivers and some poor drivers. The average driving ability --- including fast reflexes for dealing with accid
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by asafira 10y ago
Even with a +/-3 meter accuracy, a systematic 1.5 meter shift still makes a difference.
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by asafira 10y ago
Nope, I was wrong --- the volume of the hyper sphere to the hyper cube is not always over 0.5.

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