asteli

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by asteli 7y ago
It's complicated. Synthetics have a lower environmental footprint than say, cotton, at least on the production side. Cotton farming uses among the highest amounts of pesticides of any cash crop, and still require fertilizer (oft petrol
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by asteli 7y ago
It's not hard to do. Google has been able to do it for some years. It's difficult to build a service around cars that are only autonomous on the highway, so the autonomy companies pivoted to in-city driving as a natural next step
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by asteli 7y ago
You can pull certain tricks with ballistic delivery methods. A depressed trajectory (flatter profile, lower apogee) would give you the option of coming in through a window, with an additional benefit in that it would be harder to intercept
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by asteli 7y ago
? You can easily get all those things as a non-citizen resident. Do you mean undocumented immigrants or something?
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by asteli 7y ago
One can also scrape the soldermask off of the nearest segment of the trace that got broken and jumper to it. It's easy to pull up traces on accident but it's uncommon for that trace adhesion failure to cause the nearest IC pin or
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by asteli 7y ago
I saw and didn't really care for the dramatization. Without giving too much away, they changed the ending significantly in a way that was particularly non-PKDian. The original has a strong theme of human struggle against a force that i
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by asteli 7y ago
Sounds more Kafkaesque to me, but the GP's comment brought to mind Autofac, a short story about an automated manufacturing and distribution system that continues producing and delivering product to humam settlements long after the apoc
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by asteli 7y ago
This is true. The neat thing about the drone is that you can deploy it super rapidly though. I haven't seen it done but I am imagining 30 seconds or so.
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by asteli 7y ago
I take issue with your characterization of FB non-users on HN boasting about it. I deleted my FB years ago and I would never do such a thing.
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by asteli 7y ago
Most of the good ideas are either massively competitive (aerial inspection/ag support/photography), a pain in the ass due to safety regulatory issues (drone delivery, passenger flight), or just bad ideas overall (consumer camera t
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by asteli 7y ago
I've put together a few hardware lab spaces, and in doing so have realized that one can never predict how people are going to use a space. Features you though were useful, layouts that are clean and efficient, a lot goes out the window
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by asteli 7y ago
What are the efficiency numbers when using normal, grease and shield laden bearings? This might have a place in cycle sprints or other short distance disciplines where you have a lot of time for prep, but the benefits are quite moot if you
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by asteli 7y ago
Question from the peanut gallery: The gut bacteria in a cow digest components of the animal's food preferentially and excrete methane. If you knock those bacteria out, does the stuff the bacteria would have eaten get excreted by the co
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by asteli 7y ago
It disappoints, but doesn't surprise me yo see the immediate links to military use in this article and elsewhere. I was recently on a trip with my nearly 100 y/o grandmother, who up until this point has resisted using a wheelchair
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Project Pluto(en.wikipedia.org)
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by asteli 7y ago
it's really good. I've seen people wearing it in ironic/punk way.
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by asteli 7y ago
PSA: here in the SF bay, auto parts stores all have oil recycling receptacles. Check with them before you go and put it down the drain, surfactant or not. For other substances, there are also hazmat acceptance sites around, although they se
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by asteli 7y ago
250 million years ago, the Permian-Triassic extinction killed off 96% of marine species. The planet bounced back (eventually). Took between a couple million and a few tens of millions of years to recover. The North Korea/South Korea de
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by asteli 7y ago
It might get you banned from that particular retirement community but it's hard to imagine being prosecuted for hilariously taping a speaker to what's basically a really buff roomba
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by asteli 7y ago
I'm waiting for someone stick a speaker to one that just repeats "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINAAAATE!" line as this robot bumbles around whatever corporate campus it's deployed on.
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by asteli 7y ago
If you sort of just chill there and don't engage substantively with the barber's conversation, they should pick up on it.
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by asteli 7y ago
I wonder if it's possible to maintain the ability to charge at Superchargers if you plan your conversion right.
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by asteli 7y ago
Yes! I've wanted to decouple SMS from the phone I carry, be able to respond to SMS via other devices. Right now the best option I have is to convince as many people I can to start using Signal.
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by asteli 7y ago
I mean, this is the same NRO that made the infamous NROL-39 mission patch, with a sinister looking octopus reaching across the planet, caption reading "Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach." Link for the unfamiliar: https://en.m
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by asteli 7y ago
IIRC they aren't afraid of people collecting runoff from their roofs -- more like collecting all of the water that falls on their land/building artificial reservoirs while starving the downstream watershed...
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by asteli 7y ago
I recall a quadcopter control mode that spins the entire craft quite rapidly, exchanging yaw control for altitude control. Found a vid: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bsHryqnvyYA
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by asteli 7y ago
I think multirotors have the capability to be made quite safe. The only moving parts are the rotors, and with higher rotor counts, graceful degradation of flight performance is possible in the case of a rotor-out. Problem is that most of th
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by asteli 7y ago
Well, a lot of America is white and middle class. The push to move to suburbs was fueled by the white middle class, who fled the cities during and after desegregation, and was termed the White Flight. There's a very real displacement p
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by asteli 7y ago
The US is seeing a large move back toward cities. It makes a lot of sense -- it's where the capital, culture, resources are concentrated. I don't think we'll see a car-less suburbia in the foreseeable future, but we can certa
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by asteli 7y ago
I think there's a growing realization that designing around car traffic is a losing proposition going forward. There's still a lot of political inertia to overcome, but we're starting to see bills liks SB50 (legislating to bu

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