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by asteli 8y ago
If I hadn't seen an Animats comment here, I would have copy pasted it from your history just to beat you to it. I checked out of curiosity -- you've got at least 35 posts that directly reference Continental and their Flash LIDAR b
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by asteli 8y ago
you can always set up an email account on another service and have the mail accessed through google's interfaces. i wouldn't recommend setting up your own email server unless you really like securing servers though
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by asteli 8y ago
For whom? The people threatened by a dysfunctional housing market aren't the the people pulling 100k+ wages as information workers. Vancouver's minimum wage is $13.85 CAD, so like 10USD? That's not 3x lower than what a servic
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by asteli 8y ago
That's not a universal expectation. In Germany for example, it's typical to furnish your own appliances and to take them when you move.
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by asteli 8y ago
I know that, in Germany at least, it's common to take appliances with you when you move. Not sure where in Europe GP is reporting in from precisely.
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by asteli 8y ago
Stability is a big issue for chairs especially. Rolling office chairs are afaict all 5 legged these days, unless you happen to find an old one. OSHA mandate.
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by asteli 8y ago
"Occasionally vaccine manufacturers screw up and a drug is recalled" is pretty far from the Anti-Vaxx line.
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by asteli 8y ago
To me, this action says "We have chosen not to publish material, that is based on indisputably false premises, that may harm viewers and the public at large." That sounds like an acceptable line to me.
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by asteli 8y ago
It's astonishing to me that you can orbit a point in space between two planetary bodies. There's nothing on Earth that would give you that intuitive understanding. I'm curious if over the next hundreds of years if the Lagra
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by asteli 8y ago
I've wondered about that -- my partner and her cousin both grew up in the Midwest and need white noise and eyeshades to sleep. For reference we live in the SF Bay. I grew up here and can sleep through damn near anything. I'm curio
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by asteli 8y ago
When I was a kid I had The Dorling Kindersley Visual Encyclopedia . It contained detailed drawings of plants, machines, spacecraft, artistic implements, motorcycles. I browsed that book at random, cover to cover, several times over (it&#x2
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by asteli 8y ago
After that one experience, I'm pretty sure that if I walked into a supermarket or department store and they weren't playing music, I would immediately notice.
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by asteli 8y ago
I experienced this in a Target last year sometime. No music over the intercom, and the energy in the place just felt more... nervous, restless. I don't know whether that's an effect inherent to silence in large spaces or whether i
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by asteli 8y ago
I'm one of the ones with variable responses. Sometimes it amplifies anxiety and inhibition, occasionally alleviates it. Stimulants typically do me better. A couple years ago I got an ADD diagnosis. Should have happened when I was 12, b
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by asteli 8y ago
Not the parent commenter, but I've tried this, my anecdatum is that I became less sharp and thus had a much harder time staying deeply attentive, which, for me, is critical for social interaction.
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by asteli 8y ago
That quality of an interviewer is something that not all podcast hosts have. I find that if an interviewer is a trained journalist (i.e. Ira Glass), they do ask questions from a point of curiosity, even if they know the answer. Contrast to
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by asteli 8y ago
There's a formula in there that reads: Invested Time x Motivation -------------------------- = Results Inhibition As an engineer without formal education, this rings very true. When people ask "how'd you ge
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by asteli 8y ago
I did that trip south on the 5 once. Initially I was impatient and tried lanesplitting between semi trucks. After doing this about 4 times, rationality kicked in and I decided that waiting the extra 30 seconds it takes for a semi to pass an
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by asteli 8y ago
My method was more intuitive than that. There's more detail on the real faces, the fake ones look slightly brushed over. If it wasn't an A/B test, I'd fall for the fakes every time, however.
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by asteli 8y ago
That's... a bit different? AF447 is a classic case of human factors in aviation accidents. The stall would have been completely recoverable if the pilot had nosed down.
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by asteli 8y ago
Reading your comment, I thought "how bad is a high-altitude stall anyway? it's obviously undesirable, but what makes it dangerous? possibly entering a flat spin?" Doing a little digging, it seems that there's also a sign
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by asteli 8y ago
I know the politics are complicated, so take this with a grain of salt, but I can't help but think that the easiest way to keep H1-B visa holders from taking high tech jobs away from American citizens is to make them American citizens.
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by asteli 8y ago
I have, and I miss it every day I commute by bicycle. There's a span along one of my routes where you have to make a left turn across 5 lanes of traffic. The Dutch would faint, I think.
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by asteli 8y ago
it's hard to compete with YouTube's network for content discovery, but if you're uploading/distributing video Vimeo remains a great primary service.
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by asteli 8y ago
Here's the perspective: You, or rather, the average "you" incur 1 micromort (1/1e6 chance of death while conducting a particular activity) for every: 6 miles traveled by motorcycle 10 miles traveled by bicycle 17 miles t
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by asteli 8y ago
I was in a Cessna 206 headed to Oshkosh. Our pilot had planned to fly Eastbound at 17,000ft to avoid an air current. We all got nasal cannulae for supplemental oxygen. We departed at 3AM, and following takeoff I immediately fell asleep. I w
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by asteli 8y ago
It'd be better, in my estimation, to adopt the system used by Commonwealth countries (iirc) wherein failing to pass a budget triggers elections for representatives. I'm dead sure if that were the case here we wouldn't have th
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by asteli 8y ago
Perhaps a nit, but still fascinating: the human visual cortex finishes developing after birth. A newborn can't really distinguish between objects. The ability to differentiate, focus on and track objects is developed over the course
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by asteli 8y ago
Curious about a couple points: - How does the 3D scanning work? Presumably photogrammetry? What kind of accuracy are we talking about here in terms of typical measurement tolerances? - The frames are actually custom-fit? Are they machined o
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by asteli 8y ago
I have some friends who planted (4) four tomato plants in a ~6'x6' planter in their backyard. Fast forward a few months and they're overrun with tomatoes. Salsa, pasta sauce, food dehydrator running constantly, foisting thei

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