avaldes

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by avaldes 5y ago
What happened to emberjs? It was poised to become the next big thing after react and angular and suddenly nobody talks about it anymore.
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by avaldes 5y ago
Habitable planets with the exact chemistry to support your species without expensive or slow terraforming.
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by avaldes 5y ago
> You can't build a spaceship if you don't learn to get along with others. We literally built rockets and started spacial exploration out of a pissing contest. It has been clearly on mankind history that we don't need to c
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by avaldes 5y ago
Like an inverted "Serenity" movie.
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by avaldes 5y ago
"Einstein-Cartan-Evans theory" of the "Evans field equations" proposed by... Myron Wyn Evans. Full crackpot but still. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Cartan%E2%8...
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by avaldes 5y ago
That's ignorant bullshit. Venezuela is the only SA country one can call a failed state. The rest is doing well. No first world countries nor the highest HDI but call them failed states it's just stupid.
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by avaldes 5y ago
> As an aside, George RR Martin 40+ years ago wrote a book called Dying of the Light. I really enjoyed it just for the concept. In this book there are so-called Festival worlds. These are worlds that wander between systems. When they app
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by avaldes 5y ago
This read like a bad ML model trained with Deepak Chopra books. Absolute bullshit.
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by avaldes 5y ago
Isn't already?
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by avaldes 5y ago
Isn't weird though that Quibi failed so hard to capitalize that
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by avaldes 5y ago
Like the battle between Sherlock and Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows?
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by avaldes 5y ago
Mosaic I think.
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by avaldes 5y ago
Shouldn't break by itself with Mars' tidal forces alone?
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by avaldes 5y ago
"Your gut has a brain... AND THATS A GOOD THING"
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by avaldes 5y ago
> Finally. Is this the state of cutting-edge research on SETI? This wishful-thinking make-believe "look what I made Mum!" stuff? If this was a bootcamp dev showing off their WebGL modelling demo, I'd be impressed. 'nu
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by avaldes 5y ago
It sure is way easier with a < 5 MM population and an overall small country. I don't think it's a good example of what's possible or not.
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by avaldes 5y ago
Why wouldn't be a good thing for academia drive out unethical actors?
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by avaldes 5y ago
SG1 was a gold mine of genre savvy moments >Carter: We just passed -40 degrees > >Jackson: Farenheit or Celsius? > >Mitchell: At that temperature they're the same
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by avaldes 5y ago
Using a modern IDE after tunning and mastering vim command and modes for years is a real struggle.
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by avaldes 5y ago
> The demoscene is an underground computer art culture I've seen A LOT of posts of demoscene here on HN through the years so what does "underground" means in this context? Genuinely curious.
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by avaldes 5y ago
> You can't "colonize and terraform Siberia" without turning the US into a scorching desert. How does it work?
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by avaldes 5y ago
Maybe those stories refer to natural fission reactors. Cursed stones buried deep in the ground that heat themselves and kill people who comes too close.
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by avaldes 5y ago
>4. Is the DMC a movement? > >No. We prefer to stay put. Gave me a good chuckle.
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by avaldes 5y ago
It looks like MDF with extra steps. Also, eco-friendly like "PLA is biodegradable" (which is technically true but practically false)? With epoxy? I don't think so.
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by avaldes 5y ago
Venus is the closest planet to earth. In average should be Mercury, but you get the point.
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by avaldes 5y ago
That's a lot of assumptions about alien psychology and behavior. We barely understand animal psychology and language. There's literally zero ground to begin to understand an intelligent alien species capable of interstellar travel
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by avaldes 5y ago
What about hands with gloves? Almost two years in a pandemic it should be standard by now. And what about consent? If I send you a handshake you don't have the chance to let me hanging. Same for the fist bump. My grandpa lost 3 fingers
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by avaldes 5y ago
> Life there feels like living in an over-sized company town, not a nation. How so?
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by avaldes 5y ago
Why media and government keep calling them "attacks"? If three letters agencies are so eager to call them attacks I suppose they know how that would work and they have similar tech right? If so, is there any documented case of &qu
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by avaldes 5y ago
> It would likely imply they found a way to relatively cheaply attain faster-than-light travel, for example, perhaps by some kind of spacetime-manipulating mechanism like wormholes or Alcubierre/warp drives. (Which some scientists b

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