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by beloch 10y ago
"I raised a piece up, too, examining the gauziness of the meat draped over my chopsticks. I placed it in my mouth—there was next to no flavor though the texture was delicate, like a fine sweet film. And while the skin had great bounce,
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by beloch 10y ago
There's scads of money being made on the infrastructure, network, and equipment that's used to pirate films. Perhaps companies like Google and Apple should be paying Hollywood more for the material that people consume through the
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by beloch 10y ago
Others have suggested some very good counterexamples. David Brin is another. He's won the Hugo, Nebula and several other awards. Startide Rising is worth a read. You know an author is good when he can turn genetically altered dolph
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by beloch 10y ago
The move from a traditional shifter to a monostable shifter is an obvious step backwards for one, painfully obvious, reason: It gives the user less information. With a traditional shifter, looking at or feeling the position of the knob imm
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by beloch 10y ago
This article covers things from a pedestrian's perspective, but it honestly looks like there may be benefits for drivers in this system too. For one, this plan immediately halves the number of busy intersections along a given stretch
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by beloch 10y ago
It sounds like we have the same concern. A free-standing steel frame does not readily burn while a wooden frame will. This is obvious. In a complex building things may not be so simple. Assuming that everything around the structure is gr
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by beloch 10y ago
"...there’s a great deal of evidence to suggest mass timber is actually safer in a fire than steel. For example, in a fire, a thick plank of wood will char on the outside, sealing the interior and protecting it from damage. Wood burns
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by beloch 10y ago
I wonder what their detector's dark count rate and activation threshold is. If both are low enough, this is precisely the sort of detector people doing free space quantum crypto need.
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by beloch 10y ago
One nice thing about the 10000 rule is that it can help you with irrational fears. e.g. Bears. They're only scary until you look at how astronomically improbable it is to be killed by one. When you look at the benefits of hiking, back
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by beloch 10y ago
Ever have a good conversation with a passenger and miss your turn? You were distracted. Where I live, there are distracted driving laws and you can be fined for holding or looking at a cell-phone while driving, but having the hardware for
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by beloch 10y ago
If you go to most universities, psychology is a part of the faculty of Humanities, not science. There's a reason for that. To call a discipline a science, it needs to use the scientific method, not just sometimes, but always . It ne
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by beloch 10y ago
"Instead, we use use a physical instantiation of one-time-pad encryption to protect information. The process is based on a special single-pixel tomographic transform and the use of a physical secret key for each single-pixel measuremen
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by beloch 10y ago
Several countries that are fairly socialist have higher living standards than the U.S., where "socialism" is an epithet for some reason. McCarthy lives on I suppose. Venezuela's problem is totalitarianism . In a socialist
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by beloch 10y ago
As bad as this stuff is, it has nothing on the British "full breakfast". Bacon, eggs, deep fried mushrooms, deep fried tomatoes, fried bread, toast, sausages, beans, black pudding, hash browns... Greasy, nasty food in obscene qu
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by beloch 10y ago
My Dad quit smoking when I was little, back in the days when people "chain smoked" (i.e. They used a lighter once a day, and just kept lighting new cigarettes with their butts). He credits his success with this tactic: He loudly
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by beloch 10y ago
In many universities, major programs for CPSC, physics, etc. require courses with prerequisite chains that take several years to go through. It would be quite hard to build up to these while only taking a minor in these subjects. There ar
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by beloch 10y ago
Imagine being a member of an attack force following a creeping barrage, especially before it was perfected and short-falling shells were expected to kill a significant fraction of your comrades. Willfully walking into that kind of hell sim
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by beloch 10y ago
When you're quoting a fair bit of stuff, it gets hard to tell what is quote and what is not. I'd love it if there was a <blockquote> equivalent.
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by beloch 10y ago
"What’s more, languages are conduits of human heritage. Writing is a relatively recent development in our history (written systems currently exist for only about one-third of the world’s languages), so language itself is often the
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by beloch 10y ago
6/6, and I didn't read more than half-way through most of these. What's the tell? Focus. The human-written poetry develops a single, coherent subject with each passing line. Each new line adds new light to the ones that p
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by beloch 10y ago
What concerns me the most about nuclear weapons is that the technical barriers to building them are getting lower all the time. They're currently within reach of despotic states of below average scientific capacity. All that's r
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by beloch 10y ago
I have no solid evidence to help you, but my intuition says this is believable. Pressure waves can travel a long ways in dense media, and it's the interface between media of different densities, such as water of the ocean and the air
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by beloch 10y ago
Exclusivity is a two-edged sword. What will happen to Steam if Valve locks others out of their market, but then one of those others produces the magic ingredient that makes VR really work well for the vast majority of people? For example,
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by beloch 10y ago
At present, I can't imagine ever wanting a "smart" blender. I've got a 15-year old Vitamix that still powers through my daily smoothies with gusto. I had to replace it's blade assembly, once . I can't ima
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by beloch 10y ago
I wonder how well EV's cope with arctic conditions. In areas near the ocean temperatures generally don't get too extreme (e.g. Anchorage), but inland they can easily get into ranges that must be challenging for batteries to cope
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by beloch 10y ago
One thing not touched on in this article is how much distrust in science is generated by bad journalism. Journalists routinely overstate and misinterpret results willfully to sell more copy, and all too often they just get things plain wro
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by beloch 10y ago
"This data reveals which companies live up to their reputation for reliability (Toyota), which brands sacrifice reliability for prestige (BMW and Mercedes-Benz), and which models deserved to be discontinued (the Hummer 3)." Ouch.
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by beloch 10y ago
The Apple watch came with some pretty high end cases but, even if it had been a useful product, the rapid obsolescence curve made buying a nice case a true waste of money. The same goes for all other smart watches on the market. What I&#x27
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by beloch 10y ago
Is this bias, or does it just take time for other researchers to go into areas opened up by novel papers and then publish other papers that cite those novel papers?
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by beloch 10y ago
An unfortunate fact about academia is that you do tend to be punished for being overly honest. e.g. "Our lab is #1 in the world at X." usually translates roughly to, "Our lab is doing X, and it's so bloody obscure and m

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