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by bglazer 11y ago
> The minimum height for infantry was lowered from 5ft 6in to 5ft 3in, then later to 5ft, in just two decades. I suspect this has way more to do with WWI than cheap sugar.
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by bglazer 11y ago
Also, Stanislav Petrov prevented nuclear war because he didn't trust the Soviet satellite missile detection system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...
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by bglazer 11y ago
I think you're assuming the poster is naive or stupid based on a few very evocative verbs. That doesn't seem fair and gives your post a harsh tone. I imagine their distress is not that their cat is an evil murderer, but that their
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by bglazer 11y ago
As is well known, there are lots of people who get some sick pleasure from announcing their vile and chauvinist thoughts. "Real names" don't seem to help. I would guess that the senders of these type of messages are socially
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by bglazer 11y ago
Surprising, probably not, but still amazing in my opinion! Our last common ancestor was in the Pre-Cambrian and we still share genes. That information has been preserved for billions of years!
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by bglazer 11y ago
> I'm a big fan of running word2vec and clustering. Can you explain more about this?
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by bglazer 11y ago
I just finished the longest stint of work that I've had in my short career. Probably 80 hours for two weeks. I didn't really keep track. I have mixed feelings. I got a lot done. The quality of work that happened around 8-10pm was
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by bglazer 11y ago
One possibility, perhaps very unlikely and perhaps somewhat likely, is that Earth life could actually survive and adapt to Martian conditions and subsequently destroy existing Martian life. That seems almost comically improbable, but given
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by bglazer 11y ago
That's a super dismissive point of view. Here's another: Working with a government office with zero technical expertise they setup elastic search and converted hundreds of pages of Word documents into a searchable, well designed f
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by bglazer 11y ago
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9349918
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Ask HN: What's the use of part of speech tagging
1 points by bglazer 11y ago|0 comments
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by bglazer 11y ago
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/contests/robocalls-humanity-... The FTC had a competition called "Robocalls, Humanity Strikes Back" and two guys implemented a very similar idea. Hopefully the FTC will fo
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by bglazer 11y ago
> Could it not be both? Sure! It definitely could be. I'd be interested to see if there has been some documented cultural shift, independent of marketing by food giants. One generation seems like a short time frame for that kind of
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by bglazer 11y ago
> As I said: It has absolutely nothing to do with the foods or how they are processed; it has everything to do with how much people eat of these foods. Why and how have people changed to have less self-control in the past 30-40 years? Th
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by bglazer 11y ago
My understanding is that part of the appeal of this chip is the power consumption. 100mW is sounds pretty stingy to me, but I'm not terribly knowledgeable either. So I think they're trading off capability for power consumption by
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by bglazer 11y ago
Given the "naked and unapologetic elitism" of the institution, I hope not. "Yet, Nelson’s goal was to train only the best of the best, a category of students he describes as being in the upper fraction of entrants to Ivy Leag
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by bglazer 11y ago
FedEx has a feature called "Delivery Manager" that allows you to specify the delivery time more specifically. You can also reroute your package to get it delivered to another destination. Both of these options come with a small ad
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Shadow biosphere(en.m.wikipedia.org)
2 points by bglazer 11y ago|0 comments
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by bglazer 11y ago
I was just discussing a similar idea with a friend this weekend. Perhaps abiogenesis could still be occurring on earth. My friend contended that existing life would consume the raw ingredients before they could self assemble. It's a
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by bglazer 11y ago
To those who are more familiar with spectrometers: What's the most interesting "consumerish" application that you can think of for a spectrometer? I imagine health related applications are an easy target because spectrometers
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by bglazer 11y ago
This is a great response. Thanks for taking the time to write this.
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by bglazer 11y ago
Learning about this a while back absolutely blew my mind. (So much so that I submitted it to HN, where it was roundly ignored. Oh well :-) Anyways, it's a new and strange idea to me that this organism, covering a mountainside, is reall
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Pando, an 80,000 year old clonal colony of a single male quaking aspen tree(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by bglazer 11y ago|0 comments
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by bglazer 11y ago
> “It was so humiliating to train somebody else to take over your job. I still can’t grasp it.” Indeed, that sounds terrible. I haven't been in that (exceptionally difficult) situation, but I wonder why the laid off employees consen
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by bglazer 11y ago
I realize this doesn't really address the core of your comment, but I heard an interesting argument that aircraft will never become electric because lose fuel weight as they fly. This is a huge efficiency gain over carrying a battery t
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by bglazer 11y ago
At the top of the page: > By Hariom Balhara At the bottom of the page: > Author Bio: Juana Steves is an outstanding Java web application developer for Xicom Technologies
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by bglazer 11y ago
The seL4 mircrokernel is comprehensively formally verified and is marketed towards aerospace applications. https://sel4.systems/
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by bglazer 11y ago
I fall into camp 3. I have a DJI Phantom that I crashed into my neighbor's yard due to my own incompetence and inexperience. I'm not arguing for draconian policy measures. I just want manufacturers to focus on and market reliabili
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by bglazer 11y ago
The "follow me" feature of newer drones seems to encourage people to fly near themselves and presumably others.
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by bglazer 11y ago
I agree. I just think reliability/safety should be the next areas of focus for multi-rotor manufacturers.

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