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by cconcepts 10y ago
This is much more realistic. 3k psi will struggle to cut a cake.
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by cconcepts 10y ago
If fracking causes earthquakes (perhaps thats a big if) then a satellite that shifts billions of metric tonnes of water around the planet on a daily basis must surely have an impact.
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by cconcepts 10y ago
You're 500km north of epicentre and felt that. Im 150km south of epicentre and felt nothing.
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by cconcepts 10y ago
> what are you going to do, go back to farming? Oh no! How will we make money so we can buy food to eat!?....oh wait
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by cconcepts 10y ago
I found this article really engaging. His ability to explain the product and its guiding principles in laymans terms immediately destroys the many doubts that cropped up in my mind as I read. The lack of unneccessary jargon gave me an affin
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Thanks for posting this, a very thought-provoking article. This sentence: "He thinks too much choice overwhelms us and makes us unhappy—a phenomenon he calls the paradox of choice" reminded me of this humorous clip: https:/&
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by cconcepts 10y ago
It turns out that you are correct: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...
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by cconcepts 10y ago
It feels a little like the space-race story where NASA developed an extraordinary pen and the Russians just took pencils
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by cconcepts 10y ago
This is a great point and the responses are classic HN; algorithms etc...but whats wrong with locking the truck? EDIT: spelling
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by cconcepts 10y ago
For a relatively angry-toned comment, I feel you hit the nail on the head.
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by cconcepts 10y ago
They're becoming pretty commonplace. A friend runs a farm that uses them. The cows come in to be milked when they want to be, which averages about 2.2 times per day, they enjoy getting milked. A back scratching machine gives them a rub
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Robotic contraption milking them? How about these milking robots on the farms all around me? https://youtu.be/Aju_wqHhCBk
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by cconcepts 10y ago
I initially thought this was a NYTimes self promotion piece. As in "Think NYTimes is hot right now? Just Wait".
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Ten years ago a friend and I (both with little technical knowledge) made an extra display on our flat wall using an old overhead projector and the lcd display from a busted sattelite pro laptop. A decade later achieving a similar thing usin
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by cconcepts 10y ago
I have no doubt that climate change is a problem. I have kids, I dont want to give them a hospital pass. I've tried to stop living such a carbon dependant lifestyle but I look outside and my efforts feel futile. How do I REALLY do some
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Its quite refreshing to hear you say that last sentence. Being labelled a bigot, self righteous or any of several other generalisations, because I believe Jesus was who he said he was, is a little hard to understand at times.
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Totally, which is why I added "...yet" Making dinner in the kitchen? Hit "Salad" on the app and have your farmbot harvest the ingredients for a 300g garden salad.... Lots of cool applications and I got prepared for &quot
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by cconcepts 10y ago
This is clever, and I applaud CNC principles being applied in such a unique way. But once the planting and prep is done (which takes a few hours max for me to do by hand) I now have a several thousand dollar watering can..... Make no mistak
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by cconcepts 10y ago
I saw a cartoon of congress where someone is standing up and saying "Wait! What if this is all a hoax and we're building a better world for nothing!?" Or words to that effect. Seems to be the only argument that has had any im
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by cconcepts 11y ago
I've heard it described as confusion between cause and agency. Just because you know how something happened doesn't explain that thing's purpose or that it doesn't have intent. I may have been in the Toyota factory and e
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by cconcepts 11y ago
It seems as though, in some online communities, the discussion about faith and purpose has begun to evolve beyond some variation of "OMG you believe XYZ? That is proven completely false by ABC - Lolz". I won't hold my breath
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by cconcepts 11y ago
Have been trying to get my head around AI as a layperson with kids who will grow up in a world where some form of AI is commonplace but are unlikely to be prepared for it by school. Have found this free book that I saw on YCs 2015 reading l
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by cconcepts 11y ago
Do you have any examples/references pertaining to The Big Short?
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by cconcepts 11y ago
After reading The Big Short and discussing its contents with people who know a lot more about the financial industry than I do, I was surprised to find how much the book stood up under their scrutiny. So many popular books seem to lead me d
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by cconcepts 11y ago
I feel like I'm subconsciously much more loyal to services I have used than I would otherwise like to think. There is so much other stuff going on and I just can't be bothered going through the (probably easy) task of understandin
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by cconcepts 11y ago
So that people who need a 3-cent button use the service, are impressed by it and become higher margin customers later on.
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by cconcepts 11y ago
"the giants are among the top 10 most valuable American companies of any kind." Depends what you mean by "value". If current price Mr Market is willing to pay = "value" then yes. If value is a measure of long t
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by cconcepts 11y ago
I feel nervous that focussing on one language will only give me understanding within a narrow sphere. Is there a reason why Go is more broad reaching than others? I'm not planning to be a coder but to at least have a fair understanding
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by cconcepts 11y ago
Wowza! $25 USD for the kindle version. If I can get one more vote for this book I'll buy it. I assume they charge that much coz its a great book but social proof, Robert Cialdini etc...
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by cconcepts 11y ago
If I understand the situation correctly, JavaScript could soon be commonplace as a back end language as well thanks to NodeJS? I may have completely misunderstood this...

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