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by chrispeel 5y ago
Some "robots", like tractors, cars, elevators, etc... have indeed replaced many jobs. I don't buy the idea that we need increasing population to have positive economic growth. I don't think that technology ("robots
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by chrispeel 5y ago
Sounds useful, though I could have done without the dramatic voiceover and music
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by chrispeel 5y ago
Non-paywall version: https://archive.ph/uu5jJ This seems like a bad idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power#Disadv...
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by chrispeel 5y ago
Tim's tweet about this: https://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/1486454684244086784
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by chrispeel 5y ago
I guess by "high school" you mean the school that kids in the US attend in their mid teens My hope is that the sort of instruction that a kid will respond to (e.g. structured or unstructured courses) will be identified early, and
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by chrispeel 5y ago
> 15. Should a CBDC pay interest? If so, why and how? If not, why not? Hadn't thought of interest on a CBDC. I guess it's an obvious knob for a central bank From my brief skim the doc looks thoughtful and useful. I especially l
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by chrispeel 5y ago
I don't understand why the "no privacy" and "never better" aspects of her vision are connected. Is there another article that has more meat and details? BTW, as noted above, a better link is: https://web
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by chrispeel 5y ago
Seems more practical than an array on the surface of the far side of the moon as in the FARSIDE project: https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/lunar-farside
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by chrispeel 5y ago
The article looks like a press release. No indication on how biodegradable the nylon is
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by chrispeel 5y ago
"After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/after-ruining-androi... Despite enjoying and empathizing with the cynical take of the
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by chrispeel 5y ago
In case you missed it, there is such a thing as "Kolmogorov complexity"; I guess the author is making an alliterative pun by titling the post "Kolmogorov complicity" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol
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by chrispeel 5y ago
public health, public education, representative democracy, universities Sure, there's lotsa flashier tech; I'd start with the boring stuff above first
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by chrispeel 5y ago
Let's switch to green capitalism. Appropriate public policy can focus capitalism on mechanisms that reduce carbon emissions, on intangible assets, and preserving other species. I don't like articles and headlines that blame &quot
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by chrispeel 5y ago
I don't think the title is editorializing as much as trolling HN I see Bitcoin as boring. It's digital gold, which was interesting for a few years. Now the interesting technology and discussion happen around other blockchains, e.g
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by chrispeel 5y ago
If a prospective employer asks for one's current salary, many encourage the interviewee to add some percentage, say 20%, under the assumption that when a prospective employer asks this it's an indication that they are going to lie
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by chrispeel 5y ago
Batteries and price-aware appliances seem dramatically more practical than a superconducting electric power infrastructure
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by chrispeel 5y ago
video is from 2019 It talks about the use of 13.5 nm Extreme Ultraviolet light in chip manufacturing
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by chrispeel 5y ago
> Older people get bored of the latest technological advancements and instead become interested in whether Zuckerberg will get dethroned or not. As I age I am less interested in business topics, and more interested in technological advan
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by chrispeel 5y ago
I don't claim to be an expert, but I guess that a dramatically better sound bite is "Investment fuels growth" I think it's reasonable (say for conservatives) to favor capital gains taxes that favor long-term investment,
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by chrispeel 5y ago
The title above is not the same as that of the video on Youtube: "Why Bitcoin Is A Scam". In contrast to the HN title above, I saw only a brief mention of the technology. All the arguments were aimed directly at Bitcoin and Bitc
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by chrispeel 5y ago
> Is that realistic in any way? the Sun provides much more power than any satellite could. Solar panels + batteries seem dramatically more realistic to me
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by chrispeel 5y ago
Seems to me like the Globalstar Spot messaging service would be an easier service for Apple to support than satellite voice. It's useful for emergencies and other low-bandwidth communication https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by chrispeel 5y ago
Would an toroidal aerospike work with rotary detonation? :-) What sort of nozzles can one use with an RDE? I see that one can have multiple rotating pulses in an RDE [1]; I guess with some work the engine designer can control the number of
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by chrispeel 5y ago
blegh...
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by chrispeel 5y ago
The subtitle of the paper "Was the Cure Worse than the Disease?" It seems like a possible alternate subtitle is "I value life lower than that of the US govt's $10M/person [1], so I think we should have let more (poo
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by chrispeel 5y ago
Thanks. I found the FAQ [1] which suggest that items which don't match the guidelines [2], which include political content, can be flagged. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html [2] https://news.ycom
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by chrispeel 5y ago
why is this flagged?
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> (e.g.) a base package for Julia I meant to write not a base package; not in the standard library. Keno: this PDF gives "6 slides worth of reasons Cxx never achieved its full potential :)" https://twitter.com&#x
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by chrispeel 5y ago
The original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVmejDsMrM
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by chrispeel 5y ago
The HN title is a bit misleading and doesn't match the title of the PDF and should be marked (I think) "[2019]". Cxx.jl is an independent package and (e.g.) a base package for Julia. Cxx.jl is no longer actively developed an

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