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by daeken 12y ago
> Science isn’t about being right every time, or even most of the time. It is about being more right over time and fixing what it got wrong. So how is a common citizen supposed to know when science is “done” and when it is halfway to don
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by daeken 12y ago
This is really interesting. That said, it looks pretty straightforward to build; looks like there are no novel materials or equipment needed to make this happen, from my reading of it. Given that, why don't we have a full-scale proto
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by daeken 12y ago
Your claim about no vaccine being effective past seven years is 100% nonsense. http://www.immune.org.nz/duration-protection-efficacy-and-ef...
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by daeken 12y ago
Note that this was January 27th, 2014; not 2015.
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by daeken 12y ago
It really is. Facebook is far from bug-free, but I'm a near-constant user and this is the first time in a long time that I can recall it going down completely. I'll be really surprised if it lasts more than an hour, at most.
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by daeken 12y ago
> It must have been a lot slower fighting in leather, chainmail or plate armor than in this ultra light modern equipment. Others have commented on the heft of modern equipment relative to medieval equivalents, but it bears mentioning tha
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by daeken 12y ago
I have no idea whether or not anything will ever happen with it, but I got a Curta teardown poster (shows all of the parts to scale) recently, with the aim of modeling each component. I'd really like to get everything machined, so I c
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by daeken 12y ago
I have little more than a layman's understanding of the nuclear power landscape (I've read a decent bit and watched several talks, but that's about where it ends), but it seems to me that there are at least two reasons: 1) L
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by daeken 12y ago
Guns might preserve the freedom of speech of a few people. Words preserve freedom of speech for everyone else. "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."
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by daeken 12y ago
People being murdered is a shame, but the only way that it can stifle freedom of speech is if we let it. Obviously the person(s) murdered lose their ability to exercise that freedom when they're murdered, but the point is to continue
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by daeken 12y ago
> How is freedom of speech best defended in the face of unreasonable people who have no limits to what they are prepared to do? By everyone continuing to utilize their freedom of speech. It's really that simple. The only way to lo
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by daeken 12y ago
Even if they weren't even-handed, it wouldn't change a thing. They could be publishing a newspaper named "Fuck Muhammad" and it'd still be equally wrong for them to have been attacked in this way. I'm not enti
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by daeken 12y ago
Male, because that's her genetic sex. Note that gender and sex are two different, not necessarily correlated things. Sex is the sum of your physical characteristics; gender is what you feel and/or identify as. She identifies as
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by daeken 12y ago
> This is tantamount to saying "yeah sometimes our airplanes crash, so from now on we'll just make sure we have less passengers ride in the newer models". Which would be a pretty reasonable thing to say if you had a large
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by daeken 12y ago
SETI exists for that tiny, tiny chance that in the few years (very, very, very few) we look at data, the Earth is receiving transmissions from a remote part of the universe. Voyager's messages are far more likely to make contact with
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by daeken 12y ago
You didn't get the HN seal of approval.
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by daeken 12y ago
I think the use of "cryptographically" there is a bit silly, but otherwise they're spot on. You could have a billion computers, each trying a billion unique guesses per second, for a billion years, and you would've only
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by daeken 12y ago
FYI, DMT production in the human brain is not supported by any scientific studies. There were studies that found negligible amounts in rat brains, but those have not been successfully duplicated. So it's possible that it's there
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by daeken 12y ago
My experience is similar to yours; I got mine about a year ago and for the first 3-4 months I used them heavily, but I can't recall the last time I really used them. However, not being in SF, my experience with people's reactions
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by daeken 12y ago
Entropia Universe has client-side assets, but the important information (how they go together) is 99% driven by the server, AFAIK.
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by daeken 12y ago
Just FYI, PATH is always reset by su to prevent exactly this. Same with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other security-critical environment variables.
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by daeken 12y ago
I believe you're thinking of Cybertown by Blaxxun Interactive.
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by daeken 12y ago
> And rockets tend to explode sometimes. Chemical rockets -- the only ones we've ever actually used -- explode because that's what they're intended to do. The only difference between a successful rocket firing and a catas
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by daeken 12y ago
Accidental input is a big issue for watches in general. But after a month or so with the Moto 360, I think they struck a good balance. It generally doesn't respond to your input unless you rotate it towards you, which kicks on the di
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by daeken 12y ago
Wow, why has no one done the rotating bezel yet? I hadn't thought about it before, but that seems like such a simple, obvious way to interact with a smartwatch. That should be done.
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by daeken 12y ago
Could not agree more. There's always that voice in the back of your head wondering why you got a funky error message when your input contained an apostrophe; it doesn't take a lot to tip over the edge into something risky, even i
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by daeken 12y ago
Argh, I do that every time. Quite right.
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by daeken 12y ago
Nothing out of the ordinary for the ISS, as far as I know. However, it was carrying the Arkyd-3 test platform satellite, which is a bit of a bummer.
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by daeken 12y ago
In addition to the COTS resupply provisions for the ISS, this craft was also carrying the Arkyd-3 satellite (basically the whole Arkyd space telescope minus the optics, to serve as a test platform). While this is always sad, no lives were

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