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by dalke 10y ago
I just want to know what you mean by the statement "HÖMDRY has a blue UV light that kills germs". Is it an effective germicide, or is that added feature there as a marketing gimmick?
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by dalke 10y ago
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie... : > Notice the gap? There's no software priced between $1000 and $75,000. I'll tell you why. The minute you charge more than $1000 you need t
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by dalke 10y ago
I'll note the level of hating you have towards a Dyson product to point out that you don't believe that hard work alone is enough of a justification to avoid criticism. As you certainly know by now, the home-UV-for-germicidal-purp
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by dalke 10y ago
(To other HN readers, the direct page is https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/homdry-the-perfect-home-h... ). To account "HOMDRY", germicidal UV sources are usually at 254 nm. What is the frequency of your ligh
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by dalke 10y ago
That shows where my brain is at. It concerns a Javascript UI package ( https://github.com/trueadm/inferno ) and not an OS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) ).
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by dalke 10y ago
I enjoyed this piece when it came out in 2015. I think it's worth a read for those who haven't seen it before. The previous HN comments are at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9335441 . There's also a fol
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by dalke 10y ago
Is IoT missing the corporate connection? Because VisiCalc is what got companies interested in microcomputers. It was not, however, the first piece of software which made the microcomputer useful. Credit for that should go to Electric Penc
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by dalke 10y ago
The author made a mistake by linking to the embargoed URL that news writers can read, not the actual URL for plebs like us. The article is at http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/9/e011329 .
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by dalke 10y ago
The number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy is about as the same as the number of galaxies - 1e11 to 1e12: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/How... . Double-checking: https:/&#x2F
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by dalke 10y ago
It's not like this is any sort of secret, or even new. As such, it won't make waves as it's the status quo. https://scholarsandrogues.com/2007/06/25/bushs-patronage-app... compares the ambassad
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by dalke 10y ago
Perhaps http://www.opensecrets.org/obama/ambassadors.php ? > U.S. presidents have long rewarded big campaign donors, fundraisers and other loyalists with ambassadorships, and Democratic President Barack Obama seems
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by dalke 10y ago
http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/ess-news-and-events/news-head... - "Conservationists Crying Wolf? New Study Shows Yellowstone’s Ecosystem Dynamics More Complex than Trophic Cascade" "Our results contribut
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by dalke 10y ago
While we could have an engaging conversation on judicial review in the US, including the implied powers derived from Article III and Article VI, the Federalist papers, the state ratification debates, and English common law, I prefer to poin
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by dalke 10y ago
> "ID (which is often breathlessly conflated with creationism)," I think you do a misfavor by using the phrase "breathlessly conflated" in a comment which supports being aware that others may be "starting from a
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by dalke 10y ago
Correction: "directly from electricity" should be "directly from electrolysis."
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by dalke 10y ago
Your goal is to replace mining. If we had free energy (let's say "zero point energy"), then we could stop using natural gas and get the H2 needed for the Haber process directly from electricity. There would be no need to repl
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by dalke 10y ago
We extract natural gas as part of the Haber process to provide nitrogen. We mine phosphate rock for fertilizer, since P is one of those elements plants need. Mined potash provides the K. We can do without them, but we'll take a huge hi
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by dalke 10y ago
I am smug for pointing out that I dislike your original smugness. Understood.
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by dalke 10y ago
True, you didn't. But you did say it maximized elegance, which means you think a Forth in Forth cannot be more elegant. In practice, some people adore Forth. Most do not. Some people adore Prolog. Most do not. Relatively more people ad
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by dalke 10y ago
How do you judge that a Lisp implementation in Lisp is more elegant than a Forth implementation in Forth?
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by dalke 10y ago
http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/fry/MolEcol.pdf has a table of π for subspecies of the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia). The smallest value on that list is 0.00095 or 1 in 1052. The next smallest values a
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by dalke 10y ago
Citation for the "0.176", please? There are many scoring functions for DNA similarity. Citation for the same numbers for chimpanzee subspecies, please? Also, which Nigerians do you refer to? Huasa? Ibo? Because I think you meant t
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by dalke 10y ago
In the post you replied to I pointed out gorilla (with three subspecies, two of which are Gorilla gorilla gorilla and Gorilla gorilla beringei) and orang-utans (with Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus and Pongo pygmaeus abelii) as two species with rec
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by dalke 10y ago
"The locals" is an odd term. I lived in New Mexico, where some of people who are raised in Spanish speaking households trace their local ancestry back to before the founding of the US. The Hispanics of Puerto Rico were there befor
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by dalke 10y ago
My definition is: has it been assigned a binomial name? I'll also accept if the process has started. The PNAS paper for the first event does not give a binomial. It says: > We treat the endogamous group as an incipient species becau
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by dalke 10y ago
The first description in what you pointed to says "could signify the beginning of a speciation event". It doesn't say the result is a new species. The second description concerns a pairing between two hybrids which started a
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by dalke 10y ago
Have you looked into many other stack VM implementations? 500 lines of Python seems entirely reasonable.
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by dalke 10y ago
It was debunked years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-second_rule . In addition to the links given there, http://www.aston.ac.uk/news/releases/2014/march/five-second-... . T
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by dalke 10y ago
Yes, my complaint is that you are highjacking an article on species differentiation in giraffes to talk about purported human subspecies. No, we emphatically do not have that high of a genetic difference. Quite the opposite. The diversity i
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by dalke 10y ago
They are "generally classified as separate species", says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear#Taxonomy_and_evolut... : > A comparison of the nuclear genome of polar bears with that of brown bears reve

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