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by davi 17y ago
dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=593140 (2 points), http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592043 (86 points)
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by davi 17y ago
I bet we wouldn't have started thinking about it in the 9th century... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Ibn_Firnas
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by davi 17y ago
biology sets lower bounds for what is possible I was surprised when I evaluated this to be a true statement. As a biologist I'm used to marveling at how optimal everything seems in the natural world, and at how evolutionarily distant org
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by davi 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592143
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by davi 17y ago
Greenspan quote from 2007: "I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk. Protection of property rights, so critical to a market economy, requires a critical mass of owners to sustain political s
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by davi 17y ago
any tips on gently telling management to back off, they don't know what they are doing In this circumstance, "gentle" can be totally useless. Firm, declarative, crystal-clear assertions based on reasoned arguments sometimes are the best
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by davi 17y ago
That's not what I read. The guy kept trying, despite the rejection of his first book. "My first effort was apprentice grade; I can do better." That's a good attitude to have.
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by davi 17y ago
The Man Who Sold the Moon, by Robert Heinlein http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Sold-Moon/dp/0671578634 (spoilers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon ) Then, for fun, go on to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, wherein a great
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by davi 17y ago
It's because I could never build anything, I just competed with myself to come up with ideas that nobody else would come up with. Avoided local maxima of the at-that-time-doable, while still making -- completing designs on paper = itera
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by davi 18y ago
Cool. Some tech specs: http://www.i-movix.com/en/component/docman/doc_download/23-s... (pdf) I know CCDs but not CMOS so well. Image quality seems pretty remarkable. Fast lens, fast readout. If you add a bunch of storage, how long can
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by davi 18y ago
I'm kind of curious/concerned about the future of role-playing -- will it get picked up by kids today? What's your perspective on this a as a father of today's children? Seems like the 15-year-old at least could get into the role-playing
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by davi 18y ago
No. D&D can be played as a dungeon crawl series of encounters, but for me the best campaigns are ones with narrative arch and great characters with strong, cohesive, and complicated personalities.
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by davi 18y ago
Yup. I came up with some back of the envelope numbers around this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470181
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by davi 18y ago
"18. The WebOS. It probably won't be a literal translation of a client OS shifted to servers. But as applications migrate to servers, it seems possible there will be something that plays a central role like an OS does." http://ycombinator.
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by davi 18y ago
For those that missed it whilst skimming the first time (like me): http://www.obsidianportal.com/ It does look pretty cool.
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by davi 18y ago
much better than the submitted article, thanks
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Interactive Case-Shiller housing price graph: individual cities vs. mean(nytimes.com)
1 points by davi 18y ago|0 comments
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by davi 18y ago
(As seen on Slashdot; posted better link here.)
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Towed microphone array visualizes formation of fish schools(sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
2 points by davi 18y ago|1 comments
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by davi 18y ago
I was troubled, but read the article. It was a little breathless, but seemed okay. Though I didn't like clicking through a link on HN and seeing, essentially, "Garden of Eden located!" I was suspicious enough that I googled Gobekli Tepe a
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by davi 18y ago
I remember when this was the community's response to declining quality on reddit, too. "Just upvote better articles!" It didn't work. I've lowered my threshold for flagging articles. Dunno if it does any good though. ------ edit: 5 minute
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by davi 18y ago
Or wants to be a lucrative commercial niche offering, like Neurolucida is for neuroanatomists? ( http://www.mbfbioscience.com/neurolucida )
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Progress in understanding deep brain stimulation(arstechnica.com)
2 points by davi 18y ago|0 comments
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Bat flight & locomotion: videos plus discussion(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
1 points by davi 18y ago|0 comments
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by davi 18y ago
farming, e.g.: http://www.ruralmfg.com/mall/GS02_OutbackS2.asp
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by davi 18y ago
wattvision sounds interesting, hadn't heard of it previously
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The mysteries of anesthesia(discovermagazine.com)
1 points by davi 18y ago|0 comments
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by davi 18y ago
You can help the spike subside by making HN look extra boring I wouldn't mind if, in the service of this cause, the editors killed more fluffy stories.
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by davi 18y ago
Much better put than my post. There's some resonance between the scalable & non-scalable revenue streams. The details of what one does in the non-scalable portion can be massively amplified in the scalable portion. It's as if, for some
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by davi 18y ago
This attribute isn't quite boolean. For example, a big rock band may have to show up to do a set, but the dissemination of their music (i.e. advertisement for their live shows) is now highly scalable. ($1000 tickets for upcoming Phish show:

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