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by eightails 6y ago
> > There is a lot of empty land in the world that isn't useful for people to live in or to grow crops due to lack of rainfall, which also makes those sites more valuable for solar energy. > There is no such thing as 'emp
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by eightails 6y ago
Totally agree. Generally if I can't get the ball rolling remebering last nights dream before I'm really awake, I won't be able to get much detail at all. > Most people have at least 2-4 REM sleep phases at night One of the
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by eightails 6y ago
Also if you accidentally let your Prime roll over for another month and you try to cancel a few days later without having bought anything that month, they'll offer to refund the most recent payment. Happened to me a few weeks ago, I wa
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by eightails 6y ago
> Going for a long range makes their cars unnecessarily heavy. That makes them require more power and increases tire and road wear. To be honest I don't think they are unnecessarily heavy for evs. Base model 3 is a bit over 1600 kg,
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by eightails 6y ago
> Sexual orientation has a known association with handedness That sounds so strange I had to fact-check, and it appears you're right, there does seem to be a measurable association [0]. Perhaps even more interesting, that same artic
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by eightails 6y ago
I think the point was that POW specifically is an inefficient method of verification. They weren't arguing against the notion of using energy to run a virtual currency, just that Bitcoin specifically is needlessly wasteful, so we shoul
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by eightails 6y ago
Problem is that to many from the other side of the Atlantic "dissidents" look an awful lot like "terrorists".
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by eightails 6y ago
Agreed. I also wonder if this kind of article is towards the edge of allowable content on HN regardless of title: it's a politically-charged current-affairs article that isn't particularly intellectually gratifying. Sometimes go
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by eightails 6y ago
Not particularly ground-breaking, but still a good reminder that brute-forcing is becoming more and more accessible. Password managers are rapidly becoming essential
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by eightails 6y ago
> Prodigies which happen to be good in a field related to what their parents are good at. Often the wording used indicates a memory-like reason. For example, finding the rules of chess "familiar." I think this could be equally
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by eightails 6y ago
Last year I built a nas system around the Asrock j4105 itx board, using a flashed dell perc h200 as an hba, in a fractal node 304. I had looked at arm options, including the kobol 64 and boards from hardkernel, but decided that paying a bit
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by eightails 6y ago
> I think we’re going to see PV-covered EV cars in the not too distant future They're already popping up in the development stage [0]. 12 km/hr peak solar charging sounds really quite good, and I like the overall design. The co
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by eightails 6y ago
How hard is it for people to just admit that we probably have inadequate evidence to reach a solid conclusion. This was the first object of its kind and we had very limited observations of it. From what I've read, none of the hypothese
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by eightails 6y ago
I think it can be read either way. In some sections of narration the Culture is described as a true symbiosis, but elsewhere it's admitted and implied that the minds usually end up with more power than humans, and in multiple culture n
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by eightails 6y ago
To list a few benefits: - e2e encryption - many extra chat features (reactions, stickers, replies, polls, etc). It might seem unnecessary but imo they do genuinely increase functionality and ease of communication - scalable to large groups
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by eightails 6y ago
I was somewhat curious too, and from a brief search found a 2004 paper that calculated roughly 1 standard drink/day for women and 2 for men as the limit before you start increasing risk of adverse effects. I haven't looked at the
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by eightails 6y ago
The black-nosed cars made from 2014-2016 had autopilot 1.0 (lanekeeping + radar cruise)
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by eightails 6y ago
Sure the Pine devices aren't particularly powerful. But they're not priced as powerful high-end devices. The Pinebook Pro is $199 -- what other thin, metal chassis ultrabook with reasonable display, input devices etc can you get f
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by eightails 6y ago
> The hangup for me isn't the certainty of death... It's just something about breeding a thing to kill it. Fair enough. I don't necessarily fully agree with that specific argument but I can certainly understand where you&#
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by eightails 6y ago
I agree with a lot of the points you made, though: > Ethically: there's no arguing meat eating is better. None. However well you treat animals you're still ultimately going to kill them. Ultimately every animal is going to die.
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by eightails 6y ago
Yeah could be worth bringing that up during next service. I haven't really had an issue with the two-stage indicators, once I got used to the concept.
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by eightails 6y ago
> Making electric cars isn't too hard (see Tesla) I don't know, I think Tesla is a good example of how difficult it is to penetrate the car market as a new company. It took them nearly 20 years to get where they are today, an
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by eightails 6y ago
It's working fine for me on FF 85
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CD / Color [video](youtube.com)
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by eightails 6y ago
I enjoy both Quanta and Aeon. They get linked on HN somewhat often, and for good reason - they manage to balance being detailed and informative on technical subject matter while still being interesting and readable. The New Yorker and The E
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by eightails 6y ago
Could we? I assumed the whole point was to use a crater as a ready-made, almost-parabolic dish, meaning that only the receiver and suspension wires would have to be sent over -- vastly reducing the required payload vs constructing an entire
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by eightails 6y ago
Most browsers these days give you a list of your history when you hold down the back button. Useful for sites that do this or to get out of redirect loops. But I agree, the sites behaviour is annoying and far from ideal.
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by eightails 6y ago
Hell, since we're talking wall-art here, just embrace the separated look and call it a triptych.
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by eightails 6y ago
I was just thinking how cool it would be to have a colour e-ink display showing something like the current New Yorker cover. They do exist [0] but are likely significantly more expensive again than monochrome, and the 32" panel listed
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by eightails 6y ago
I have nothing against honey - I enjoy it as much as anyone else. My point was more that this honey specifically costs far more than normal honey (or even other boutique honeys with a unique flavour) seemingly just because it has the mark

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