elevaet

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   by elevaet 5y ago

   > There are a few places in the electrical grid where you woud like to have a big capacitor between the center of the transformer delta and ground. How big should these capacitors be? How does this compare to what's typical right no
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   by elevaet 5y ago

   Are solar storms and coronal mass ejections are underrated as a danger to society? It seems to me like yes. Anecdotally, every time I've brought the topic up with people who work in fields like electrical engineering or for power compa
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   by elevaet 5y ago

   Sleng teng riddim! I wish I could have experienced this on one of the huge Jamaican soundsystems of that era. Before sleng teng, dancehall music was all done with acoustic bass. This changed the game, no one had ever heard bass like that be
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   by elevaet 5y ago

   > radical green agenda What is this radical green agenda that you identify? I'm not disputing that exists, I'm certainly part of it, and I intend to continue leaning into it. I'm just curious how it looks from the outside.
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   by elevaet 5y ago

   This kind of civil discourse is what makes HN such a gem on the internet.
6. 636.▲
   by elevaet 5y ago

   Yes, you're right of course. I just felt obliged to do the pedantic HN thing =D
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   by elevaet 5y ago

   Ahem.. Not OP, but Canadian ex-treeplanter here, and I've planted 1.2M trees. I have many friends who've planted more, a couple probably up into the 10M+ range. It seems insane that we aren't looking at trees more seriously.
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   by elevaet 5y ago

   There's only one wave, sine ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform
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   by elevaet 5y ago

   I wonder how this dynamic would affect virality in relation to truthfullness? As in, will this dynamic tend to reward the spread of "edgy" fake news more than current network paradigms already do, or will it tend to slow its sprea
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    It's a joy to hear that someone else has made sense out of what has been rumbling around in my own head a lot lately.
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    So let me get this straight - you become connected to those who upvoted the item before you, but not to those who upvoted after , right? So this incentivizes the avant garde, rather than the promoters of stuff that's already going v
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    This sounds like a really interesting experiment. I hope you share your results here on HN. This approach reminds me a bit of the saying in neuroscience "if it fires together, it wires together"
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    I think this is one of "the big questions" right now. Philosophy tells us that you can't compute truth without relying on axioms. But computer science tells us that if we accept basic axioms, the computation of truth quickly
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    > iPhone was a first of it's kind. We had smart phones, we had touch screens, but Apple pushed the boundary. Everyone followed. I agree that Apple took the lead, pushed the boundary, and that everyone else followed. But I think it w
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    Yeah this is the crux of it isn't it? And it's not just the problem of manufactured consent either, there is also the problem of mistaken consent that grows organically out of human frailties like our cognitive biases and appetite
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    This is great. But how do we build social media networks that reinforce centrality/influence of accurate truth-tellers, and penalize sensationalism, extremism etc.? This seems like one of the big hard problems of our era. If we can sol
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    The move towards mobile, music, thinner seems an inevitable progression in this vein of technology - analogous to transistor miniaturization that occurs no matter who the players are. The build quality is something we have to credit Apple f
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    I really hope software will replace realtors. In my country at least, the ratio of professionalism, accountability, value-added to fees/earnings is the lowest of any occupation I can think of. It would be really low-hanging fruit for t
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    Wow that would be quite the situation. Do you have anaphylactic reactions to any other fungi?
20. 650.▲
    by elevaet 5y ago

    Agreed, this is completely baffling. Either I'm missing something in the story, or my model of how the world works is broken.
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    No, not for that reason anyways. Ice melt feeds into rivers which flow into the sea.
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    *dire
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    Implementing the recommendations from the Truth & Reconciliation will be a start. It will be a long process of mending and healing that will take time, patience, and deliberate effort.
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    I met a gringo in Mexico who told me this long tale of a smuggling plane that had crashed in Yosemite, and how he and other climbers would hike up there to haul weed out, and how this funded many adventures and climbers at the time. He also
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    When I first heard Dan Carlin's macho vocal persona, I expected a very hawkish and USA-centric view of history. But he completely defied my bias. He really makes an effort to present a balanced and nuanced view of history, from all per
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    I'm not a fan of Metallica's aesthetic (or metal in general), but honestly when I listen to those guys' music I hear genius.
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    Just need another 20 years!
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    Big Foot/Yeti are bears walking bipedally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vqI_jC_qcY It looks a lot more humanoid or ape-like when the bear is far away or the resolution is grainy.
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    There has to be something placed on both ends, in all of the scenarios I've read.
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    I believe you mean a Light Sweet Crude insult.