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by eric-hu 8y ago
In cooking, I like to think of large thermal masses as a thermal battery. Thus, a cast iron pan is good for searing steaks than typical pans because it's a beefier battery.
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by eric-hu 8y ago
So does this mean the people who were fraudulently sold the Brooklyn bridge actually own it?
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by eric-hu 8y ago
I'm curious about your opinion. I own a 2012 MacBook Pro and I've swapped out the ram, hard drive and battery with non-official components. I'm technically running macOS on non Apple hardware. Do you disagree with this, moral
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by eric-hu 8y ago
I've heard of such systems using pressurized hydraulic fluid in delivery vehicles. Feeding the energy back into the car's kinetic energy worked like an automatic transmission's torque converter, I believe.
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by eric-hu 8y ago
If the only way we can reasonably be certain we're not talking to computers is with computers, that may be a problem. We know we can't even trust hardware to perform only and exactly what we want nowadays (specter).
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by eric-hu 8y ago
I wonder if 4chan could orchestrate another Tay/Twitrer training by setting up message machines and scripting enough calls.
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by eric-hu 8y ago
I think that comment above yours was alluding to how many family gathering trainwreck conversations start: "I'm not (racist, sexist, homophobic, etc), but..."
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by eric-hu 8y ago
> The implicit contract in war is that soldiers are legally authorized to kill because they are risking their own life. Killing people at a distance without risking anyone's life on the side of the shooters, breaks that "contra
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by eric-hu 8y ago
If the robots can interact with people who can't use a computer, then user accessibility could improve over the current situation. Like most technology, this has potential to improve the human condition for many or few. It depends on
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by eric-hu 8y ago
As an iPhone user, I'm holding out for the rumors I've heard about another revamped iPhone SE that will include a headphone jack.
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by eric-hu 9y ago
I recently picked up 3k again after a 10-15 year hiatus. It's still going on, with a ton of changes from the last time I played. I came back to it after a nasty breakup, and it's the one thing consistently keeping my mind occupied
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by eric-hu 9y ago
FYI, I recently deactivated my Facebook account and found I could still use messenger. That seemed like a great compromise to me. I still have had to reactivate it a couple times for some third party login, but I deactivated again right aft
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by eric-hu 9y ago
Quoting in a readable format for mobile: > "I think that our trade deals have been negotiated for a very, very long time now to benefit large, multinational corporations, not to benefit the American worker," Warren added. In an
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by eric-hu 9y ago
Hyundai did until South Korea shut down the joint economic zone in North Korea to protest a rocket launch in 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region It's not a perfect analogy because China a
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by eric-hu 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn > Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group, is a multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei
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by eric-hu 9y ago
I don't believe this will be effective. Thinking back to the VW scandal, did any executive get punished for this? Same question for the Equifax breach and the insider trading issue. My 'money' is on people with money figuring
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by eric-hu 9y ago
Having spent the last two years in various Asian cities, I feel confident in saying most American cities could halve average commute times with no sacrifice to safety. To name a few cities that have much better commutes than the bay or NYC
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by eric-hu 9y ago
I block HN on my computer etc hosts file. If I want something to stick, I have to discover it on mobile or my iPad and jump through an extra hoop to get new links on my desktop. I find the added friction is nice for reducing "empty cal
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by eric-hu 9y ago
Google provides a mechanism for copyright owners to claim those videos and either get advertising rights to them or remove them.
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by eric-hu 9y ago
Garbage trucks still need to make frequent stops compared to most vehicles. I suppose it's possible to make some kind of pickup system that doesn't require stopping, like the mail systems trains used to use. I don't know of a
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by eric-hu 9y ago
Maybe one floor will be an open air office the as long as the empire State building is high.
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by eric-hu 9y ago
The HK bookstore owners disappearing come to mind.
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by eric-hu 9y ago
Not the OP or in the games industry, but when Blizzard rereleased StarCraft 1, they made it a point to reproduce all the known "bugs" of the original. By this time, those are treated as part of the game. I've heard this is tr
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by eric-hu 9y ago
Good luck Julia! Hope to see some blog posts of your findings along the way.
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by eric-hu 9y ago
This sounds plausible, but it seems like speculation. Given two hypotheses: "the Valve hat economy is used for money laundering" and "many Valve gamers are willing to spend money on hats", I'm more inclined to beli
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by eric-hu 9y ago
I'm in Thailand and there's a fund here called 500 tuktuks. The local startup people I talked to didn't find it offensive.
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by eric-hu 9y ago
Has it actually upended the credit system yet? I wouldn't put it past the credit industry to find a way to profit at further cost to consumers.
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by eric-hu 9y ago
I'm learning Thai right now and I just started learning the writing system. Coming from a native English speaking background, speaking Chinese with my family, I can empathize with people whr find tones hard. I've found it fairly e
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by eric-hu 9y ago
So I read that article and the nytimes one it links to. It seems like both your symphony analogy and this study focus on individual performance. That's not how most software teams I've worked in are collaborative. People like Lin
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by eric-hu 9y ago
My last comment wasn't about genders of people you hire. One person was male and one female. My point is about team and company dynamics. If someone seems off enough to their potential teawhy take that chance? There are plenty of good

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