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by finnh 8y ago
Recent New Yorker article about controlling actual robotic arms via implanted “Utah” arrays: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-to-control...
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by finnh 8y ago
> He hopes that the research group will shortly achieve a temperature increase of at least 110°Celsius .. So, enough to boil water? Once you can execute a phase change you can generate electricity, not just heat....
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by finnh 8y ago
L-dopa, yup. I don’t think GP meant actually ambien. Also GP if you check this - what are the downsides of gabapentin your relative was trying to get away from? I thought that was a fairly benign drug, even for long-term use.
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by finnh 8y ago
Amazingly, ambien has had a similar effect for a small group of patients, returning them to consciousness for hours at a time after months or years of coma https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/can-
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by finnh 8y ago
I would settle for the ability to use logical OR when searching issues/pull requests, or to combine multiple negated searches. "is:pr is:open ( author:bob OR author:jim )" The lack of this pretty basic functionality makes iss
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by finnh 8y ago
I agree, but there's plenty of blame to go around ... In particular, I think the "greatest generation" also bears heavy responsibility as they, after all, filled out the ranks of the AARP during the 80s.
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by finnh 8y ago
By the same logic, Google cannot charge much for targeting ads at those same people. So I am not sure what your point is.
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by finnh 8y ago
Related: The New Yorker just a few weeks ago published a great profile[0] of the Virgin Galactic pilots, including a lot of detail about Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites, and WhiteKnightTwo. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazi
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by finnh 8y ago
So interesting. "wirehead" addiction is an interesting plot point in "The Ringworld Engineers", but I didn't realize it was so well understood & implementable.
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by finnh 9y ago
Yes, we give them “a pass” to do their jobs. We elect them to manage all the affairs of government, including the easy ones.
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by finnh 9y ago
One is supplied by a corporation that can be negotiated with and for whom well-established regulations exist. The other is a very, very difficult problem. Is your argument that, until the homeless problem is dealt with, we should stop doin
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by finnh 9y ago
My professor-of-sanskrit friend chimes in: The Germans were deep into Pannini in the 1800s, and the Russians were as well. So it's possible the first point overstates the degree of ignorance of Pannini, at least on Markov's part =
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by finnh 9y ago
I just upvoted you, bc (a) funny and (b) TIL a new word (rubato).
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by finnh 9y ago
Well, FB's also actively being used to promote genocide against Rohingya[0][1]. It takes a lot of "positive impact" on elections to outweigh a genocide [0] https://qz.com/1170111/is-facebook-playing-a-pa
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by finnh 9y ago
Most nights: in bed by 9, read until 10-11, sleep until 6-7. So, on average, 8, with occasional swerves into 7 or 9.
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by finnh 9y ago
Ski Resorts and Go Kart Tracks are non-moving locations. Scooters that you can leave anywhere, and find anywhere - that's not just "helmet rental in location X". That's "helmet rental _anywhere_". Seems like
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by finnh 9y ago
Also: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/project-cybersyn/
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by finnh 9y ago
I mean “not cheesy”. I’m not talking about how realistic it is.
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by finnh 9y ago
The one of the left ("Moonlit Dreams") is just obviously fake-looking, to me, even before the article's tells. The clouds-behind-the-moon issue is pretty obvious, which might be twigging my "blatantly fake / videog
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by finnh 9y ago
This is slowly changing. Here in Seattle we just went through a major shift where (most) public elementary schools start early, and the middle/highschool kids shift later.
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by finnh 9y ago
yup. this was a great whitepaper: https://ponzico.win
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by finnh 9y ago
Here in Seattle, at least, recycling has transitioned to blue and green is now used for municipal compost bins. I think SF is the same.
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by finnh 9y ago
Banks can't loan out more then they have in deposits (unless they themselves have borrowed from someone else, and so on). In fact, they can't even loan out every dollar that's been deposited - there are reserve requirements
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by finnh 9y ago
There are some good answers here already, but I'm going to take a crack at it too =) Say you have a random hash function that produces (unsigned) int values. So, for all inputs, hash(x) will be in the range [0, 2^32). - How many diffe
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by finnh 9y ago
Yes, exactly. Enron purposefully caused brownouts throughout the western US as part of their price-manipulation schemes.[0] . They shutdown a power plant in direct contravention of a federal order to maintain full output to help with th
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by finnh 9y ago
This is a great post to read in comparison with iambateman's [0]. You prefer Snapchat because it is a space where you are safe to be yourself, without worrying about parents/uncles/etc seeing you. But iambateman's poin
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by finnh 9y ago
Increasing your basal rate of caloric consumption (and, thus, CO2 exhaled) is hard .
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by finnh 9y ago
Nice use of the "House of Leaves" technique for heightening dramatic tension in the face of saccades. was sorting the numbers into the wrong order.
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by finnh 9y ago
Not quite - liquidity helps prevents recessions. When recessions happen, people (in the aggregate) work less than they otherwise would. Our true source of wealth is our output, which is the product of (work * productivity). See Krugman’s s
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by finnh 9y ago
Only for really big things like Instagram that have a network effect helping them, and as such threaten the incumbent. For smaller features / ideas, it's much less risky to copy than to buy a company (for, say, 10-100M) and hope t

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