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Ask HN: Implications of Graphene discovery
2 points by getonit 16y ago|0 comments
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by getonit 16y ago
Meh. If that's all you're going to tell us then I ain't interested... when you have something to say, SpaceX, I'll be ready.
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by getonit 16y ago
Indeed, and I do :)
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by getonit 16y ago
AKA Spam-by-proxy...
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by getonit 16y ago
That's the only one I could imagine encountering, and if I've not saved the original, serves me right AFAIC. But then, if I save the second with a higher-than-otherwise-optimal setting, then I can reduce the compounding of effects. It's cos
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by getonit 16y ago
Could you then give me a common use where a loss not noticeable to the human eye is, in fact, important?
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by getonit 16y ago
Viewer gullibility?
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by getonit 16y ago
Did he mean it literally, or just that you can fiddle with compression until you don't notice any artefacts? At that point, it's as good as lossless for most uses, IMHO.
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by getonit 16y ago
I'd imagine that their marketing department doesn't get to make too many tech descisions, even if they do seem to be more aware of their product's problems.
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by getonit 16y ago
While I agree with the whole article, I take issue with the phrasing of the title - You are exactly as successful as you want to be if by 'you', you mean your procrastinating, excuse-seeking, risk-averse subconscious. You know, the 'real'
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by getonit 16y ago
3 people, myself included, found the name synonymous with a list of girlfriends. I know the car-price meaning, but it's not what I think of first. Now there's a market indicator :)
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by getonit 16y ago
If it's going into a database, it has an integer index that is separate from everything else. It's the law.
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by getonit 16y ago
That - in a nutshell - is the difference between 'finding' and 'growing' staff, and I'm of the opinion that we should be shooting for growing unless there's a damned good reason to take the shortcut of just finding. It's an easy productivit
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by getonit 16y ago
I'd like to use it without connecting it to a bank account - I don't want that level of automation, but I'd be perfectly happy to enter the information manually. I'm currently writing my own glorified spreadsheet type system, but you've alr
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by getonit 16y ago
The word 'curious' in the OP's question doesn't jive with the word 'confrontational' in your reply, IMHO.
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by getonit 16y ago
Your personal experience appears to differ from peer-reviewed studies...
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by getonit 16y ago
I have accidentally managed to train myself to get up, cross the room, turn my alarm off and go back to sleep... all without any conscious thought. It's not very helpful.
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by getonit 16y ago
Hence the 'mostly'. I'm saying that the relative efficacy of that approach is lower than generally believed. It's woods-for-the-trees, IMHO.
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by getonit 16y ago
Debunked reasoning: You still eat X calories per day, you still use Y calories per day, storing or using fat depending (mostly) on the difference between X and Y. The relative timing of consumption and use have a demonstrably negligible eff
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by getonit 16y ago
I watched Toy Story in 3D (with the kids! :) ) and I kept forgetting it was in 3D... I just kinda tuned it out to it, I don't know how to explain it. The 3D aspect was a complete waste after about 5/10 minutes of novelty. Like Murch says, m
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by getonit 16y ago
I get one or two spam emails a week, and my spam folder gets about 300 a day. I've even given up checking for false positives, as that was a waste of time. If that ain't perfect, I don't need perfect :)
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by getonit 16y ago
That's awesome, but be wary of your bandwidth rocketing up faster than you can afford to pay for it...
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by getonit 16y ago
...or you could just use gmail, and never have to worry about spam again ;)
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by getonit 16y ago
Analysing a race performance by looking at a rostrum - those who make the rostrum have performances worth looking at in detail, and skipping those that don't can save you a lot of time.
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by getonit 16y ago
Then they wouldn't match a (real) compass.
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by getonit 16y ago
Asshole is subjective, and unhappiness is not automatically justified by its existence.
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by getonit 16y ago
To reflect the fact that people didn't believe her, I'd guess.
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by getonit 16y ago
You didn't try it, then?
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by getonit 16y ago
"it will" != "will it"
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by getonit 16y ago
> Did I screw the message up? Or was it difficult to comprehend? I chose to ignore the main question, which yes, I did comprehend and no, you didn't screw up - it just doesn't interest me. The sub-point I was interested in - the broader

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