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by gooseus 7y ago
I've been wondering about various carbon sequestration methods myself and am glad to see these topics on HN since it is an opportunity to harvest relevant knowledge from the community. Apologies for tangential topic, but give me a sec
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by gooseus 7y ago
I'm really curious where you live or work such that your self-driving cars are better than your Uber/Lyft rides and you're observing all these near misses where a real human would have definitely had an accident? Also, I assu
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by gooseus 7y ago
I lump them together in one dimension, the one where they can extract millions from investors based on hype. Yes, Elon deserves the hype more because he has delivered in the past and he certainly has more skin in the game, but it doesn&#x27
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by gooseus 7y ago
I didn't not get the same take-away from that documentary. My takeaway came from looking at the status-seeking and power games this little artificial pond carved out of the internet with the help of gullible people and people with men
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by gooseus 7y ago
True, but it seems like the max weight for a letter/postcard is 3.5 ounces (~99 grams), also a postcard is about 148x105mm while a microSD is 15x11mm. I would propose making your postcard out of a 9x9 grid of 1TB microSDs and tape to g
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by gooseus 7y ago
It means that when you defraud investors over outlandish claims, even if you believe you can do what you are claiming, then you have destroyed trust and made it harder for everyone else in the industry (who isn't making shit up) to get
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by gooseus 7y ago
Nobody said the snake oil salesman doesn't also offer aspirin and stuff that is actually valuable... in fact they'd be a shitty caricature of a snake-oil salesperson if they didn't. I agree it's overly strong language an
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by gooseus 7y ago
Indeed, it's that lake we can see and certainly reach if only we can make it just a little farther into the AI desert.
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by gooseus 7y ago
> Netflix beats them in videos Idk... I feel like good video options are pretty well split between Netflix and Amazon with Amazon Video on the rise and Netflix in decline. Amazon still has random esoteric stuff I want when I look and th
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by gooseus 7y ago
Exactly, when prices are set by what the market will pay then being surrounded by people who are able to pay more for a product will drive that price up and out of your relative reach. Also, never understatement status-seeking when it comes
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by gooseus 7y ago
> state controlled money is something recent too, it used to be that multiple sources minted coins I don't think you're considering a long enough time scale, the minting of coins with the likeness of rulers and symbols of the p
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by gooseus 7y ago
> The largest leap will come last: Libra as a genuine currency, not simply a medium for transaction. This will be function of volume in the previous two use cases, and is understandably concerning to governments all over the world. Well
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by gooseus 7y ago
All the big players in the Association can probably afford this gamble, but if they don't already have the government and the banks on their side, then this thing is DoA. Government only really needs to do a few things to be essential,
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by gooseus 7y ago
Because we accidentally exterminated the Rocky Mountain locusts[0]. [0] Minute Earth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ804ztWPNs
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by gooseus 7y ago
Indeed, I was wondering what familiar sense of righteousness was stirring while reading this comment: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16643/16643-h/16643-h.htm#SEL... Always worth a(nother) read.
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by gooseus 7y ago
I was wondering if this was going to be an article about the Numberphile video, and it is. Video was great, article seems to only add a little of physics to the math in the video, but does provide some VPython code of the model and prompts
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by gooseus 7y ago
Yes. Plenty of people will offer things you can do, but really they're only things that will treat your feeling of helplessness and not things that have any significant chance of improving these scenarios.
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by gooseus 7y ago
It seems like a (relatively) trivial addition to the Autopilot system would be to allow the drive to tell the car when it has made a mistake and if Autopilot(s) consistently make mistakes in the same area then Autopilot should give a specif
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by gooseus 7y ago
Opening quote: > J. Doyne Farmer: The first thing that makes me respect Murray is that unlike all his contemporaries, including Feynman, Weinberg, Hawking, and all the other particle physicists, he saw that complexity is the next big pro
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by gooseus 7y ago
> Maybe read books on communication and people problems How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is still a timeless classic that provides an immediate and permanent buff to self-awareness and social navigation.
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by gooseus 7y ago
If he is senior and friends with your boss in such a way that you can't talk to them (your boss), then he is effectively your boss since he has power over you. You may believe you are smarter than him and a better developer and even a
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by gooseus 7y ago
That is a good point, and an even greater tragedy. This actually reminds of the military, which is another service that provides a way for people to escape tragic home or community situations for a new situation where they might find a sens
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by gooseus 7y ago
Exactly. This line of reasoning is just an excuse that people use to justify maintaining the status quo rather than doing some hard work to change it. These grandpeople had to have been using something else 10 years ago to communicate with
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by gooseus 7y ago
> because of their jobs or their need for social validation, this is just not an option. I don't understand this... are jobs and the source of peoples social validation not options? I used to derive social validation from drinking
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by gooseus 7y ago
I would, and it's based on a pretty simple philosophical/moral/spiritual belief: Anything that increases and improves our knowledge of the universe - including knowledge of how to best use existing tools, and which tools to u
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by gooseus 7y ago
"If you see fraud and do not say fraud, then you are a fraud." - NNT Still something I'm trying to live up to and it's much easier said than done... likely there is a selection mechanism in these organizations where anyo
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by gooseus 7y ago
I'm sure that's what every person who deploys that phrase tells themselves (and everyone else) that this is what they means. The problem is that when "making it" is a huge long-shot (most tech ideas) and "faking it&
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by gooseus 8y ago
I have just recently found Org (last week) as I stumbled on spacemacs and then fell down that rabbit-hole, which had a branch off into this rabbit hole. Now I'm having experiencing some Baader-Meinhof phenomenon as I've seen two o
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by gooseus 8y ago
It would be both... I've read Atwood's claims to be "speculative fiction" rather than "science fiction" because - "Science fiction has monsters and spaceships; speculative fiction could really happen.&quot
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Dit is a Python package for discrete information theory(docs.dit.io)
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