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by hugh4 11y ago
> The technology works by pulling air over a special carbon-absorbing liquid that traps CO2 and turns it into a salt How can CO2 be turned into a salt? There's obviously some chemistry here which the journalist doesn't understa
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by hugh4 11y ago
I can't help but think that I'd be more willing to do business with a company if its two immediate associations of the name weren't "foreigners" and "thieves".
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by hugh4 11y ago
We should be happy that these kind benefactors are investing so much to produce free entertainment for the rest of us.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Sometimes it's better to be weird in just one way than several. So if you're going to be the guy who doesn't shower, it's best not to also be the guy who doesn't get haircuts, wears pants which are the wrong size,
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by hugh4 11y ago
Why do you say this like it's a bad thing?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Now now, let's not get all prescriptive-linguistics up in here. Poured concrete is wet. Cured concrete is dry. Sounds like drying to me.
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by hugh4 11y ago
What about a good rainstorm and an overnight freeze?
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by hugh4 11y ago
I take offence to the notion that beers are fungible.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I can see some appeal to making a miniscule amount of money in my spare time on Mechanical Turk. I mean, I already spend my spare time doing pointless tasks such as solving crossword puzzles and commenting on things. I would see it as a gam
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by hugh4 11y ago
Well, they're both winter sports while the others (apart from "Other") are summer sports. But I take the point -- you only notice that connection because of the way they happen to be arranged on the graph.
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by hugh4 11y ago
2 deaths per hundred thousand hours is really a lot. So if you're a hobbyist, and you fly a light sport aircraft six hours a week for thirty years, you've got a 20% chance of it killing you. (Right? I haven't had coffee yet.)
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by hugh4 11y ago
I don't see it so much as a tool as an experience . The twitter experience is almost always the same, which is why I got bored of it. > What my vague acquaintance had for breakfast > What my vague acquaintance had for breakfast
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by hugh4 11y ago
Dark Castle was pretty good, but of they could get Crystal Quest...
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by hugh4 11y ago
This is actually really interesting. I'd love to see it for voat and HN to get a comparison.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I thought it was going to be an article complaining about the US Navy's tendency to give up cool names in favour of naming ships after politicians who voted to give more money to the Navy, but I was thinking of the USS America. (Which
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by hugh4 11y ago
Is the word "Quay" even used in US English? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quay_(disambiguation) gives quays all over the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore, but none in the US -- with the except
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by hugh4 11y ago
I'm still not sure how that requires a number of employees comparable to, say, NASA JPL.
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by hugh4 11y ago
>I don't think Twitter is going anywhere; it has a huge user base and a lot of people think of it as a branch of the internet. It's not going anywhere in the next year or two. But in five years? Ten years? Twitter's main p
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by hugh4 11y ago
Not a bad idea. Personally I'd still reform it based on the Australian system, though. Rank every single graduating high school student, via a series of tests, from smartest to dumbest. Let each kid nominate their college preferences o
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by hugh4 11y ago
Is the standard Uber Black really a Mercedes S-Class now? What happened to the Town Cars? I'm not sure who the market is for riding in the back of a BMW 3-series is though. People who prioritise a fancy badge over legroom, perhaps?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Why do lower-class children adopted into higher-class families behave more like lower-class children than higher-class children? This seems to only a "paradox" if you believe in some kind of all-nurture no-nature blank-slate theor
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by hugh4 11y ago
You can already get lovingly handcrafted luxury goods if you want them. They're expensive, and they're not going to get cheaper. If I need a new wallet I can buy a cheap one which was mass-produced in a factory for ten bucks, or I
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by hugh4 11y ago
Same deal with videoing stuff off TV, in the days when people did that. Illegal in most jurisdictions, investigated and punished in none.
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by hugh4 11y ago
He'd be better off investing in Rubio.
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by hugh4 11y ago
People colonise not just to get more room or resources. North America was colonised by people who wanted to get away from the political situation at home. Australia was colonised because the government wanted to get criminal away from Brita
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by hugh4 11y ago
The broken aspects of academia are, it seems to me, an unavoidable consequence of needing a scalable system to determine who is doing well and who isn't, so you can give them money. I don't see how to dream up a system that gives
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by hugh4 11y ago
Nobody is quicker to criticise academia than academics. Mind you, nobody is quicker to defend academia when criticised by outsiders than academics too. Academia has misplaced incentives here and there and can certainly be unfair at times,
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by hugh4 11y ago
Well, the fact that Bell Labs is/was an actual real thing, whereas YCR currently consists of good intentions and an amount of money which, while very generous on Sam's part, would fund a Bell Labs size organisation for a couple of
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by hugh4 11y ago
That the program is likely to fail loudly and obviously, but the overfitted model will just sit there being subtly yet perniciously much wronger than you think is, forever.
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by hugh4 11y ago
In India I'd probably want to turn up the air con.

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