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Dreamlab: Donate phone CPU cycles while charging(vodafone.com.au)
4 points by ilyagr 7y ago|0 comments
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by ilyagr 7y ago
I prefer stop signs to roundabouts. In Ireland, I experienced several low-radius roundabouts in succession, and they always made me nauseous. If roundabouts are made large enough to be pleasant, they are fine but take up a lot of space. I&#
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by ilyagr 7y ago
I am a fan of buying empty tea bags and then filling them with loose-leaf tea. The more enviromentally friendly way to have tea that is not oversteeped would be to use a metal strainer, but those can be a pain to clean. I didn't know t
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by ilyagr 7y ago
Medical insurance will often cover therapy, even if you are not diagnosed with a Major Disorder of Doom. Of course, the deductibles can also add up.
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by ilyagr 7y ago
I disagree, I think it's very much essential to the point. For one, 10^(i*pi) is some horrible complex number, which is what you'd expect when exponentiating random complex numbers. Exercise: figure out what it is from the rotatio
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by ilyagr 7y ago
From this point of view, it's not easy to see what exp(1) should be. The beauty is in the connection.
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by ilyagr 7y ago
Yes, that's exactly why I think Ithkuil should have an error-correcting layer on top of it. It's interesting if one could be designed in a way that is different from natural language, but still useable and effective.
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by ilyagr 7y ago
It seems to me that, in order for such an informationally dense language to actually be used, especially as spoken word, it would need to include a layer of error-correcting codes on top of the basic language. That could be a fascinating li
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by ilyagr 7y ago
Perfect, thanks!
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by ilyagr 7y ago
Are there any references for what these look like?
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by ilyagr 7y ago
From the "trivia" section of the article (not sure what their source is). "Von Braun was heard to say that it would have been preferable to develop rocketry for space travel rather than war. But if it was necessary to develop
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by ilyagr 8y ago
The Farey sequence that is central to this book also appears in the functional pearl on "Enumerating the Rationals" that recently appeared on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18515413
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by ilyagr 8y ago
I can't help but imagine the world where the state government is in one time zone and the federal one is in another. At least one of the traveler, the airport, and the FAA & TSA will be on a different time zone than the others.
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by ilyagr 8y ago
Nore also that Borges is Argentinian, not French.
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by ilyagr 8y ago
Seems like if we keep boiling, that's about what it takes to boil lake Baikal.
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by ilyagr 8y ago
Sounds neat. However, the fact that `ls -l` either subtracts two numbers or calls a shell command, depending on whether there exist valriables 'ls' and 'l' in the Pythom environment, looks like a security nightmare waiti
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by ilyagr 8y ago
I wonder, will this be taxed the same as lottery winnings? Or is this post-tax $1000?
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by ilyagr 8y ago
I think your goal should be not to judge to what degree each side is correct, but to learn a little about what people in the area are doing, what they did in the past, what they find important, and why. That way, there is a lot more you can
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by ilyagr 8y ago
It's counterintuitively hard to send something into the sun. You have to cancel out all of Earth's velocity. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/07/heres-why-we-cant-just...
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by ilyagr 9y ago
Or oxycodone.
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by ilyagr 9y ago
I believe it's this intersection, judging by the signs in the beginning of video. Paint is not great. https://goo.gl/maps/V9qnLYTL2tn
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by ilyagr 9y ago
How well-defined is the angular velocity of a galaxy? Since it's not a solid disk, there's no reason for it to be the same for different regions. Is there any uniformity at all, e.g. do stars at the same distance from the center m
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by ilyagr 9y ago
I highly recommend Agatha Christie's autobiography. Reading in was a happy experience for me. The descriptions of the Middle East in the early 20th century are also interesting. https://play.google.com/store/books&
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by ilyagr 9y ago
The obvious problem is that too make enough gas to power a gasoline car, you'll need to spend more energy than it takes to charge a Tesla (likely many times more, I'm not sure what the energy efficiency of the conversion process i
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Inside Moscow's Metro(washingtonpost.com)
95 points by ilyagr 9y ago|47 comments
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by ilyagr 9y ago
That's an awesome video, thanks!
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by ilyagr 9y ago
It's actually 2.7km, approximately 8600 feet.
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by ilyagr 9y ago
If your numbers are right, the quotient is about 2.7km which is 8555 feet.
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by ilyagr 9y ago
My guess is that Turing thought that you wouldn't need to make such a choice, and that a robot that could analyze the intricacies of medical diagnosis could surely be able to talk about the weather. It's much like you don't h
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by ilyagr 9y ago
I'm very confused about how bad this is, the article seems unclear. Does it allow malicious apps steal the OTA codes? Does it allow malicious apps to steal the keys used to generate the OTA codes? Does it allow a user to see the keys?

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