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London mob attacks trendy cereal cafe(money.cnn.com)
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Absolutely. Like the handful of cases we "discovered" room temperature superconductivity. Until we tracked down something shorting somewhere in our system :-)
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by jeffwass 11y ago
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'" Isaac Asimov
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by jeffwass 11y ago
I've often thought that financial discussions on Hacker News are about as accurate as the portrayal of electricity in Hollywood movies.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Totally tangential, but I'm genuinely curious where you live if you've only needed to pay for transportation twice a year. (Assuming you are counting car and bike maintenance and car fuel in that comment?)
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Linear algebra (and most calculus) didn't really click for me until I needed to apply it to physics problems. The general idea started to make sense in mechanics class when I could see matrices are convenient shorthand for solving mult
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Doesn't the first hand-drawn flip book effectively precede this?
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Thanks. The drawing canvas seems just what I'm looking for. (And yeah, I totally get I can't just flip arbitrary screen screen pixels, any more than I can access arbitrary system memory like I used to be able to with PEEK and POKE
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by jeffwass 11y ago
One thing I loved about the default BASIC on the computers of the 70s and 80s was the ease of doing graphics and easily seeing something tangible on the screen. What is the equivalent of that today? For instance, is there an easy-to-use Pyt
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by jeffwass 11y ago
This effect goes back way before FPS video games. Eg, I got this badly as a kid in the early 80's at Disney World, in the O Canada! Circle-Vision 360° theatre. Within seconds of starting the movie, I felt the whole room moving around a
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Maybe a good excuse after certain insulting hand gestures? "No, I wasn't flipping you off with both hands, I was trying to tell you the number 132 in binary."
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by jeffwass 11y ago
When I studied undergraduate quantum mechanics (physics dept, many years ago) one of our homework problems involved oscillation of the ammonia atom. Ie, the three hydrogen atoms form a triangle, and the nitrogen atom is in a superposition o
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Think the key difference is that Addison Lee provides the vehicles for their drivers, and their drivers have little leeway to refuse certain rides. But Uber drivers provide their own vehicles, and can choose rides as desired.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
My uncle did that in his car behind a truck when he realised he had little gas and maybe 50+ miles to the next gas station. He used his CB to contact the truck in front of him, who welcomed him to draft him along. During the trip, both my u
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by jeffwass 11y ago
You should read your own wiki link, as it clearly disagrees with the absolutes you're trying to define.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Am I the only one who prefers voice quality on a landline? For conversations longer than 1 minute it's just much easier on the ears, in my opinion.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
American North Vs South is cultural, and there's no one clear designation. Having lived in Maryland for 8 years, and 25 years north of the Mason Dizon line on the Northeast Corridor, and having travelled to all 48 contiguous states and
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University of Cambridge Is Getting a Professor of Lego(mentalfloss.com)
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by jeffwass 11y ago
It's also been suggested he put intentional flaws into his designs to foil warlords who tried to build his machines. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/11/1039379883809.html
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by jeffwass 11y ago
I'm more curious how it works when you're doing something requiring intense concentration. Do you feel the need to stop the treadmill to focus on your task?
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Yeah, I saw that Feynman video too when it was posted to HN a few days ago. But despite the claims to the contrary, he did explain magnetism to a layman, at a high level. Feynman's issue, seemingly a pet peeve of his by his tone, was t
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Yeah, no doubt. I was blown away after seeing a scale model solar system on the U Colorado Boulder campus. The tiny size of the planets relative to the distance of the orbits is mind-blowing, especially the outer planets. It's almost a
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by jeffwass 11y ago
If you 'fully' understand it after 5 times, you're doing pretty good. I thought I read somewhere that the writer intentionally obfuscated parts of it to stress that time travel is complicated business.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
I also used the same round-up logic w/ Nash equilibrium and picked one. Clearly over-estimating how much thought the readers have put into answering the puzzle. The NYT glibly informed me my choice was 'not even close'.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Primer is awesome, one of the few (if not the only) time-travel movies worth watching. It's the only movie I ever watched in entirety the very next day after seeing it the first time.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Pretty funny. Not mentioned in the video, but up until the DC segue it's basically an homage to Wakko's "The 50 States and their Capitals" song from Animaniacs (also sung to the same tune of "Turkey in the Straw&quo
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by jeffwass 11y ago
I just sprained my ankle and have some other anecdotes. A couple days after the sprain, my physio told me to ice for about 20 mins and that the last few minutes are the most important, because the icing actually increases blood flow to the
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Hackers take control of a Tesla Model S and turn it off at slow speed(ft.com)
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Conversely, what I thought was pretty cool is seeing the reflection of the sun off the oceans, roughly in the middle of the earth 'disc'. You can see a fuzzy bright spot that stays in the middle of the disc as the earth spins.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
"There's no dark side of the moon, really. Matter o' fact, it's all dark."

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