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by jobu 10y ago
Most tree-grown fruits fall off the tree easily when ripe, so something like this cherry harvester seems like it would be a lot more efficient - https://youtu.be/YKu6xwJptkc?t=2m4s
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Yes, this is what I meant.
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> My contrarian opinion: Walmart is going to create some hard times for Amazon. That's not going to happen anytime soon. Walmart is trying to offer service like Amazon, but they don't have their shit together enough to succee
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Their current OLED TVs are absolutely stunning, and I really like what they've done with WebOS. Unfortunately the price is not something I can justify right now.
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In the glixel article, Ty Franck made this comment: "... because endings are so important – you better know what your ending is and you better be setting that ending up right from the beginning. Otherwise it just feels muddy and unsat
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> As Franck says, it just seems like they had no idea where to go after the first one. That seems to be the case. Drew Karpyshyn, the lead writer of ME1 and ME2, admitted that his original planned ending wasn't "super fleshed
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SpaceX addressed the issue with the turbine cracks today in an email Reuters: SpaceX said it has "qualified our engines to be robust to turbine wheel cracks. However, we are modifying the design to avoid them altogether,” said spokesm
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> Seems pretty normal to me. It may be normal for a cable company to nickle and dime their subscribers, but it's still frustrating. The "Comcast TV" app for iOS and Android is basically the same thing as the Roku app and
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And if you disable adblock the page becomes almost unreadable. Here's a site which appears to have basically the same info without the bullshit - https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/air-pollution-raise-dementi...
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Couldn't they spin off Westinghouse into its own company and let it fail on its own instead of bringing down Toshiba?
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Exactly what I was thinking - it's interesting, but not very practical or useful. Onsite automated construction is likely a long ways off, but they do it right now for prefab house production: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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> Cannabis use is likely to increase the risk of developing schizophrenia and other psychoses; the higher the use the greater the risk. Very scary! I wonder if age influences this. This is really weird though: > In individuals wit
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> So the big developers and financiers wait until the market goes to insanity levels before making a little boom of construction. Seems likely that housing market insanity also puts political pressure on the zoning and permitting proce
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Single payer would be ideal for most Americans, but those in power (both government and industry) seem to prefer the high deductible health plans with health savings accounts. Unfortunately I don't see high deductible plans working for
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> Tech industry completely ignores it because it's not sexy enough! More like tech journalism ignores it. There's already been a ton of investment in farm automation. John Deere Autonomous Tractor - https://www.y
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Flip the equation and think of it as I = V/R As resistance nears zero, the current becomes infinite, regardless of the voltage.
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That NYT article doesn't talk about it, but the 7-minute workout can be repeated 2-3 times once you start hitting the ceiling with one pass.
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In the US it seems like the stuff that really goes viral is just bullshit schemed up by people trying to make a few bucks: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503... And as the
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Essentially this means they're willing to let all 135 defendants walk rather than reveal the source code. (IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that when one of them goes free because of this, it sets a precedent that all defendants can use
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Here's a blog post with a little more technical information: http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=822... Link to the paper: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract&#x2
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> I think Trello scales poorly above 5-10 people while Jira is the least-worst option for running a project at any team size. This my experience as well. What are people using that works so much better than JIRA? JIRA has problems, but
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It would be interesting to see the details of the partnership between Panasonic and Tesla. There must be some revenue sharing as well as technology/patent sharing in the deal. Panasonic is committed to investing $1.6B of the $5B total
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SMBC did a pretty interesting comic about quantum computing a few weeks ago: "The Talk" - http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3 It was a collaboration with Scott Aaronson ( http://scottaaron
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This was my question as well. There are some studies showing that carbon nanotubes can be as dangerous as asbestos, so it seems likely silicon nanowires could be as well: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbo
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This was one of the more frustrating parts of this past election cycle: "No candidate talked much about automation on the campaign trail. Technology is not as convenient a villain as China or Mexico, there is no clear way to stop it,
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A Bloomberg article mentions a special formula for taxing Apple that may be the source of the issue: "To comply with European rules, Ireland finally ended its zero-tax policy in 1990. After that, Apple and Ireland agreed that the prof
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My kids and I game on the family computer some, but nothing that requires bleeding edge technology. To me the performance of AMD GPUs is good enough, but they produce a ton more heat and require more active cooling than a comparable NVidia
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Third sentence in the article: The power flows from a mix of solar panels and hydroelectric turbines including the Hoover Dam. It seems odd to think about hydroelectric power in a desert as a renewable resource, but it does come from sno
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Have you tried Alpha-GPC? Some people say it works better than CDP Choline, but it seems to be very situational. Lately I've had more issues with staying focused and refocusing after distractions and I've started looking into noot
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There are a lot of small things that are making me hate iOS 10. 1) Unlock process: When the fingerprint reader fails it now takes several presses on the home key to get a keypad to pop up so I can input my code. With previous versions I co

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