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by kardos 9y ago
Because you'll probably be running the heating -- we're talking Canadian cold here ;-)
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by kardos 9y ago
Somewhat relevant question: how do you handle a Tesla if you run it out of charge? Eg, in comparison to a gas burner which can be be partly refilled with a jerry can. Are there portable battery packs with enough capacity to partly recharge
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by kardos 9y ago
Ah of course. So best case it can accelerate warming cold things to ambient temperature
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by kardos 9y ago
Is there any material that readily absorbs heat at wavelengths between 8 and 13 micrometers? Instead of beaming the heat to space, could you instead put that special coating on a parabolic reflector and use it to heat up an absorbing materi
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by kardos 9y ago
> or somehow convince China to stop building coal-fired power plants They are already convinced: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2017/0303/China...
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by kardos 9y ago
The Arctic and Antarctic are very big. If you could somehow build a structure that would withstand the harsh conditions, I imagine using a mirror or even aluminum foil would be an overwhelmingly cheaper way of reflecting energy back out.
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by kardos 9y ago
I only somewhat doubt this. Someone was thinking "1e-8 bitcoins per pageload, times 100000 people per day, ...". If they sort out how to leverage the GPU via javascript then they might make a little profit.
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by kardos 9y ago
Until someone makes an antipaywall browser extension
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by kardos 9y ago
Re: HPKP suicide, why not pin a handful of 'recovery' keys that you can use when things go sour? Stored off-server or offline so in the hack scenario you don't lose them.
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by kardos 9y ago
> I'd probably reduce usage of some sizeofs just using the constant Why? The sizeof is resolved into a constant at compile time, ie, no runtime cost. I see the 'sizeof(i16)' as conveying more information than a '2&#x2
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by kardos 9y ago
If someone had an exploit like that, there's money to be had by exploiting it in secret and/or selling it to people who do that. Why would they post it online for you for free?
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by kardos 9y ago
> Cigarette companies are focusing their marketing on lower socioeconomic communities to retain their customer base, researchers say. > Advocacy groups say funding for smoking cessation is dropping It seems like an uphill battle to le
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by kardos 9y ago
If Wikipedia is current on the topic [1], then Twitter owns Whisper Systems (RedPhone, TextSecure, ...), but Moxie runs Open Whisper Systems (Signal). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Whisper_Systems
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by kardos 9y ago
Cluster-scale calculations? Probably not. If we could /easily/ port FORTRAN code to JavsScript then you could do this [1] kind of thing with a lot less manual re-implementing. [1] http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder
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by kardos 9y ago
If you can run the processing on the client side, then you can scale up much, much easier and provide whatever service much cheaper, or even free. Eg, you can provision fewer servers, no need to build a processing queue or load balancing se
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by kardos 9y ago
A hoarded vulnerability and a hoarded backdoor key are difficult to distinguish is this context, ie, leaking of either results in the same catastrophe.
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by kardos 9y ago
I don't know. What is their business model? Intuit paid $170M for them, so they're certainly angling to recover at least that much through some monetization strategy. I think it's fantasy to believe that they wouldn't se
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by kardos 9y ago
> How can one trust someone with their email account. Wait until you hear about mint.com.... ;)
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by kardos 9y ago
> Low grade process heat is surprisingly useless in practice, unfortunately. For electricity generation, yeah. What it is that stops us from using it for residential heating? Eg, space heating and for hot water. Is it just the proximity
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by kardos 10y ago
Except that Google can kill those auths.
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by kardos 10y ago
Maybe he can use something that isn't concrete
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by kardos 10y ago
Except not really, you can just look in the street or on the subway to see what people are wearing
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by kardos 10y ago
Until the sham articles start citing each other to game that approach
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by kardos 10y ago
Take up Uber driving and use it as an opportunity to pitch your idea/service to riders: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14166730
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by kardos 10y ago
Even better than that, you hook it into the water supply and it cleans itself.
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by kardos 10y ago
>This affects the current version of Chrome browser, which is version 57.0.2987 and the current version of Firefox, which is version 52.0.2. Firefox 52.0.2 & linux here, and the "L" in the URL looks like a capital i with se
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by kardos 10y ago
Sounds like a weak radio signal! I wonder if we could pass it through a deringing filter to remove some of that noise, eg, like these guys have done: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~oztanb/Papers/spie07paper.pdf
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by kardos 10y ago
You could iterate a bit by leveraging 'joint stereo' mode [1], eg, by considering pairs of rows as left/right channels. And perhaps even further with more 'channels'. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by kardos 10y ago
The obvious question here is: what does JPEG encoded music sound like?
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by kardos 10y ago
I wonder if there is a use-case for this to be the storage device in a low-end VPS?

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