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by khafra 14y ago
I find the 1200kcal => no weight loss claim dubious. However, there's more than two options, because "I eat X" doesn't necessarily mean "at BMR which would not vary with diet, I metabolically convert X at the caloric density listed on t
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by khafra 14y ago
Well, shoot. Looks illegal in Florida too, from a combination of http://www.flhsmv.gov/fhp/misc/News/ScooterRel.htm and http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ... (definition #27). http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statut
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by khafra 14y ago
> There's no equivalent to this behavior in any other vehicle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puLeE7sESeI
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by khafra 14y ago
I've seen lead-acid cell-powered scooters and skateboards. This one looks massively lighter and lower-profile.
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by khafra 14y ago
JohnnyCowboy's concern about early motor failure from the sideloading--do you have estimates on the mean mileage between component failures, and how much replacements would cost?
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by khafra 14y ago
Interesting point on durability. This product fits my use case, but at $1200, if I bought it and it breaks after 100 miles I would be very unhappy.
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by khafra 14y ago
Speaking of which, who's going to be at Nerdapalooza next weekend?
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by khafra 14y ago
If Wallace's theory is correct, your internal monologue about believing or ignoring his theory is an illusion; the only logical response to his theory is to trot it out in conversation if it seems clever, and otherwise ignore it.
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by khafra 14y ago
Why do high-energy lasers need liquid cooling?
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by khafra 14y ago
> Why can't it cool down more than ambient air? You put in X amount of power, and you get out 2X amount of power as light -- therefore additional energy is being taken in as heat and converted to light. Light is a more highly ordered fo
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by khafra 14y ago
That's a Foom, or hard takeoff singularity. Soft takeoff singularity can be done via emulated minds, superhuman but non-recursively-self-improving de novo AI, etc.
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by khafra 14y ago
> It sure isn't. Anyone who can read and comprehend text can answer it with no prior knowledge of the subject. This reminds me of people who think the manpages are a sufficient resource to completely understand the unix cli environment.
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by khafra 14y ago
Yeah. I treaded water in that class for about three weeks before going under. It's a stretch.
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by khafra 14y ago
DARPA challengers have gotten really good at this, even when the road isn't that well marked. I think they can do it. I just hope there's a "sport mode" button to make it launch at its quickest 0-60, drift around corners and such.
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by khafra 14y ago
Workers who don't actually need to concentrate on something with five people behind them yammering about something unrelated, take off your headphones.
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by khafra 15y ago
> Please objectively and exhaustively define the marked terms. CEV[1]! ...maybe. [1] http://singinst.org/upload/CEV.html
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by khafra 15y ago
> One is a highly controlled scenario where all(most all) the externalities can be controlled. The other some extremely complex modeling, which will, at least in my view, always depend on some consensus among the participants which fact
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by khafra 15y ago
If it makes you feel better "eternity outside of our universe" is an incoherent concept; as time without particles moving around makes no sense[1] [1] http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2190
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by khafra 15y ago
I wonder if there's any way to make this into a decorative fixture? A strobe would be annoying, and a large LCD shutter in front would be expensive and spoil the effect somewhat. Any ideas?
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by khafra 15y ago
They invented NiMh batteries that hold their charge for a while; now I can actually use them in game controllers and flashlights and such without needing freshly charged ones every time I've left 'em in the closet for a few weeks. Not a den
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by khafra 15y ago
What's flexibility good for? The government needs a certain amount of tax revenue to run; either they don't get that revenue, or the average tax rate is at a certain level, after all the "flexibility" is taken into account. What's more, th
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by khafra 15y ago
I agree. If someone invented a keyboard I could think creatively at, I might never get any exercise again.
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by khafra 15y ago
I have a few-years-old pair of d3o motorcycling gloves; from the company that made the skier armor. It's not interwoven with kevlar, and I haven't "tested" it; but they have been around for quite a while.
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by khafra 15y ago
> Now, on the attacker's side the picture looks drastically different. The amount of time required to brute-force through the already salted hashes grows exponentially with the length of the pepper string. That isn't drastically differe
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by khafra 15y ago
"show, don't tell" = "get people to commit the fundamental attribution error". -- @stevenkaas
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by khafra 15y ago
> I understand what an equation means if I have a way of figuring out the characteristics of its solution without actually solving it. -- Paul Dirac
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by khafra 15y ago
They're not bad people for doing this. Doing this just demonstrates that they're bad people for pushing SOPA.
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by khafra 15y ago
I think that falls into the "effect-free regulation" pile, rather than the "unanticipatedly harmful regulation" pile. Algorithmically spinning off legally distinct entities to file more lawsuits can't be that difficult.
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by khafra 15y ago
> that the odds of a security hole was close to zero due because "technology development" has removed those holes. I really wish there were a legally sanctioned way to remove the authority to make meaningful decisions ever again from pe
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by khafra 15y ago
Yes, until I came to the comments and figured out the subject, object, and verb, I could not meaningfully parse it.

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