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Nickel-based catalyst turns Carbon Dioxide to Methane(news.osu.edu)
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by largbae 2y ago
Why not both? I don't think solar panels are scarce, no need to hold back investment up there.
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by largbae 2y ago
The key is to say it in a base-M136279841 number system.
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by largbae 2y ago
HN has a multinational audience, but for those in the US, do you really want our best and brightest to shun defense while other nations' best and brightest double down? If so, what is the outcome that you would like to see from that po
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by largbae 2y ago
https://genius.com/Harlan-ellison-i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must...
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by largbae 2y ago
I think everyone just gave up and went to pornhub
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by largbae 2y ago
Wouldn't you have to have very accurate information about where the planet is going to be when the light arrives?
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by largbae 2y ago
The original mission was to bring 4. Two astronauts got bumped to make room for the Starliner crew.
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by largbae 2y ago
Why not though? The money has to come from somewhere. Why would UBI not tremendously raise taxes and thereby undermine the incentive to work just as GP observes?
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by largbae 2y ago
Also, what if _everyone_ wants a vineyard in France? Land is still finite, how does one allocate something like that?
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by largbae 2y ago
> We tried to take advantage of Richard's talent for clarity by getting him to critique the technical presentations that we made in our product introductions. Before the commercial announcement of the Connection Machine CM-1 and all
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by largbae 2y ago
I wish that an unhandled error would crash its way up the stack automatically returning error if the next function up can do so, until it is either caught into a variable or can't be returned (panic if error can't be returned). Th
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by largbae 2y ago
This may not be optimal but it works for me: everything that I promise to do, even to myself, goes on the calendar. If I am really going to do something, I should have a plan of _when_, and that plan is in the form of a calendar invite to m
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by largbae 2y ago
True, but unlike BSL you can fork the last Apache commit the day they do.
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by largbae 2y ago
Wouldn't this just hot swap one monopolist policy for another?
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by largbae 2y ago
The All-In podcast predicted this exact strategy for keeping OpenAI and other upstarts from disrupting the existing big tech firms. By giving away higher and higher quality models, they undermine the potential return on investment for start
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by largbae 2y ago
Also the wallet had "please return me, cash reward" written on it. (Bug bounty advertised)
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by largbae 2y ago
I wonder if LLM language conversions will lead to a consolidation of languages. Suppose that you could prototype in any language and autoconvert that resulting functionality to Rust or another language with the right runtime features, would
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by largbae 2y ago
Well for one thing they can start figuring out who is not yet registered on Signal but would likely be in the phone contacts list of a rich person's number that they know. Social engineering attacks succeed with less.
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by largbae 2y ago
To be fair, once one assumes FTL communication is available, relativity is no longer relevant or necessary.
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by largbae 2y ago
Why not both? Planting trees doesn't stop logging, but it definitely helps mitigate the damage. Call it.... Sustainability engineering if you will.
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by largbae 2y ago
I much prefer Kanban to Scrum. It gets straight to the point which is "what is the next most important thing to do", and let's management/stakeholders worry about what's next while engineers focus on the current top
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by largbae 2y ago
Is it possible that the overall increase in flights, areas served, and data collection is simply giving us more coverage?
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by largbae 2y ago
In Kurzweil's version, Moore's law is not a metric of transistor capacity per dollar, but instead is an exponential growth of the amount of information that humans can leverage. He claims that this has been going for thousands of
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by largbae 2y ago
He is Australian right?
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by largbae 2y ago
Sarcasm? I hope?
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by largbae 2y ago
This article has so few details in so many words. A committee decided 40 people wasn't enough to call it an epidemic, but there is no information to suggest that malice is involved. Have they declared epidemics for smaller clusters? Th
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by largbae 2y ago
The GNU effort was driven by dissatisfaction with the license on the prior implementations, and was probably considered disrespectful by the copyright holders of those too...
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by largbae 2y ago
Interesting contributions! Based on his roles in government I expected his famous last name to imply relation to the later presidents, but Vannevar does not appear to be related to them.
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by largbae 2y ago
If I hadn't found your comment I was going to say this is the best HN I've seen in months.

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