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by laser 6y ago
But if this reserve is 6-25 billion cubic feet, that’s probably just a drop in the bucket as annual global production is 15-20 billion cubic feet and US reserves are over 700 billion cubic feet.
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by laser 7y ago
On one consumer iOS app with email and apple sign in as the two available options, 34% opt for apple, 66% for email. No meaningful change in conversion rate, but this generally isn't an issue 90%+. The prior arrangement wasn't jus
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by laser 7y ago
OneWeb has an office in Mountain View apparently: https://www.oneweb.world/contact-us
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by laser 7y ago
I'm not sure this sort of meta-comment is allowed. But, given the importance of this information, and it's potentiality to induce outrage that leads to participation and commentary, and given the imperfect hacker news ranking algo
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by laser 7y ago
Nice.
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by laser 7y ago
Is that honestly what you derived from "While Google and YouTube paid $170 million, in another COPPA case settled this year, the operator paid a total civil penalty of $35,000."? I know hacker news encourages us to assume the best
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by laser 7y ago
In the abstract “Here we examine junior scientists applying for National Institutes of Health R01 grants. By focusing on proposals fell just below and just above the funding threshold, we compare near-miss with narrow-win applicants” In oth
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by laser 7y ago
As WeWork has raised $12.8 billion [1], that would be quite a devastating repricing. I would think they would just remain private at that price, but maybe they need the cash and no private investors will give it to them. [1] https:/&#
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by laser 7y ago
There's something that has deeply irked me for many years about these MWI probability constructions, and that is the largely glossed over fact that there's sort of a non-local numerical awareness and computation within the wave fu
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by laser 7y ago
If you remove corporate and private money from universities, you don't automatically receive more funding from government. A publication like Slate might like and lobby for this to be, but that's not reality. What you get is less
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by laser 7y ago
What platform and tools are you building with, and how far in? I created a roleplaying iOS (swift) app and Vue website, both on a shared Elixir Phoenix / Postgres / Elastic Search backend which currently has 1.5k DAU / 50k da
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by laser 7y ago
Because humans are social animals, and far more people seem to have a need for social contact than to see their own creativity come to life, as evidenced by what most people spend their free time doing (not writing code or books, but enjoyi
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by laser 7y ago
This is super neat! Thanks for the heads up :) there seems to be a bug where mic audio isn’t transmitted on mobile (iPhone X Safari, iOS 12.4)? Other than that works shockingly smoothly on mobile. Nice work.
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by laser 7y ago
Relatedly, anyone know of anybody working on genetically modifying trees to create human-habitats on earth? It’s a fun and crazy concept, but perhaps it’s still far too technically difficult to approach with current tools. Imagine planting
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by laser 7y ago
Not what it once was, but 8tracks still has lots of good genre-tagged playlists: https://8tracks.com/ Also Spotify and YouTube.
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by laser 7y ago
Taking debt to pay back debt does not automatically lead to hyperinflation. The US federal government currently takes debt every year to pay off debt. That's sustainable so long as these payments stay a relatively small percentage of t
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by laser 7y ago
Such a condition would definitely explain the price—although that would still be a pretty surprising condition.
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by laser 7y ago
Broke it up into 3 paragraphs now >.<
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by laser 7y ago
If I bought Tumblr in a $3 million fire sale, I don't think I'd keep 200 employees on the payroll, but yes, it combined with the tax write-off and infrastructure costs it's reasonable for Yahoo to want to dump it as fast as p
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by laser 7y ago
I had heard the "well below 20m" figure and couldn't believe it—and now Fred is saying they dumped it for $3 million? I suppose if Verizon is taking the tax deduction on an original $1.1 billion purchase by Yahoo, the value o
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by laser 7y ago
Unique device IDs are app-specific.
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by laser 7y ago
“This error of understanding has dominated Indian culture for centuries and has turned the principle of life upside down. Life on the basis of detachment! This is a complete distortion of Indian philosophy. It has not only destroyed the pat
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by laser 7y ago
You’re comparing quarterly revenue from AWS to annual Amazon? The proper ratio is more like 7-8x, not 30x.
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by laser 7y ago
Peak in Lymes disease stories may be related to it being summer time, and bug levels (at least speaking in the Midwest) are at the highest in recent memory, not to mention the surge in Lymes disease itself in recent years. Personally, I’ve
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by laser 7y ago
> It must be remembered, also, that labor-saving devices, and indeed inventions of all kinds, often absolutely lessen demand instead of increasing it. Suppose, for example, that the many attempts at producing a satisfactory traction engi
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by laser 7y ago
Right, I get that—but still don't get the math. Let's say they're buying this capacity at $300 per kWh of capacity, that the batteries last six years on average with a daily cycle, for a total of 2190 cycles. Amortizing that
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by laser 7y ago
How is the battery storage only $0.013 per kWh? Is that a misprint and they meant $0.13 per kWh? Or is there some fancy accounting where they're storing only a small percentage of the total energy output and giving a diluted price with
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by laser 7y ago
There was also an article last month in Quanta Magazine with more back story and some spectacularly done graphics, if you’re interested in getting more visual intuition of the moire pattern appearing between the graphene layers: https:&#x2
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by laser 7y ago
My favorite part was on the last page, which I’ll include below as I assume most won’t read to the end. After 4,000 people died in the army from beriberi, the navy, which had eradicated the disease with better diet, criticized the army’s re
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by laser 7y ago
Like neural nets managing symbolic systems managing neural nets, or something?

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