mNovak

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by mNovak 6y ago
While true, there's not a good way to prove why others aren't posting; maybe it's "social cooling" or maybe they just got bored.
512.
by mNovak 6y ago
To be clear, this post is not a request of the HN staff (regarding the below @dang post, point taken). Meta-discussion within the community I would think is appropriate; if not, then I apologize.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Come on guys, now we're flagging the discussion of flagging? I specifically did not link the article in vain hope of avoiding this.
514.
by mNovak 6y ago
weird, I'm well above that threshold but didn't notice the option. Not usually in the business of of flagging/vouching
515.
by mNovak 6y ago
I would think the apparent leak of the president's tax info qualifies as "interesting new phenomenon" -- this has been anticipated for years, and de facto does not happen every day.
516.
by mNovak 6y ago
I understand the sentiment, but I wonder if ideally the appropriate action would be to moderate/flag the discussion itself, not the existence of the article. It seems unfortunate to ghost the article simply in anticipation of a poor di
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by mNovak 6y ago
@dang - Appreciate if you could make executive decision on whether this article will be shown or not, and moderate the flagging accordingly
518.
by mNovak 6y ago
How much karma is required for that? I don't see the option
519.
by mNovak 6y ago
I made the mistake of spending 30min to summarize the article in the last thread, only to find it flagged out of existence. Guess I'll wait a bit to see if this post lasts before doing that again.
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Why is the NYT article concerning Trump's taxes being continually flagged?
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by mNovak 6y ago
This pairing up with a library of free Prime games seems like it could draw in a big crowd of casual gamers. Don't know if this is still the case, but I remember on Fire tablets getting third party apps for free that cost money on othe
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by mNovak 6y ago
I was interested to learn there's a sort of workaround to resolving the electoral college without a constitutional amendment, and it's some 70% of the way implemented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Po
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by mNovak 6y ago
Would require a military grade klystron to generate 10+kW of S-band energy, for starters. In a vacuum setting, I'm not sure how you'll sink all the resulting heat to avoid melting the thing. I think even then it's very challe
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by mNovak 6y ago
Perhaps possible Venus' very thick atmosphere shielded it from UV? Or a large pocket of it was recently released due to gelogic activity. Just spitballing, I don't know enough about phosphine chem to know if that's feasible.
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by mNovak 6y ago
I can't tell if you and OP are seriously suggesting we write our votes on a slip of paper and drop it in the slot. "Public process" ultimately means a small handful of people can actually observe the process, so we're ri
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by mNovak 6y ago
I'm not super convinced that the public really demands to understand the whole system, as long as it's perceived to 'work' and isn't confusing in itself. As others have pointed out, we all use myriad important syste
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by mNovak 6y ago
Couldn't largely distributed digital systems also be designed? I think we should all sit down and define what the requirements of a secure vote are, regardless of taken in person or otherwise. I see nothing inherently secure about phys
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by mNovak 6y ago
Agreed. See the recent Austrian presidential election [1]--it was completely repeated because some irregularity in the mail-in ballots (which numbered enough to swing the outcome) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_
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by mNovak 6y ago
>> we all build the voting machine together, so that we together can trust the result Seems like this logic could apply to any other digital or cryptographic solution as well? On that note, I doubt your grandma understands voting mach
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by mNovak 6y ago
Does anyone have links to the Replication Prediction Market results mentioned in the article? That sounds super interesting. As an amusing nudge, I bet you could do some ML to predict replicability of a paper (per author's suggestion t
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by mNovak 6y ago
Nice to see some work in this area--seems like one of the few industries still dominated by 'mom and pops' (my parents run a self storage too!). Definitely nice to see a company with a more creative business model than just chargi
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by mNovak 6y ago
Indeed [1]. For context I design antennas for a living (yes including "meta-materials", AESA, and high power), so not the first wireless power transfer design I've encountered. If this is different, awesome, I'd love to
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by mNovak 6y ago
Not exactly a fair comparison, and dodging the point. Use a hydrogen generator if you prefer. Or a battery for that matter (as indeed our cars are headed). Point is it might be easier to be self-reliant (calculated local storage) than contr
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by mNovak 6y ago
Can you clarify the 70% efficiency claim in the article? I assume this is 70% efficiency of DC conversion of received power, and not any sort of end-to-end metric?
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by mNovak 6y ago
Wouldn't a generator serve this role more easily? Less physical infrastructure, and what happens if the remote (only a few km) transmitter is also blacked out?
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by mNovak 6y ago
Seconding all the above questions.. For micro-power IoT, maybe there's a play, but bulk power delivery this seems a stretch. In case anyone's wondering, 40dB antenna at either end is reasonably some 14ft across at 2.4GHz, so no sm
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by mNovak 6y ago
Ignoring all the other reasons this is unlikely to work, 8dB sidelobe level is very easily achieved though. I'm assuming they're using some sort of phased array, where SLL can be designed to <-20dB or more.
538.
by mNovak 6y ago
Bro, your pitch deck is 100 slides! But also, getting your quadratic gain on a mile deep hole requires a mile of weights to lower into it. That's a lot more above ground infrastructure than just the single shaft!
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by mNovak 6y ago
Yup, internal space is a very valid issue, given that cheap weights are probably big. I'd worry about oscillations for a high-up, suspended weight too. Regarding justifying the cost--obviously depends what the cost is. If it's rea
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by mNovak 6y ago
The issue here is that not everyone has that landscape (and as we know, doesn't want to destroy the view). I grew up in the US midwest--no hills for miles on which to build railcars, pump hydro etc.

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