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by maeon3 15y ago
There will be a scanner on the airport line that would detect antimatter atoms in quantities of more than a few thousand atoms, which is what you would need to create an explosion. So the problem is making it safe enough to not explode even
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by maeon3 15y ago
If only we could develop a small device (say the size of a briefcase) to convert electricity to antimatter and then slow release antimatter reaction back to electricity. It would make electric vehicles much more economical than oil. We cou
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by maeon3 15y ago
The problem here is that managers think that writing good software is like baking a cake, if you have the right ingredients, the right process, the right environment and the right people, then you are 99% likely to end up with a satisfactor
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by maeon3 15y ago
With the explosion of information and data collected about diseases, it is quite possible for a patient to walk in with a rare disease to be FAR more informed about his condition than any doctor. If you have a rare disease, then it behooves
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by maeon3 15y ago
Excellent new look that reminds us that the Stars are not spinning. A reminder that we need to get off this spinning rock asap.
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by maeon3 15y ago
Patch through a black and white video into this tool and watch how the algorithm tries to find patterns in a 2d reprsentation of a 3d space. Maybe it can predict where the table ends without full view of the table. Neat stuff, it is the be
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by maeon3 15y ago
So Samsung is suing Apple to give them the schematics on their top secret hardware so that Apple won't sue Samsung later for copying their top secret hardware? That's actually pretty funny. A win/win for Samsung. So Apple will probably ref
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by maeon3 15y ago
Was able to download this video with savevideo.me
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by maeon3 15y ago
Replace "tamed" with "controlled". There are vultures everywhere circling the internet, pondering how to establish ownership of it (or some portion of it) how to shape it, throttle it, condition it, modify it, how its very existence can be
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by maeon3 15y ago
We are measuring our own human memories against the flawless nature of computer system memory and as a result people are raising the bar on what "normal human memory" should look like. We shall just have to decrease the amount of time it ta
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by maeon3 15y ago
When I read: "Give your money away" as an item in the list, I clicked "x" on the window. I was expecting advice on how to keep the money, not on how to blow it all like an idiot.
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by maeon3 15y ago
Close that car hood citizen, there are secrets in there, don't make me taze you.
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by maeon3 16y ago
I would hazard a guess that it would not be as wisely spent as someone who works designing airports or writing software.
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by maeon3 16y ago
You can't just segregate walmart and say: "Walmart can pay everyone $12 an hour because they have lots of cash". You would have to implement it countrywide, so that every no-skill labor job makes at least $12/hour. Hell, lets solve the pr
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by maeon3 16y ago
Telling all my friends not to buy a TomTom because it increases your liklihood of getting a speeding ticket. This is about as good an idea as a grocery store deciding to use paintball guns to bean annoying customers that are blocking the is
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by maeon3 16y ago
Brilliant, a gift with a fishhook in it that makes the survival of Bose's in MIT's interest.
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by maeon3 16y ago
The notion of Larry Page becoming the President's "Commerce secretary" scares me. The last thing we need is our google-cars, google-os computers, android-phones, basically every aspect of our lives controlled by one company which then hand
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by maeon3 16y ago
I think its high time that the RIAA should be referenced by its members rather than the face-less acronym. Imagine how much it would hurt someone like Sony if each time a bad article, comment or story reached the masses it had the words rep
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by maeon3 16y ago
The main difference between the stresses of the super-rich and the stresses of the super-poor is that the rich have problems that they choose to have, and the super-poor have problems that are forced on them. The rich people could eliminate
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by maeon3 16y ago
I'll bet I could gather up a million people in America who would sign off their right to freedom of speech for a free Apple product and some free apps. I'm glad this country is not run by the majority. Our freedom of expression is worth a
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by maeon3 16y ago
I don't want my eyes to see anything offensive when I turn on my computer. I want only pure wholesome things, things that won't upset me or cause any unpleasant idea or thought to cascade through my mind. I don't want to hear about anybod
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by maeon3 16y ago
Wife encouraging you to spend spend spend on tech toys? You are in a burning building. Run. Run while you still can.
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by maeon3 16y ago
Trying to 'cure' gay people and recruit them into a religious organization and culture is not as offensive to me as the practice of a central big-brother type authorizing and deleting programs on a computer that I own. If we don't fight thi
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by maeon3 16y ago
I'd rather you answer the first one, how a person can move forward in time while staying in visual contact of the person staying behind. If you can answer that and prove it, then you will have made an amazing contribution to the understand
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by maeon3 16y ago
We all travel through time at varying speeds all the time: There are two twin brothers. One brother goes on a space journey traveling at 99% of the speed of light. The space traveler stays on his journey for one year, whereupon he returns t
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by maeon3 16y ago
Because even when you fire electrons one at a time through 2 slits, the same wave pattern is seen to emerge. It appears as though a single electron explores every one of its options before it chooses a single route. The exploration proces
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by maeon3 16y ago
If your going to think about time travel and how it really works I think you will also have to simultaneously tackle the "double slit experiment" the phenomenon where a single electron exists in an infinite number of superpositions, all mod
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by maeon3 16y ago
"You can't do that" - translation: 1. I don't want you to do that because of x,y,z. 2. I saw some other people try that, and they failed. 3. Someone else doesn't want you to do that. 4. I tried it, and I failed at it and my ego is tiny.
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by maeon3 16y ago
The faster you travel, the faster time goes relative to things stationary to you it could be possible that some particles are spinning off at some multiple of the speed of light, and is aging much faster than we are, and having spent millio
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by maeon3 16y ago
What makes YCombinator special is draining away. I've been reading YCombinator since when most of YCombinator's submissions got 0 to 1 or 3 comments throughout its life on the front page. The millions of reddit and digg users are spending

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