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by maeon3 15y ago
Modern fighter jets give pilots helmets which contain a 360 degree view of the battlefield to show them where the airplanes are. The computers which acquire the location of the other airplanes use radar and visual spectrum. What other way
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by maeon3 15y ago
An better camouflage scheme would be to identify the general direction of the aggressor, and take a photograph of the terrain (or sky) in the opposite direction, then tint or color of the airplane with that background, so it blends in. If t
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by maeon3 15y ago
I strongly think Paul Graham Disagrees with you: http://www.paulgraham.com/foundersatwork.html http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html The bulk of the programming work in this world was not performed by handsome people in suits or fine clot
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by maeon3 15y ago
The notion of putting the phrase "x+ years of technology y" on a job description always makes me roll my eyes. Some people have 2 years experience with say RoR, and could be lightyears ahead of another RoR dev who has 6 years experience.
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by maeon3 15y ago
I agree that inflation is not a problem, I just want a currency where I can place claims on future human labor in, and in 15 or 30 years get the exact same number of claims on future human labor back out. Today and for the last 97 years si
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by maeon3 15y ago
Will bitcoins suffer from a 4 to 8 percent annual inflation due to central banks creating more bitcoins out of thin air? Will inflation be locked at zero? I don't think the sovreign is interested in losing their little racket of skimming 4
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by maeon3 15y ago
The analogy falls when you compare physically created goods from digitally created goods. The cloth buttonmakers were not downloading and selling the guild's buttons, they were making their own buttons and selling them as an alternative pr
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by maeon3 15y ago
With a connection to fast internet my IQ increases by an order of magnitude(with high latency), I can answer almost any question in one minute, without internet, my IQ decreases back to average. What happens when we start merging with techn
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by maeon3 15y ago
Is the ditching of the penny an alarming event like the addition of a zero on the largest denomination of currency? Why do I work hard to exchange my labor for money that is being inflated on purpose?
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by maeon3 15y ago
Hacker news should bump up comments of users who have a high stackoverflow karma.
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Google's self driving cars can navigate drive-through restaurants.(plus.google.com)
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by maeon3 15y ago
We need to monetize the investigation of Enceladus. Bringing back alien life from another planet would give us the opportunity to adapt their sensors and tools into our technology. Could we patent the blueprint of the alien life to reward
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by maeon3 15y ago
I wonder if there will be a "classic view" button like in the control panel on windows 7? Except instead of the ctrl panel view showing icons, it will make the start menu re appear like in windows XP for a random number of days, maybe a fe
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by maeon3 15y ago
Creatures down there have been separated from life up here for ever, we need to get the DNA sequenced for some of them, we may find some shocking discoveries of our ancestors 500 million years ago. Are there plans to bring back animal samp
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by maeon3 15y ago
If you drop an ant or a pea sized model car off a building it won't even suffer any damage hitting the ground, if you throw an elephant or a full sized train off a building, it will be pancaked or explode into pieces. The strength of a bone
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by maeon3 15y ago
They said similar things for the nuclear bomb, humans have the ability now to make the earth inhospitable for advanced life. War robot flying drones will replace advancing human armies as rifles replaced swords and spears. We will live to
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by maeon3 15y ago
I did pull the comparison out of the air. Space travel is probably less safe now than taking a ship 3000 miles across an uncharted ocean.
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by maeon3 15y ago
It was harder for Columbus to reach the west and bring back treasures than it is for us to reach the asteroid belt and bring back exotic materials. What is missing is not technology (need is the mother of invention) but a reason to go. Wa
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by maeon3 15y ago
Keep your mattress and supplies in the car out of sight, there are slime things that make their way up and down market street that would smash all your windows for just the sleeping bag or mattress. Getting smashed and grabbed is a very lik
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by maeon3 15y ago
This was never about the songs, you think the sovreign cares about a company losing money from songs? This is about power and the ability to control what is authorized or not over their internet. Phase two will be taxing the bits that flow
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by maeon3 15y ago
I will raise holy hell for any ISP that blocks my transmission of avatar.MP4 across their ISP to my own device. If I own Avatar.mp4, the ISP's need to understand that I am sending it to my own device, or a device of someone who has "pair b
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by maeon3 15y ago
The future of space travel is mining the asteroid belt and war preparation, anything else is just farting around, without the unobtanium or the fear of death to drive us, there is no reason to leave earth for more than a quick trip. If Elon
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by maeon3 15y ago
Calling card counters cheaters is like calling people who get good grades on tests cheaters because they discovered the solution to the problem during the test with their mind by eliminating the wrong answers using statistics and probabilit
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by maeon3 15y ago
Paper is going the way of the stone tablet with chiseled etchings, it is too heavy and slow, let the paper tech die peacefully next to the stone chisel tech. Don't revive paper tech just as we are getting into cool stuff, getting to the ro
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by maeon3 15y ago
Elon Musk had to deal with and survived a hostile power play to get him removed from Tesla after he founded and funded the company. Martin Eberhard filed suit against Tesla and Musk for slander, libel and breach of contract. Eberhard fail
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by maeon3 15y ago
The same way a defective 3d printed vehicle would be returned, proof of destroying what you made for a full refund. In the case of avatar... You can't unsee the movie, maybe an equivalent dose of pain to counteract the plesure? Maybe if y
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by maeon3 15y ago
Very creative and thought provoking, but wrong. A DVD version of avatar sells for say $20 and Riaa gets some percentage of that. Joe blow downloads avatar for free from google or some other website, ptp or sneakernet. Joe blow sends the r
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by maeon3 15y ago
If you were serious about the donating money part, the best way to do this now (if they havn't already met the goal) is to donate to a billboard sign saying Lamar Smith is Killing the internet, with a big picture of a noose with a hashtag:
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by maeon3 15y ago
I'm finding a problem with the idea that when a dating site is very successful, they lose because the participants immediately become non customers. The same is true (kind of) with car salesman and real estate salesman, if they are successf
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by maeon3 15y ago
No need to worry about whack a mole domain seizures, these are getting negative press in the US, plus they don't work at getting people in other countries to suddenly see the light that American censorship law is global international censor

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