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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
All five points would also be true in the case he's trying to find food and being frustrated with not getting any. And missing in your list is "6. The crow is spending most of it's energy picking at the lid." which is not explained by the t
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Animals can not only experience being killed, there are documented cases where intelligent animals like orcas and dolphins have made and carried out a decision to commit suicide. Humans in general even justify the killing of humans in speci
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
It's not unbelievable at all. I think animals can have loads of fun and crows are awesome. But in this video I see a hungry poor bird, desperate to find some food. It has nothing to do with if crows are intelligent or can have fun, I'm talk
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Thanks for the pointers! As a long-term HN addict, I am fully aware of the crow's aptness in some regards.
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
This is a red herring in my eyes. I really can't see what everybody else think they are seeing, a crow having fun sliding down the slopes on his newly invented snowboard. I see a crow trying to open the great-smelling lid of a jar to get to
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
If anyone is looking to hire in this area I have a friend who wrote his doctoral thesis on this subject. His research was focused on what diagnosis that can be established by shining infrared light on the skin and filming blood vessels up t
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
"Scientists have predicted that it may not be long before [the transistors'] performance is compromised by unpredictable quantum effects" It is comforting to hear that the unpredictable quantum effects were, in fact, unpredictable. Science
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Not only do everyone learn English as a second language, most students also study a third language like German, Spanish or French for five or six years. Which is not to say that everybody becomes a fluent speaker in that language, but it is
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
What would be the best way to get around the limitation of having access keys displayed openly in the javascript code? In order to actually use this for early versions of production apps. The only solution I can think of is to make the quer
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Is anyone aware of a directory of all the js libraries cropping up? If not, shouldn't we crowdsource one?
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
This was the last book my grandfather gave me before he passed away a few years ago, in translation to Swedish. Back then I was completely unaware that it is regarded as seminal work. He was an engineer just as I am, but I always admired th
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
This just out: Musk building a gas pipeline from Venus to Mars.
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
There is an amazing, astounding paragraph in this article. Picture the scene. Steve Jobs looks at the pitch, and is actually, viscerally grabbed by fear. The fear that all of us experience once in a while when we realize there is a big oppo
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Space bums... littering used fuel cans everywhere ("any orbit, any time"). How sustainable is it to keep leaving half of every vehicle somewhere on the way to your destination? UPDATE: At first I was bemused that this was my reaction to the
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
What is this experiment called? Any links to read up on?
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Yes, it's too bad. And yet, when I find that a domain like "programmers.ph" is available for registering, I think to myself "who will ever be interested in something that generic?". It still is, grab it if you want. Hindsight is 20/20, it i
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Me and a friend was browsing for a domain to buy in '95. Cars.com and a lot of stuff like that was available but "who would ever be interested in something that generic?". Starwars.com was available but then George Lucas would have been pis
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Flyboard Zapata super hero/villain costume turns a human into a dolphin(youtube.com)
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Hundreds. Please stop diluting the startup term with your hobby projects.
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
You must be joking right? Except you're not, which makes it sad instead of funny. It must be very comfortable to not see the endless opportunities in increasing traction for your service after launch. Not even bothering to commit code any l
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
I had filled in the pre-order form and was just going to click the final order button when I discovered that it is only valid for the PC/Windows version. I have both PC and Mac but uTorrent is running on my mac. Why not support both platfor
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
They make money on 1 out of 10 companies they invest in. If a company they invested in goes bust they make the money somewhere else. EDIT: Sorry for this lame answer, I wasn't reading the question right. The real answer is that the people w
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Difference between Square and iZettle [comic](jafsu.com)
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
I like the "visible from space" superlative. In this day and age when you can see a guy on a bike from space.
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Swedish startup Stardoll strikes deal with Barbie doll maker Mattel(usatoday.com)
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
True (until now, I assume). But they must have liquefied some holdings, or did they front the cash for a $10B stake? It tops most of their existing holdings like $5B in Proctor & Gamble and $2B in Wal-Mart (which are some of the largest
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Very little or a lot, depending on your perspective. Long term investments look at strong projections and long term development, not in a single technology with high risk. But projects like the one you refer to is certainly proof of a stron
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
Even more interesting: what IT stocks did he sell to put the money in IBM?
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
But we also have stuff that serves a purpose but without which we would still be good enough to reproduce. Eyebrows for example, are a good shield for your eyes against snow and dust falling from above. I'm happy to have them. But I can't i
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by martinkallstrom 15y ago
I see no proof of causality in the article. My assumption is that a teacher needs to be an expert in not only her subject but also in pedagogics. Why wouldn't this multidisciplinary expertise require harder work to attain, resulting in less

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