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by marze 12y ago
It will never be finished. That will be newsworthy. Fiber optic will always be cheaper.
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by marze 12y ago
Of course it is a bug. Proper behavior would be to confirm the amount plus shipping, or at very least, limit the change to an amount no greater than $20 more than what was confirmed.
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by marze 12y ago
Steve Jobs was known to meet one-on-one with people, with the meeting taking the form of a walk.
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by marze 12y ago
You are hoping for something similar to all the scientific studies showing how optimal the fast food diets most people eat are?
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by marze 13y ago
To increase the odds of groundbreaking ideas succeeding, you'll want a system that allows certain fraction of junk idea to get funding. I don't know anything about this particular device, but as Ed Catmull says, if you try to elim
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by marze 13y ago
I believe the process on Apple's side has improved significantly compared to four years ago.
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by marze 13y ago
It would be fun to take the HN database and do an automated search for the use of such techniques.
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by marze 13y ago
A diet described in a book titled "Perfect Health Diet" has been reported to help with allergies.
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by marze 13y ago
You can get the date fusion power will become feasible by adding 30 years to the current year. Been holding steady at 30 for quite some time.
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by marze 13y ago
Expected CO2 increases would modify the Earth's albedo by 0.4%. Clouds modify it by > 25%. We can't predict clouds more than five days in advance, under our well-studied present climate conditions. It is difficult to see why c
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by marze 13y ago
Well, this is certainly relevant to Feynman's essay. You argue that nuclear power is safer than other forms because there haven't been any accidents that have killed a lot of people, yet . I would guess you would put the odds of
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by marze 13y ago
Uh, math. A reactor complex like Fukushima has ~100 tons of reactor fuel per reactor, not counting spent fuel rods. Say 1000 tons total. A bomb has a few kg of fissionable material, maybe 100,000 times less than a reactor complex. Do the
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by marze 13y ago
Collectively, the public has a similar approach to nuclear power plants, which make vast tracts of land useless for agriculture if they melt down. We've had three meltdowns in 40 years, about one per 13 years so far. Have we been luck
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by marze 13y ago
Even with Feynman's carefully reasoned essay, the next shuttle disaster was a mirror of the first: chunks of foam falling of each flight, careful monitoring but no serious action until the foam resulted in a loss of a vehicle. The firs
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by marze 13y ago
How can people help your new enterprise?
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by marze 13y ago
Don't see any reason it should be flagged, it seems informative and worthwhile.
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by marze 13y ago
"near-certain of the existence of unknown-unknowns. The point is that all of this may be the tip of the iceberg." True enough, but I think everyone already knows that. The content of the recent Snowden interview, not so much.
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by marze 13y ago
What's your point? They are telling us a lot of things that Edward Snowden said recently that are interesting. Why whine?
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by marze 13y ago
Well, I wouldn't want to walk around outside with levels at 300 times what is "considered safe". Japan is just lucky that 95% of the radioactive release from the meltdowns was blown out over the ocean, otherwise a much larger
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by marze 13y ago
Yeah. Not really worth it to make meat 0.6 cents a pound cheaper.
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by marze 13y ago
What about the prosecutors involved in requesting faked evidence? One would expect some long sentences.
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by marze 13y ago
Android is the most popular smartphone OS, and they set it up with a typical selection of apps, so it shouldn't be too far from a typical phone someone carries around.
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by marze 13y ago
Do we really need to dig massive open pits, extract 3 ppm gold molecules, dump the rest, cast the gold into blocks and store them in locked vaults to have gold reserves?
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by marze 13y ago
Yeah! Very awesome!
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by marze 13y ago
Wow, this looked like a spam post at first with three votes. And wow, the cruises listed are cheap!
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by marze 13y ago
Just their way of saying, most everyone in the country is an idiot and we recognize that.
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by marze 13y ago
I don't think anyone should be especially reassured that no airframes have been lost due to battery fires. If any of the 787 battery fires that occurred on the ground had occurred in flight it isn't clear the aircraft would have
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by marze 13y ago
New research suggests that low vitamin D levels may be factors in both CVD and cancer, which could explain part of the correlation. The high rates in the states around Mississippi are because of the high fraction of African Americans, who e
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by marze 13y ago
And as the quote states, not just one correlation: heart disease correlated with total cholesterol then total cholesterol correlated with saturated fat consumption
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by marze 13y ago
That sounds nice and all, but the real solution is to have the government respect the constitutionally protected free press.

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