mcbishop

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   by mcbishop 5y ago

   > The Buyer acknowledges and fully understands that the Seller may...deny the possibility of transferring ownership of said Soul to another party according to their personal belief system. You could drive a truck through this Seller loop
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   by mcbishop 5y ago

   > ...which uses sound waves at several different frequencies to measure how much prey is around. Cool use case for echolocation.
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   by mcbishop 5y ago

   Sometimes different (but related) species can reproduce... sometimes the offspring aren't sterile. Your comment makes me wonder what two most-different species have done this.
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   by mcbishop 5y ago

   > The exception is the platypus, which has several chromosome sections line up with microchromosomes... Even at this level, the platypus is a strange creature.
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   by mcbishop 5y ago

   I just end emails with my name. ...Plainly indicating that the email is done and I'm signing off on it. I tend to express any gratitude at the start of the email.
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   by mcbishop 5y ago

   Yeah, it feels manipulative. If I do reply, I'm more likely to be curt.
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   by mcbishop 5y ago

   I live in a tiny house on wheels with my significant other and our daughter. 200 square-foot footprint + two lofts. With clever furniture and a minimalist bent, it's totally adequate. ...Although a tiny space gets claustrophobic quick
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   by mcbishop 5y ago

   This interview is quite the exclamation mark on the statement: Elon Musk is an engineer.
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   by mcbishop 5y ago

   A deeply-immersive space (VR) could be great for deeply-immersive thought and feeling. I'm excited about the up and coming open-source options.
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    Haha. Maybe he's testing the good-spirited rebelliousness and critical thinking of the HN community. (Or maybe not.)
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    My experience here reflects my general pattern: 1) Read an article via HN 2) Return to HN, to smash the upvote button 3) Go to the article's comments 4) Realize that there are problems with the article that I was totally oblivious to 5
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    Wow. Okay, thanks. I need to learn.
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    I hear you that marketing spin is a factor here. But if Form Energy can achieve the $20/kWh price that they're pursuing... iron-air is quite different from other chemistries on the financial front. https://www.utilitydi
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    That's really cool (dad pun intended). I don't understand the ice component though... is the heat capture an ancillary benefit? One web-search result uses a rock mass: https://heindl-energy.com/ .
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    Both the salt and the sand option are exciting. This isn't a thermal option, but the iron-air chemistry has promise too. It's basically rusting and de-rusting iron. Much more environmentally benign than lithium ion, and likely way
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    The video is super articulate. I like what he did at 6:49: > So that I can take advantage of these low rates at night, I use a roughly 16kWh battery that I just happen to have lying around. I charge it up over night starting at 10pm on t
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    Passive solar design is such a beautiful elegant thing. A fun book here is Let it Shine by John Perlin. He shares examples from around the world, over the last 6,000 years.
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    I've never heard of Johnny decimals. I'm excited to try it.
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    An increasingly-viable alternative to global transmission interconnectivity is distributed energy resources (behind the meter, on utility-customer sites). The latter offers better resiliency and lower transmission / distribution losses
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    Malicious hackers could have shown something unspeakably vile on all those screens. If this kid reduced the likelihood of that... he's a hero. Alas, I totally hear you.
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    Right on, I really appreciate it.
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    Thanks, I'll try it out.
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    Is anyone aware of an open-source smart plug or smart outlet with a public API? ...That doesn't assume a big-tech integration?
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    For some of us (me), tools like this are the difference between no privacy oversight and some oversight. I aspire to be a privacy-aware person rocking Linux, but in the meantime...
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    >Whose humiliation did [NY Times columnist] Bruni have in mind, Weinstein’s or the women’s? The answer is both. Think of all the taunting rejections Weinstein must have endured before he found himself in a position of power. The article
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    Related, I donate money to musicians (whose music I otherwise listen to for free). I donate by buying albums on Bandcamp, on the first Friday of the month (today) -- 100% goes to the musicians on those days (after payment-processor fees).
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    I'm not used to seeing this sort of news on HN (I'm not saying that's good or bad).
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    Word, that sort of claim begs for an associated reference to a study.
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    I had a good laugh there, thanks.
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    by mcbishop 5y ago

    Your step-by-step approach would be vastly more user friendly than the current LAMBDA implementation (where the user needs to put the entire nested function in the Name Manager). Simon Peyton Jones advocated for a similar step-by-step appro