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by mojomark 7y ago
It's a shame, given that Smith actually is talented. This is the Ashton Kutcher/The Rock way to be rich and famous without actually needing to be talented. It's a testament to how much our society currently sucks, and how f
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Yup, thanks! I'm sick and on meds, so I'm going to blame that.
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*entrained
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Interesting question. Air is wntrained in microscopic (or larger) cavities. I would think the answer, as with anything, is "it depends". It depends on the permeability of the particular concrete recipe and on a related note - the
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I don't really play live shows anymore, but it would have been awesome to have a low profile guitar amp back in the day. Lugging those things around is the worst!
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Agree - this kind of sounds like the description someone might ascribe to a sometype of mudskipper [1] or perhaps tadpoles [2] emerging from a drying creek bed (Re: "[when the] Nilus overflowing is past, the Sun heating the wet ground,
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by mojomark 7y ago
Please edit your title to use the prefix "Ask HN:" when asking questions. Reading research papers is an inherently diffucult task. The best advice I was given was to start with a topic you are interested in, then read the full pap
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Minor suggestion that may help you get more responses... they way you phrased the question with the word "on" is a little ambiguous. I can't tell if you are asking which people/companies are investing 'in' side
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by mojomark 7y ago
Actually, since you ask, while the subject matter is fascinating I had the opposite reaction and found the writing style a bit distracting. While the author clearly has a command of the field, I found myself needing to re-read several parag
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Whistleblower article with case stats (2010)(fraud-magazine.com)
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by mojomark 7y ago
The idea is not perpetual motion as long as you're not trying to extract energy for propulsion directly from a head wind. You could, however, certainly use a wind turbine to store energy while not underway (e.g. while in port trabsferr
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The intelligence of related cephalopod 'cuttlefish' was also highlighted in Baxter's "Time" novel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Baxter_novel)
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Blue Peacock Team Lead: "We can split them atoms but I just don't know how to keep that dang atom splitter warm." Rube Goldberg: "I've got it!" I work for a defense contractor and this is going up on our bullet
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by mojomark 7y ago
Ha, this is a great reflection. In a different domain I had a similar experience - working for about 2 years on an unmanned vehicle design I thought was revolutionary, only for a colleage to review the design and point out that reverting to
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by mojomark 7y ago
"He’s arguably best known for making an actor eat dog poo on screen; six people on his contact list have been sentenced to life in prison." If all you know about Baltimore is HBO's "The Wire", then allowing John Wat
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No thank you.
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I was just highlighting the fact that the author led the campaign for the candidate who lost just last year to the candidate proposing the PFD hike. That's certainly reason to suspect an unfair bias towards the implication that the PFD
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"[Author] Robyn Sundlee is a research fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. She was the campaign manager for Alaska State Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (D) in 2018." Interesting article, but I r
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“Don't design yet another shelter” for refugees, say experts (2017)(dezeen.com)
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Ha, good point. I suppose you could say that, assuming the 'arrow of evolution' always results in an improved adaptation to a living thing's environment, that any creature is the "most evolved" relative to the DNA h
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by mojomark 7y ago
> Injecting false values for a sensor reading is a very good way to hide your tracks as an attacker - just inject a bunch of "0" values, and then uninstall whatever malware did it, and probably nobody will ever find out why tha
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by mojomark 7y ago
"World object" seems pretty self explanetory to me, implying the holistic embodiment of an object in every dimension in which it exists. It's in the same family as "world model" (for robotic systems) or "world
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*UX features, NOT dataset features
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> Don't support the credit card oligarchy. I 100% agree. The problem is that the credit industry exists (obviously) to make money for creditors. Their profit comes from a.) vender fees (that often just result in higher product costs
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Zero information about the display technology being explored. Don't read.
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Today it's even worse. I still say if you add the requirement for a working patent prototype (like they did pre-1880 [1]), that the number of rediculous patent issuances will drop signficficantly. 1.) https://invention.si.ed
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> With enough inventory, why couldn't you charge locally? Read the article a little closer and you'll see that these Aluminum-air batteries can't really recharge. The Aluminum is converted into a new (lower energy) compoun
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> Without having to charge the battery, a car could simply swap the battery out in second, completely removing ‘charge time’... Meanwhile, Hydrogen Fuel Cells would require a huge and expensive Hydrogen distribution infrastructure and a
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So, I actually missed a fairly important point above that may relate to your case. While my company (that I've worked at for 18yrs) has never bought or funded a project I requested a waiver for, in the past year they have begun funding
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My company has a broad reaching IP ownership that covers absolutely anything I think up or build, even in my own time and using my own equipment. However, that's just boiler plate umbrella paperwork most company legal teams force coman

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