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by mojomark 7y ago
> Seems a pretty big assumption. We have an abundance of silicon, that hasn't sparked any sort of revolution around silicon. > Gold has some nice properties, but I don't think it is a wonder metal. I pray to the olfd gods an
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by mojomark 7y ago
> Hull Cladding Interesting, but after giving it some thought (I actively research steel hull efficiency), doubtful. It's true that gold is highly stable in seawater when not in contact with other metals, however, put it in contact
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by mojomark 7y ago
See my response above. Yes, they technically must ask publicly as it's extremely difficult to justify sole source acquisition. However, in reality, for smaller contracts most PM's will all but ignore applicants they don't kno
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by mojomark 7y ago
After years of contemplating, I once tried going after an SBIR with a partner. It was for a robotic ship tank inspection system. We put a lot of time and effort (about a month of constant work) into designing a strong concept solution and p
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by mojomark 7y ago
Application of the subject aside, Nitinol is fun to play arround with. If you want to tinker, this book comes with a coil of Nitnol wire to use in the demos contained in the book: https://www.robotshop.com/en/muscle-wir
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by mojomark 7y ago
So, here's the point - as a baseline, if you have a fishing pole or can read a book about which plants are edible and which are not, you are not going to starve. Everything else is icing on the cake. Of course your actions matter, but
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by mojomark 7y ago
It may sound ridiculous (you're going to laugh), but when I find myself stressing over superficial things, it helps me to think of the song "The Grand Illusion" by Styx. To me, no words better sum up the odd complexity that h
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by mojomark 7y ago
Question from a non-mathematician to any HN mathematician... Has any work been done on the continuum theory by viewing different infinite sets as dimensions (like arrays) of infinity rather than sizes of infinity? Perhaps it's a superf
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by mojomark 7y ago
> How could be people convinced about importance of this if it doesn't or won't impact them enough? As engineers, I feel it's our responsibility to make environmentally friendly solutions that are simply more economically
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by mojomark 7y ago
I'm sure they're like carbon nanotubes (i.e. sure if you make enough, it becomes visible and tangible on the macro scale [1]). It's an interesting thing - the desire humans have to physically sense the microscale and beyond.
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by mojomark 7y ago
> Unprofitable I hear you, but... Meh, they say invest in companies who make products you use. I use the shit out of Uber and I don't plan on stopping even if the price goes up a bit. Now, I'm upper middle class, and I understa
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by mojomark 7y ago
Most uses of the word "Bandcamp" in single sentence. Upvoted.
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by mojomark 7y ago
Comment below states Niteo is a spam creator, so the block seems justified. FWIW, PayPal has always worked for me and customer support gets the job done. Not sure what the problem is if your operation is legit.
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Show HN: Phosphorene Nanoribbons(theconversation.com)
3 points by mojomark 7y ago|2 comments
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by mojomark 7y ago
Good discussion. On the flip side, in my data mining class the professor keeps saying ~"you may be able to find clusters in a data set, but often no true correlation exists." However, that's an absolute statement I just don&#
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by mojomark 8y ago
Would be interesting if moving forward, when a user wants to take an image they know they will likely share as CC, they could tap a button to turn on 'CC tagging' such that the camera app applies a digital signaure to the image.
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by mojomark 8y ago
You're assumption, unfortunately, is incorrect.[1][2] 1.) Ocean City, MD opts to burn recyclables in Covanta Incinerators (selfish, awesome): https://www.oceancity.com/ocean-city-has-no-plans-to-return-... 2.) Covanta
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by mojomark 8y ago
Lol, yup. I just realized furgoo was being sarcastical (I hope)
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by mojomark 8y ago
100M C to F => 100M*(9/5)+35 = 180,000,000 + 35 = 180,000,035. ...whoa
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by mojomark 8y ago
I tried building a fusion reactor once, but now I see my main failure was only using one censor. She couldn't possibly catch all of my 'mistakes', so I just removed her, but that didn't help too much. It's clear now
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by mojomark 8y ago
> Ignoring what most people see as an improvement in tooling area can be easily used as one of indicators. Well said. I would make the distinction though that intentionally ignoring a well known toolset can be liberating in the explorati
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by mojomark 8y ago
> Even in some hypothetical void, you’d have the quantum vacuum state. One could imagine that beyond some cosmological horizon the rules of physics as we know them break down and there is no zero point energy. Normally you think of the r
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by mojomark 8y ago
Fellow Marine Engineer (KP) here, and just wrapping up my Master's in CS Data Science. If you're like me, ou got rushed through a number of higher level match (between bar crawls), passing tests, but not digesting. So, the feer of
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by mojomark 8y ago
Hard, but not impossible. We actively ban eating dogs and cats.[1] I was surprised to learn that there are no laws barring the capture/consumption of dolphin [2]. 1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politic
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by mojomark 8y ago
Anvil firing clip from Sweet Home Alabama movie: https://youtu.be/WqAo_AJHnf4
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Show HN: Everyday Materials [Netflix Show, U.S.]
2 points by mojomark 8y ago|0 comments
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by mojomark 8y ago
Here, here! I was thinking the same. Ever since they first detected persistent earth-borne little buggers living on the exterior of the spacecraft. [1] I do think the detection of a methane spike by and orbiter and terrestrial rover within
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by mojomark 8y ago
That's a good back-of-the-envelope assesment, thanks. Also, very good point about the infrastructure leakage. I didn't know much about the issue, so I took a quick look (1). Iagree - that persistant problem is probably a much bigg
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by mojomark 8y ago
>Much more encouragingly... Natural-gas consumption in the United States increased by 10% last year... So, I wouldn't say that statement is absolutely encouraging since any unburned Natural Gas releases methane (i.e. "methane s
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by mojomark 8y ago
Why do they stop with the robocallers, instead of going after a-holes who are paying for the robocaller services?

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