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by nealabq 9y ago
So on Saturday morning when you start it's still Friday morning at work. To them, you're from the future.
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by nealabq 9y ago
It doesn't have to be centralized. If you think of the cars as data packets and the roads as cat-6 cables, then you can see how redundancy and alternate routing can be built in.
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by nealabq 9y ago
If all cars were autonomous you could change how roads are built. They could become more like sewer pipes, sunk at least partly into the ground. Car designs would change and become more cylindrical and without windows. The car interior woul
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by nealabq 9y ago
Which invites the question: how long before human-driven cars are no longer allowed on the public roads? I'm guessing year 2035.
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by nealabq 9y ago
If you're starting a family, consider these words from Robert Sapolsky: "The parasite my lab is beginning to focus on is one in the world of mammals, where parasites are changing mammalian behavior. It's got to do with this p
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by nealabq 9y ago
When I was a kid living in Palo Alto I remember a day when it was 107 degrees. I think it was 1971.
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by nealabq 9y ago
This is a visionary comment. It's looking at the 10-year future. Let me add two thoughts: What we do now is "surf". We view info as pages, which are presentations constructed and filtered by someone else. What you're sug
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by nealabq 9y ago
Call it the Hyperloo. Say "have one on me!" with each flush.
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by nealabq 9y ago
The Monty Python sketch "Bicycle Repair Man" predicts that unusual variations will be highly valued when a particular "ideal" genotype becomes common.
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by nealabq 9y ago
This Wikipedia article suggests about $800B. But the Reuters article you cite says $2T to $6T is the eventual cost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War Accounting is a creative endeavor.
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by nealabq 9y ago
Maybe they're looking for flash paper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose
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by nealabq 10y ago
I have to agree that our political contests are often escapist fantasies. We are encouraged, sometimes cynically, sometime idealistically, to project our hopes onto our chosen candidate. We are usually disappointed, particularly in the shor
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by nealabq 10y ago
So you're saying social-bonding hacks/disruptions sometimes ruin the fun. What about other situations? Will gatherings be less fun when Alexa becomes the life of the party, cracking jokes and proposing toasts? Will Siri join in th
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by nealabq 10y ago
Here's an idea: a site for people with unusual genes, good or bad. They can describe why they're unusual, and in some cases get asked for more details or even for a DNA sample. All voluntary of course. Forums for people with simil
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by nealabq 10y ago
Same text: http://phys.org/news/2016-11-theory-gravity-dark.html
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by nealabq 10y ago
Golly is a free game-of-life program you can play with: http://golly.sourceforge.net/ There's an active community searching-for/categorizing/discussing patterns in Conway's game-of-life (GOL) (and other
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by nealabq 10y ago
Is it legal to replace the side mirrors with cameras? (Needs bigger displays for the driver.)
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by nealabq 10y ago
How about Pauli. Principled and exclusive.
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by nealabq 11y ago
Does the explanation assume the moon is absorbing sunlight energy and than re-emitting it like a black body? Which it is, but it's also reflecting some of the sunlight directly. Is that reflected light enough to light a fire. If you re
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by nealabq 11y ago
This also explains why you could start a fire in the middle of a moonless night with the light from a single star.
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by nealabq 11y ago
The paper was, and still is, called The Epitaph. Chris at the time was also one of the publishers/writers of an "underground" school paper called The Road Apple.
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by nealabq 11y ago
Think of the possibilities even if cars stay on the ground. No more garages and driveways. Neighbourhoods will look a lot nicer, and maybe this will foster community engagement? House design will change, maybe with more multi-family units.
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by nealabq 11y ago
(I assume you're Benedikt.) This is beautiful work. Especially the write-up. I think we all understand the urge to code, but your desire to take the next step and describe what you've done is fantastic. Thanks for the gift. This r
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by nealabq 11y ago
She's in the catbird seat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catbird_seat
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by nealabq 11y ago
This was well worth reading if you're in a patient, contemplative mood. It's mostly a snapshot of what's going on in the author's mind and research right now, and it reflects the thinking of the wider cosmology community
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by nealabq 11y ago
Group housing may become popular when we get AI surveillance that can watch over the common areas and identify abusers. But that's probably more than 5 years out.
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by nealabq 11y ago
The car as a platform. Self-driving cars means cars will provide entertainment, news, and a work environment.
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by nealabq 11y ago
On the far right side of the picture, near the vertical middle, there's a crater with straight sides, like a ... hexagon. And there's a similar sized pentagon near the top. Looks like Ceres is a Goldberg polyhedron. Oh, and the br
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by nealabq 12y ago
The forums are also interesting (and active): http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/
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by nealabq 12y ago
I did something like this in my garage, with chains hanging from the ceiling supporting the fronts of the shelves. It was strong and adjustable. But yours look much better than mine. Do the cables ever slip where they're attached to th

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