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by neolefty 8y ago
> The properties of the simulating universe ... could be literally unimaginable ... within the simulation. Totally. This is an area that religion claims to address—believers in a religion [1] could frame God as The Simulator and a divi
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At 3%? Indentured servitude was 100%.
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It looks like a standard x86 chip (or system-on-a-chip), with a beefy GPU and current-generation AMD processors, with enough on-package RAM to be a serious PC (8GB). It seems like a natural evolution from the XBox One / PS4 processors,
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Yes! I have an idea I want to put through it. Thank you!
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Future folks There are not any future folks who can adopt Apple's model. The only viable mobile OSes for the foreseeable future are Android and iOS, unless Android can be trust-busted. Even Microsoft couldn't do it. And they r
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I think the reference is to media reports. Perhaps it would be better phrased as All that is reported is bad things. (Which is still an overgeneralization of course, but more accurate.) Hans Rosling says we are instinctually inclined to w
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Line cutting has always been annoying, even infuriating, for me. Thank you for the data point! I spent 5 years in Chengdu, China and (full comment elsewhere in the thread) found it fairly easy to crystallize a line out of chaos. The only
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Yes, me too! Even in a big city in the US I have a hard time not making eye contact. Farmboy here.
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> How can you still hold this belief after reading articles like this? I'll push back on this. Spending time in China helped me look at myself and break down what was universally human and what was learned culture. For example, the
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I'll go a step further about line-cutting in China: People seemed to actually want a queue. I lived in Chengdu 2011-2016 (and am happy I did) with my wife and three children. Very very often there would be a mob instead of a queue, not
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This article's data is a winning bid to build a plant. Is there a systematic source for those numbers?
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The article mentions that too. It broke a record that was set [checks calendar] last week. But I think the headline is being a little click-baity—the article's real strength is analysis. It discusses broader trends—for example that l
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Abstract Knowing how to manage one’s own learning has become increasingly important in recent years, as both the need and the opportunities for individuals to learn on their own outside of formal classroom settings have grown. During tha
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Same here! Except eventually I did switch back just from inertia (and having a right-handed mouse). It's even where my HN username comes from. Mousing on the left felt like weightlifting for my corpus callosum or something. https:&#x2
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For creating custom comparators? "Sort these web pages in order of quality."
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I am surprised the article didn't mention the refueling possibility. NASA source is from 2012, before BFR was fleshed out.
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how much easier it is to destroy society Lots of modern technologies do that. Like a child growing up—at what age do you use sharp knives? a lawnmower? a car?—humanity has matured ethically alongside our technology. I agree we have to be
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revive the idea of the air-augmented rocket Does Skylon fit the bill? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft) It pushes the limits of materials and design. But I think a reusable 2-stage rocket—as boring as
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Where else would you get it? Unless it's beamed in the form of light, I don't know of many options. The challenge is to get from the Earth's surface, to orbit. Yes, there's oxygen along the way, but the speeds you have t
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TFA has great practical information about the switch from diesel to battery. A few examples: * How do you arrange parked buses in a garage so that they can charge? Diagrams included! * Purchase cost: 2x up front compared to diesel, but impr
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You have obviously not tried enough IDEs!
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To me, it didn't sound derogatory to China at all—just a country shifting its priorities, saying "Y'all got to deal with your own garbage now."
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People also have trouble with changes to otherwise familiar places. I watched an elderly driver last week get very discombobulated by a local detour, at low speed. And I can see that happening to me in a few decades too.
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For sure! And I think that a massive increase of storage will make transmission much easier, by allowing us to time-shift transmission—at the expense of efficiency. 1. generate solar power during the day in Nevada and store it nearby 2. tri
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Yes, in the video it clearly and immediately brakes, and comes to a stop before hitting a second dummy car directly in front of the first.
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Correct. The right move would be to change lanes—like the lead car—but apparently Tesla Autopilot isn't programmed to take evasive action?
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It does slow down and stop, but not in time—it comes to a stop before hitting a second vehicle directly in front of the first. The video says it doesn't have room to stop before hitting the first vehicle.
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Paraphrases of what I've heard from Native American friends: My gift to you is this song. I cannot sing that song because it was not given to me. Intellectual property is apparently an ancient social construct!
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The tweet: No they are not electron apps. They are compiled to native code. It's now finally one toolchain(#webpack) It's one codebase and it compiles to: Web Android IOS MacOS UWP WIN32 (only one that uses elect
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The article doesn't address that, but I have to assume they're talking about non-normalized scores.

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