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by neolefty 10y ago
Why would a tidal lock imply no internal dynamo?
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by neolefty 10y ago
Having spent years in China, I think this accurately describes Chinese reasoning. It omits the drama of lobbying, corruption and paranoia about control.
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by neolefty 10y ago
I interpreted the paper slightly differently: The older you get, the harder it is to tell whether you understand something. The authors are not sure exactly why: > Why do older adults fail to represent sufficient levels of uncertainty? O
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by neolefty 10y ago
Yes, it sounds terrible. But spending time in nursing homes with many dementia patients gave me perspective on this. I don't know of a pleasant solution; this one sounds like an attempt to minimize the evils. Another alternative is to
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by neolefty 10y ago
It's still limited to use in the lab, or at least indoors, short-range: > At the moment, our on-chip lidar system can detect objects at ranges of up to 2 meters, though we hope to achieve a 10-meter range within a year. The minimum
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by neolefty 10y ago
Yes, they do non-mechanical beam steering: > They also have the potential to be much more robust because of the lack of moving parts, with a non-mechanical beam steering 1,000 times faster than what is currently achieved in mechanical li
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by neolefty 10y ago
Or dammed a few stars and decided it was ugly? Maybe watching other life emerge is their version of national parks?
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by neolefty 10y ago
Data / examples?
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by neolefty 10y ago
And on the mobile front, consider Google's Project Fi: bundling Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular to sell voice and data for $20 per month + $10 per GB. Similar mission to Google Fiber?
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by neolefty 10y ago
My experience was that Amazon is generally cheaper. But yes, JD's return policy is better, and they deliver faster.
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by neolefty 10y ago
Study abroad!
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by neolefty 10y ago
As an older person, I'd say the younger generation is worth more than others. I want to prioritize young people's futures over mine. The opposite -- sacrificing the next generation's well-being for mine is downright crimina
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by neolefty 10y ago
ME?
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by neolefty 10y ago
How about X-raying expensive items before shipping?
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by neolefty 10y ago
Part 1 was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11861129 , and Bunnie's blog covers Part 2 here: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4742
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Shenzhen Documentary Part 2 – The Maker Movement – Wired(youtube.com)
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by neolefty 10y ago
This is great news. It makes me want to summarize the article. From 1990 to 2010, death rates have been cut in half, roughly, all over the world. There's no single factor, but these stand out: * access to health care, especially early
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by neolefty 10y ago
Exactly. With our current techniques -- high-voltage or superconducting lines -- as I understand it, it's more expensive to transmit than to generate "locally" (within a few hundred miles?). I'd be curious to see the tra
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by neolefty 10y ago
No doubt they learned a lot from Gemasolar. The article describes Crescent Dunes as the first "utility scale" plant. The wikipedia page is a bit more quantitative, listing its capacity at 125 MW, vs Gemasolar's 20MW: https:&
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by neolefty 10y ago
With CFCs it helped that a single company manufactured 25% of the global supply (according to Wikipedia anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont#Chlorofluorocarbons ) and when presented with evidence that they were
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by neolefty 10y ago
In principle yes. It requires some extra support though -- regulation alone won't lead to a healthy situation: 1. We need to pay & respect regulators well enough that people will want to pursue it as a career, because once you star
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by neolefty 10y ago
What's the battery chemistry, does anyone know? I had an electric scooter in China until recently. It was pretty great. Lead-acid battery, 40km range, 40 kmph top speed (about 25 mph).
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by neolefty 10y ago
Ideally, yes we would do that! But see other comments about the cost and efficiency of power transmission for the physical challenges involved. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11628965
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by neolefty 10y ago
From 6th paragraph: > The first global civilian computer networks developed among cooperative capitalists, not among competitive socialists. The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. Great con
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by neolefty 11y ago
YC's indirect influence, by shaping culture, seems to be even greater than its direct effect. I haven't been through YC, but they've had a positive influence on my life, just observing from afar. Their contribution to the c
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by neolefty 11y ago
That's the old version. Intel added two phases.
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by neolefty 11y ago
I think it would be annoying but recoverable. It's used so widely that somebody would republish it, at worst under a different name. Edit: But there would sure be a period of chaos.
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by neolefty 11y ago
I think you should try grouping random individuals as an experiment. They should each already have a project, and be capable of implementing it, but obviously they'll have to choose one when they get together. My two most successful la
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by neolefty 11y ago
Wow, I love the one showing all 20 standard amino acids: http://www.asciimator.net/asciimation/11130
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by neolefty 11y ago
But synonyms! I want to say that if I search for "London Ferris Wheel" and I find "London Eye" without the words "Ferris Wheel" anywhere on the page, that's fine. However, 5 minutes looking through my Goog

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