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by nkingsy 6y ago
A HVDC belt buckle around the earth paired with oodles of PV seems like a rare legit silver bullet. Hopefully China is wildly successful with this, spurring further investment.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Maybe make some videos or something. My tiny California trash can is full to the brim every week, not for lack of trying. I’m fairly sure I’m in the top 10% of giving a f in my country. Culture has huge impact so I don’t want to discourage
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by nkingsy 6y ago
I thought this worked pretty well in hunt for the red October. The ol’ mouth zoom
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Still the all time cheesiest language switch. Banderas sits up all night listening to them speak in another language. By morning they’re all speaking English. When he speaks to them fluently, they’re surprised and ask how he learned their l
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by nkingsy 6y ago
I’m currently in the process of converting a no code product to “pro code“ per their definition, and I agree with their intentions here. Many of these efforts in the past (including the team I’m on) lump opinionated libraries in with what I
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Anecdotally, Irish sausages are the world's best hangover cure (pig fat). Spent a year in Galway in college. The first time I tried an Irish sausage, it made my stomach turn. Tried them again with a hangover and it was like angels were
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by nkingsy 6y ago
The Q+A section of that product is like some kind of reddit comment chain.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Just finished Diaspora. It made me feel rather stupid, as the analogies it weaves throughout (as way to dumb it down I suppose) were sort of like reading the cliff notes. Okay 6 dimensions, ok 12 sure. And this one is 5 dimensions but they’
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Disruption requires inefficiencies/skirtable regulations in the existing system. In this case the system is capitalism itself. As long as software development and user acquisition requires capital, software doesn’t seem all that diff
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Couldn’t find a breakdown of the science or nutritional profile on their site other than “sorta like yeast”. Is their tech secret?
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by nkingsy 6y ago
It seems like we have endless ways to store energy at grid scale but we don't employ them because coal/natural gas is "cheaper" than storage, and likely will be until an industry for grid-scale storage starts grinding do
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by nkingsy 6y ago
For bugfixes, I just write a failing test. For features, I need to take the time to think of required behavior. If I just focus on the implementation, the tests add no documentation and I'm not forced through the exercise of thinking a
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by nkingsy 6y ago
If it can cause a regression, it's not internal. My rule of thumb is "test for regression directly", meaning a good test is one that only breaks if there's a real regression. I should only ever be changing my unit tests
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by nkingsy 6y ago
The gnawing, intractable loss of genetic diversity in a spaceship ecosystem made for an interesting conflict source. Reading Diaspora right now from a rec on hn and just loving the intentional handling of conflict in that as well.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Step 1: Use Captcha to get free AI training data. Step 2: Sell improved AI. Step 3: Add edge cases to the Captcha that your AI can't handle yet. Go to step 1.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Just looking at the numbers, the damage from Harvey (which they call small/lucky) was something like 6x the cost of the cheaper "artificial island" option proposed. The arguments for UBI have the implication that we have too
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by nkingsy 6y ago
I think the parent's example is pretty clear. If there were two medical treatments available, both had similar help/harm trade offs, but one caused harm that was "more useful for science", this should not be a factor in
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by nkingsy 6y ago
If it cleans up that would be a pretty nice pour over station.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
The proposed change to use the signal protocol wouldn't seem to address all the metadata issues with their core tech. Their statement mentioned nothing more than "oops we're a startup", the signal change, and an intentio
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by nkingsy 6y ago
The Persian and Macedonian empires both reconquered what had been conquered by the Assyrian empire, and likely others before.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
A lot of energy has gone into cleaning up engine pollution already. Not sure where the 30% number comes from, but Brakes probably will get cleaned up once they become the star of the show.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
As long as the animals are making the poop it makes sense to use it. Has organic fertilizer usage had an impact on the bottom line for the companies making the poop?
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Brakes/tires
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by nkingsy 6y ago
So much hate for cow milk. I think grain-fed dairy needs to stop, but a quick look at the latest studies shows all cause mortality is lower for people that drink milk.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Regulators are looking for language that abuses an existing monopoly. Intent to create a monopoly is not evidence for the existence of one.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
The simple explanation for these numbers is that rural children are economically useful, while urban children are a burden.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
battery prices are far too high to be competitive with grid, even at crazy CA prices. I put in a 1.2kw carport array over my leaf ev so I can trickle charge it (720w is the minimum charge rate, needs a special charger to go that low). That
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by nkingsy 6y ago
He seems not to expect change in the "populist" element in the current media landscape. The only policy opinions/spitballs I read in the interview were banning political advertising on social media and public support for inde
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by nkingsy 6y ago
I think you meant “lo and behold”, but lord sounds good too in this context
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by nkingsy 6y ago
If you can build a huge viral app, you’re already a billionaire.

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