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by nkoren 9y ago
This is intended to replace flying + hotel, which does not take less time or money. Let's say you're in San Francisco and want to be in Santa Monica the whole of the next day. Your options are: 1. Wake up at 3:30am, leave the ho
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by nkoren 9y ago
> In Star Trek, they can heal wounds by shining a light on them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratectomy > They can erase and alter people's memory https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x
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by nkoren 9y ago
Listened to the first 8 minutes of this, in which I learned that: 1.) People don't do their homework before moving to Japan, and now they're very frustrated, and 2.) Teaching English is a business. ... and literally nothing else
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by nkoren 9y ago
How is this terrifying? Each one of those dots represents actual wealth being created.
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by nkoren 9y ago
I'm very disturbed by your comments. 0xFFC has not been uncivil, nationalistic, or even particularly political. He was merely pointing out that Maryam was representative of a society that is more diverse and tolerant than many people i
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by nkoren 9y ago
I'm going to assume you're American; apologies if I'm wrong. Americans tend to assume that infrastructure is something that happened in the 20th century, and that nobody has the money, need, or capability for that kind of thi
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by nkoren 9y ago
Inductive charging and battery swap.
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by nkoren 9y ago
Complete n00b question -- this is very, very far outside my domain -- but by using much more of a chip in parallel, does this present any challenging thermal implications?
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by nkoren 9y ago
Mentioned at the end: they don't consume much in the way of junk food and cigarettes.
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by nkoren 9y ago
Except the part where you could run the whole OS, and a browser, off a 1.44mb floppy.
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by nkoren 9y ago
Here in the Anglosphere, any sufficiently compound word is indistinguishable from German. ;-)
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by nkoren 9y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you define a long flight? I've found that most Americans call a flight "long" if it's 4-5 hours. But in my circles -- London-based, doing business in Asia -- "long" means 9-13 hours. Wh
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by nkoren 9y ago
Usually I'm kind of annoyed by the HN peanut gallery when they mostly ignore the content of a really interesting page to complain about the typeface or how it looks with Javascript disabled, or whatever. But ye gods -- this is probably
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Meet Cabin's moving hotels(medium.com)
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by nkoren 9y ago
> You just can't afford a new iPhone. Or a home. Or a car. Or healthcare. The idea that minimum-wage life in America is in any way up to developed-world standards is horribly, laughably, tragically wrong. Not saying that minimum wag
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by nkoren 9y ago
Businesses that serve the poor can't do that.
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by nkoren 9y ago
Good guess! Here's an alternate proposal: Raqqah. Check it out on the map: https://goo.gl/maps/ubW2hp1Wh6N2 It obviously isn't in a lake, but it looks like the the tributary coming down from Harran goes both
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by nkoren 9y ago
Think longer-term. Don't over-focus on the money. Unless you're already living independently, you're in a privileged position wherein your expenses -- while still annoying, I'm sure -- are far lower than they will be at
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by nkoren 9y ago
More detailed article here: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/05/rocket-labs-electron... Note that the rocket failed to reach orbit as intended.
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by nkoren 10y ago
> That site isn't pre agriculture anyway. *Citation needed. Every source I've seen says that it is. > But without agriculture you can't have dense cities or anything like civilization. The population that can be support
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by nkoren 10y ago
No time for a proper reply, but here's a series of blog posts addressing those issues (among others): https://evolution-institute.org/blog/complex-societies-befor... https://evolution-institute.org&#x2F
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by nkoren 10y ago
Göbekli Tepe was built ~11,500 years ago, and it probably isn't a coincidence that early agriculture was developed in the same area -- about 1,000 years later. The early agriculture reference that you mention concerns the fact that the
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by nkoren 10y ago
That's the traditional answer, but it's wrong. Göbekli Tepe[1] decisively pre-dates agriculture. Although it wasn't inhabited, it displays a level of technology and social organisation on par with city-building. But agricultu
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by nkoren 10y ago
Absolutely. Net output per $ of opex (+ amortization of capex, decommission costs, etc.) is the only relevant metric. Parasitic power loss is categorically not an issue. This is a mistake that engineers frequently make when they are too nar
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by nkoren 10y ago
What the heck...!?! I would really love for someone to explain how something like this happens.
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by nkoren 10y ago
> SpaceX hired all NASA's engineers and uses all NASA's technologies. Um, no, that's wrong. I'm thrilled for China's accomplishments and won't talk down about them, but your assessment of SpaceX is simply fa
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by nkoren 10y ago
Hi, I'm both a public transport planner and a tech founder (www.podaris.com). I disagree with your 2nd and 3rd points. Funding and capacity limitations are indeed the cause of problems, but they're not root causes. They're
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by nkoren 10y ago
> . . . Or Christianity, or Hindu epics like Ramayana, or the Buddhist struggle for enlightenment and non-violence against our darker natures. All of which post-date Zoroastrianism, which is the point. > Jewish Monotheism was most str
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by nkoren 10y ago
> Isn't it obvious to check [___ ____ __ ___ __________ etc...] If you're asking this, in the context of a discussion about UI, the answer is almost always "no".
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by nkoren 10y ago
That work is being done, and arguably is much closer to commercial deployment. It just doesn't get as much publicity, because people love cars. Examples: 1. http://www.2getthere.eu/ 2. http://easymile.com&#x

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