olegkikin

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by olegkikin 9y ago
> The crew of a 99.9% lightspeed ship doesn’t experience time dilation until they return home. That's not true. They see the universe around them moving much faster. Time dilation has nothing to do with "returning home".
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by olegkikin 9y ago
But from our perspective, the outside observers, why do black holes gain mass? It would take an infinite amount of time from our perspective for any mass to even touch the event horizon.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Your numbers are outdated. Thin film = 23%, multi-junction are 46%. "Standard PV" is probably what's available in bulk and cheap, is around 22-25%. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0&#x
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by olegkikin 9y ago
That's the thing that never made sense to me about the black holes. The closer you are to the event horizon, the faster the time passes for the universe around you. So reaching the event horizon should take infinite amount of the &quot
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by olegkikin 9y ago
I feel like they will get sued for that extremely quickly, considering their dominating position (Chrome) and being in the ad-serving business at the same time. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb&
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Why would any reasonable company decide to warn people of red light cameras? People who go through red lights are freaking dangerous.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
> I don't know if there's an easy way to share keys in a decentralized way Blockchain. Namecoin, in particular.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
It's still extremely useful, even with those false positive rates. You will scare a few people, but they will just retest and maybe will improve their lifestyle.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Maybe even more, if they invested ALL the dollars into bitcoin since their inception. That would be smart of them in hindsight. If that's the case, they could be sitting on $5B+ worth of BTC (or maybe a basket of cryptocurrencies).
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Just start an ICO, there are not that many medical ones. You already have all the right buzz words to raise a few billion ;)
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by olegkikin 9y ago
I looked at the i7/16GB/512GB/UHD version, it's over $2K. Why not get a Surface Book instead for $1600? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0163GNS5S/ Or Gigabyte Aero? https://www.amazon.com
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by olegkikin 9y ago
And 100% of glitch music.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Vlad the Astrophysicist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9kbcGfX35M
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by olegkikin 9y ago
There's a huge difference between what evolved organisms can adapt to, and the conditions necessary to start life. Look, humans already adapted to being in space for prolonged periods of time. We adapted to every climate. But drop a na
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by olegkikin 9y ago
It's not the noise that prevents us from seeing distant planets, but the diffraction limits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction-limited_system
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by olegkikin 9y ago
But what a joke. Compare: https://www.noon.com/en-sa/search?q=i7-7700hq https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?field-keywords=i7-77...
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by olegkikin 9y ago
That's a good thing. Low-end GPUs suck anyway, but add so much weight and power consumption.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
So is this a good PRNG? f(i) = SHA256(i + salt)
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by olegkikin 9y ago
But corporation collections as paperclip maximizers is a bad analogy. Corporations generally produce something large numbers of people want (be it solar panels or cars in his example), whereas a paperclip maximizer AI produces paperclips th
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by olegkikin 9y ago
It works in commercial cameras like Hasselblad H4D-200MS.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Being a programmer, but not an engineer, I always wanted to try to create a camera with the ability to micro-shift the sensor in both directions, increasing the resolution. If you shift 3 times by 1/3 of the pixel on each axis, you can
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by olegkikin 9y ago
That's what I don't get. Which websites are radically slower on iphone 6+ compared to 7+? And the camera - what use case are you talking about? Taking family photos to post on Facebook? If so, how is that "hugely important&qu
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by olegkikin 9y ago
I understand it's "fast", but what do you use that speed for to justify spending so much more money? I understand if you're so wealthy, you're willing to pay $800 more to open Facebook a second faster than me, but I
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by olegkikin 9y ago
An $800 graphics card has an immediate use case: high FPS for games at high resolutions and high settings. Which is very important in competitive gaming, for instance. I don't see such a use case for a $1000 smartphone. What important
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by olegkikin 9y ago
If I want a low-light camera, I will buy a DSLR/mirrorless, and no smartphone comes even close to something like Sony A7s (~$1100 used). I used to do commercial portrait photography, so I know. I also dislike the fake background blur &
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Which websites are you talking about? I'm yet to encounter any important ones that are really slow.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
What do people buy $1000 smartphones for? For gaming I can get a pretty good gaming PC for that amount, or Xbox One X with a VR headset. I've never seen anybody do anything really cool with their phone - everyone browses the internet,
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by olegkikin 9y ago
I'm somewhat sure we will turn trans-human in the next 50 years, and then all bets are off. There may not be humans, not because we die off, but because we turn ourselves into something better, totally different. 1000 years is a long l
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by olegkikin 9y ago
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Actually real life people with perfect memory have a problem with relationships, cause they remember all the fights and arguments and insults. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zTkBgHNsWM

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