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by ordu 5y ago
Do you know how a reduced coking works? I've read about the raptor engine[1] and it explains how fuel rich hot mixture leads to coking, it explains how USA solved this problem before (by using hydrogen as a fuel), but how Musk managed
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by ordu 5y ago
> Maybe they are just bad ideas? For that matter, maybe the good ideas are bad too. It doesn't matter to her how good are they. She looked for ideas that people was afraid of. They are students, she teaches them to be not afraid o
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by ordu 5y ago
"Generalized self-driving is a hard problem, as it requires solving a large part of real-world AI. Didn’t expect it to be so hard, but the difficulty is obvious in retrospect." All the history of AI is a history of insights of d
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by ordu 5y ago
The clash of cultures. Russians treat law as something made just for a show. It is like "Any adult State must have Law, so Russian government learned them letters from alphabet to write Law", but no one really bothered with Law, b
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by ordu 5y ago
> Honestly I still don't know what that means, or how efficiency can be over 100%. They explain it in their article[1]: "the solar-to-vapor conversion eﬃciency, defined as the ratio of total vaporization enthalpy to total sol
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by ordu 5y ago
> There are certain rules that even the most extreme objects in the universe must obey. A strange way to put it. The more object is extreme the harder it would be for it to disobey laws. If we try to imagine what forces are involved, a
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by ordu 5y ago
I don't know. He is a Russian doctor working in Russia. The rules are different. But as a psychologist I see it as a good practice. Maybe bad from organizational point of view (how to validate actions of doctor?), but (assuming a good
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by ordu 5y ago
According to his anecdotes his patients believed him. I think that it not just "hey, take this pill", but a long hard work of becoming a trusted doctor for the patient.
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by ordu 5y ago
Funnily enough, I've read a blog of a psychiatrist, who shared a lot of anecdotes from his practice. And the was a pattern in his communications with his patients. Like "I see that aliens got almost total control over your brain,
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by ordu 5y ago
If it manage to do a gravity assist maneuver around some existing planet, it might. Probability of such is very low, I believe. Moreover, I think if there was any chance, scientists already knew about it. If they keep silence, then no, ther
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by ordu 5y ago
If I understood correctly, one needs to suck with diaphragm, by inhaling. Is it so? I mean, I suck through straw using my mouth only, I can breathe through nose while sucking into mouth. It seems for me that it wouldn't work. Am I righ
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by ordu 5y ago
> Occam's razor would suggest that exposure to light, orientation relative to gravity, etc are more likely causes for the divergent characteristics of ferns at different positions... It is not Occam's razor but a reduction. W
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by ordu 5y ago
> I think this emphasis on precise definitions is actually not that helpful. To the contrary I believe that it is very helpful. One cannot apply logic or any other highly formalized method when he lacks definitions. It is hard to find
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by ordu 5y ago
> Corner cases are hard. Yeah, they are, but your example is not good enough, it is like an example from a textbook on traps of C. Corner cases hard when you are trying to do something new, because if you did it before, you'd know
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by ordu 5y ago
If Russians smile more (I do not know really), then the most likely explanation is a mixing of the USA culture into ours. I being Russian just do not keep smile on my face when everything is just fine. I'll keep smiling when things go
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by ordu 5y ago
> You gotta remember that most of the heavy hitters in Linux Kernel development haven't even commented yet. There is nothing to comment yet. I've read those driver, it seems unconvincing for me despite me being a rust fanboy.
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by ordu 5y ago
> Honest question: how do we fix this? We need to create new a social institution of Anti-Science, which would work on other stimuli correlated with the amount of refuted articles. No tenures, no long-term contracts. If anti-scientist wi
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by ordu 5y ago
> But surely, it must be a coincidence! Coincidence of what and what? Bush is well known for his blunders, so it is not such a coincidence that this one is of his authorship. Or did you mean that it was American president who blunder
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by ordu 5y ago
In Russia there is a kid's joke about hedgehog who learned how to breathe with it's ass, then it sat down on a stump and suffocated. I think, kids knew something.
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by ordu 5y ago
> You either panic and run around screaming and then you die or you could try and take control and you might live. It is not so black and white. One might (and normal person should) feel a stress reaction with rising levels adrenaline
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by ordu 5y ago
The pilot is speaking about failed engine after the collision, like it is nothing. Fascinating. I'd be shouting something obscene in such a situation. For half an hour at least, I think.
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by ordu 6y ago
> So if I have a full set of gnome applications (say 50) would I have 50 copies of Adwaita icon set? No. Icons is easier to load with regular open/read, then with dlopen. But in any case they go into separate files, they are not i
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Ask HN: Is there a good example of a complex system?
9 points by ordu 6y ago|8 comments
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by ordu 6y ago
> Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" or William Blake's "The tiger" Yeah, just checked them. Much better.
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by ordu 6y ago
It reminds me of English poetry. I never understood the point of it. Blamed by bad English skills for that. But this verse looks just like English poetry just in Russian. Russian text written in a way to make it difficult to read, to hide t
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by ordu 6y ago
Oh, we are to get an order of magnitude of cost reduction per kg on an orbit. There are attempts to measure it: https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/
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by ordu 6y ago
The article discussed shows that dis-proportionality might be explained by wealth. Poor people are more likely to experience a police violence. And black person are more likely to be poor. As I understand, if you controlled for wealth, when
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by ordu 6y ago
Could you link any research supporting your claim? I mean, the article refers to a statistics, which hints that there is no causal link between a race and violence. I didn't dig into statistics, how it was calculated, which data it use
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by ordu 6y ago
It is a work of human visual perception at work. Somehow you mind chooses how to interpret sensations from a retina, and shows you one of women. Then you mind chooses to switch interpretations and you see the other one. Both interpretation
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by ordu 6y ago
Curious. I cannot understand it clearly. Lets take for example "my wife and my mother-in-law" illusion[1]. It is known for it's property that one cannot see both women at once. If we assume that it has something to do with su

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