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by otp124 9y ago
Dupe; more comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725108
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by otp124 9y ago
Ideally, if OP doesn’t spend a load of $$$ on a self-driving car, OP wouldn’t have to work more (to pay it off) and could retire sooner. But this world seems to be rather spendthrifty than thrifty.
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by otp124 9y ago
I’d call it a feature. I sometimes need to harvest energy from my computer’s power supply to charge my phone without the computer being on (waste of energy)
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by otp124 9y ago
That sounds really interesting. Does your colleague blog — or are there remote sensing tech blogs to follow?
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by otp124 9y ago
I don’t see the assumption of the cause in the PDF (difficult to read on this tiny mobile device). Could it be iron ore or something else affecting the magnetic fields? Does this happen elsewhere on earth?
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by otp124 9y ago
> a bottom quark fusion event emits 18 times the energy of traditional fusion Small correction. The article says the MeV is 8x not 18x
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by otp124 9y ago
Why do you say that jet engines introduced safety? If anything, jet engines were very unsafe for a long time. I would argue better manufacturing, redundant parts, better flight training, and quality assurance that led to the safety I expect
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by otp124 9y ago
> How can you forbid a set of ones and zeroes? The courts seem to think they can make some numbers illegal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
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by otp124 9y ago
So the actual development is all done on a remote server, no local development? In that case, it would appear that this setup would be more classified as a thin client than a “main computer”.
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by otp124 9y ago
I just switched my wife to the new FF beta, as Chrome on Windows was slow for her ebook reader (required by her graduate students). The Firefox beta was super fast and the ebook reader worked flawlessly compared to Chrome. We quickly made i
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by otp124 9y ago
Impressive job for a six hour video! > In total, the face recognition and montage creation took less than 5 minutes and cost about $8!
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by otp124 9y ago
Why would it be gaseous if Pluto is rocky? Is it the size?
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by otp124 9y ago
My favorite posts are the “Show HN”, or other Github projects, launch announcements, etc that I wouldn’t find elsewhere.
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by otp124 9y ago
I would use the word “discovered” rather than invented.
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by otp124 9y ago
Oh, I remember your original post! I’m glad you made this, as I’ve been slowly bookmarking DIY solar posts, but good ones with detailed information (and pics!) are hard to come by.
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by otp124 9y ago
This is great information! Slightly off topic, but I’m curious about your username. Why have you kept on using a throwaway for all of these years?
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by otp124 9y ago
Being forced IS succumbing to pressure
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by otp124 9y ago
It's okay if it's old, but it should have a (2010) year tag to inform potential readers.
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by otp124 9y ago
I used to roll my eyes at crime television shows, whenever they said "Enhance" for a low quality image. Now it seems the possibility of that becoming realistic are increasing with a steady clip, based on this paper and other enhan
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by otp124 9y ago
> It might be an idea to give them the same treatment as the Nazi party grounds in Nuremberg. What treatment? Wikipedia says that it became a memorial, but doesn't say what it became a memorial to.
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by otp124 9y ago
Not sure why this was posted, but it's a really poor mobile design -- the contact form takes up 50% of my viewing space.
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by otp124 9y ago
Not sure I understand. How much H2O/liquid/ice is inside an asteroid? Is the core made of liquid?
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by otp124 9y ago
Interesting points, but you seem to have missed responding to your last > quote. The "> Worse, many...". I'd be interested to see what your remarks are there.
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by otp124 9y ago
Perhaps that sentence was not clear, as I typed it in a hurry before my bus stop. What you described is what I meant to say. Thank you for taking the time to elaborate.
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by otp124 9y ago
It's not irrational. The absence of proof results in what is known as faith. In security, you can't prove something is secure, because you can't prove a negative. You can have reasonable faith that something is secure. We don
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by otp124 9y ago
I would bet the judge would consider that destruction of evidence. Disclaimer: I never studied law
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by otp124 9y ago
> Property tax, its the only thing you can't hide and its not a friction on the economy. How is property tax not a friction? Total I pay about $5,500+ annually, and it increases every year. That's money I could have spent or i
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by otp124 9y ago
The IRS classifies them as commodities, since 2013 or 2014.
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by otp124 9y ago
So, did you pay taxes on the BTC sale? I appreciate your story, but it's not really relevant. Did you comment on the wrong post?
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by otp124 9y ago
What happens during the packaging/handling that couldn't be killed by cooking? Is that where the mercury issue is (I thought tainted water was the bigger issue)?

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