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by pcarolan 10y ago
Good point about Feynman. The only thing I've found to work is trying everything until something starts to work. Of course, you start with the books to get ideas for what to try next. Ive got one of those kids that bounces off the wall
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Fun is a great reason to do this. Id love to see the Chicago loop from the sky for example.
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Detachable gondolas exist which means you can travel any length you want if you switch cables and have as many terminals as you want. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detachable_chairlift
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by pcarolan 10y ago
They have those unloading points because they are able to take them off of the cable while loading and unloading. We don't design these for cities, but we could. This means loading/unloading could be coordinated across multiple no
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Compare this to the cost of installing light/medium rail in your city. Why we dont install these in every city baffles me. You could run them right alongside buildings.
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Can you go into your experience evaluating MicroPython a little deeper? What were the pros and cons you discovered?
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Its true black swans are unpredictable but we can know to some degree which systems have risks that can eliminate the entire system. Biological systems are one of those because we've seen plagues and viruses come close. Financial syste
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Read up on black swans. There are risks that can destroy everything that has come before it. These are worth defending against and building resilience against. Messing with genomes has unknown unknown risks that could turn into black swans.
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by pcarolan 10y ago
This is called hacker news. Things that work well should be elevated, by trial, above all else. Try it. Seriously.
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by pcarolan 10y ago
After many years of frustration and disgust, Ive been pretty happy with comcast in the last couple years. Reputation matters. Hopefully they keep it up.
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Lotta speculation in the news for something that could be answered by looking at the data. Since this isn't a new program, has anyone seen it? (please no speculation)
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Don't downvote people who ask questions. Answer them if you disagree.
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Have you tried VS code? It seems your arguments about performance are theoretical but in my experience i have run into none of what you're describing could happen on a 5 year old macbook air. A 14% cpu idle due to a cursor is a bug t
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Can you give a source for your assertion that "we have the technology to detect those"? That sounds hand wavy. I am not aware of a complex system where that kind of thing exists predictably. Especially when you're doing editi
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Most people don't know what the word capital means. The gap is massive for real reasons not just access to trading platforms. The bottom 90% shouldn't have to give a shit. An electrician should be able to specialize in their field
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Most people don't know what the word capital means. The gap is massive for real reasons not just access to trading platforms. You wa
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Data warehouses aren't materialized views of relational databases much any more. These days they are enhancements or sources of truth for things like event data (iot clickstreams etc) as much as anything else.
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by pcarolan 10y ago
This would be a good opportunity for someone to build an independent message board layer similar to gitter or genius. Its been tried before unsuccessfully but sooner or later someone will get it right. As the web becomes more closed, this c
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by pcarolan 10y ago
How much would this system get gamed? This could just turn into a Visa store for elites.
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Don't say what you did commit in the commit message, say why you did it. The diff should give you the what.
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Ask HN: What is your favorite equation?
45 points by pcarolan 10y ago|66 comments
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Source?
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by pcarolan 10y ago
A job posting website ( I know ) where every posting is a job relevant contest. Sort of like kaggle for all industries where the winner gets a job.
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by pcarolan 10y ago
There should be a no fly zone around exploiting stranger things. Please leave this one alone.
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Facebook's Slack rival is coming next month(businessinsider.com)
5 points by pcarolan 10y ago|0 comments
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Watching the Google IO keynote, I couldn't help noticing that their new instant apps could be accomplished in open webtools if they would have focused on browser integrations rather than native apps. I hope this doesn't mean nativ
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James Bessen on Learning by Doing(econtalk.org)
2 points by pcarolan 10y ago|0 comments
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by pcarolan 10y ago
I'm surprised he didn't mention the top 3: https://xkcd.com/1613/
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Why? We got into this mess because the banks couldn't manage the risk and we had to bail them out.
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Yep, the government's goal is to promote stable home ownership. Investors should invest in mortgage brokers if they want the socialized benefits of the governments policy, because the loans just end up in fannie/freddie after orig

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