perilunar

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1. 1861.▲
   by perilunar 10y ago

   What is wrong with people — why would you ever use BCf instead of kg? Same with barrels (oil) and kWh per day (power? energy? I get confused with all the different time units in there). Use SI units FFS.
2. 1862.▲
   by perilunar 10y ago

   Stray laser beams? I'm glad I don't work in your lab...
3. 1863.▲
   by perilunar 10y ago

   Dr Evelyn Forget? She should be an archivist or a librarian.
4. 1864.▲
   by perilunar 10y ago

   But the current level is not ALL the output of over 100 years of burning petroleum and coal — a lot of it has been re-absorbed by plants and the sea.
5. 1865.▲
   by perilunar 10y ago

   You are assuming that for a family of N kids, each permutation is equally likely. As others have pointed out, that is not the case.
6. 1866.▲
   by perilunar 11y ago

   Looks a lot like the M200G Volantor, but with fewer fans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M200G_Volantor
7. 1867.▲
   by perilunar 11y ago

   Again? googling site:ycombinator.com "radiation hormesis" gives 15 stories where this has been discussed.
8. 1868.▲
   by perilunar 11y ago

   The comparison between Medicine and Aviation has been discussed here before: How mistakes can save lives: one man’s mission to revolutionise the NHS (newstatesman.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7865917
9. 1869.▲
   by perilunar 11y ago

   The won't be launched from earth or assembled in orbit from parts launched from earth - they'll be built from materials mined from asteroids
10. 1870.▲
    by perilunar 11y ago

    I don't think they'll even necessarily be looking for sun-like stars either - just energy and raw materials to make more habitats
11. 1871.▲
    by perilunar 11y ago

    Why not use Mini-TOSLINK or something similar? Digital connection but backwardly compatible with existing 3.5mm audio.
12. 1872.▲
    by perilunar 11y ago

    I hate proprietary connectors, but I love MagSafe—it's saved my laptop many times. Why can't all connectors be magsafe?
13. 1873.▲
    by perilunar 11y ago

    You could still add a delay function with a setTimeout, but you'd only need one.
14. 1874.▲
    by perilunar 11y ago

    I don't understand why Musk is so focused on a Mars Colony. Why go to all the effort of climbing out of one gravity well just to drop yourself down another? It be a lot easier to mine asteroids and build colonies in Earth or solar orbi
15. 1875.▲
    by perilunar 11y ago

    I don't know. I think the high intelligence of doctors has more to do with the fact that it's a very desirable occupation and so they can afford to only choose the best applicants for medical school, not because it inherently requ
16. 1876.▲
    by perilunar 11y ago

    Yep, another example of people in the US saying “X would never work”, when X is already is already working perfectly well in other parts of the world. Other examples of X: decriminalising prostitution, decriminalising drugs, converting to t
17. 1877.▲
    by perilunar 11y ago

    VRML doesn't need a spiritual successor - it has an actual successor: X3D. A-Frame looks a bit lightweight to do anything useful. You should have just implemented X3D. Edit: maybe that's a bit harsh. But I really wonder why you we