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by peterlk 8y ago
Well, historically, India was comfortable with and accepting of people of all sexualities. The laws that are being overturned were put on the books by the British. So, the backwardness depends on the time scale
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Out of my depth here. Why are tanks of Kerosene safer than tanks of hydrogen? Pressure?
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I was once told by a professor who I respected very much how he gives advice to prospective PhDs. When someone asks "should I get my PhD?" the answer is always "no". Because the only people who will enjoy grad school are
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If you want to store grain in a really big bucket (like a grain silo), how are you going to fill that bucket?
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Which cyberattacks would you say were more devastating?
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> a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software This phrase is where the legal battles will be fought
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Thank you! This site is beautiful. How is it sustainable?
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I can't tell if you're joking or not. Smoking used to be considered healthy, leeches were healthy, letting blood was how you got over sickness, drinking a mercury-based concoction was once thought to be an elixir of immortality. M
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by peterlk 8y ago
> You can still roam wild places in the Steppes of Mongolia, wonder for weeks in search of Shangri-La in the Himalayas without seeing anyone. But others will see you. I traveled through Mongolia with some locals, and one of the things th
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A comment from a geologist who I asked about this (he said I could share on his behalf): > Faults of the world that effect mankind are mostly known and well mapped at the surface and below the surface through assorted geophysical means.
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I received the following (candid) comment from a geologist that I asked. He said that I could share his comment > I don't have time to write the essay on this, but we definitely DONT wage war to get "boots on the ground".
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This is definitely the right direction. But the thing I really want is a map of minerals, faults, and topography. I am finding topography, but not the other two. Perhaps I'm just not seeing them? Imagine how much better our earthquake
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I find it fascinating how difficult it is to find geological data. The combined datasets of oil and mining companies plus government data has a huge amount of Earth mapped. And yet, this data is extremely hard to find in a computer-consmabl
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Yeah, but lawyers are expensive
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Ask HN: Where else do you get your news?
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> low-cost recording technologies that are easy to use, such as the Neuropixels probes I'm going to withhold my belief that it's going to go bonkers due to this technology. Things go bonkers when they're useful to people a
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Yuval Noah Harari: ‘The idea of free information is extremely dangerous'(theguardian.com)
6 points by peterlk 8y ago|3 comments
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What would the right format be? There's a lot of information in there, and I think one of the things that the video does well is expanding out soundbites
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The world’s first “high-tech eco village” will reinvent suburbs(fastcompany.com)
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To be clear, though, there is a difference between the business model canvas [1] and the lean canvas [2] [1] http://creatorconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Busi... [2] http://3daystar
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Shameless plug: we built business model canvas building [1] into Aha! In addition to being able to create them, you can save them and put various versions into presentable notebooks [2] to see how they change over time or just to compare th
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> During winter months or cloudy days, artificial light from LED lamps placed inside the spheres supplements the natural light I have also wondered about living under water and farming there. However, this made me cringe. I'd like t
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These seem like not a bad place to start: https://membraneframework.org/guide/
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I think there's an additional security aspect to this. A big company has their credit card processing system breached? Cancel the card for that vendor, and you don't have to worry about updating all your bills/autodebit.
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I think most people underestimate the amount of discipline that it takes to get good at something, and overestimate the amount of time it takes. I learned WAY more in one summer of programming 16 hours a day than I did in a year of classes
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The Founder’s Paradox: How to Succeed When Most Founders Fail(blog.aha.io)
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I hadn't looked into this for a while, but the idea of a browser backed by standards (webvr) and open source (A-frame) is REALLY exciting. I don't want to get overly enthusiastic, but this feels geo-cities-ish. I love the idea of
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Does Google voice work for Canadian numbers?
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Much of the time "winner takes all" is a fallacy. What people say they want and what they actually want are different things. People taking hostages claim they want money; what they actually want is the stuff that money will get t
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It lays out many of the basic principles by which the FBI negotiates with kidnappers. The author writes that the book is meant to first lay out the foundations, and then build on them to give the reader a toolbox (arsenal?) of negotiation s

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