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by pharke 5y ago
> But I couldn't even hear how to put a "puh" sound in the word The comment you're replying to describes it somewhat but since accents can drastically affect how we move our mouths during pronunciation I'll descr
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by pharke 5y ago
The UN already provides election monitoring services so we have a well defined set of criteria under which we consider elections to be free and fair.
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by pharke 5y ago
Human nature never changes, for an entertaining take on our current situation see part 3 of Gulliver's Travels published in 1726 https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jonathan-swift/gullivers-t...
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by pharke 5y ago
Never used them to switch lights on and off, what we do use ours for is to set timers when we are cooking. I'm amazed no one has created a dedicated voice activated timer like this before, it makes too much sense. If your hands are cov
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by pharke 5y ago
What are the alternatives? I'm seriously not aware of any that fulfill all of the abilities that an Alexa or Google Home has. I can imagine an offline version that does most of what they do but as far as I know they don't exist.
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by pharke 5y ago
Fight for mixed zoning[0] and to repeal laws against boarding houses[1]. Let people solve the problem, we're only in this mess because our hands are tied by regulations that favour certain interest groups. [0] https://market
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by pharke 5y ago
The scary one is medical devices. Plastics were a godsend, enabling the mass production of disposable medical equipment that effectively solved a lot of tricky sterilization problems. There are a lot of other things that plastics are the be
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by pharke 5y ago
> now I get up every day thinking how to make the lives of my kids and the world better, rather than “what would my lizard brain enjoy today" This is the key insight. No matter how much dopamine you shovel onto your lizard brain, it
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by pharke 5y ago
You're missing the point, new technological developments in warfare aren't about "worse or better" since one human wishing to inflict suffering or death on another needs only a sharp stick or a rock and their imagination
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by pharke 5y ago
It also means almost all galaxies contain similar Type III civilizations. 13 billion years is a long time, how long did Fermi calculate it would take to colonize the galaxy? 10 million years?
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by pharke 5y ago
Yes, thank you for thinking outside the box.
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by pharke 5y ago
Lord of the Flies is such a tired example to hold forth. It's purely fictional and not generally representative of human behaviour. There is even a recorded incident of school boys being stranded on an island and living perfectly peace
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by pharke 5y ago
Some people seem to think this is a worthless comment, I prefer to see it as a good book recommendation. It also jives with my feeling that dark matter has something to do with life being present in a galaxy, the effect it has on the struct
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by pharke 5y ago
> killing the soma is on the surface such a massive waste of resources How is it a waste of resources? Evolutionarily, the goal is to produce another successful generation who then begets another generation and so on. The rate at which t
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by pharke 5y ago
I think the idea is that there aren't "longevity" genes only aging genes. Put another way, aging isn't an accident caused by the accumulation of damage. It's a selected for trait, a sort of slow, whole body apoptosi
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by pharke 5y ago
Looks like they might just need higher ground clearance and some snow tires. They're so low right now they look like they were designed for indoor use.
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by pharke 5y ago
Reminds me of the unlikely idea of using a whip crack to send something into orbit[0] maybe SpinLaunch needs to consider adding another joint to their arm. I'd love to see a massive trebuchet launch something into orbit. [0] https:&#x
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by pharke 5y ago
We need an improvement, not a regression.
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It would certainly be a challenge but there are examples of cross platform applications that have succeeded in the market. The Godot game engine is a good one since it does a similar thing for a different segment of the market. It's cr
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by pharke 5y ago
You mean like Gemini? https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
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by pharke 5y ago
Yes. Browsers are great at presenting beautiful webpages, the best compliment to that would be an application that opens when you click on "try our app", downloads a nice compressed binary, and executes it in a sandboxed environme
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by pharke 5y ago
That's already happening with the Gemini protocol. It now has a myriad of browsers, each with their own style. My personal favourite is Lagrange https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange
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by pharke 5y ago
How about write an application specifically designed to execute code that you give it in a safe environment. Then you only have to make that application crossplatform and everyone can target it instead. People write for the browser because
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by pharke 5y ago
The only useful part of the article was the holding up of two example websites. If the whole article had been an informative survey of websites done right, it would have been a much more worthwhile read. The problem of monetization through
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by pharke 5y ago
And if there is no system?
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I don't think Netflix and movie theatres are even remotely comparable. To see a movie open at theatres you need to travel to the theatre, queue for limited seating, buy a ticket, etc. most people wouldn't go more than once in a wh
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by pharke 5y ago
Carbon is the ideal hydrogen storage system. It raises the critical point by 160K and increase the density achievable at normal temperatures and pressures drastically. Don't discount the energy that needs to go in to pressurizing and c
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by pharke 5y ago
Hydrolox could certainly use all electric production but all of the others require hydrocarbons as their feedstock. Take hydrazine, it's synthesized by oxidizing ammonia and the main feedstock for ammonia production is natural gas and
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by pharke 5y ago
Depends on what the dollar cost of not burning fossil fuels turns out to be. I think being able to close the carbon loop is extremely important, there will inevitably be use cases where burning fossil fuels is the superior or only option. R
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by pharke 5y ago
I'm curious as to why more high rise buildings don't incorporate "park floors" or large balconies. The walls are non-structural after all so you could push them further into the building and have an open air space. You c

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