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Show HN: Sumochess, chess variant where you push pieces out(sumochess.org)
2 points by pingou 2y ago|2 comments
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by pingou 2y ago
A Prius V is 4.1 L/100 km in combined cycle and 3.8 L/100 km in city driving. It is unclear what the 2.9 l/100 km refers to (and if it's real, like Toyota who said the Prius plug-in would be 2.10 L/100 km), but it&
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by pingou 2y ago
How is that useful? It just has a big tank of gas, no? That doesn't really seem revolutionary. 2.9 l/100 km is pretty good though.
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by pingou 2y ago
Well I'd say most transhumanists think that technology can save us from ourselves, not that it would necessarily always do. I don't see how that is similar to believing in the cult in TFA, and how both are unscientific.
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by pingou 2y ago
It seems perfectly reasonable to me to spend a tiny fraction of your fortune on building a bunker to gain an advantage against highly unlikely events. Think a civilisation collapse has a 1 in 1000 chance to happen? Spend 0.1% of your fortun
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by pingou 2y ago
How is fearing the risks associated with technology similar to believing in a cult? Are people who believe that technology can save their life considered lunatics? Because it can already do so now, to a point, but it's not hard to beli
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Steller's Sea Cow(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by pingou 2y ago|0 comments
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by pingou 2y ago
“The industry likes to put the responsibility on the individual,” says the study’s author, Marcus Eriksen, a plastic pollution expert from The 5 Gyres Institute. “But we’d like to point out that it’s the brands, it’s their choice for the ki
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by pingou 3y ago
There may be something new now: https://winheller.com/blog/en/no-more-immediate-german-exit-...
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by pingou 3y ago
"There's no point trying to replicate beef, chicken or pork. It's a fool's errand," he said. "So instead, let's use this new technology to offer something which is distinctive from what we already consume.
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by pingou 3y ago
Not always transportable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
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Europe is importing a solar boom. Good news for (nearly) everyone(economist.com)
1 points by pingou 3y ago|0 comments
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Meet Me in the Eternal City(theatlantic.com)
2 points by pingou 3y ago|0 comments
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Sweden's polite war with Elon Musk(economist.com)
5 points by pingou 3y ago|0 comments
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by pingou 3y ago
"The otolith analysis revealed that about 90 percent of Apache Lake’s buffalofishes were more than 85 years old". That sounds very fishy. Perhaps they just have some sort of genetic code that make them create those new layers of c
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by pingou 3y ago
I'm confused, why didn't he used his solver himself if he was so desperate for money?
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The Self Balancing Monorail [video](youtube.com)
7 points by pingou 3y ago|1 comments
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by pingou 3y ago
Why would Apple want developers to compete on pricing?
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by pingou 3y ago
That seems like a very big deal if true. Very interested too if someone has more information. I could imagine they may be able to reuse the phone by changing parts, but how would that remove it from your Apple account?
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Wheel-Hand-Leg-Arms Open Doors Playfully(spectrum.ieee.org)
53 points by pingou 3y ago|20 comments
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Is it cheaper to rent or buy property?(economist.com)
7 points by pingou 3y ago|2 comments
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by pingou 3y ago
Fortunately I have a high windshield so it's not so bad in terms of wind. And if anything the wind pressure on the rest of my body makes me forget how sore my bottom is, so I'm not sure that's really linked to the wind.
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by pingou 3y ago
Yes I do all that but still it's very uncomfortable after a few hours. But I am not used to sitting in my daily life so I guess that doesn't help.
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by pingou 3y ago
How do you manage to ride that long? My ass is sore after a few hundreds of km. Did you put a special seat? If anyone can recommend something you could put on a seat and that really helps I'd be glad. Have a BMW r1100r.
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by pingou 3y ago
The Preformation theory reminds me of Seventy-Two Letters by Ted Chiang. Which I recommend (the story and Ted Chiang in general).
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Baby star launches giant jets and shocks(bbc.com)
2 points by pingou 3y ago|0 comments
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Solar Gravitational Lens(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pingou 3y ago|0 comments
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by pingou 3y ago
In the article they say "Mostly those who are trying to scam the registers are the ones who get upset the most.". We would need some study to confirm it.
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by pingou 3y ago
From wikipedia: "The first of these jellyfish, Carukia barnesi, was identified in 1964 by Jack Barnes; to prove it was the cause of Irukandji syndrome, he captured the tiny jellyfish and allowed it to sting him, his nine-year-old son a
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by pingou 3y ago
Ah, didn't get it, thank you, I thought he meant they can have whatever they want at home so they should stop complaining.

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