shanxS

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by shanxS 7y ago
> we'll need to actively manage the entire carbon cycle. aka Garden Earth. This I agree with. In all this turmoil and disappointment that we screwed up our ecosystem, regardless of whoever is at fault, it's about time we step u
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by shanxS 7y ago
China and US (in that order) https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/sc...
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by shanxS 7y ago
Interesting, use that money to fund R&D to reduce CO2 in atmosphere?
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by shanxS 7y ago
I guess I misread your comment. I agree that most of the people will not change their habits and we need to engage our governments too.
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by shanxS 7y ago
> We simply don't have time for "Figure the engineering problem" any more. Honest question, how do you prove this? Here are my arguments against the motion: 1. 30 years ago we did not have internet. Now most of us have acc
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by shanxS 7y ago
> Eventually, the solution will have to come from the government. I see your argument, but not sure if I agree with this part. If we/entrepreneur/engineers can figure 2 things: 1. Figure the engineering problem which would be s
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by shanxS 7y ago
Why is this news? Did anyone expect otherwise?
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by shanxS 7y ago
Has it been proved that elections have been tampered with in past?
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by shanxS 7y ago
Thank you! Posts like these is the reason why I hangout here =)
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by shanxS 7y ago
Why is this being downvoted?
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by shanxS 7y ago
Oh yea... and it can constantly transmit data to earth and whoever is listening can re-create entire dump over time!
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by shanxS 7y ago
It's interesting to see the disinterest of comments so far. It's good to hope for the best but we cannot eliminate the possibility of catastrophic event. I was hoping that there would be some plan to download as much information a
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by shanxS 7y ago
Waiting for informed comments on this one. =)
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by shanxS 7y ago
Did land person on moon. Do have world's biggest tech companies / Vertical landing rockets / AI leadership etc. Doesn't sound like we are bad at hard things although we do have our fair share of screw ups.
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MIT OCW Spring Fundraising Challenge(crowdfund.mit.edu)
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by shanxS 7y ago
You mean the 'idea of' zero 'in recorded history'was invented in India. =)
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by shanxS 7y ago
I am agnostic to religion. But I cannot agree more that region (all of them) play a key role in maintaining fabric of society. I don't know how true the scriptures are, given that most of them contradict each other but regardless, more
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by shanxS 7y ago
How much time did you have and which level of engineer (senior/architect etc.) were you applying to?
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by shanxS 7y ago
I don't mean it as shortcoming for Amazon. Their way of working have brought them quite far. As for proving my point: https://www.quora.com/What-is-Amazons-approach-to-product-de...
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by shanxS 7y ago
At least someone is trying (and given the track record, will probably achieve it, Gradatim Ferociter indeed)
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by shanxS 7y ago
Oh as opposed to Elon Musk who had vertical landing nailed before they went out courageously and told the word that they are doing it.
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by shanxS 7y ago
It's Amazon's way of working. Starting from PR/FAQ and working backwards.
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by shanxS 7y ago
It's https now.
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by shanxS 7y ago
Usually organisations of size of Mozilla have metrics and alarms for various things, cert expiry should have been on top priority.
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by shanxS 7y ago
Certificate expiration, if only we can figure way to see it coming. Oh wait, metrics!
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by shanxS 8y ago
Speaking for hobby RC car racers in Seattle, WA, average racer spend upto $1000 for a decent rig. That too when there are no returns on winning races.
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by shanxS 8y ago
Can you prove it? For starters, can you provide stats of "out of work" / "unemployed" people who are single vs have a family?
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by shanxS 8y ago
Interesting quotes (to me) from the paper: > Device variability (Section 4) and volatility (Section 4.2) were mentioned as current challenges for most applications based on memristive memories. This is in contrast with biological systems
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by shanxS 8y ago
I read eq 1 and then 2, almost felt like somehow, 2 was meant to be - maybe my mind was trying to draw on symmetry but didn't quite understand how.
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by shanxS 8y ago
Can you please elaborate?

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