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by shirro 12y ago
They know the start and end points of the trip and can make a decision whether it can be handled with an autonomous car or a human driver at the outset. They could serve major routes like airports to hotels via autonomous vehicle to begin w
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by shirro 12y ago
I used to be able to buy bulbs from behind the counter at supermarkets. Now none of them carry them. I used to use them for whipped cream and mousse. My creamer hasn't been used for nearly a decade. I don't want to buy boxes to hu
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by shirro 12y ago
Imagine someone you love has a chronic auto-immune disease like MS, arthritis or even psoriasis and they are taking a drug to depress their immune system like a TNF inhibitor or something like methotrexate or cyclosporine. Or they have canc
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by shirro 12y ago
We tried that approach for millenia but sadly young people with poorly developed immune systems and old or sick people with compromised immune systems kept dying and we decided as a society to do something about it because some of us have k
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by shirro 12y ago
Pity it is wasted on sham romance. If something like this took the form of a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer it might be interesting.
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by shirro 12y ago
They need a really big version of this to refuel a barge landed F9 for a hop back to land so they don't have to waste so much fuel on boost back or risk people out on the autonomous barge.
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by shirro 12y ago
Awaiting announcement of Commercial Crew to Mars program.
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by shirro 12y ago
Is digital media itself harmful? I really doubt it. I think there is a considerable luddite element amongst some academics. I would guess the problem with digital media is the opportunity cost. It is time that could be spent understanding t
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by shirro 12y ago
We had compiled web apps. First there were Java applets which were a buggy, insecure, ugly PoS. Then we had ActiveX which was even worse. By comparison html/js/css have produced fairly good results. Parsing text is not a bottlenec
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by shirro 12y ago
DST makes no sense nearer the equator where there is less variation in daylight hours throughout the year. There goes much of Asia, Africa and Central America. It is popular with people in wealthy democracies which enjoy around an 8 hour wo
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by shirro 12y ago
I don't understand the hate for daylight saving. Splitting those extra daylight hours either side of work and school is a waste when you can combine some of that time for more recreation at the end of the day. When my kids get home fro
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by shirro 12y ago
The smart thing would be for aid agencies that send workers to these hot spots to pay for their employees to stay in a nice quite "resort" somewhere for a month on their return for them to relax and as a thankyou for their efforts
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by shirro 12y ago
I tried to post a point but got deleted by the Apple mafia on HN. The fact is I have seen large number of small handed users (asian females) comfortably carry and use large format phones like Galaxy Notes. The problem for the male dominated
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by shirro 12y ago
Almost as good as sliding 200ft from the base of an exploding Saturn V to a rubber room, a quick crawl to the blast room, slam the door shut, cover yourself in a fire blanket and if you survive long enough light oxygen candles until the res
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by shirro 12y ago
It's as if millions of Chromecasts suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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by shirro 12y ago
It stays on the ISS while it is emptied and loaded for the return trip. Dragon is the only vehicle with a substantial down mass capability (3000kg) so it can return with things that need fixing and completed experiments etc. Shuttle is reti
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by shirro 12y ago
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
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by shirro 12y ago
I don't get Apple's password based security at all. The stupid question/answer thing they forced everyone to do was just crazy. You have a physical device in your possession. Apple don't seem to have heard about two fact
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by shirro 12y ago
Aren't scenes shot on film digitised for editing and colour graded just like digital ones? I think a lot of the difference between movies is probably down to the processing rather than the camera. No matter how they shoot the movie the
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by shirro 12y ago
I don't understand the people who don't like Reddit based on the front page. FFS, Reddit is a platform and the action is in the subreddits. There are some very high quality subreddits with good mods which work as well or better th
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by shirro 12y ago
I have given up on lawn. It is a great resource for public spaces like parks and sports fields but maintaining it domestically seems to belong to a distant past. Domestic water has to be potable. Parks can use lower quality waste water and
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by shirro 12y ago
Thanks, this was great. I got through the coloring with my 6yo this morning. I printed out two copies and we shared a desk and did it together. He enjoyed it and got mostly optimal answers. He got bogged down in the maps because coloring bi
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by shirro 12y ago
From a familiarity point of view so do I but progress in operating systems and languages hasn't moved on much for decades. Linux is the pragmatic solution for now and for some time to come but if my kids' kids are still using vim
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by shirro 12y ago
Time to get a trademark on Tau before it takes off.
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by shirro 12y ago
The only thing missing that will stop Soylent making heaps of money is salt and msg. People will eat anything if you add salt and msg even some oatmeal goop with added vitamins. People who think nobody will eat Soylent because it isn't
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by shirro 12y ago
And in the average male dominated technology company it takes on a whole new meaning: "Hey guys, anyone want to touch tips with me?" [Long silence]
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by shirro 12y ago
I believe in a fair living wage but high wages often just mean high cost of living. Unless your purchasing power improves it is kind of pointless. Australia's minimum wage is double the USA but everything costs twice as much.
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by shirro 13y ago
Turn it off. Streisand effect again. The more people complain the more people hop on board and start the insults and the more people who read them. People need to learn to exercise good judgement and stop blaming technology for social probl
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by shirro 13y ago
vim is all muscle memory. You don't need to read any menus or icons. It is perfect for drunk coding with blurry vision. It just isn't ideal for casual use. This is the real difference. Most web interfaces need to be immediately us
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by shirro 13y ago
What is the point of a visual medium like the web if you are just going to publish a wall of text. For an article dealing with design, having to read descriptions of furnishings rather than see a graphic is painful.

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