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by symplee 7y ago
>> 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area. So a football field could collect around 8,000 gallons of water per hour. Let's say you can get 5 hours of good sunlight per day = 4
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by symplee 7y ago
From the article: >> Unlike some desalination systems, there is no accumulation of salt or concentrated brines to be disposed of. In a free-floating configuration, any salt that accumulates during the day would simply be carried back
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by symplee 7y ago
The spectrum of color only represents percentages between 7.8 and 17.6%. I imagine it would look a lot less dramatic if the scale was from 0% (bright red), to 100% (bright green). It would also be interesting to have a slider to adjust the
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by symplee 7y ago
For remote work, pretty much anything that's not done on an actual assembly line.
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by symplee 7y ago
Almost. Laziness = minimum spanning tree Love = merge sort Sadness = reversing a linked list But yes, all other emotions are iambic pentameter poetry.
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by symplee 7y ago
There's an example in the 1950-2000 section: Many UFO reports may be the result of mass hysteria [0] Granted, these weren't all independent sightings. So you're right, I agree. We don't know for sure. https:&#x
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by symplee 7y ago
If learning a new language, it's still amazing how you can find large and well developed music scenes for pretty much any genre you already like, in your target language.
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by symplee 7y ago
Fairly well documented throughout history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
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by symplee 7y ago
Exactly. Don't be fooled by this clever marketing, we all know who's really pulling the strings behind the scenes... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer)
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by symplee 7y ago
Discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22186790 In any event, the main point was that the fine is 1/100 of yearly spending.
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by symplee 7y ago
And to put that into perspective, their total spending is over 1,000k a year per employee.
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by symplee 7y ago
Have any other animals ever discovered fire? If humans vanished today, how long would it take for the next animal to discover it? Which animal would it be? What about if we don't count primates? (Also worth noting, dolphins unfortunat
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by symplee 7y ago
Like an unlisted phone number?
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by symplee 7y ago
Further ideas/concepts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_numbers
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by symplee 7y ago
The big concern is human drivers hitting it. Like the Las Vegas autonomous car that was backed into by a truck within the first hour of going live. [0] For example, does it have a side impact safety rating? I also noticed on their technolog
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by symplee 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback. So maybe the main scientists would host the repository, with their ideas and data. Then we could review and perhaps add to the main scientist's ideas, or find problems with the data. Or add more data with our o
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by symplee 7y ago
Anyone know how we HN readers can help this effort? Is there some open source scientific community/repository like GitHub? (Where people can pull down the latest data and ideas, and add to them, then push our changes back to the main s
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by symplee 7y ago
Would it be possible to build a floating (or submerged) factory in the ocean? Far enough from shore but linked to a coastal city via a "boring company" tunnel. And thus be outside of any political jurisdiction.
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by symplee 7y ago
Tinder theme park?
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by symplee 7y ago
Exactly. Remember the days of Blockbuster, they'd have an entire shelf dedicated to 50 copies of a single movie. Partly to handle actual demand, but, perhaps unlike the library, I imagine it was also partly to generate artificial dem
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by symplee 7y ago
Is there a mainstream company structure that aligns interests in this way? Or would this require a paradigm shift?
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by symplee 7y ago
Unrelated, but for those who have never seen the Jeff Dean facts, behold: https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts Some highlights include: -Jeff Dean's PIN is the last 4 digits of pi. -He once shifted a
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by symplee 7y ago
Thinking about thinking is a fascinating topic, and the heart of true critical thinking. At the same time, it's easy to get wrapped up in our own inventions and hubris if not careful. When approaching "truth" check out the fo
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by symplee 7y ago
Thankfully quantum is non-binary.
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by symplee 7y ago
For comparison, these are the ranks of the other grandmasters in the group: rank rank / 7,182,778 players: ____________________________________ 1 -------- 0.0000139% 23,365 --- 0.3252920% 238,352 -- 3.3183818% 391,8
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by symplee 7y ago
Check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure) >> A rope, or cord, is a data structure composed of smaller strings that is used to efficiently store and manipulate a very long string. For example,
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by symplee 7y ago
Anyone have any details on recent developments in the field? For example: Reclaiming raw materials from landfills Machines/robots that can sort recyclable materials from a heap of mixed garbage. Better insulated landfills
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by symplee 7y ago
Imagine if he starts picking stocks? Checkmate.
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by symplee 7y ago
A couple extra ideas for these beyond land-based power generation: 1) Put a couple of these on trans-Atlantic cruise ships, designed for speed, to make the journey in 3 days (at 50 MPH) carrying 2,000+ people. 2) Cargo ships that operate on
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by symplee 7y ago
From the article: >> NuScale’s reactor is 65 feet tall and 9 feet in diameter, and is housed in a containment vessel only slightly larger. About the size of two school buses stacked end to end, you could fit around 100 of them in the

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