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Why an I-Beam is so strong [video](youtube.com)
7 points by symplee 7y ago|0 comments
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by symplee 7y ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/wgcm7vctFPlfO/html5 https://giphy.com/gifs/sMoT7sVhwBebC/html5
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by symplee 7y ago
We therefore need to reverse the technological progress that made these jobs obsolete in order to create more jobs for obsolete workers.
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by symplee 7y ago
Looks like he actually invented the UPC (Universal Product Code) [0] (1973) vs. the barcode [1] (1951). Wikipedia [1]: "The barcode was invented by Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver and patented in the US in 1951. The invention
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by symplee 7y ago
Absolutely. 90% of HN readers do it everyday.
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by symplee 7y ago
Looks awesome. If only some of these features were built into the actual site...
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Ask HN: Helpful to see how many upvotes *and* downvotes your comment gets?
2 points by symplee 7y ago|0 comments
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by symplee 7y ago
A couple examples from the article: >> A colleague told me of vainly trying to persuade a college student that .015 was less than .05; the student insisted “but 15 is more than five.” >> To [students], [the equals sign] doesn’t
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by symplee 7y ago
Back to the original post, will they have a dedicated "Tank" license?
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by symplee 7y ago
Firefighters will now be required to carry steel spheres the size of a baseball and be trained to chicken-arm throw it at the window at approximately 3 mph.
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by symplee 7y ago
I believe OP was referring to regulatory capture [0] where special interests are prioritized over the general interests of the public. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
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by symplee 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irresistible_force_paradox aka "What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?"
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by symplee 7y ago
Had high hopes for the VSCode version [0] Unfortunately it seems to have lost momentum. [0] https://github.com/vscode-org-mode/vscode-org-mode
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by symplee 7y ago
It's like the Hyperloop, for trash.
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by symplee 7y ago
What about cargo torpedoes? I imagine you could fit an airplane load into a very large submarine/torpedo and send it at 200 km/h with a nuclear powered propulsion.
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by symplee 7y ago
For the mega nuclear powered cruise ship, you can have a sliding deck that everyone pre-loads onto for fast boarding and exit. Imagine if an entire floor could slide out onto the dock, and the floor above could slide into the ship at the sa
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by symplee 7y ago
Do you have a Youtube example of the output?
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by symplee 7y ago
print("".join(sorted("everything")))
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by symplee 7y ago
How many monkey bots are flipping the coin daily? Selection bias just needs one. I very much look forward to the author's follow up post at the end of 2020 to see if another 5k turns into 200.
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by symplee 7y ago
Flagging is not a mechanism for people with minority opinions. Rather the opposite. It is used by people in the majority of today's moral climate to stifle the exact minority opinions that should be protected. It creates an anonymous v
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by symplee 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
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by symplee 7y ago
When will the narrative that "there are too many people" finally catch up to the facts? Edit: Just pointing out that doomsday predictions about population growth have been consistently wrong for the last 100 years.
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by symplee 7y ago
I wonder if making the list of users who flag an article publicly viewable would help.
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by symplee 7y ago
Wow, this is happening on December 11th? That seems rather abrupt. Why not freeze and hide the accounts instead of deleting? I.e. don't push any tweets to them, or anything else computationally intensive. Then when they log in again, h
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by symplee 7y ago
>> With food, you control calories from roughly 1800 - 3500 per day, but with exercise, you only control 200 - 400. In other words, exercise cuts 11-22% of calories on the low end, and only 6-11% on the splurge day.
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by symplee 7y ago
Any know if there's an archive of TI-83 calculator games? (And, ideally, the ability to play them on the computer.)
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by symplee 7y ago
It's almost as if the HN ranking algo should be open sourced, or at least viewable, with the ability for users to see who is flagging articles. Maybe even allowing a marketplace for drop in algo rankings/sorting. There was a rece
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by symplee 7y ago
At some point doesn't it becomes easier to start anew Vs. trying to derail the ten trillion-dollar freight-train momentum of the current Internet?
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by symplee 7y ago
Similar to "The Lick" in improvisational jazz. Seven or Eight specific notes, heard in so many different songs and genres: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by symplee 7y ago
Try using an early net of LCZero. You used to be able to adjust how many "rollouts" it plays with, and what generation net to play against. Since it's a neural net, it has the "intuition" of a 1000 elo player, or 15

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