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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Sri Lanka is an interesting example as their organic fertilizer mandate would (I imagine, being less nutrient dense) fail to provide enough nutrients to support the increased growth of the plants in the new higher-CO2 atmosphere. The synthe
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
I'm sure poor countries would love to turn their rice fields into soccer fields and feed themselves with more nutritious food, but they need to farm cheap calories to feed themselves with the amount of money they have.
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
We've had cloudseeding deployed in the wild for a long while.
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
That's an interesting take; I haven't ever heard that argument used a defense of the Jones Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920 , which is the classic example of protectionist/an
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
I'm struggling to follow what immigration has to do with discrimination against US-born individuals. Is the connection because, without the broader pool of applicants available through visa programs, companies would be forced to hire a
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
I've never heard of an individual union member negotiating a higher individual wage or benefits than what's negotiated by the union. My cursory google search results say the same. Do you have examples of this?
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Yes, zero-to-60 (in mph) or zero-to-100 (in km/h) is the standard acceleration measure for cars across the world.
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
So you gave your CEO an ultimatum (guy can no longer by your manager or you're out), and then when he does nothing to resolve your situation, you backed down from the ultimatum? There are other robotics companies in the world.
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
The article's 0.65 vs 0.66 float64 example doesn't indicate much since neither 0.64 nor 0.65 have a terminating representation in base 2...
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Are we talking like Nutty Professor levels of big? Should we be concerned about how big the scientists are getting?
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Are we talking about powering a whole 4 bedroom home? Or just a few panels, a small charge controller, small battery, and like 2000w inverter? Renogy (etc.) sells all of the latter on Amazon that AFAIK don't require any connectivity. B
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Is it surprising to find publicly accessible video of yourself on the Internet after you walked through (or spent 30 minutes photoshooting in) one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world? That's all this "controversy
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
I found a state with no legal moves within my first handful of moves - everything on sailboat is irrecoverable. Cool game!
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
That's assuming the cost of electricity doesn't go up and the value of POW coins doesn't go down.
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Is this still true in hyperbolic geometry, where the circumference of a circle of radius r is greater than 2.pi.r?
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
This technique wouldn't be novel even if it _was_ lensless. Google search "lensfree holography" for plenty of existing literature.
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Really? I think everybody in the entire world knows somebody who's died from cancer, and the more educated of those people know that cancer is caused by genetic mutations. Also the theory of evolution is based on random genetic mutatio
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
How am I eliding anything? My statement is that the only quantitative number in the first 2 paragraphs is the ">2%" figure. I'm also not criticizing the study, I'm criticizing the article and your defense of it. If &q
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
I'm not following several different aspects of your comment here. First of all, the paper is in Nature, not Science. Second, the first and second paragraphs do contain some relevant words, but nothing quantitative - literally the only
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
From what I can gather from the twitter hashtags, the "report back on how it was spent" requirement effectively shamed the recipients of these TED grants into using it on almost entirely charitable ends. Not a bad thing I guess.
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Index funds hold underlying assets under management... You are paying for a slice of the underlying assets... All slices of the pie are accounted for and it doesn't create anything new. Not sure how that relates to machines reproducing
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
If you are flying a drone overhead, you know the altitude and can do basic trig to find total distance from sensor angle. With even very approximate distances one should be able to distinguish a 200lb, 0.4m wide, 0.2m long human from a 10,0
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Surely you can discriminate a human from an elephant _by size alone_ with a thermal camera, without needing to resort to movement patterns.
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Is Elastic Beanstalk so far out of fashion now that people have forgotten about it?
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Precedent in music says sometimes-yes. The "Blurred Lines" lawsuit found that Pharrell and Robin Thicke were liable in the tune of $7m for producing a work of art solely from memory that copied the "signature phrases, hooks,
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Ask HN: DALL-E was trained on watermarked stock images?
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
> Imagine going to a meetup or work event where everyone is smoking weed and they’re discussing how to grow good quality cannabis. If you are not a cannabis user, you will feel out of place at that event. Therefore - no more discussion o
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Just opened youtube.com and 6/8 of the videos on the top section of my front page are from channels I'm subscribed to. That happens for me every time. Sorry your subscribe button doesn't work.
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
Or maybe, after receiving the Best Mathematician of the Year (Under 40 category) award, since your desire for social recognition of your supreme genius and success is now undeniably fulfilled, you start to realize that you can adopt a new h
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by whycombinetor 4y ago
No, the point is that from the seller's point of view, the return on a sold loan/pool is higher than if you kept the loans, because the buyers pay a premium for the privilege of buying, and that premium goes straight into the sell

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