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by xt00 7y ago
Yea the tipping point for self driving cars will be when it can drive you home while drunk legally. Probably will be made legal first someplace like South Korea — there you can easily pay somebody to show up with their buddy on a scooter to
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by xt00 7y ago
Regarding the question of who watches the watchers, I do wonder if any country has tried appointing a group of citizens who essentially get to watch everything the police do. It would seem like that primary complaints would be that the offi
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by xt00 7y ago
Interesting.. would be cool if 99% of the data was not uploaded but while you are on the go you could optionally have it send you a list of hot spots in the video stream that you could select from.. then that would send to you potentially w
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by xt00 7y ago
whoa interesting idea... so you have your online IOT "OS" / "dashboard" thing that runs on a cloud provider and you install a driver for your new hardware that you just bought at the store.. and "buh dunk"
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by xt00 7y ago
As much as I dislike using "standards" to solve problems -- I think if there was something like the following it would do well: 1) create a standard that does all of the normal things you would want an IOT device to do 2) turn it
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by xt00 7y ago
In the case of digital astronomy using various opto-electronic devices to take the light and convert to charge (CMOS or CCD sensor or whatever else they use), I wonder how possible it is to essentially sum together lots of pictures one afte
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by xt00 7y ago
Apple and other companies should totally experiment with new things like Touch Bar and keyboards but try them out on stuff like the Mac book or products where it’s not like the hard core work laptop.. I mean 7 years ago literally everybody
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by xt00 7y ago
Definitely, 90s tech sometimes is the right answer.. HTTP request compared to HTTPS is far less back and forth between the server and the client, and websockets (I've used them) don't scale well into the super high concurrent conn
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by xt00 7y ago
Here’s some background on the concept: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v8/18 Basic idea is that you send out a microwave signal and at the same time send entangled microwaves/photons (in the microwave band)
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by xt00 7y ago
Yea for sure.. I would hope that there is some rule now related to making sure things can be deorbited with some scheme relatively easily? For example a mandatory unit that attaches to the side of your satellite that has a small antenna onl
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by xt00 7y ago
I was thinking more of the case where the video was playing fine then it starts buffering and pauses then will sit there indefinitely after buffering unless I intervene by clicking pause unpause etc. Basically caused by an imperfect connect
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by xt00 7y ago
If this somehow fixes the situations where I have to click pause and un-pause to get a video to actually play, that’d be a step forward for humanity...
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by xt00 7y ago
Was in China when the first protest happened and the news coverage was mostly saying things like that the people are clueless in Hong Kong and don’t understand the law about extradition. They had various experts all saying similar things an
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by xt00 7y ago
TLDR: 1 in 4 stars, but there are some big error bounds. "Based on their simulations, the researchers estimate that planets very close to Earth in size, from three-quarters to one-and-a-half times the size of earth, with orbital period
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by xt00 7y ago
It’s any interesting idea actually that would effectively mandate new jobs. In the US forcing people to live in an area because of the job they get likely wouldn’t fly. But you could mandate that the company must be located in a particular
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by xt00 7y ago
I think there’s a vague hope that when there are a bunch of people who get paid 200k in your city that it means there will be more people who get paid 50-100k... the reality is more like there is a big increase in the amount of people who g
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by xt00 7y ago
Yea an assault helicopter transports troops to many locations and brings with it enough fire power to suppress anybody on the ground, however, it’s somewhat common that helicopters get hit by rpg’s and similar things by ground forces as the
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by xt00 7y ago
True.. old folks like to mention that kids take things for granted.. if they didn’t they would just be staring at cars go by all day going “wooooowwwww.... you guys seein this shit??”
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by xt00 7y ago
140 miles to haul a bunch of 1-2 ton stones on perfectly flat ground with grease is one thing, if there are any minor hills or a good set of them, that would require massive amounts of energy.. any chance they used animals at all?
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by xt00 7y ago
With all the bright minds on hacker news i honestly think we could make this report ourselves.. I wonder if there are good sources for this info? The trend for more people moving to cities would seem that everything is moving in the directi
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by xt00 7y ago
A couple of facts that should at least provide a baseline for costs (like the best case scenario): Shenzhen metro: 198 stations, about 180 miles of track (soon to be more like 250 miles), majority of it built in past 10-12 years. All I can
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by xt00 7y ago
Being a 10X engineer at a small company I would say is both true and somewhat different at the same time. In the author's case it sounds like these were smaller companies? At every small company, there are people that are "super i
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by xt00 7y ago
Yea interesting! Parker solar probe will hit a whopping 0.064% of the speed of light.. and the orbit is quite interesting as you said — needs to slow down to cancel out the speed of earths orbital velocity. So ya know, for a reference point
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by xt00 7y ago
Summary: burn lots of fuel to go to periphery of solar system, dive back toward the sun and skim it very closely to maximize velocity and use a bunch of fuel next to the sun at max V (oberth maneuver) https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#
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by xt00 7y ago
Very interesting.. classic useful response from the HN community! Any chance you could point me to an example so I can use this technique in the future?
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by xt00 7y ago
For buying a piece of hardware — especially one that doesn’t require some complex sw to go with it — doing the “contact us” thing definitely turns a lot of people off. When I see that I think they will start off by pumping me for informatio
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by xt00 7y ago
Apple is highly averse to having your phone send out any BLE beacon all the time. Likely what they will do is the following: 1) The iPhone will be considered the "master" (aka BLE Central device) 2) All of your devices that you en
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by xt00 7y ago
Some things that have helped procrastination for me are 2 things: 1) think about something to look forward to regarding the particular task — for example maybe just simply writing the email saying that it’s done is the only thing I can look
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by xt00 7y ago
Darknet diaries has a great episode on this if you want an audio version of this story: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darknet-diaries/id1296...
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by xt00 7y ago
I think people could argue that even years ago many workplaces have been sort of bifurcated between people that would be "first to fire" and those that were "integral", but these days it appears that its become more inst

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