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by zizee 6y ago
That's not really the type of "skipping" that is the issue. Software tends to ask the system the current time (via a library), and the system responds with a "here is a number, it is the number of [units] since [epoch]&q
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by zizee 6y ago
Apparently this is against Facebook's ToS and it risks account suspension at any time (removing access to anything you bought in the Oculus store). I am thankful that I made the decision early on to use steam for purchases early on.
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by zizee 6y ago
Medical doctors have a professional organization enforcing strict standards. People cannot practice medicine without passing a series of standardized exams that only recognized universities can administrator, they have and a lengthy interns
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by zizee 6y ago
Electric cars will probably save the grid nearterm, with people wanting the convenience of charging overnight at home. Eventually all carparks will be equipped with solar powered charging, which will allow people to use their cars as backup
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by zizee 6y ago
This is because it is not correct. Australians on average do drive bigger cars than in europe, but the average petrol consumption of passenger vehicles is 10.8 l/100km. https://www.budgetdirect.com.au/car-insurance&#x2F
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by zizee 6y ago
“No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.”
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by zizee 6y ago
Keep iterating on this concept and eventually we'll have liquid metal T-1000 like robots. Makes me wonder if Arnie could have defeated him/it by throwing lots of strong magnets into the mix.
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by zizee 6y ago
I would love to hear the opinion (anonymously if needed) from some Oculus people about their opinion on this. It feels like Oculus is poised to make VR have its breakout moment, only to have some unrelated Facebook group come in and sabotag
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by zizee 6y ago
Or VR could have been being relegated to a niche because of expensive computing requirements, difficulty to setup, lack of portability, and expensive headsets. The direction the Oculus/Facebook have taken with the Quest line addresses
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by zizee 6y ago
The Verge article references more than the one study. I was referring to the Danish study, which I heard about on this planet money episode: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/09/711181385&#x
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by zizee 6y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response.
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Ask HN: Would you sit through a product demo if paid?
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by zizee 6y ago
It's about the height of the bonnet. An SUV is taller and pedestrians are more likely to go under the vehicle, or (I'd have to check) hit their heads in the collision.
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by zizee 6y ago
Given that your descendants several generations removed would carry hardly any of your genetic makeup, and would have no memory of you, they might as well be the progeny of anyone. Or are you saying you also don't care what people achi
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by zizee 6y ago
Reusable bags support the argument the GP was making about tradeoffs. Reusable bags are good for stopping the production of plastic waste, but the resulting CO2 emissions are much greater that single use thin plastic bags, unless you reuse
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by zizee 6y ago
What are the implications of that exactly?
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by zizee 6y ago
If I were a publisher, I'd be more worried about how easy it is to download ebooks from illegitimate sources. A novel usually takes up less than a few hundred kb and can be obtained in seconds.
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by zizee 6y ago
I think that is the special* type of sand required for concrete production. * Concrete requires coarse grains, which are found in river beds and beaches. A lot of the worlds sand is in deserts, which has fine grains due to its age / ye
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by zizee 6y ago
How much would it cost to helecopter a medic in to stabilize someone until a ground crew gets there?
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by zizee 6y ago
> Microsoft stealing The word you are looking for is "copying".
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by zizee 6y ago
> Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are supposedly meant to be powered by electrolysis Yes, that's what people imagine is happening when talking hydrogen powdered cars. But I believe that electrolysis is so inefficient that it's not
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by zizee 6y ago
> The only other technology is hydrogen which also requires electricity to produce. I am happy to be corrected, but I believe the only industrial scale production of hydrogen is splitting hydrocarbons. Using electrolysis is hugely ineffi
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by zizee 6y ago
I switched from GoDaddy to namecheap because GoDaddy was supporting SOPA (stop online privacy act) https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedia-is-leaving-go-daddy-...
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by zizee 6y ago
I would much prefer ads for random junk. 100%.
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by zizee 6y ago
I believe that they did show the "threads" firing, and the neurons lighting up in response. I imagine that initially they will be focusing on blunter interventions into the brain, like detecting impending epileptic attacks, and se
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by zizee 6y ago
This is not true. Federal senators are elected on a state wide basis with the top N candidates past the post (N depending on size of the state). This can result in Senators being elected with a very small % of the overall votes. For the low
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by zizee 6y ago
That is only because their app stores hold monopoly positions on their respective devices.
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by zizee 6y ago
Thank you for the clarification. Makes complete sense.
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by zizee 6y ago
> I had one of these when I worked for Google, I didn’t quite trust it though, so I had it in the bathroom to limit what my employer could listen to. I don't understand why you just didn't throw it away, or put it in a box powe
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by zizee 6y ago
In The Expanse, the main reason for complaint from earthers seems to be caused by overpopulation which leads to difficulty in obtaining realestate and the benefits that landownership brings. If UBI was implemented as in The Expanse (food, s

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