bartislartfast

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by bartislartfast 3y ago
how many more product / brand origin story movies do we need? Facebook, Uber, Blackberry, Apple, Tetris, Nike Air, Cheetos
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
ok full disclosure, I had not heard the term Black Swan event before and I was trying to remember what happened in the movie
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> -- That will eventually happen, and electricity will be just as "expensive" as it is now, simply because the price of a product has nothing to do with its cost and everything to do with the purchasing power of its intended au
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
4) useful bipedal robots - this one is probably just around the corner (see boston robotics). We often talk about how much AGI could benefit humanity, giving knowledge workers a digital "team" of helpers, but we gloss over the phy
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
I think you're mixing up dystopian with apocalyptic. webster's dystopia definition is "of, relating to, or being an imagined world or society in which people lead dehumanized, fearful lives : relating to or characteristic of
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
double edged hammer is certainly a useful tool but I prefer the one with the thing on the back for nails
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Broken Arrow – 1961B-52 crash in Goldsboro, NC(en.wikipedia.org)
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
Someone posted a link to a page of "broken arrow" incidents yesterday, and I recalled reading this one a while back. To me it's the scariest broken arrow case. Two bombs were dropped from a disintegrating B52. One of the bomb
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
their own definition, on the top of the page: > an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons the term "broken arrow" refers to the launchable weapon itself. there were literally no "arrows" involved in this event.
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
The wikipedia page on military nuclear accidents has a good few more entries than this list, including what I assume is the classified "Spring 1968, Atlantic" entry, which wikipedia says was the loss of the USS Scorpion in May &#x
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft, or loss of the weapon. and then > The CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) "Osca
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> LinkedIn is one of the most invasive surprised to read this, I don't find it invasive in the slightest. I've turned off notifications for most things but its the only "social" app I have on my device. I will say it&
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
Thank you for this! Too many posts on here link directly to twitter. I don't think this is a great idea. IMO a tweet is not a valid destination for a HN post, unless the conversation unfolding on twitter is the story. We should try and
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
yes, that too. I think another mistake people make is assuming they're all sort of the same size. But the offshore ones are immense.
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
I know you're trying to compare geothermal to these sources, but I'm now in shock from the comparison between solar and wind. 1 large wind turbine (3MW) is equivalent to 7,500 x 400W solar panels. That's mind blowing.
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
I would love to see a grid of all these values for all the latest battery technologies, to see what's leading the field between solid, sodium, aluminium, Sulfur Selenium, iron, etc
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> Pollution is a huge problem, but climate change is literally an existential problem 100% agree. If there's a choice between a small amount of pollution vs a large payoff to cut carbon emissions, it's definitely a good idea. F
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
Phones are only the first battlefield in the AI marketing war. Just wait a decade until the bipedal robot industry kicks off and you'll have robots knocking on your door to sell you shit
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
The greenwashing here is burning my eyes > A huge phosphate rock deposit discovered in Norway contains enough minerals to meet the global demand for batteries and solar panels for the next 100 years, according to the mining company that
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> this article says the humans the way you referred to us as "the humans" is slightly unsettling.
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
Far Cry was an excellent multiplayer game, we use to play it at LAN parties (remember those?) The huge maps, tropical setting and vehicles meant you could hide in the jungle and snipe at someone on the other side of a bay, or sneak right up
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
Those early levels where you fight against humans in a tropical setting were the best part. Every Far Cry game that came after, emulated those first levels, and scrapped not monsters in hallways.
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
I have both a 950 and a 950 XL in a box here gathering dust. They're not worth enough to try and sell second hand anymore, so I'll definitely be trying this!
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
you can just open them with screwdrivers I'm sure.
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
I apologise in advance if this seems inflammatory, I'm not trying to start an internet argument here, I'm just being honest about my first impressions of this app. Of all things, the spaceman in a car was what put me off this, as
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
I came here just to say this ^
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> It feels like talking down to someone, not wanting to accept their answer. In Ireland at least, it's not talking down, but rather making the assumption that the other person is refusing only out of politeness, so as not to inconve
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> Yeah, baseball sized hail is not a normal thing in my area. yet
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
I remember when the TV show Broadchurch came out, and David Tennant's character made tea in the microwave, and there was national uproar in Britain. Later several scientific articles pointed out this is actually a better way to make te
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
House rules. If you're a Lyons house and a Barrys drinker comes in, they have to put up with it. depending on how well you know them they will either quietly accept or start an argument to convince you how wrong you are

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