conanite

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by conanite 3y ago
you laugh but i've always thought it would be great to carry a kilo of pure hydrogen in my backpack - just burn it to obtain like 5 litres of water ... I mean why are we carrying all that oxygen in our backpacks when he atmosphere has
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by conanite 3y ago
Do you mean that if I had invented a "machine for airborne transportation", such as, say, a hot-air balloon, I could collect royalties on jet airplanes?
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by conanite 4y ago
Another claim seems to be that a collection of unread books serves as a personal reminder of ignorance, that the un-known always exceeds the known, a kind of "memento ignorantiae" that gives us the humility and motivation to alway
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by conanite 4y ago
> Using data from government censors Should be "sensors" (used correctly a few sentences later). Is this a text-to-speech thing, or written by a non-native speaker, or just appalling editing? > Once I realized that we found
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by conanite 4y ago
Just curious, Australia being mostly desert, if the rest of the planet became similarly barren, would it still work out? I don't know how food-independent Australia is...
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by conanite 4y ago
Covid cases are asymptomatically approaching zero. However, your duplicate entries will reach their target asymptotically :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote
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by conanite 4y ago
> But how well would it fly if you were to plead the need to feast, to embalm your brother, or to make an offering to a god? Vacation, funerals, religious holy-days?
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by conanite 4y ago
Theoretically at some point in the step-by-step process, the computers will be able to clear their own roadblocks by themselves, and faster than we can. And who knows what happens then. Maybe "singularity" isn't a great word,
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by conanite 4y ago
Consider how you would like others to treat your insecurities. Balding isn't the core issue here...
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by conanite 5y ago
Add this to your browser's search engine list and make it default: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s+-site:pinterest.*
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The Economics of Spotify(thehustle.co)
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by conanite 5y ago
While this is annoying to many of us, if it diminishes the general public expectation that that online services should be free and subsidised by advertising/marketing/related services, that would be good news. I'm not particu
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by conanite 5y ago
I can submit a patch to an open-source project and everybody benefits ; but if I raise my own animals, the industrial-scale torture continues anyway. How many people need to raise their own animals before the abuse ends? It's not &quot
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by conanite 5y ago
I suspect the "great" Britain distinguishes it from the other Britain which is a nearby French province, ie "Grande Bretagne" vs "Bretagne". Ireland is still not British! The "British Isles" was a use
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by conanite 6y ago
If you don't have the skills to make the open-source changes you want yourself, but you have the money to make it happen, there is nothing stopping you hiring a developer to build the patch that you need. I don't know of a reliabl
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by conanite 7y ago
lots more graphs on this page: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases
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by conanite 7y ago
I have found the worldometer page easier to use than the others : https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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by conanite 7y ago
The Place Charles de Gaulle Étoile (Arc de Triomphe) in Paris is a gigantic roundabout, with the peculiar feature that traffic entering the system has priority ; traffic already on the roundabout must yield. This would lead to perpetual gri
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by conanite 7y ago
It's a little bit more subtle. Assume that there is a finite number of primes, and P is the set of all primes p0, p1, p2... pn. If you multiply all these together and add 1, you have a number Q that's not divisible by any number i
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by conanite 7y ago
"FOAF" is well-known, http://www.foaf-project.org/
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by conanite 7y ago
HN strips out emoji... but this works in ruby (replace "<emoji>" with a smiley for example) def <emoji> puts "helloworld" end <emoji> > helloworld
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by conanite 8y ago
- Daddy, is Santa real? - What do you think, dear? Followed by discussion of the evidence... if all goes well they learn to use their own judgement and cope with coming independently to their own conclusion in opposition to 99% of their pee
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by conanite 8y ago
Scotland and NI quit UK to form their own republic and rejoin EU together. Everyone happy. Maybe even republic of Scotland-Ireland.
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by conanite 10y ago
Extra inefficient for two trains going in the same direction... gotta wait for the next train in the opposite direction
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by conanite 12y ago
I can't tell from the username and I have no other information, but if grondilu is a girl, and perhaps a young one at that, it would be perfectly reasonable for her to expect to scream like one. Otherwise the comment was simply outrage
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by conanite 13y ago
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by conanite 13y ago
You don't have to represent BTC amounts as fractions of a whole. 0.000132 BTC is 132 µBTC, 0.0000132 BTC is 13.2 µBTC, or 1320 satoshi. It's likely we'll be seeing more talk of milli-BTC and micro-BTC, and hey why not nano-BT
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by conanite 13y ago
> I am firm believer is Eugenics Eugenics means requiring inferior people to not reproduce. There are some problems implementing this requirement. Do you mean something else?
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by conanite 13y ago
> Something that can curate the top posts and send them to you on a schedule. When you read a bunch of articles and upvote interesting ones (for whatever your value of "interesting" is), you contribute to the community by makin
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by conanite 13y ago
It's nice how the ancient Romans had an appreciation of the problem of infinite recursion. Suppose there was an independent institution overseeing the US FISC. Who would watch that? And so on. Is there a solution to Quis custodiet ...?

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