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by dodo53 12y ago
...That Emacs Users Don't Want You To Know!
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by dodo53 12y ago
So has Ryan North @ Dinosaur Comics! http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=... More readable on boingboing link http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/15/time-travel-c
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by dodo53 13y ago
like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units ?
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by dodo53 13y ago
Appropriate to do an orbital mechanics thing for a company called La Grange (=> Lagrange) :oP
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by dodo53 13y ago
Well to be cynical - if most people are blithering idiots and most people don't amount to much, it could be true that most smart people don't amount to much and most people in charge are idiots while still true that being smart m
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by dodo53 13y ago
I wonder if there's a way you could help this with software. I remember reading a long time ago about singing pitch training by realtime headphone feedback (like - if you're singing flat, you are feed back your voice distorted eve
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by dodo53 13y ago
Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun
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by dodo53 13y ago
Or supposedly most of the cost to end world hunger http://borgenproject.org/the-cost-to-end-world-hunger/
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David Deutsch - Universal Quantum Computers are Only Years Away(daviddeutsch.physics.ox.ac.uk)
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by dodo53 13y ago
you could have a ring of people, with their own loyalty cards, use them for a bit, rotate around, offset any loyalty points differences with a bitcoin transfer.
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by dodo53 13y ago
If you have a perfect mirror, can you store energy in lasers indefinitely? I guess you'd still lose energy to the air
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by dodo53 13y ago
well its energy has increased, so yes, but probably not measurably.
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by dodo53 13y ago
By implanting a small magnet normally in a finger, moving your finger through an electric field causes small movement of the magnet, so you can 'feel' electric fields. e.g. http://gizmodo.com/5895555/i-have-a-
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by dodo53 13y ago
this would be a cool school science lab experiment
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by dodo53 13y ago
Checked because I remember hearing about the somewhat horrific forced swim test. Idea is mice are trapped in a container fall of water; depression is when they give up and let themselves drown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_models_of
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by dodo53 13y ago
That's interesting! I wonder if a charitable company decide to make say AIDS drugs and give them away without breaching patent law?
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by dodo53 13y ago
It's a bit more surreal when it's general knowledge what to do with the hammer but you have to license your placement-of-hammer IP.
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by dodo53 14y ago
Wouldn't it be pretty toxic (especially if it's a vapour?) In a sealed component in a datacentre that problem doesn't matter, but they're speculating about home use also.
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by dodo53 14y ago
Yes, there's an interesting thing on that here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/ I haven't looked at enough philosophy to be able to figure out what I'd place myself as, average-utilarianism also seems to lead to mo
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by dodo53 14y ago
That's essentially average-utilitarian (has the happiness of a random person in the population gone up?); I guess many people are closer to total-utilitarian (ie. the total number of happy/surviving people is also important).
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by dodo53 14y ago
Relabelling is the marketing game; to get your businessy-idea-book in the best-sellers list you need everyone to replace "practice makes perfect" with "10000 hours".
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by dodo53 14y ago
Maybe they could follow the rhinos with UAVs to cut down on patrol-space? (or spend the money flooding the market with fake-rhino-horn?)
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by dodo53 14y ago
I really should get around to reading that. His info theory book/lectures was/were very good. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html
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by dodo53 14y ago
If you haven't seen already you might be interested in http://lightsailenergy.com/tech.html ; they're working on compressed-air-and-water-vapour storage (also DaniFong posts on HN sometimes)
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by dodo53 14y ago
and would you stay home and look after the kids if your wife earned more than you?
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by dodo53 14y ago
I got the political vocab wrong I think - for me socialism is essentially capitalism with strong welfare state (ie basic income guarantee or whatever) vs communism with no differences in pay and no private ownership. But wikipedia disagree
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by dodo53 14y ago
Yes this is totally my attitude that eventually we need a socialist system. But how do you convince winners in capitalist system that's a good idea (or the future robot owners)?
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by dodo53 14y ago
People will pay for robots/AI if it replaces a larger amount of salary paid to humans. This is already happening. The question is whether once all the 'easy' stuff has been automated whether we'll be able to automate the 'hard' stuff that w
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by dodo53 14y ago
I think it could be really valuable if you can link (with permission) to some form of real identity (ie. probably Facebook/LinkedIn profile) - makes customer testimonials more believable.
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by dodo53 14y ago
Yes, while it's low-valued it's not much of a deterrent to big players which is a disadvantage (depending on how often small players realistically can afford to challenge the big players legally under current system). But by defensive usage

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