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by psc 9mo ago
You may want to check out David Brin's work, he covers the implications of this idea extensively in The Transparent Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society I found it really interesting he f
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by psc 9mo ago
It's actually partly built, still in beta testing (has some bugs) but here's a nice example: https://live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_031YiYO7OqPbPhcmP3mQeb Requirements are pretty flexible, but the inspiration
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by psc 9mo ago
DAS has really been taking off in the marine bioacoustics world! https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/deep-listening/ https://depts.washington.edu/uwb/revolutionizing-marine-cons... Very cool a
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by psc 9mo ago
I've been working on a citizen science version of this, we have 7 hydrophones deployed that anyone can listen to live: https://live.orcasound.net/ These hydrophones are a bit more expensive (~$1k per deployment) but st
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by psc 2y ago
I recently read the story of the Magic Link: https://commoncog.com/c/cases/general-magic/ > When General Magic finally shipped in 1994 — under the threat of Apple’s Newton — they hadn’t made the Pocket Cry
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by psc 2y ago
> There are tons of things that we decide to ignore to go on with our lives Absolutely, we all need to filter the overwhelming amount of information we're faced with. The part that seems terrifying is that occasionally our filters c
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Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)(historylink.org)
330 points by psc 2y ago|305 comments
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by psc 2y ago
Such a notable carpet it even has its own wiki article! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_International_Airport...
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by psc 2y ago
Link to game: https://mashpoe.github.io/1D-Game/
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1D video game you can play with 3D glasses [video](youtube.com)
3 points by psc 2y ago|1 comments
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by psc 2y ago
Orcasound | https://github.com/orcasound/ | https://www.orcasound.net/ We're building open source tools to listen underwater, focused on monitoring endangered orcas (killer whales) along the west
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by psc 2y ago
SUV is a poor term, nowadays it's largely used to refer to crossovers/CUVs, which have unibody car chassis and are really just station wagons with some extra clearance. The nomenclature may be a lost battle at this point, but the
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What Do Algorithms Want?(thoughtforms.life)
1 points by psc 2y ago|0 comments
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The Curious Case of Eriogonum Tiehmii(uvm.edu)
9 points by psc 2y ago|1 comments
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Playing Tetris Forever(tetris.wiki)
4 points by psc 3y ago|0 comments
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by psc 3y ago
I like Obsidian too, but the one thing it really can't do that Notion does well is collaboration. And surprisingly I haven't seen any good plugins that solve this problem (to be fair it's not an easy problem).
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How to be an open source gardener (2014)(steveklabnik.com)
2 points by psc 3y ago|0 comments
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by psc 3y ago
> recreating something like the Sunbeam T-20 I got a vintage Sunbeam toaster recently, and in the process I found this guy who restores vintage Sunbeam toasters for almost $300! https://www.timstoasters.com/ That's
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by psc 3y ago
Very true, unfortunately this means that for many modern products it only makes sense to buy the cheapest because then at least you know exactly what you're getting (low quality), even though it's not really what you want. Yet aga
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by psc 3y ago
> You get many of the same environmental benefits (lake area no longer flooded, fish can traverse the base of the dam) Besides the fact that the lake area will still be partially flooded, as other replies have said, fish are complicated
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by psc 3y ago
ScienceClic on youtube has some really great videos, the first half of the string theory video [1] does a good job framing the conflict at a high level, string theory being one attempt to resolve the problem. It doesn't go into math bu
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by psc 3y ago
I've had the same question and I don't have the answer, but what you're asking about might be referred to as the cosmological principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_principle Seems like so
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by psc 10y ago
NASA did get to the moon in under a decade though. I definitely suspect there was a heightened sense of urgency when they were working on that. Sub-orbital to lunar in 10 years is pretty quick.
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by psc 10y ago
My interpretation is that it's very intentionally heavily based off of Fight Club in season 1, but that's just the setup. Now it's what happens after Fight Club. If it were a rip off, you wouldn't have so many Fight Club
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by psc 10y ago
I think the GP is referring more specifically to Henry George Theorem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem ). The theorem has pretty solid theoretical backing, so I don't see why it wouldn't app
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by psc 10y ago
> Robots are capital. Real estate is mostly land. Capital produces interest. Land produces rent. These are different things. Not according to neoclassical economics! Land is just another form of capital. I still don't understand why
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by psc 10y ago
>They are productive assets, much like houses produce rent The rent houses produce is very different from the money robots help you make. Rents (in the economic sense) are good to tax, can't be passed on to the tenant, and has no ba
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by psc 10y ago
> I'm terrified of anyone but me having access to this kind of data, though. It's nobody's business but mine. This is by far the biggest problem with this kind of tech. If there were a way to guarantee the privacy of the r
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by psc 11y ago
This is great, only thing missing cowbell. Here's a basic house beat: http://sampulator.com/paulcretu/house
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by psc 12y ago
Interestingly, planting trees can be bad in some cases: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/opinion/to-save-the-planet... Quote from the article: "Climate scientists have calculated the effect of incr

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