zakary

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by zakary 10mo ago
Definitely a lot of potentially very serious and important downsides to this. I’m trying to think of any possible upsides to this. - harder for unlicensed people, eg kids, to drive a car and hurt themselves or someone else. - harder to stea
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by zakary 2y ago
I have worked with some people in the defence industry who got just that from Adobe and a few similar vendors. They had to negotiate with adobe and sign NDAs both ways, and they payed through the nose for it. But you can do it.
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by zakary 2y ago
Better never means better for everyone. And it always means worse for some.
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by zakary 2y ago
What’s really needed is some way you can easily tell that a device has been tampered with, but which is also extremely difficult to bypass. And also where even if the OEM was in on the scheme, you could still tell. Like how a hash is used t
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by zakary 2y ago
I imagine speed and simplicity. There’s a lot more things that need maintenance on a piston engine
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by zakary 2y ago
Missiles and Drones. There’s essentially no viable use case for a hypersonic manned jet
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by zakary 2y ago
It just so happens that one of my colleagues just finished a PhD creating materials which pretty much do exactly this; converting a relatively broad spectrum of light into a much narrower band of light. I’ve seen them in the lab where it’s
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by zakary 2y ago
Human level touch/somatosensory system is one of the key breakthroughs needed to make humanoid robots truly useful. As this articles details, touch is a lot more complex than simply “is there force on this spot” and the sheer amount of
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by zakary 2y ago
I’m guessing the author is counting himself as CTO as part of that. $60 million for the CTO and his posse of senior managers and VPs, and the other $40m split between 180 non management engineers for $220k ish each. Still stupidly high cost
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by zakary 2y ago
Having something audited by an accounting firm doesn’t make me trust the numbers much more. It’s well known that many accounting firms will give you whatever result you want as long as you pay enough
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by zakary 3y ago
Tall buildings are often demolished floor by floor from the top down. It’s a slow and expensive process. I don’t think anyone has ever demolished a building anywhere close to as tall as this one in a city centre. Luckily for developers of
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by zakary 3y ago
You’re right that nothing is unlimited. Luckily in this case, the energy of waves and tides is given to the oceans mostly by the gravity of the moon pulling the water as it passes overhead. Also a little bit by the wind which is fed by sola
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Hafnium Controversy(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by zakary 3y ago|0 comments
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by zakary 3y ago
Interestingly, inside your body (in the form of a pacemaker battery) was and is the only legal way to possess plutonium as an individual (in the US) As soon as you take it out of your body, or if you die, then it immediately becomes illegal
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by zakary 3y ago
Beta-voltaic and other nuclear batteries have been around for a long time. The issue, at least so far, isn’t technology, it’s mostly just cost and safety. These things cost hundreds and into the thousands per battery last time I checked. An
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by zakary 3y ago
Yes you can. On Mac keyboard maestro will do exactly that. On windows it’s Autohotkey.
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by zakary 3y ago
If you’re only sellable skill is making music, and you have to put food on the table, that isn’t begging to be exploited; it’s grit
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by zakary 3y ago
Because in many places, especially disaster zones, a tent is a massive upgrade from the bare patch of dirt they often currently have to make do with. This isn’t to replace an inner city hospital, this is the make it fast and cheap to deploy
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by zakary 3y ago
Perhaps this was some kind of rare memory fault where it took a series of photos and there was some kind of corruption that caused elements of each to be merged. Or perhaps there was some weird fault that meant different sections of the pho
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by zakary 3y ago
My understanding is it has definitely been solved by the use of much thicker gloves or gloves with heating elements. But doing difficult technical climbing at very high altitudes also requires good dexterity and you are often up there for m
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by zakary 3y ago
Money is a powerful motivator
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by zakary 3y ago
Thank you. That makes sense
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by zakary 3y ago
Care to enlighten those of us who don’t already know the explanation?
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by zakary 3y ago
Knocking on someone’s front door and noticing it’s unlocked is perfectly legal. It’s actually walking in that’s illegal.
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by zakary 3y ago
Everyone has a price, and drug companies can usually find a way to meet it for even the most steadfast
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by zakary 3y ago
No that’s pretty normal. the guy in the article has a problem
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by zakary 3y ago
I've been reading Casey's blog post for a few years now, and while he is a very optimistic person when it comes to the possibilities of energy technology, nothing he says here stands out to me as unreasonable. His basic thesis is:
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by zakary 3y ago
Recycled plastic is less strong than new “virgin” plastic. That’s why manufacturers typically only use 10%-30%, much more than that and it’s hard to keep good tolerances on dimensions and strength metrics. Also the vast majority of recycle
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by zakary 3y ago
Whatever the cap is, I’m sure it’s a lot higher than google will let you do before they start rate limiting you or making you do a captcha for every search. Pretty much all search services have some cap, after which they will put up roadblo
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by zakary 3y ago
If the published inflation rate is significantly less than the increase in price of a wide variety of goods, then doesn’t that indicate that the inflation rate isn’t being calculated correctly? My understanding is the inflation rate should

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