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Nogwater

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Nogwater··on Magic Leap: A New Morning [video]
What's the field of view?
Nogwater··on A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage
> I think we'd all agree that increasing employment is a good goal

I don't agree, and I'm not sure why people would see employment for its own sake would be a good thing. I want to increase some of the things that employments brings (purchasing power, a sense of purpose, etc...) and not others (loss of time, feeling trapped, etc...).

Nogwater··on Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose (2003)
Not exactly the same premise, but I've heard it called "Queen Anne Likes".
Nogwater··on Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index (2014)
I'd like to suggest Blindsight by Peter Watts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
Nogwater··on ‘99.99 percent air’: Boeing releases video of revolutionary lightweight metal
I dropped an egg in a shoe box full of sand and it worked fine. Unfortunately, that design wasn't allowed at my school.
Nogwater··on SpaceX to Debut Upgraded Falcon 9 on Return to Flight Mission
r/SpaceX has a lot of good info. Check out the "What are the differences between the Falcon 9 v1.1 and the upgraded Falcon version popularly called the v1.2?" FAQ here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceX/wiki/faq/falcon

This Wikipedia page has a mention of super-chilling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP-1

Nogwater··on NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
I've asked that before too and been told that they are randomly distributed. Here's a link!

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/236-are-the-planes-of-solar...

Nogwater··on KeePass – questionable security
What if they hack your dropbox account and get a copy of the vault that way? They're not on your box, but now they can try to break into your vault.
Nogwater··on No One Knows What to Do with Fukushima’s Endless Tanks of Radioactive Water
Sounds like a really expensive way to make radioactive steam. :)
Nogwater··on Designing Zachtronics' TIS-100
Just think of them as unbuffered channels.
Nogwater··on Show HN: Bananalert
I've started buying them when they're very hard (Costco sells them by the bag) and then waiting for them to ripen at home. This keeps them from getting bruised by other shoppers. So far, I've had good luck with them being ripe and good for about 3 days.
Nogwater··on How a chameleon changes colour revealed
Here's a great Veritasium video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQggDnScsvI
Nogwater··on Death Is Optional: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari and Daniel Kahneman
The mutations are random, but the selection isn't... it's governed by the environment.
Nogwater··on Uber Opening Robotics Research Facility in Pittsburgh to Build Self-Driving Cars
I'm not sure that I want to ride in a car built by a company with a killer instinct. ;)
Nogwater··on SpaceX CRS-5 launch aborted, next attempt Friday
It reminds me a lot of listening to air traffic control somewhere busy.
Nogwater··on Google launches Contributor, a crowdfunding tool for publishers
Is there anything like this to remove pre-rolls and mid-rolls on YouTube?
Nogwater··on South Korea to raise $500B for unification
What is so special about Koreans that your comment couldn't have used "humans" instead?
Nogwater··on McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first
After all of this effort, they're still limiting passwords to 18 characters? Why would they do that?
Nogwater··on McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first
I don't think that's necessarily true. Let's say they have all of the passwords stored as bcrypt hashes, and they also know the last time you changed your password. They could just update the application logic to check that your password is of the form <pw><pw> if your last change date is before X. Then to check the password, they just take the first half and check that against the hash.
Nogwater··on Show HN: Using computer vision to detect birds in parks
Do you just want the neural net, or the tags too? This might not be what you want, but it looks like it could be fun to play with: http://clarifai.com/
Nogwater··on Doom
You mean it isn't?
Nogwater··on Ask HN: What is HN reading?
what if? - Randall Munroe - https://whatif.xkcd.com/book/
Nogwater··on Marijuana Law Mayhem Splits U.S. In Two as Travelers Get Busted
I guess we disagree on the general character/culture front. I see a lot of similarities across state boundaries (for example: people think murder is bad) and a lot of differences within states (especially in the city vs. rural divide). Lots of values aren't even geographical (e.g. should religion be a part of public schools?). Similarly, I'd say that most boarders are arbitrary and have very little lasting meaning, but whatever.

To try to answer your question. I think there are common rules that make sense to apply globally (eg no murder, slavery, theft of private property, etc...), and some rules that should be very local (eg maximum sizes for billboards), and there's some middle ground for things like regulation and management of watersheds.

Nogwater··on Marijuana Law Mayhem Splits U.S. In Two as Travelers Get Busted
Why is it a problem to have 300 million people follow the same set of laws, but it's okay to have 38 million people with the same laws? Or maybe California is too big to be a viable state too? Maybe 6 million is the right magic number, and that's why Singapore is still okay? Or maybe 3 million would be better (like Mississippi.)? Then again, the founding fathers knew best (right?) and the largest colony/state at that time was well under a million, so maybe that's the right size?
Nogwater··on Scientists find traces of sea plankton on ISS surface
Of course, there's a They Might Be Giants song about this incident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulaYpsnkcg
Nogwater··on SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage
I'm pretty sure they're planning to fly the first stage back to the launch site (Cape Canaveral in most cases for now). It wouldn't return to the same tower, but somewhere at the Cape.
Nogwater··on Kindle Unlimited
To answer your question: Try searching the Kindle store for something that is in Kindle Unlimited. For example: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D... You'll see "$0.00 kindleunlimited" for books that are available. The selection is grim.
Nogwater··on Overcast – A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player
FYI: a sawbuck is an X shaped structure used to hold wood while cutting it. It also refers to a ten dollar bill because X = 10 in Roman Numerals. This app is half that price.
Nogwater··on Comcastic service disconnection (audio)
More comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8035735
Nogwater··on Fireworks filmed with a drone
Between the fireworks and the music, you couldn't hear these drones until they were about 50 ft. away and low.
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