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a_gnosticon Receive push notifications from your rice cooker

My pi won't phone home, Echo constantly does.

a_gnosticon A rudimentary simulation of the three-body problem

Not to forget https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com

a_gnosticon Mycenaean Warriors and the Sea-Peoples (2013)

That one's good! For an alternate perspective, check episodes 0028 and 0027 of The Dangerous History Podcast (1)

a_gnosticon Self-driving semi-trucks are coming to America's highways

I'd love to watch a truck put on its' own chains, or deal with any number of situations our truckers deal with on a regular basis. Truth is, self-driving vehicles will only be feasible for the last mile, backing, parking, or fair weather interstate cruising.

a_gnosticon Why quantum entanglement doesn't allow faster-than-light communication (2016)

Did you know, antimatter is just time-reversed matter?

So where did all our antimatter go… ?

Yes, this ties into this.

a_gnosticon Why quantum entanglement doesn't allow faster-than-light communication (2016)

Hence, "c".

a_gnosticon Why quantum entanglement doesn't allow faster-than-light communication (2016)

The universe is not split, though. You just perceive it that way. Think of it as a wave function, where some of the time, some waves cancel each other out, and are not observed, and some of the time they are amplified and easily observable.

a_gnosticon New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco

Brother has been pretty good with ink. Even allows 3rd party.

a_gnosticon New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco

The cloud is just someone else's computer.

a_gnosticon The Future of Electric Vehicles at the Zero Emissions Fleet Event [video]

CanEV Might-E Truck https://canev.com/pages/might-e-truck

Peterbilt 579EV 0-Emission Truck https://www.peterbilt.com/trucks/electric/579EV

Mean Green Electric Mowers https://meangreenproducts.com/

Freightliner eM2 0-Emission Truck https://www.freightliner.com/trucks/em2/

Mobile EV Charging Station https://www.mcharging.com/

HaiSea Wamis Electric Tug Boat https://www.seaspan.com/press-release/haisea-marine-warmly-w...

Edison Motors Hybrid Electric Truck https://www.edisonmotors.ca/

a_gnosticon The driest place on Earth

Plus Mars' atmosphere has tons of CO2. Think of the carbon credits!

a_gnosticon The driest place on Earth

> Why do people want to go to Mars?

Because cool giant robots and flying cars are more feasible under lower gravity.

a_gnosticon 'Gen X has had to learn or die': Mid-career workers are facing ageism

Unions "represent" employees, and represent the union itself.

a_gnosticon 'Gen X has had to learn or die': Mid-career workers are facing ageism

Same. Used to be able to tell old people to go ask a kid to troubleshoot their e-mail software, but it seems to stop at my generation.

a_gnosticon The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis

A gotcha was not intended. I commented in your support, with mild humor implied.

a_gnosticon Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent

Posted previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39785815

a_gnosticon The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis

Even that is physics.

a_gnosticon Space Shuttle teleprinter reverse engineering

Communism is the very definition of failure.

Return, refit, and redeploy to purge the stain of this failure with the peroxide of victory!

a_gnosticon Space Shuttle teleprinter reverse engineering

Inkjets need a gas cartridge.

https://www.spacepen.com/our-story

a_gnosticon Natural language instructions induce generalization in networks of neurons

I grew up trilingual, and have noticed that I understand mechanical concepts better in one language, industrial concepts in another… but have mostly defaulted to English nowadays. I find learning new concepts easier by playing translation games; Which language is the root for this word, and how does it mechanically relate to the concept?

a_gnosticon Natural language instructions induce generalization in networks of neurons

Oftentimes I find myself understanding complex concepts before I can describe them, even internally. I am sure everyone has this, as I often read comments praising others' submissions for formulating their thoughts efficiently. So thoughts occur independent of language, but need it to be expressed and shared, even if through pictures and sounds.

a_gnosticon Why are there suddenly so many car washes?

The state has ruled time and again; It has no duty to protect you and your property.

Warren v. District of Columbia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

Castle Rock v. Gonzales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales

Davidson v. City of Westminster , 32 Cal.3d 197 http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/davidson-v-city-westminst...

Hartzler v. City of San Jose (1975) , 46 Cal.App.3d 6 http://www.lawlink.com/research/caselevel3/51629

Linda Riss v. City of New York http://www2.newpaltz.edu/%7Ezuckerpr/cases/riss.htm

DeShaney v. Winnebago County http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County

Susman v. City of Los Angeles269 Cal. App. 2d 803 http://law.justia.com/cases/california/calapp2d/269/803.html

South v. Maryland, 59 U.S. (How.) 396, 15 L.Ed.433 (1856) http://www.endtimesreport.com/NO_AFFIRMATIVE_DUTY.htm

…and many more! https://archive.is/MbIeH

a_gnosticon Why are there suddenly so many car washes?

What eternal wealth would a guy in a hut in the middle of a land-locked forest have, with no infrastructure, and no community? Why is he forced to provide anything beyond self-sustainability?

> pay up regularly or let someone else who will contribute to society [raze your forest to sell wood chips].

Forcing mountain men off their land to work in the factories, sounds plenty dystopian to me. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race…

a_gnosticon Why are there suddenly so many car washes?

Bank branches can be replaced with technology. Maybe the problem of car washes has a similar solution, or maybe it ain't a problem.

a_gnosticon Why are there suddenly so many car washes?

> Humans do not fit the model of "rational self-interested agent

> Any rational group would pool resources and have a single org do the research and share it with everyone. Oops we've reinvented a government.

The firse quote precludes the second.

a_gnosticon Why are there suddenly so many car washes?

> another instance of how low property taxes and the absence of land value taxes massively benefits low-value businesses.

How are other businesses excluded from low property taxes? This is clearly unfair, and could be easier addressed by removing barriers instead of erecting new ones.

a_gnosticon Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to investment

The first US asphalt roads were built by cycling clubs (1).

1) https://www.vox.com/2015/3/19/8253035/roads-cyclists-cars-hi...

a_gnosticon Our bacteria are more personal than we thought, new study shows

Isn't this one of the reasons kissing evolved; To develop resistance to each others' microbiome, and not allergies?

a_gnosticon Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeating Every 2.4M Years

Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years. The term was coined and named after the Serbian geophysicist and astronomer Milutin Milanković. In the 1920s, he hypothesized that variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession combined to result in cyclical variations in the intra-annual and latitudinal distribution of solar radiation at the Earth's surface, and that this orbital forcing strongly influenced the Earth's climatic patterns.[1]

1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles

a_gnosticon Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past technologies

> This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

https://archive.is/CFrk2