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brock_r··on Fragments of World's Oldest Koran May Predate Muhammad
So if the parchment's carbon dating window contains the known date in reality, doesn't it make more sense to throw away the low end of the window?

(Unless of course, you just want to undermine the religion.)

brock_r··on A new role for Qasar
Book Face? Huh.
brock_r··on Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres
NASA's video shows the mountain nicely in 3D at the 1:06 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inc9BtRip04
brock_r··on Oil Falls Below $40 for First Time Since 2009 as Glut Grows
The Chicago gas prices jumped up 50 cents the day after this hit the news.
brock_r··on Nebia (YC S15), a Shower Head Start-Up, Receives Funding from Tim Cook of Apple
Maybe they need to add a button that converts it to a normal spray?
brock_r··on C.H.I.P. – Raspberry Pi competitor
I can't see how it's just a temporary marketing ploy, as your link suggests.

Nobody wants CHIP, they want the "$9 computer". I can't see how they can ever sell it for $39.

As a loss leader, with overpriced accessories - that makes much more sense to me.

brock_r··on C.H.I.P. – Raspberry Pi competitor
They are probably too busy still counting the $2 million dollars they got from kickstarter.
brock_r··on Artificial Intelligence Is Already Weirdly Inhuman
I see a cheetah in the static, too...
brock_r··on The Hole Argument
>> Gauge transformations in physical theories can lead to possibly unpalatable conclusions if you believe a certain way.

This sounds very interesting. Could you provide some examples?

brock_r··on Ask HN: I feel that my submissions are severely underrated. What to do?
>> especially for IPython Notebooks which need time to be read/appreciated.

I agree wholeheartedly. You need to capture people's attention in 5 seconds or so.

That means visuals, soundbites, summaries, "what's-in-it-for-me", etc. You are in the media business whether you want to be or not.

Not that many people like wading thru two pages of math just to see if they might find something interesting.

brock_r··on Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon
Blood trails...
brock_r··on Jamestown excavation unearths four bodies and a mystery in a small box
1) Check their haplogroup. See what part of the world they came from. Put it on 23andme so people can see if they are related.

2) Test to see if they are his mother's bones.

brock_r··on Sleeping Through a Revolution
Ironically, the author seems like he is the Rip Van Winkle here...
brock_r··on Jamestown excavation unearths four bodies and a mystery in a small box
The half-life of DNA is 521 years. So, even if these were the bones of Christ, there would still be plenty of DNA available for testing.
brock_r··on Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET
But wouldn't a Lagrange point satellite appear to move in a completely un-star-like manner over the course of weeks and months?
brock_r··on Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET
But the stars don't stand still with respect to an observer on the ground.
brock_r··on Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET
Can a satellite "orbit" so that it imitates a star?

Or would it have to "stand still" out there, which would make it fall back to earth?

brock_r··on Sorry to burst your bubble
Funny the 2008 housing bust wasn't specifically mentioned. I'm still walking funny from that.
brock_r··on Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
I've seen plenty of horrible Facebook posts as well, real names notwithstanding.

The problems run deep. Much older than the internet.

brock_r··on The Icy Mountains of Pluto
Your linked article says 2 weeks, not 16 months.

11 photos a day.

brock_r··on [dead]
Speaking of habits, I just saw a wristband[0] that helps you get rid of bad habits.

Every time you do something you know you shouldn't be doing, you press the button on the wristband, and it shocks you.

That's right, you shock yourself. And people do it. Never saw that one catching on.

[0] http://pavlok.com/

brock_r··on Implausible and overfunded CPAP machine on Indiegogo
You are forgetting that it is your lungs that must move the 2.88KG in an 8 hour period.

The machine just has to maintain a positive pressure during certain portions of the breathing cycle.

What I see here is a possibly overly-ambitious design, but no obvious scam.

BTW, here is a video of Airing's Chairman: https://vimeo.com/130685879

brock_r··on The Really Big One
Raise your hand if you think intentionally cracking the eggshell of our planet using synchronized nuclear bombs might be a bad idea...
brock_r··on Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
Reddit: The world's largest drunken mob.
brock_r··on Norse Attack Map
Thought it was a video game. Tried shooting back at China.
brock_r··on CRISPR Gene Editing
Will anyone here be really surprised if it turns out ribosomes are duplicating machines designed by some alien race?

The entire process of reading the DNA code and turning it into proteins is just amazing.

brock_r··on Photos from inside the Baikonur Cosmodrome
The tip-up wings are wild, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_A-12_Avenger...
brock_r··on Show HN: Brandsketcher – Free startup name brainstorming service
I am the same way. It's such a strange need - like the product cannot exist, even in my imagination, until it is named properly.
brock_r··on SpaceX CRS-6 Hard Landing – Tracking Cam
They are meant to be a play on words, with several different possible meanings.

In the books, the original AI's would get to name themselves after much reflection.

brock_r··on Ceres Spots Continue to Mystify in Latest Dawn Images
Maybe it's about to turn into a star?
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