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nameless_noobon Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

There's Urbit and Twetch. First uses some of ethereum, and calling a twitter replacement is 1% of it's story. Twetch uses a bitcoin fork as a db and users have to pay to post, but get impression revenue directly

nameless_noobon YouTube is down

Back up now.

nameless_noobon One rat brain 'talks' to another using electronic link

It's nice that the paper is freely accessable to boot.

to be convenient: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130228/srep01319/full/srep01...

One observation, that the bbc didn't note, is that the decoder brain in the end had a representation of the encoder's whiskers.

To be a bit hyperbolic, the rat started to think it had two bodies. Or maybe it thought it had an extra set of whisker's some where. I can't quite imagine what the rat's body image would be.

nameless_noobon GE develops ultra-thin, almost-silent cooler for next-gen laptops and tablets

The inlet and outlet direction, and it's size. The GE ones are roughly 6cm x 6 cm. These murata ones are 2cm by 2cm.

http://www.digikey.ca/product-search/en?FV=fff40012,fff80051...

Damn, I think I found myself a christmas present. Pity it's so small though. I'll have to look at some numbers and see if it's good enough to cool a desktop's cpu heat sink.

nameless_noobon If Peter Thiel And Garry Kasparov Are Right, Then We're In Trouble

http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/event/1403

Page to the actual debate that occured. There's a link on the right to the recording of it.

You know, just in case biases hid something

nameless_noobon Seen But Not Heard: Speed, Words and Clearness (1922)

The source: www.faculty.english.vt.edu/Collier/5314/lippmannpublicop.pdf Ch. 5

nameless_noobon Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

Don't know if you'll get this,

but it's cause we all want to grow. To keep the gains from growing, and insure it's invested. We intrinsically don't want to see kids starve, why?

That answer's the perspective, I think.

nameless_noobon Occupy Portland's Dec 3rd Tactic to Neutralize Police

What drew me to this article was it's discussion of the tactics a unorganized group can do and try all at once. A neat superposition of several topics.

Like a glorified case of the wisdom of crowds.

nameless_noobon Julian Assange: 'I am – like all hackers – a little bit autistic'

One thing I can't tell: was this ghost written, as part of the new book?

nameless_noobon Dropquest

If you haven't finished it before, here's the old thread about it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2107523

nameless_noobon Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

This is a wonderful, wonderful gesture.

I'm a massive lurker here, but if it's cool: greg.ww.com else gregk.ww.com -> g.electro-h.ca

Thanks for chance.

nameless_noobon Reddit: IAmA grad student who has tried nearly every "study"/"smart" drug

Could you provide a citation about how modafinil has fewer side effects then, particularly, (black) coffee?

What I've found in the literature says that longer term studies on the effects of modafinil are needed http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/8/561.full.pdf (2007)

While the WSJ ran an article, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870327860457462... , pretty much saying that black coffee is at worst a wash health wise (though I do note that they said caffeine has a pro-obesity effect and Modafinil an antagonistic effect (it's wiki article says as much)).

My point is that, from what I know, coffee isn't that bad. What information do you have that counters my notion or that modafinil is worth the unknown risks? Preferably with citations, please and thanks. I'm very curious about this topic for obvious reasons.