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New comment by conanite in "Chemists develop new way to split water"

conanite — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:59:28 +0000

you laugh but i've always thought it would be great to carry a kilo of pure hydrogen in my backpack - just burn it to obtain like 5 litres of water ... I mean why are we carrying all that oxygen in our backpacks when he atmosphere has a plentiful supply of it...

New comment by conanite in "No Source Code == No Patent"

conanite — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:29:43 +0000

Do you mean that if I had invented a "machine for airborne transportation", such as, say, a hot-air balloon, I could collect royalties on jet airplanes?

New comment by conanite in "The value of owning more books than you can read (2018)"

conanite — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 11:59:48 +0000

Another claim seems to be that a collection of unread books serves as a personal reminder of ignorance, that the un-known always exceeds the known, a kind of "memento ignorantiae" that gives us the humility and motivation to always seek to learn more rather than remain complacently content with the knowledge we have already acquired.

And possibly the physicality of a dead-tree library carries this effect more forcibly than an online shopping list.

Pardon my latin.

New comment by conanite in "A meteor or alien tech: Harvard professor plans UFO expedition"

conanite — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 21:18:48 +0000

> Using data from government censors

Should be "sensors" (used correctly a few sentences later). Is this a text-to-speech thing, or written by a non-native speaker, or just appalling editing?

> Once I realized that we found an object from a technological origin that was produced elsewhere.

Difficulty to having parse.

New comment by conanite in "Low water stage marks on hunger stones (2020)"

conanite — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:32:15 +0000

Just curious, Australia being mostly desert, if the rest of the planet became similarly barren, would it still work out? I don't know how food-independent Australia is...

New comment by conanite in "The math behind mind-reading tricks"

conanite — Fri, 27 May 2022 18:31:51 +0000

Covid cases are asymptomatically approaching zero. However, your duplicate entries will reach their target asymptotically :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote

New comment by conanite in "3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work"

conanite — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 16:02:39 +0000

> But how well would it fly if you were to plead the need to feast, to embalm your brother, or to make an offering to a god?

Vacation, funerals, religious holy-days?

New comment by conanite in "The singularity is close?"

conanite — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 11:50:43 +0000

Theoretically at some point in the step-by-step process, the computers will be able to clear their own roadblocks by themselves, and faster than we can. And who knows what happens then. Maybe "singularity" isn't a great word, dunno if there's a better one...

New comment by conanite in "The Shaming-Industrial Complex"

conanite — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 15:08:48 +0000

Consider how you would like others to treat your insecurities. Balding isn't the core issue here...

New comment by conanite in "Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other"

conanite — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 02:34:00 +0000

Add this to your browser's search engine list and make it default:

    {google:baseURL}search?q=%s+-site:pinterest.*

The Economics of Spotify

conanite — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:48:28 +0000

Article URL: https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-spotify/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30346325

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by conanite in "G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1, 2022"

conanite — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:37:12 +0000

While this is annoying to many of us, if it diminishes the general public expectation that that online services should be free and subsidised by advertising/marketing/related services, that would be good news.

I'm not particularly optimistic about Google though, as they can charge for their services and continue the whole data-gathering game...

New comment by conanite in "The truth about lab-grown meat [video]"

conanite — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 21:14:37 +0000

I can submit a patch to an open-source project and everybody benefits ; but if I raise my own animals, the industrial-scale torture continues anyway. How many people need to raise their own animals before the abuse ends? It's not "weak-minded" or even melodramatic to conclude that an animal suffers when it is beaten.

> Even Buddhists in Tibet are perfectly happy to eat meat.

It is generally true that some adherents of religion X regularly do non-X things, in Tibet and elsewhere.

New comment by conanite in "Redwood World – Pictures and Locations of Redwoods in the British Isles"

conanite — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 15:50:08 +0000

I suspect the "great" Britain distinguishes it from the other Britain which is a nearby French province, ie "Grande Bretagne" vs "Bretagne". Ireland is still not British! The "British Isles" was a useful term for a dominant power while it lasted.

New comment by conanite in "Fuckin' user interface design, I swear"

conanite — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:14:39 +0000

If you don't have the skills to make the open-source changes you want yourself, but you have the money to make it happen, there is nothing stopping you hiring a developer to build the patch that you need. I don't know of a reliable way to do that with proprietary software.

New comment by conanite in "WHO: Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Situation Dashboard"

conanite — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:12:12 +0000

lots more graphs on this page:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases

New comment by conanite in "WHO: Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Situation Dashboard"

conanite — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:44:49 +0000

I have found the worldometer page easier to use than the others : https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

New comment by conanite in "Google Maps Hacks"

conanite — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 13:34:41 +0000

The Place Charles de Gaulle Étoile (Arc de Triomphe) in Paris is a gigantic roundabout, with the peculiar feature that traffic entering the system has priority ; traffic already on the roundabout must yield. This would lead to perpetual gridlock were there no traffic lights controlling access to the roundabout. This kind of junction used to be common in cities.

Out in the countryside roundabouts in France operate in the "normal" way : approaching traffic yields to traffic already in the system, with the usual triangular "yield" sign making priority clear.

It's possible that your experience of French roundabouts is related to driver confusion between these two systems.

New comment by conanite in "Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback"

conanite — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:25:24 +0000

It's a little bit more subtle. Assume that there is a finite number of primes, and P is the set of all primes p0, p1, p2... pn. If you multiply all these together and add 1, you have a number Q that's not divisible by any number in P. So P cannot be the set of all primes.

New comment by conanite in "A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes personality (2017)"

conanite — Wed, 08 May 2019 17:59:15 +0000

"FOAF" is well-known, http://www.foaf-project.org/