johnm1019

Reading your comments with the word "portal" gave me an eerie flashback to AOL and then Yahoo!

and I still use ATM machines....

Can someone explain how they are getting near 50% thermal efficiency? All the articles mention it, but I can't find a reasonable explanation.

The article raises a few interesting points I didn't know:

- In SoCal there are several areas which have geothermal activity and correspondingly several electric plants based on that

- This geothermal activity raises both hot water and a fair concentration of a brine solution containing many metals

- The lithium isn't mined, they were getting it by processing this brine solution

Based on that, and reading many comments that modern batteries also needs lots of Co, Mn, etc... I wonder if the brine water coming up from this area is basically 'battery soup'? Seems like a lot of potential value that is already being pumped out of the ground by someone else - who considers it a waste product!

This is much more interesting than the article. Is there anywhere that explains how roundup is made and highlights this fact?

I completely understand cutting a chrome panda and eliminating open bar on Friday nights, but things like an employee shuttle seem like a solid use of company money to increase real productivity. Time spent driving a car or navigating a few bus/train connections just can't be that productive. A comfy bus straight to the office (probably with WiFi)? Yes.

For an open source tool this release notes log is huge!

In this case I think the approach taken by the US is better -- set aggressive fuel economy standards and let the market either

a.) figure out new technologies for much better fuel economy

b.) figure out electric vehicles are cheaper

My point here specifically is not that the numbers the US chose are correct (let that be for another debate), but that this method of effectively restricting/"banning" gasoline cars is better for everyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Average_Fuel_Economy...

> As one judge wrote, a lobbyist is “induced to use his influence for the money he is to obtain; when, as a patriot and a citizen, he should only act for the good of his country.”

I wish that was still true.

> U.S. debate to privitize air-traffic control spotlights Canada

Heaven forbid, we would pay the Canadians for what they have that is already proven to work well and efficiently...

> Verizon officials have assured wireline customers that they will suffer no service disruption during the strike, saying the company has spent months training unaffected workers, primarily supervisors, to take over the duties of their unionized colleagues.

> “On Day 1 our first priority is to maintain the customer base we have — answer the phones, surveil the network, work repairs — and we’re fully staffed to do that,”.....

So I guess today is a great day to call tech support with your problems, you'll get a manager!

As someone who is self-employed, works from home, and actually likes their job - scheduling free time is really important for me. If I don't, my work and my side projects creep into everything. I also thought this practice was ridiculous but then I started doing it and it's really improved my work/life separation.

TLDR; It doesn't fix jetlag but it might get you started on the right path one "day" cycle sooner.

There isn't "one simple trick" and not have jet lag. Everyone will have jetlag after going through a large time change. Your body can only accomodate so quickly depending on the magnitude of the change. IME people recover 0.5-2 hours of time change a day. So if you go through a change, it will take anywhere from 3-12 days to fully recover. You don't even realize it until you've been somewhere for a while and one day you wake up and realize you are fully rested for the first time in a week (even though the other days felt basically fine).

From the article...

> Both he and Liang think that the problem can be surmounted, for instance by inactivating several essential HIV genes at once...

That's a reporter doing their job. If they called one time and left a voicemail, there would be outcry because, "they never gave her a chance to tell her side of the story."

A striking caption from one of the images in this gallery

> This monastery was occupied by the Germans, most monks escaped to the Netherlands. The wire was build right through the monastery's yard, all 2.5 km of it. The monastery had to pay for the expenses.

The parallels to someone yelling about building a wall and having Mexico pay for it is chilling.

QA is dead because Agile killed it? (quoth the article) I work at a Fortune 10 company and this is just wrong.

Furthermore, leveraging QA in an Agile process is critical to continuously improving our software quality.

It's always nice to see the author of such serious articles is in fact human. Can we use this as a way of detecting the robot writers? (is being actually fun hard for AI?)

> Customers likely didn't expect that, 18 months after the last Revolv Hubs were sold, instead of getting more upgrades, the device would be intentionally, permanently, and completely disabled. (To be fair, the Revolv Hub design resembles HAL from Space Odyssey: 2001, so perhaps someone saw this betrayal coming).

Although it's way more than an SSE wrapper, the Eigen library is excellent in my experience and targets multiple platforms.

http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Based on your list size, try a reasonably designed hash function here.

> "In order to make AI work in the real world and handle all the diversity and complexity of realistic environments, we will need to think about how to get robots to learn continuously and for a long time, perhaps in cooperation with other robots," said Levine.

SkyNet is coming.

I find it interesting that due to high rent prices the article hypothesizes that people are moving away from Vancouver and the next upcoming city is a peninsula on an island? What do you think is going to happen in the real-estate market there?

Occlusion ~= how your upper and lower teeth fit together when you close your mouth.

Would it be possible to use a spray rich in these bacteria (and maybe other nutrients?) onto that island of plastic at sea?

In Germany every service that you can sign up for online but requires proof of who you are uses something called "PostIdent" -- and its a service offered by the post office where you take the form in with your passport (or ID card) and they punch all the details in the computer and 'verify' it's you. In a (more) secure future, I see this being the real password recovery mechanism. The other technique used by online banks etc... is to send your password reset to you by mail. This assumes that physical mail to your registered address is more secure than online quizzes.

I think both of these options will become the standard for anything where security matters.

That's why they wrap it in a steel sandwich -- to protect the lead, not principally for radiation protection.

Obligatory XKCD chart for understanding the radiation amounts in the article

https://xkcd.com/radiation/

100 mrem == 1mSv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#Rem_equivalence

Thinking about the article... for those who understand the risks of increased background radiation, I bet for these businesses rent is cheap!

In my experience doing 3D image reconstruction from 1D and 2D sensors, there are often situations where the engineers can only explain what's going on using math equations - and not in any other qualitative kind of way. For some people, this might be considered not "completely understanding" something.

I think it's great that YC is thinking big and taking a risk by doing something no one has done before. The US economy wins whether they succeed or fail at this experiment, and the value creation if they succeed will be huge.

Wouldn't this only sap the global economy if all those bad loans were backed by average Joes, who were then hurt by the loss of return? If instead they were backed by governments and multi-national conglomerates who already had hoardes of (free?) cash, then the effect on the economy would be limited.