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tocomment··on Meet the NASA scientist devising a starship warp drive
But how can a charged capacitor warp space? I thought only matter could warp space?
tocomment··on Meet the NASA scientist devising a starship warp drive
Does anyone know how they will test it in the lab? I thought we haven't discovered negative matter yet?
tocomment··on On Hyperloop
I agree with others. This article comes across as too negative. There's really no reason it needs to be.
tocomment··on Exo: Protein Bars made from Cricket Flour
That sounds good. Can I get your sources for the ingriedients? Also do they need to be stored frozen?
tocomment··on An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About
Here's what I've been wondering. A transformer provides very efficient wireless power transmission but on a few centimeters. Has anyone considered scaling up a transformer? Would that increase the range?

What if we made a house sized one and buried it under the house? Could that provide wireless electricity to the whole house?

tocomment··on How to make big things out of small pieces
I'm confused. How big are the cells? How do they attach and unattach.
tocomment··on Programmer's Dilemma
Exactly
tocomment··on Ask HN: How did you figure out your SaaS?
Why the downvoted? I think the travel industry would benefit froma groupon like service.
tocomment··on Ask HN: How did you figure out your SaaS?
How about a groupon but for cruise ships?
tocomment··on Programmer's Dilemma
I think plumbers would be a better example than lawyers. Do you expect them to unclog toilets in their free time?
tocomment··on Firebase Leaves Beta Today
That's a great point. I'd be eager to hear a response as well.
tocomment··on Hyperloop
Could you gradually re-introduce air pressure at the end of the tube before the payload exits towards orbit?
tocomment··on A Year and a Half With a Nissan Leaf (Part 2): The Summer Drive
I have a commute that's 50 miles each way. And I have 3-4 hours at the destination with possible access to a wall plug.

I've been wondering for a while if the Leaf would be feasible for this? It seems just a tad out of its stated range. But it would save a ton of gas money!

Does anyone have any advice?

tocomment··on Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless
Actually perhaps the leap could be placed on the front of the Oculus Rift. The only time you'd be doing detailed things with your fingers is when you're looking at them right? So at those time the leap would have a view of your hands.

Then the kinnect (I guess one on each wall) would monitor larger movements.

tocomment··on Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless
I think combining a kinnect and several leaps with an Oculus Rift might be great. That way you can use your own body motions within the rift. The kinnect would be for gross motions and the leaps would be for detecting fine motions.

What do you guys think?

tocomment··on Google Treks
It would be amazing if we could put these in the Oculus rift someday. Are there any plans for that?
tocomment··on Hyperloop
A thought I just had, could a hyperloop like technology be used to launch ships into orbit? Why or why not?
tocomment··on Git commit allegedly from Satoshi embedded inside a Bitcoin transaction
Can anyone explain this like I'm 5? I'm really not following what's going on here.
tocomment··on Ask HN: What is the future of daily deals?
I think this is a great question. I've often wondered if instead of making daily deals a big advertising gimmick you could instead make them for things that genuinely lower the price when people buy in huge quantities and then Handle the distribution etc.
tocomment··on No, really—consciousness is worth thinking about
Interesting reading. I like your writing style it's very clear and easy to understand even though these are complex concepts.
tocomment··on Is Employer-Based Health Insurance A Barrier To Entrepreneurship? (2010)
To eliminate the problem of end of life heroics would it be possible to add something to Medicare like you get x dollars you can leave to your family if you forgo the heroics. Where x is day 10% of the cost of the heroics?

Then people have an incentive to save money but death panels aren't needed.

Of course this is assuming the heroics rarely work.

tocomment··on Is Employer-Based Health Insurance A Barrier To Entrepreneurship? (2010)
That sounds interesting. Can you explain more about the bubble angle?
tocomment··on How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine
Decaf?
tocomment··on Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
It would be cool if it could give you the GPS coordinates of the point your measuring. That should be easy since the phone already has a GPS and a compass right?
tocomment··on Interview with Rob Rhinehart about Soylent
What about blueberries? Check and mate.
tocomment··on Soylent now accepting Bitcoin for preorders
The last time I had an ensure I noticed it had 200 calories. Yes you read that right. Id have to drink ten of them to replace a days meals at $3 each that would be $30 a day or $900 a month to feed just one person.
tocomment··on Linkedin Recommendations Are Junk
What are the correct titles for various ages in your opinion?

I'm trying to figure out how to advance past senior developer myself.

tocomment··on Simple technique puts graphene capacitors on par with lead-acid battery
I've always so defer the exact same thing. I always thought it would make an interesting blog; someone who just goes through the "breakthroughs" of five years ago and actually contacts the researchers and writes up what went wrong.

Who's with me?

tocomment··on Simple technique puts graphene capacitors on par with lead-acid battery
How does momentum keep you safer?
tocomment··on Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef
Lab grown ivory could be a big win? Or maybe lab grown amergris?
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