villmann
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1 year ago
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on: Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C
How can you have temperature without a medium? The lander would have steadily lost temperature through heat radiation, but it's not like the vacuum had a temperature in the crater.
villmann
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1 year ago
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on: Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment
> Well they have more tires than four vehicles do.
Actually, four vehicles would have more tyres in total (:
villmann
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1 year ago
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on: DeepMind debuts watermarks for AI-generated text
To what degree will AI-generated text and watermarking influence how human language evolves... I bet "delve" will become more frequent in the spoken language :)
villmann
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1 year ago
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on: A New Wave of Underwater Comms Is Coming
"Imagine someone set up a radio or a noisy machine somewhere in your own vicinity and you had no choice but to listen to it", you mean like a mosque :-D
villmann
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2 years ago
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on: The Dumber Side of Smart People
Speaking for the very smart people, I must say that this article is full of useless stereotypes. Most of us frequenting the smart-people-club are open, contemplating, and humble.
villmann
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2 years ago
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on: Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
villmann
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
I had a period of bacterial imbalance in my gut caused by Plastocystis Hominis. At it's worst, I got periods of tinnitus. After being cured, took a year to find the cause, the tinnitus also disappeared. Worth checking out the bacterial balance in the gut and trying some probiotics.
villmann
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3 years ago
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on: Was the Nord Stream 2 Rupture an Accidental Catalyst?
What WWIII? The one where Russia, that has no functioning military, together with Wakanda faces the rest of the world? The rusted non-functioning nukes that Russia has no reason to use and only function as a deterrant?
villmann
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
I just installed incineration toilet at my cabin. Works great and burns the shit to ashes. Works with a gass balloon and a 12V battery. 220V option being available.
villmann
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3 years ago
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on: Tell HN: I have the perfect job, why is it not enough?
Happyness is mostly how you yourself perceive things and less dependent on external circumstances. I would work more on own pshychology and perception of things. Our brains are riddled with biases and filters, it helps a great deal to know about them and to identify your own fallacies.
villmann
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3 years ago
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on: Leetcode Considered Harmful
Putting Polish in your code would indeed considerably complicate the solution.
villmann
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4 years ago
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on: Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service
villmann
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4 years ago
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on: Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online
Hopefully thorium SMR reactors will be a thing soon, as Norway has huge deposits of it. Won't help in the near future, though.
villmann
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4 years ago
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on: Flies possess more sophisticated cognitive abilities than previously known
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like banana!
villmann
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4 years ago
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on: Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions
A NATO alliance that is an American puppet and following American interests is dangerous for the stability in Europe. Europe should take more responsibility for it's own safety.
villmann
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4 years ago
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on: Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions
Germany should never have shut down many of its nuclear plants to become reliant on Russian gas. Buildout of new nuclear and SMR as soon as possible, and declaring nuclear as green energy should be prioritised. Wind and solar is not enough to stabilise the grid without storage technology.
villmann
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4 years ago
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on: Is Crypto Bullshit?
Crypto is total bullshit, how could you ever think that it is practical to find three very large positive integers e, d, and n, such that with modular exponentiation for all integers m (with 0 ≤ m < n): m^d^e === m (mod n) and that knowing e and n, or even m, it can be extremely difficult to find d. Come on.
villmann
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4 years ago
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on: We Are Qualitatively Different from Other Species
Don't crows trade shiny objects for food?
villmann
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What can I do to actively fight climate change?
People who are consious about climate change are the kind of people who should have kids, and propagate those values. The world will be worse off if filled by mindless drones instead.
villmann
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6 years ago
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on: Wearable Microphone Jamming
Won't somebody please think about the dogs
