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how many more product / brand origin story movies do we need? Facebook, Uber, Blackberry, Apple, Tetris, Nike Air, Cheetos

ok full disclosure, I had not heard the term Black Swan event before and I was trying to remember what happened in the movie

> -- That will eventually happen, and electricity will be just as "expensive" as it is now, simply because the price of a product has nothing to do with its cost and everything to …

4) useful bipedal robots - this one is probably just around the corner (see boston robotics). We often talk about how much AGI could benefit humanity, giving knowledge workers a di…

I think you're mixing up dystopian with apocalyptic. webster's dystopia definition is "of, relating to, or being an imagined world or society in which people lead dehumanized, fear…

double edged hammer is certainly a useful tool but I prefer the one with the thing on the back for nails

Someone posted a link to a page of "broken arrow" incidents yesterday, and I recalled reading this one a while back. To me it's the scariest broken arrow case. Two bombs were dropp…

their own definition, on the top of the page: > an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons the term "broken arrow" refers to the launchable weapon itself. there were literally n…

The wikipedia page on military nuclear accidents has a good few more entries than this list, including what I assume is the classified "Spring 1968, Atlantic" entry, which wikipedi…

> A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft, or loss of the weapon. and then > T…

> LinkedIn is one of the most invasive surprised to read this, I don't find it invasive in the slightest. I've turned off notifications for most things but its the only "social" ap…

Thank you for this! Too many posts on here link directly to twitter. I don't think this is a great idea. IMO a tweet is not a valid destination for a HN post, unless the conversati…

yes, that too. I think another mistake people make is assuming they're all sort of the same size. But the offshore ones are immense.

I know you're trying to compare geothermal to these sources, but I'm now in shock from the comparison between solar and wind. 1 large wind turbine (3MW) is equivalent to 7,500 x 40…

I would love to see a grid of all these values for all the latest battery technologies, to see what's leading the field between solid, sodium, aluminium, Sulfur Selenium, iron, etc…

> Pollution is a huge problem, but climate change is literally an existential problem 100% agree. If there's a choice between a small amount of pollution vs a large payoff to cut c…

Phones are only the first battlefield in the AI marketing war. Just wait a decade until the bipedal robot industry kicks off and you'll have robots knocking on your door to sell yo…

The greenwashing here is burning my eyes > A huge phosphate rock deposit discovered in Norway contains enough minerals to meet the global demand for batteries and solar panels for …

> this article says the humans the way you referred to us as "the humans" is slightly unsettling.

Far Cry was an excellent multiplayer game, we use to play it at LAN parties (remember those?) The huge maps, tropical setting and vehicles meant you could hide in the jungle and sn…

Those early levels where you fight against humans in a tropical setting were the best part. Every Far Cry game that came after, emulated those first levels, and scrapped not monste…

I have both a 950 and a 950 XL in a box here gathering dust. They're not worth enough to try and sell second hand anymore, so I'll definitely be trying this!

you can just open them with screwdrivers I'm sure.

I apologise in advance if this seems inflammatory, I'm not trying to start an internet argument here, I'm just being honest about my first impressions of this app. Of all things, t…