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You could even power it, too: https://powerlighttech.com/autonomous-vehicles/

And now they're dead, and every single person involved in in the execution of that process is a murderer.

Hrm, what about a thin film supercapacitor that's charged by a piezoelectric component fueled by the regular flexing?

That you know of -- it's possible he was secretly married, and his secret wife was sleeping with the likely first winner of a Nobel prize in mathematics. Unlikely, yes, but the tal…

An impulse sealer bar, like you'd use to seal the vacuum bag originally.

This is not higher-order thinking (insofar as such exists). The search tree is first-order -- in a sufficiently complex game that the search tree cannot be fully examined, the heur…

How long do you think that humans have existed?

> I hear this from time to time but it doesn’t pass the sniff test. If we assume the vehicles are points... Ah yes, the "sniff test", in which things which are untrue are assumed, …

We have no evidence that we will ever be able to build sufficiently adaptable systems to engage with unfamiliar environments without constant direct human intervention, which is no…

And yet, the chestnut is one of the very few commonly eaten botanical nuts (along with the hazelnut and some acorns) -- nearly all other culinary nuts are otherwise (drupes, seeds,…

As the post you're responding to notes, Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians -- the song is about the fleeting nature of inspiration, not a literal description of a interperson…

Even if forests are planted, climate change will burn them to the ground regardless. It already is: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/wildfires-rage-carb...

I doubt that's possible at this point, honestly -- this is our great filter. We had a chance, in the 70s and 80s (when the risk was frankly already fairly well-understood), but per…

It's a shame you're getting downvoted, because you're probably not wrong. Even if the increase in extreme weather events/drought/heat waves is less impactful on non-tropical region…

Huh, sounds like you might have been better off if "[your] emergency room doctor [looked it up] on the internet".

Read their comment history -- they're a climate change denier. Some people just want to watch the world burn, I guess.

Good ongoing thread here regarding the environmental impact of dams: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27348870

I would very much recommend tracking down some cubeb (tailed) pepper if you haven't already tried it -- I feel like it's what I wanted long pepper to be. It's got a wonderfully all…

They break down into microplastics.

I don't disagree with you in principle, but the TFL menu specifically is kind of... a thing. It's explicitly stylized after an Escoffier-style menu (see e.g. http://ciadigitalcolle…

Smaller towns here in the northwest that have developed suburbs over the last decade or two are overrun with deer, because coyotes have been displaced. It's a real problem.

It's not the most visually impressive, but seeing King Clone (a ~12kiloyear creosote bush -- none of the original plant still exists, but the ring is a clonal descendent thereof) i…

A 94% male cohort is so wildly disproportionate to the actual population of physicians (60% female) that it beggars belief. There are a number of potential confounding factors that…

The reason for the enactment of the nationwide 55mph speed limit in 1974 wasn't safety, it was oil prices.