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For people who don't have an EE background, like myself, it would be great if for each animation you could add a small explanation for the layman. Looks very cool.

> It’s true that birth rates must eventually flatten out and become sigmoid All positive growth eventually flattens out and becomes sigmoid, but a lot of phenomena experience negat…

People put up with what they have to put up with. Many millions of people have lived and suffered under totalitarian regimes with basically zero options to do anything about it. I …

Instead of discounting some of the results, can we alternate the value of the coin each toss? So on the first flip, heads is 0 and tails is 1, then on the next flip, heads is 1 and…

Humanoid robot workers are going to have a massive impact on industries like this. 'cheap labor' will no longer be isolated to certain regions.

I feel I've seen this movie before.

I think that this proves that dividing by zero produces the set of all numbers, which is what it looks like to me when you graph this problem (y=1/x) using increasingly small posit…

This is alarming. Does anyone know what the current state of space weather protection/mitigation is for electricity grids in the west? IIRC in 2012 the Earth missed a giant CME by …

I'm not so sure that the Dark Triad model is that useful. Reading about narcissistic personality disorder and anti social personality disorder will probably yield a better understa…

Can anyone comment on the design of the cell, specifically why it is long and thin, which would work against the square cube law. Is a large surface to volume chosen for thermal re…

Very cool. Would love to GoldenEye 007

Why do the debate organisers tolerate this? If the debate is X versus Y, why allow someone to say we should really be discussing Z? Imagine this in any other competitive arena like…

I wonder if something similar might explain the recent aggressive behaviour of orcas.

The UK actually has a lot of industry: https://www.ibisworld.com/united-kingdom/list-of-industries/ Most people are ignorant about businesses that are not international consumer br…

Thank you :) Upon reflection perhaps this is fair enough, all Hacker News discussions might descend into ~50% ChatGPT content. I'll endeavour to put what ChatGPT produces through m…

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A lot of new nuclear power plants can be built on the site of the coal/gas power station they are replacing and can utilize the existing power transmission infrastructure.

Here's another 3D Mars surface explorer: https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/V01/SceneView/MurrayLabCT... Edit: Searching through my notes, I realised I've been down this rabbit hol…

You can't wreck a wreck. Mars can only be improved by humans.

> What's the point of a "backup plan" when the primary plan isn't even working? The whole point of a having a backup plan is for when the primary plan isn't working :S

Are there any plans to incorporate other video platforms in this client?

No they're real, but so are higher material costs for businesses. Everything has become more expensive and so there is less to pay for everything, including salaries. Inflation can…

I agree 110 degrees Celsius is probably too much for a mobile phone, but my laptop has approached 100C before. I'm sure if properly designed it could handle the slightly higher tem…

Living close together does not seem to be optimal for mental health. Quite the opposite. Physical proximity to other humans is not the same thing as community. One can be very alon…

2M shells in 48 hrs is 11.5 shells a second.