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Re:Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you la...
on Thursday March 13, 2025 @03:49PM (#43356639)
very fun!
Two small comments - if I know the precise year it is kinda hard to seek, especially at the ends of the scale. Maybe if you could hold the button to go faster?
And the text overlay on the map at the end mostly prevents me scrolling it (and seeing where the correct place was)
Re:Driverless cars are stuck in a jam
on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:09AM (#21384590)
Plus LIDARs aren't aesthetically pleasing in their current incarnations.
Re:Driverless cars are stuck in a jam
on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:07AM (#21384582)
I think there's an implicit bargain made when you get in a car that a person is driving: you're both risking your lives on this journey. A self-driving car is risking possibly millions of dollars and bad publicity, but not a life. It's hard to trust a computer like that.
Re:Discovery: Fish Live Beneath Antarctica
on Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:29AM (#8928006)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whillans_Ice_Stream
Mentioned in the article, "feeds" the Ross Shelf from the ice on land. Has two earthquakes every day for unknown reasons.
Re:The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (2013)
on Friday December 19, 2014 @09:13PM (#8775623)
North Korea is where the Chinese outsource to for cheap labor and lax environmental policies. Wow.