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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:59PM (#27309665)
Apparently they did so in consultation with the WHO :)
Re:Midair Collision over Denver on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:45AM (#27139906)
Metroliner, often jokingly called as "flying sewer pipe" is one hell of a sturdy plane it seems. Glad to see both parties okay, but this makes me think if BRS should be made standard by FAA on GA planes given the lives saved by the technology so far.
Tbh...it all makes sense, given the speed of transmission and proves WHO useless again. I am wondering why WHO is getting it all wrong so far.
Re:Lucid Motors agrees to go public with $24B valuation on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @03:26AM (#26235009)
It is still a contract of some repute with 11% stake. Do you think GM would sell to just any other startup with no history, if it wasn't for the hype??
Re:Lucid Motors agrees to go public with $24B valuation on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @12:15AM (#26234038)
It's easy to create a prototype, the true test of any manufacturer is it's ability to roll these from the factories at scale. How many have they rolled yet?
Re:Lucid Motors agrees to go public with $24B valuation on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @12:13AM (#26234032)
Nikola had contracts too, with the likes of GM.
Re:Lucid Motors agrees to go public with $24B valuation on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @12:00AM (#26233969)
Crazy, they barely have a product. This is Nikola 2.0.
Re:DC-X Flight 8 – The Swan Dive Test on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:58PM (#26231825)
It's amazing to think that we had reusable single stage to orbit launch vehicle prototypes like this 25 years ago.
Re:Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:49AM (#26223019)
Agree. I got lots of Chinese friends, relatives and in-laws and not one of them are willing to openly criticise CCP about it. On the contrary, they are more on the defensive. Tells you the level of brainwashing going on.
Re:TransferWise changes name to Wise on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:46AM (#26222995)
Whatever the name, always loved their service.
Re:Male balding is a major risk factor for severe Covid-19 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:07AM (#26176105)
That's interesting, do you have any articles or sources?
Re:Male balding is a major risk factor for severe Covid-19 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:07AM (#26176097)
So this means Elon Musk is at high risk :) ?

Source - https://www.mcanhealth.com/elon-musk-hair-transplant-analysi...

Hmm...how exactly can someone do that? Am curious.
Agora provides the voice chat infrastructure to Clubhouse.

So, Clubhouse is just a pretty UI built on top of their voice SDK.

https://www.agora.io/en/products/voice-call/

Re:Show HN: Jam, an Open Source Clubhouse (w/ WebRTC) on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:50AM (#26152468)
It's kinda sad that nobody cares, especially because we are dealing with a genocidal regime. It's going to bite us all back in the near future.

And to be honest their documentation is very poor.

Re:Show HN: Jam, an Open Source Clubhouse (w/ WebRTC) on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:27AM (#26151993)
And then you would be risking leaking your data to CCP. Not worth the risk. It will be bad PR for Clubhouse too once the media gets the smell of it.
Re:A second look at "no code" tools (2019) on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:12AM (#26141171)
Yeah I agree, there's lots of bloat as well, that's why I said that the transition of bubble tinkerers to actual coding with any high level languages and frameworks would be very liberating. Even a beginner could do a heck lot in something like RoR or Django, without even mastering the respective languages.
Re:A second look at "no code" tools (2019) on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:13AM (#26140006)
As someone who writes code, I found bubble.io quite promising, until I hit the usual bottlenecks that comes with any no-code platform.

https://bubble.io/

But I can see the lure for masses, driven by the startup subculture, but the truth is that if you can master something like bubble, the transition to actual coding would be seamless and often very liberating.

Re:Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin on Sunday February 07, 2021 @03:30PM (#26057938)
What I said is that Bitcoin is a perceived store of value, and like any currency it's valuable only if it's perceived by the masses to be so, no different than fiat. Bitcoin ticks that box and is scarce, as opposed to inflating fiat.

Porn doesn't creates value storages, except dopamine hits.

And am not making a personal judgement, but just making a contrasting argument for someone who says that mining bitcoin is a waste of energy.

Re:Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin on Sunday February 07, 2021 @06:06AM (#26054167)
The energy in mining is not being wasted, it's being converted into something of perceived value.

The real waste of energy, one could argue is pornography, which hogs around 30% of the internet, with little value output.

Imagine replacing those servers for something more productive for humanity as a whole.

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