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by alister 4y ago
What's missing from the article is a list of iPhones that had the feature: These devices support 3D Touch: iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max. -- https:&
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by alister 4y ago
> I am curious whether this works in the opposite direction. Does this also imply that if people take a long time to decide, then the options are roughly equal? I can disprove the hypothesis above with a counterexample: Which is the be
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by alister 4y ago
> no wonder, it is the third “same” device I buy in seven years > no wonder it's the third "same" device I've bought in seven years > no wonder I've bought the "same" device three times over the l
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by alister 4y ago
> Go get some of the washable 20x30 filters and cardboard, duct tape, and a fan Here's a Wikipedia reference to one very effective design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E2%80%93Rosenthal_Box It's j
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by alister 4y ago
An expedient way to hide another photo (or any data) in another photo is to simply append it to the original photo. It's certainly not as secure as OP's method, but it has the advantage of not requiring any third party app, just s
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by alister 4y ago
> keep them separate, lest Google effectively starts treating them as one Does anyone know how often and how long you need to be logged into multiple accounts before Google treats them as one? Maybe it's a single occurrence? One s
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by alister 5y ago
> turn the id into a link [that] they could click But the idea has gone way overboard. Everything that could be a phone number, address, or calendar date is now automatically made into a link in many web pages, apps, and instant messen
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by alister 5y ago
> a lot of links to the original pictures do not work anymore When I research something that's important to me, I take screenshots or save the source code because I know that the referenced web page is likely to disappear within a
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by alister 5y ago
> Are we living in a simulation? 45% voted yes (of 14,463 votes so far). Whether we're living in a computer simulation is an absolutely fascinating subject to think about, and I do not dismiss the idea, but do a significant number
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by alister 5y ago
I don't have a direct answer to your question, but I want to suggest a possible solution. I've been getting almost no spam for the last 10+ years even though I don't use any spam filtering (neither in my email client nor with
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by alister 5y ago
George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Larry Kasdan sat around talking through all the ideas they had for “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. They tape recorded their meetings. This is a transcription of those tape recordings. I read it a long time ago
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by alister 5y ago
> make products look bigger than they really are, especially in online photos I've noticed that tiny condos and apartments in real estate photos look enormous. I'm undecided on whether this is a deliberate attempt to mislead
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by alister 5y ago
I'm sure everyone has experienced double doors at the front of a business in which one of the two doors is locked. A relative of mine used to be the director of franchising of a restaurant chain and he noticed that literally hundreds o
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by alister 5y ago
It would be interesting to know how that data breaks down -- like photos vs videos vs software backups vs saved movies, etc. I assume that most people stream movies, TV shows, and music these days, and that few people save them to disk. And
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by alister 5y ago
I skimmed the article you linked to[1], but I still don't understand the advantage of using the absolute risk reduction rather than the relative risk reduction (or the point of reporting both). It seems it's like the same informat
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by alister 5y ago
> will end up in the lymph nodes in the upper body on the side you got the shot in (which is a good place to end up since the lymph nodes are a major site for immune response) Would it be worthwhile to get the first shot in the left sh
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by alister 5y ago
> The confusion between between a zero and an O would only happen to a human It happens to a computer doing optical character recognition (OCR) on a scanned document. Or a machine vision system reading street signs or other text.
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by alister 5y ago
This came up 2 years ago on Hacker News[1] and I wrote the following: /QUOTE I think the author's page (Alex Spartalis) deserves to be mentioned: https://www.alexspartalis.com/cheat-sheet.html He has the same vers
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by alister 5y ago
All the photos are real scenes but with unusual perspective or clever distortion. Except for the one[1] that looks like dominos laid out in rows. It turns out to be more of a pattern rather than a single scene. The photographer, "Geral
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by alister 5y ago
> Taxes are not primarily about raising revenue That’s an intriguing comment. Can you explain further?
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Fed’s Lael Brainard pushes digital dollar as central bank currency race heats up(cnbc.com)
2 points by alister 5y ago|0 comments
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by alister 5y ago
> iThoughts, which is one of the best tools ever for high-level abstract thinkers Can you say more about how and why you use it?
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by alister 5y ago
> "There are over 20,000 prescription drug products approved for marketing." But how does that square with the claim that the FDA has approved 1,453 drugs in its entire history? I wonder what they mean by drug products ? I&#
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by alister 5y ago
What are the problems with making such a system for large passenger aircraft (perhaps with multiple parachutes)?
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by alister 5y ago
Even outside of WHO's list, the number of prescription drugs in existence is surprisingly low. People might imagine there are "millions" of drugs. But it seems to be in the ballpark of ~600 based on looking at: - items in the
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by alister 5y ago
> "I'll pay $10", "ok, I'll pay $10.50", "I'm in at $11". When this gets to a $100 million market cap... Where I can see a list of all the individual trades that got the company to a $100M
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by alister 6y ago
That's a teaser version (a "look inside" as Amazon would say). It's the first 20 pages of a guide that's at least 261 pages long.
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by alister 6y ago
> In the 17th century, people sometimes issued perpetual debt. But it is very rare that there is an uninterrupted history when governments or other entities have not defaulted on those debts. Ever see those banking website ads or finan
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Where Europe Went Wrong in Its Vaccine Rollout, and Why(nytimes.com)
2 points by alister 6y ago|0 comments
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Covid herd immunity is probably impossible(nature.com)
65 points by alister 6y ago|152 comments

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