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by alphakappa 7y ago
That is absolutely correct. Figuring out when the watch is in an upright position is trivial. Figuring out whether the user intended to actually get it to turn on is extremely hard, and it involves looking at the history of motion that prec
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by alphakappa 7y ago
Donating your overproduced (and likely subsidized) food to poorer countries also disincentivizes food production there, thereby perpetuating the food shortage problem.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Let’s not forget that oil is not just used as an energy source. It’s the basis of plastics, drugs, cosmetics and many more things, not all of which have substitutes.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
A single study does not make science. It’s a data point but it needs peer review, replication, and consensus after multiple independent studies. Climate change has scientific consensus from decades of study across the world.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
I think context makes that clear. For currency there's no reason to have 3 zeros after the decimal point. In some parts of the world, the comma gets replaced by the period.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Nitpick: It's not just the gyroscope. DeviceOrientation (at least on the iPhone) uses blends both the accelerometer and gyroscope (and if specified, the compass too)
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by alphakappa 8y ago
That should be the first thing a visitor sees on the home page. Users don't owe you a click on 'learn more'. Explain the product, and maybe even allow them to use it without creating an account, and only ask them to sign up&#
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by alphakappa 8y ago
> and the DMV That example doesn't belong there. We tend to underfund government enterprises (other than the military), and then we complain that they are inefficient, so we can justify underfunding them. It's circular logic, a
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by alphakappa 8y ago
It's not just that. You cannot even save a location manually without enabling tracking (not just your home/work address). It's a shame that Google Maps has such good data, because in every other way it's extremely user h
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by alphakappa 8y ago
I agree, the Facebook mobile website is shamelessly bad. That's what we are talking about, right?
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by alphakappa 8y ago
That’s a misunderstanding of the spec. The ask is to put in at least one label if there is space (when previously there were none). Filling all available space with redundant labels is not the ask.
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The Queen West Voyeur(torontolife.com)
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by alphakappa 8y ago
If you have to ask, then yes, it’s hugely unethical. If the date is an issue, leave it out of the resume. But fudging anything is deception, and expect it to come out during a background check that many companies routinely do.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
So what happens when you are traveling and there's a power issue or maybe some other connection issue that knocks this box out of service? Looks like you'll be stuck without email until you can physically get back to this box. Thi
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by alphakappa 8y ago
> Consider an alternative scenario: you're a business person and you present an alcoholic beverage to someone you know is an alcoholic because you are paid to do so I'm sure there's a good counter example to the notion of
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by alphakappa 8y ago
If Georgio Paviani was real, it could also be a pseudonym for a real human being, in which case there would be no ID that you could show. Pretty sure Lady Gaga's driver license doesn't use that name.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
You should absolutely visit and see Hagia Sofia. It’s too good to miss out in this limited lifetime of ours.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Seems to be a technical distinction without a difference though. Same amount of money, announced at the same time, awarded at the same ceremony, and just as prestigious. Sure, it’s an expansion of the original prize, but that shouldn’t take
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Cape Town feels like SF away from SF. Considering m all the interesting neighborhoods, the beaches, Hwy 1 like roads, proximity of wine country in Franshoek, great coffee, and all the beautiful little artsy towns nearby, it might just be th
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by alphakappa 8y ago
If you define that to be the particular metric, then no. Others may define different parameters to judge the badness of what a country has done. If you feel that the US has had saintly behavior towards its own citizens or the rest of the w
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by alphakappa 8y ago
The country is more than its government. If you’ve been to Istanbul, you would know that it’s a wonderful place. Should we shun the country and its people because they have been burdened with a bad ruler? We should look in a mirror first be
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Everyone hates UI changes. Wait 6 months and it will be the new normal.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Can't you do that in the US via a provisional ballot on the day-of?
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by alphakappa 8y ago
>The actual voting takes place on paper, and while it takes time to prepare the ballots and count the votes, the process of voting doesn’t take very longer than a few minutes for the individual citizen. From they enter the voting place t
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Are there examples of NASA dashboards?
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by alphakappa 8y ago
The typeface is pretty neat. For the curious, it's Nova Mono https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nova+Mono
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Everything that tripit does, Kayak does too. I just email all my bookings to trips@kayak.com and it does the rest. (They offer direct email integration, but giving access to my inbox feels icky, and I wouldn't want other people's
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by alphakappa 8y ago
CCTVs don’t have to be grainy and low-res anymore. Recording 4K video and storing a finite amount of it is getting cheaper every day.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
The US has jurisdiction over the satellite company which is American. The company doing the actual launch is irrelevant. Even otherwise, just because you can find a loophole in the system doesn't make it right - these approvals exist f
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Others getting away with skirting the rules has never been a good moral reason to do it yourself. If launching and getting post-approval was truly the norm, it would make a mockery of getting FCC approval in the first place. It's not l

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