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by athenot 8y ago
I've been using a saddle chair for about 7 years. I got it when I built my standup desk and wanted to alternate between standing and sitting, so I got a bar-height saddle chair (a little less common but it's made). That way whethe
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by athenot 8y ago
This could also be air circulation. Most ripening fruits give off ethylene gas, which has the effect of speeding ripening in a feedback loop. That's where the expression "a bad apple spoils the barrel" comes from. But the ext
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by athenot 8y ago
As a rebuttal, you are never really free from getting shot because applying your "freedom of association" to that topic results in so much controversy as to be practically unfeasible. Back to the topic at hand, this is pitting the
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by athenot 8y ago
My kids don't have tablets but this would be the application that would make me buy an iPad for them. Very close in spirit to the old LOGO, but with the added bonus of laying the foundation using a real language—real as in something us
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by athenot 8y ago
> Is there an overarching bias to the advance of communication systems? Technology enthusiasts like Kelly would argue that there is — a bias toward greater freedom, democracy, and social harmony Technology itself has its advantages, but
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The vending machine trusts the app without any checks, therefore its security posture depends on how secure the app is.
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The taste difference is noticeable. I stopped going to chain restaurants about half a decade ago, but every now and then get dragged into one by relatives. Whether it's Olive Garden, Applebees, Chilli's, OCharley's, IHOP, Lon
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by athenot 8y ago
I think this could be solved by outlawing severability (where if one clause of the contract is junk, the rest still stands). That would make the contract written in a much more careful manner, and make those junk clauses a liability for the
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WhatsApp's popularity originally came from how it ran on many WAP phone systems, not just iOS and Android but also all the feature phones. What they did looked crazy from the outside but they effectively re-implemented SMS at a lower c
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The angle we can exploit is to find all the places where UX is degraded by advertisement, and attack them. With increased competition and shareholder expectation, Facebook will have no choice but maximize the value they can extract out of e
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This is all summed up in one word: friction. What the big platforms have done is eliminate friction at all the critical parts, to make it easy for users to onboard, easy to share, easy to grow within the platform, and of course hard to leav
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by athenot 8y ago
The style ended up being their signature, after burning through that content, leading up to this piece of satire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBKX-6Gz6A Though from a public speaking point of view, it's well worth
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Per your sibbing comment, that's 100% of the price of their tuition at a Canadian university.
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by athenot 8y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification!
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by athenot 8y ago
I thought fonts were copyrighted.
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There are good meeting solutions that make meeting remotely a lot easier. I happen to work on Webex Teams (full disclosure) but we dogfood our solution and having video meetings call participants in when it starts makes us jump into the mee
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I've encountered the police during routine traffic stops in both the US and in France. Things could be a lot better here, here are some differences: In France they always work as a pair, are cordial and while they make requests within
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Not quite any job, a job for life. There's not really an Undo Button like normal jobs.
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Congress passes bill that lets U.S. authorities shoot down private drones(techcrunch.com)
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Voting machines are a solution in search of a problem. The whole point of automation is to save on labor, at the cost of simplicity. Machines are excellent at handling complexity that some experts can come up with and can execute it reasona
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> I'm sure plenty of you will think that what I have said here is evil (even I feel that way a little bit) Yes. It is. Because it relies on the premise of determining whether other fellow humans are worthy of life.
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When theoretical purity is a main goal, very often usability suffers if your problem doesn't 100% model in said theory.
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> I've been pressured into unnecessary procedures and even given (multiple!) sales pitches for surgeries that I haven't needed or wanted, because the hospital makes huge amounts of money from it, and consumers aren't savvy
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The CCD, though a standard, is far from a univeral bridge. You can represent the same things in different ways, use different vocabularies. Even if you standardize on the "blessed vocabularies" you still have many ways to code the
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by athenot 8y ago
At first glance, it looks like something from Star Wars. I do miss the bold architectures that were more than a glorified warehouse. This reminds me of CDG-1, AKA the "Camembert", which is way smaller and in many ways terribly unp
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> Additionally, Germany is a big train tech exporter They are, but the article mentions that these particular ones are built by the French TGV-maker Alstom.
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Perhaps San Francisco rain is solved, but I doubt the downpours we get in the South East are solved. Zero visibility is just one thing, how about hydroplaning when there is over 1" of standing water on the road because it's coming
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Is today Monday or Monday-Tuesday or Sunday-Monday? I work with coworkers all over the world. Currently it's Monday afternoon where I'm at, and I'm in a meeting with someone in Australia where it's Tuesday morning. Now t
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This is fantastic advice. I'm a binational and ran into similar issues earlier in my career.
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France is one of the leaders in nuclear tech and they got there by partnership between the state-owned power company and governement research. Private nuclear companies benefited from that and they export nuclear reactors to other countries

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