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berg01
8y ago
The only logical conclusion (apart from Amazon being managerially incompetent) is that they make more money this way.
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It should be noted that apart from alcohol aspects, Swedish road safety thinking systematically treats the human behavior as something that can not be changed with training, propaganda etc. The only thing that works is to change the environ
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Kind of related: There's a small Swedish state-owned (soon to be privatized though) consulting company with about 15 people that exists with the sole purpose of exporting this know-how to other countries. It's been relatively succ
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I think you'll enjoy this 15 minute documentary on a particular bus trap in Stockholm: https://www.svtplay.se/video/17480166/sparviddshinder?info=v... Much of it is in English since many of the victims are to
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8y ago
Now have the same team map other parts of the world! I bet these elements are not as rare as they are thought to be. I grew up like ten minutes from where nine natural elements where first identified: https://en.wikipedia.org
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8y ago
Thanks!
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Here's a random observation from experience: Focused and persistent @ IQ 110 beats unfocused and dithering @ IQ 170 over time.
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Raph has a great and well-deserved reputation for excellence. .. but where do you find any reference to him in that video?
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Love it!
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> So really autopilot is the correct term, people are simply assuming it means a level 5 self driving car when it does not. The basics of good usability is that whatever the average person/user is likely to do is to be considered to
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So the crux here is the naming of the not-really-self-driving feature. This is not an Autopilot for cars. It "requires the driver to be alert and have hands on the wheel". That's a driving assist. Call it the world's bes
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8y ago
Do you have an unusual eye condition?
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Maybe the modern-time Google geniuses will eventually launch "G Suite Pro ", "with groundbreaking information density"? Of course for $5/user/month extra. Oh and they will also get an exclusive dark app skin
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8y ago
Prepare yourselves for even more whitespace and even larger typefaces. It's the Material Design Way. (Let's not forget the current Gmail had a big design update that added lots of whitespace a few years ago.) That update from
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8y ago
Bonsoir.
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> Every time I spend some time pushing back Eh... You realize HN is not really the primary forum for this kind of debate? > and perhaps I should let people believe in their crystals... Oh, you're just a crank. Edit: And then afte
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone_(medieval)#Sources "One medieval source in Iceland, "Rauðúlfs þáttr", mentions the sunstone as a mineral by means of which the sun could be located in an overcast a
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9y ago
The web is a wonderful thing. :)
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https://www.gillware.com/blog/articles/hdd-burial-sea-davy-j...
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Along with his habit of setting unreallistic and overly aggressive targets, let's not forget that he is also consistently late. So maybe by 2030 (2018+2*6) this plan will be executed. Let's hope so!
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What the fuck. There is nothing journalistic about their compulsive instinct to archive everything (and to spend a lot of money on enabling not just crawling the web, but rather.. pretty much everything.) This would be like like giving so