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by chiefofgxbxl 10y ago
Due to the blast in the desert, quartz and other minerals in the sand were melted to form Trinitite, a green glass. Would be interesting to hold this piece of history in a museum (according to Wikipedia, it's safe to handle). https:&#
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There's something like Acid3, but it doesn't give you information as to what failed when you get a less-than-perfect score. (Test: http://acid3.acidtests.org/ | Information: http://www.webstandards.org&
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> The people who care about sugar intake avoid Milky Ways and similar candies already. This may be true, but this statement is also missing the (possibly large?) group of people that simply have no benchmark in their mind for how much
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> Besides direct costs for the car, fuel, and maintenance, the main disincentive to driving is how damn boring it is. What happens when we turn fully-autonomous vehicles into luxury entertainment centers? I suspect that, if we're no
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by chiefofgxbxl 10y ago
A filter to block out a bit of the excess blue light? This would reduce the effectiveness of the light output though, unless you amped up the output to raise all of the colors and then selectively suppressed the blue to help balance it out.
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It is difficult to say if the media has any responsibility for informing the public of both viewpoints, rather than just a polarized version of one side. Media makes money when they get viewers / ad-clickers, and appealing to people&#x
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> The same battery pack, but this one has gold stripes and is clearly higher end! This point especially. New trends will come along in short time which will move the crowd constantly toward purchasing this flashy thing or that. Just ima
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Ask HN: How does a developer find a digital artist?
3 points by chiefofgxbxl 11y ago|3 comments
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Adults are quick to write off that kids are not part of the "real world": e.g. "When you graduate school and enter the real world, (insert something about responsibilities or work)." I'm sure it is a combination of
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> "There’s nothing about a global computer network that necessitates addiction-like behaviours." I've recently reflected that despite the internet having origins which benefited the military and scientific community, the
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by chiefofgxbxl 11y ago
Author here - I've been working on this add-on for some time. SciZone allows you to paste little 'snippets' (urls) onto web pages. Any user who has the add-on can hover over the link and see the data. For instance, if you hav
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Show HN: SciZone – Embed scientific datasets and phenomena on the web(sci.zone)
6 points by chiefofgxbxl 11y ago|2 comments