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by efraim 5y ago
Rubber tires does not generate grip through simple static friction. They stick to the road in two different ways, adhesion and deformation. The adhesion is weak molecular forces that stick the rubber to the road like sticky tape, a larger a
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by efraim 5y ago
I think it will be just Windows. Just like Xbox is now Xbox with different flavors called either series X or series S.
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by efraim 5y ago
>Dogs are still animals and can be unpredictable. Which is precisely why they must be on a leash, always. Except in a fenced off area maybe.
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by efraim 5y ago
Why do you think bright pink aisled are geared towards one group? Everyone can like pink, I'm sure the people working in toystores are happy to sell pink dolls do boys or plastic guns and soldier dolls to girls.
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by efraim 5y ago
The location is taken from an online database based on cell id. It's not clear where most of them get their data but services like wigle and mozilla use crowd sourcing of signal strengths so they might be a bit off. Not as accurate as
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by efraim 5y ago
You could very easily not install any other store or use any other payment system if you don't want them. You can keep your device 100 % Apple approved even if there exist alternatives. Why take that choice away from others?
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by efraim 6y ago
Please go ahead and use your best assumptions and make a model, I would like to se it.
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by efraim 6y ago
What are your concerns about being naked around children?
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by efraim 6y ago
You can't tell from that picture, the damage could have been sustained from the cowling. There is speculation that the damage is from a fan blade but that has not been determined yet. The video of the engine doesn't show any corre
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by efraim 6y ago
This looks like it was a contained engine failure, even though the cowling fell off. A portion of a fan blade was embedded in the containment ring and the other damaged blades is missing but probably went out the front, slicing the cowling
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by efraim 6y ago
Did it leave a trail?
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by efraim 6y ago
If there's a computer in it, there is no clear technical difference. The difference is how people use it. You don't use a switch as your only computer device, banks and stores don't need to create apps for all those platforms
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by efraim 6y ago
It's dishonest to pretend that smart phones are not a very large and important portion of the digital market today and very hard to be without. They are used for payment, identification, messaging etc that a laptop or desktop can not r
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by efraim 6y ago
Apple is well compensated for their ecosystem with the price of their phones. Epic wants to create their own store or be allowed to use another payment processor than Apple for in app purchases. Apple would still have plenty of revenue from
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by efraim 6y ago
General purpose computing. A game console or Tesla computer is not made for general programs, they have specific purposes. It's also a case of "you know it when you see it", iPhone wasn't a big platform when it launched
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by efraim 6y ago
I switched from greasemonkey to tampermonkey because the webextension version of greasemonkey wasn't compatible with some of my scripts anymore, but tampermonkey was.
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by efraim 6y ago
But is the higher price necessary or an artificial segmentation of the market? Of course expensive sounds better than cheap, but could $100 headphones sound as good as $500 or are they really that much more expensive to make?
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by efraim 6y ago
Right, very few products are entirely new. That's especially true with apple devices which is why I didn't agree that the apple watch is a blue ocean innovation. They are good at taking ideas and making them better. I would argue
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by efraim 6y ago
From a security standpoint yes, but but the usability wasn't that bad.
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by efraim 6y ago
Android had trusted face unlock since 2014
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by efraim 6y ago
How is the apple watch a blue ocean innovation when smart watches existed before that? It might be better but it's not a new product, similar to how the ipod wasn't the first mp3 player. Is faceid a usability innovation over previ
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by efraim 6y ago
Denmark has had 100 deaths per million and neighboring Swedish region Scania has had 139 deaths per million (1.4 million population). The death rate of just the regions of Zealand and Copenhagen is 170 per million (2.6 million population).
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by efraim 6y ago
What is the point of your comments? You mention the community as an organism that can't control where the harm is directed, that is acting in self-defense. But the people looting, breaking windows and throwing stones are individuals th
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by efraim 6y ago
That still doesn't make looting self-defense.
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by efraim 6y ago
What are their strong ties to the russian government?
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by efraim 7y ago
Don't they already do that? They are part of the MDN Product Advisory Board since 2017. Blog post of the announcement: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/10/building-unified-documenta...
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Visualizations connecting chaos theory, fractals, and the logistic map(github.com)
2 points by efraim 7y ago|0 comments
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Equation will change how you see the world(youtube.com)
1 points by efraim 7y ago|0 comments
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by efraim 7y ago
Also, people like to sit next to people they know such as family. A column approach sounds more effective, but it would split up people traveling together.
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by efraim 7y ago
But they don't have wires that are annoying and tethers your head to your phone.

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