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by frankus 16y ago
Three vaguely related observations: 1. When we lose weight due to eating right and/or exercising (excluding water weight), it's because the air that we breathe out is slightly heavier than the air that we breathe in. 2. When we're burning w
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by frankus 16y ago
I'll be 35 in like a week, but a few weeks ago I had a realization that has allowed me to make a lot more sense out of things: There is metaphysical loneliness ("What is my purpose in life?"), and romantic/sexual loneliness ("I wish I had s
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Enable Kerning and Ligatures in Safari (OS X)(frankschmitt.org)
2 points by frankus 16y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 16y ago
I would point out that there is as much difference between your basic piece of ShovelWare and a real iPhone app as there is between a "Home Page" and a Web app. In both cases having a deep understanding of the platform and the skills to bui
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Nifty Freeway Interchange Design(npr.org)
129 points by frankus 16y ago|39 comments
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by frankus 16y ago
From the headline I thought they were talking about the Diverging Diamond: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1204033...
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by frankus 16y ago
It would be pretty slick if someone built CDMA 3G (EVDO? Is that what it's called?) or WiMax board that just plugged into the jack on the iPad's motherboard. But I wouldn't be at all surprised if that somebody turned out to be Apple in a ye
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by frankus 16y ago
And I would be a bit worried bypassing the battery-management hardware on the iPad like that. You really don't want to take LiPolys all the way to 0V. Nor, ideally, do you want to go around the amp-hour counter that lets the charger know th
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The $7.8 Trillion Question(modeledbehavior.com)
1 points by frankus 16y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 16y ago
If anything you'd want less resolution near the poles, since they are almost uniformly less populated and hence there is less potential ambiguity between, say, individual dwellings.
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by frankus 16y ago
One thing to keep in mind vis-a-vis radioactive iodine is that it tends to concentrate in the thyroid, whereas potassium is distributed pretty evenly and excreted quickly.
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by frankus 16y ago
A 50¢ padded envelope makes a great iPad case.
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by frankus 16y ago
That's exactly what I was going to say. It could be that high caffeine users are biologically predisposed to need frequent doses of a stimulant to maintain a level of alertness that is merely normal for the general population, like some kin
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by frankus 16y ago
When you're traveling downwind at the wind speed, like the article says, there's no more apparent wind that you can harness to go any faster. That much is uncontroversial. But any type of "sailing" that isn't directly downwind depends on th
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by frankus 16y ago
That's basically what the "relief well" plan is, but it's taking a couple of months to get there. I think the trick is that it needs to be intercepted deep enough into bedrock to not risk having the whole BOP crater.
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by frankus 16y ago
Sometimes a slight exaggeration makes for a better headline :)
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Recruiting: Why you should alienate half of your candidates(danshapiro.com)
24 points by frankus 16y ago|12 comments
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Working at FoxConn appears to lower suicide risk(zdnet.com)
36 points by frankus 16y ago|9 comments
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by frankus 16y ago
I agree, but that everyone should be equally happy is not what the book argues at all. Frank's argument boils down to the fact that a lot of categories of consumption are zero-sum games, and that if played with lower stakes people could aff
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by frankus 16y ago
I'm not arguing with your overall conclusion, but Apple has been working on replacing GCC in their toolchain with Clang/LLVM.
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by frankus 16y ago
Robert Frank has a book (Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class) that makes a convincing case that that effect does in fact exist. He goes on to argue for a progressive consumption tax, which is fairly convincing depen
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by frankus 16y ago
Point 2 isn't really that big of a deal, unless you're using old flooded-cell lead-acid batteries. Newer lead-acid batteries have the electrolyte absorbed in fiberglass mats, so it won't spill or splash, even in a collision. An lithium-ion
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Toyota invests $50M in Tesla, will jointly reopen NUMMI plant(mercurynews.com)
102 points by frankus 16y ago|20 comments
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Immigration and IDs: A Modest Proposal(newsweek.com)
1 points by frankus 16y ago|1 comments
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by frankus 16y ago
I worked my way through #2, and it's a good one, but there've been a lot of changes (particularly on the Interface Builder side of things) to Apple's developer tools since 2002.
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by frankus 16y ago
As a hypothetical individual cop in Arizona, would subjecting as many white people as possible to "papers please" be a reasonable way to protest this? Obviously if someone can produce government-issued ID, you're done. But a few high profil
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by frankus 17y ago
Omnidirectional Segway, anyone?
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by frankus 17y ago
My guess would be Grindr or one of its clones. Loopt, colorful popped collars notwithstanding, is not particularly gay.
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by frankus 17y ago
It's funny that there are people who won't put ARCO gas in their car, but will gladly put AM-PM hot dogs in their stomach.
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by frankus 17y ago
fabulis seems like another good match.

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