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Those are the opposite of fast fashion, being both completely unfashionable and oddly long-lived. I have event t-shirts that are almost old enough to vote. And then of course, they have a long afterlife, first as painting shirts and finally
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There's really not much out there, because the chemistry of instant film is very difficult and without the film, there are no cameras. Fuji's only real competitor is The Impossible Project, now known as Polaroid, having bought the
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My hometown had a few good ones, all doctors: * A veterinarian named Dr. Bone * A chiropractor named Dr. Bender * An orthodontist named Dr. Owings (Orthodontists are quite expensive.)
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I wonder if any of those cover switching devices. You used to be able to say, "Hey Google, move that to the kitchen," and whatever you were listening to would stop and continue in the kitchen. It still understands the command, bu
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There's still a lot they could do around that though, e.g. requiring that billing details be re-entered upon change or sending an email alerting the user with instructions to secure the account if it was not authorized.
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Provided the SMS features are core to the system (and it looks like they are), then this is more of a service than a software product, in my opinion. It's surprisingly expensive to send or receive a text message - about a cent[1]. A li
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A fun coincidence: someone posted about a similar memory just this morning[1]! > Removing insulation from a live phone wire with my teeth (I had decided to put an extension in my room without asking for help...) was one of mine, that def
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> then they would have to prove the damages caused by FB alone INAL, but that doesn't sound correct. See for example, several liability[1], in which responsibility is divided among parties. > They would have to prove that FB cau
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I think Christmas should be regarded as two separate holidays that happen to have the same name and occur on the same date. There is the secular/pagan celebration, which gives everyone an excuse to put up lights, bring green things int
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The reason outdoor shadows appear blue is obvious in retrospect (think about it for a second if you want to...): Objects in the sun's shadow are usually lit primarily by the sky and the sky is blue! Maybe this occurs naturally to other
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Is it not possible to determine the identities of the thieves (or at least a lot of information about them) from the associated Apple account? I don't understand why they wouldn't use a less consumer-oriented tracking device that
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I wish Google would add that feature natively. Google could even use it to help detect spam sites.
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I heard someone who worked on a big budget sports game discussing this once. In simulating movement, there's a tradeoff between realism and responsiveness to player input. If you try for perfect realism, the controls will feel laggy an
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In our case (two person household), it makes much more sense to pay $4 to rent movies individually. We watch about four movies per month, so this gives us access to virtually every movie ever at a cost equivalent to a Netflix subscription.
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In this context, it's an allusion to carbonated drinks and is a different way to say 'bubbly.'
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The James Bond character was actually named after a real octopus that Ian Flemming met in Jamaica[1]. Flemming wanted to befriend it, but before he could, it was eaten by his housemaid. (Credit for this knowledge to the No Such Thing as a F
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The company had over 100B in revenue last year. By adding this sleazy anti-feature, Microsoft is sacrificing its reputation and the quality of a high-profile product for probably a few million? That's a few thousandths of one percent o
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In addition to using older technology, it's also possible that the Kindle makes different tradeoffs in terms of speed/contrast/ghosting/resolution. Personally, when reading, refresh speed is the property that I care leas
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Can you expand on that? Creating a public transit system that suffers from overcrowding doesn't sound like a failure; it sounds like a good start. (Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded. - Yogi Berra)
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I think YouTube definitely qualifies, though the content hosted there is much more heterogeneous in quality and purpose. The how-to content alone is its own little wikipedia. Guided by videos, my mother is now diving into home-improvement p
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The UK also banned ads that targeted children for cereal above a certain sugar content. The cereal makers protested, but in the end, they simply reduced the amount of sugar in their products to just below the allowed threshold, continued to
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That's a great point. For example, I recently got back into film photography and I found that if you want to get a 40-year-old camera today, you'll probably be buying it from a collector. Without them, these wonderful, obsolete to
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I don't think the reasoning is incorrect. It went like this: 1. What if the motion of light is influenced by gravity, as suggested by Newton's theory of corpuscles? (It is, just not in the way he thought.) 2. And what if there are
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My guess is that they used that case from early on in the project and then just stuck with it even as the electronics inside shrunk. It's not like the software people would be fooled by the enormous size; they knew they were making a p
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The tool looks very nice, but the syntax, which looks pretty close to OpenSCAD, is pretty ungainly. It makes me wish lisp-style syntax were more widely accepted. difference() { hull() { ... } translate([1, 0]
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That is true, but what if the shared count were initialized to one and the creator thread frees an object when the shared count is equal to one and the local count is decremented zero? (Since it knows it holds one shared reference.) Then th
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One note: 'Yours truly' is typically used to refer to oneself, so it seems that you are claiming to be the indicted pilot.
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Alternatively, it would be interesting to try having the sensors output 1/(distance + k), where k is maybe 0.1m. Then the output would naturally go to zero as things got further away.
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An internet commenter is less likely to be successfully sued than Facebook, because it is easier to argue that Stossel suffered reputational damage from an incorrect statement by Facebook, compared to an unspecific insult from a random indi
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A long time ago, I used a service where you subscribed to any number of blogs via their RSS feeds and the service created a daily or weekly e-book for you with all of the new posts, complete with a table of contents. If you had a Kindle, yo

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