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Cybathlon: Battle of the bionic athletes(bbc.com)
1 points by kgarten 10y ago|0 comments
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by kgarten 10y ago
attend it yesterday and was inspired and amazed ... We need more of these type of events, trying to push the limits of tech with competition and sportsmanship.
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Cybathlon - Tech Championship for people with disabilities(cybathlon.ethz.ch)
1 points by kgarten 10y ago|1 comments
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by kgarten 10y ago
Seems you don't know anything about beef if you are talking about Kobe beef. It's just like Bordeaux Wine, it's beef from a certain region ... it says nothing about quality. Try Miyazaki Beef next time you are in Japan ... h
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by kgarten 10y ago
read the opposition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombing... yes, the torpedo factories are a valid target. How large were those, how many square meters of the final destruction was a military t
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[Audio] Germany to prosecute German comic over Erdogan poem(dw.com)
1 points by kgarten 11y ago|0 comments
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by kgarten 11y ago
Thanks ... it's really bad practice from news articles to not link to the actual study or cite it. "Scientists found ... " yeah at least they mention the author and the journal.
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Amazon is getting into the freighter business(businessinsider.de)
4 points by kgarten 11y ago|0 comments
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First Google Glass 2.0 pictures(mashable.com)
2 points by kgarten 11y ago|0 comments
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by kgarten 11y ago
Looks cool (just downloaded the free version and am playing with it). A tip for the free version specify what the limitations are more clearly in the description.
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by kgarten 11y ago
For you dying every 10 years is better than breathing Beijing air once ... hmm ...
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by kgarten 11y ago
I wonder why hacker news is so positive on nuclear power. The article is full of false information or misguided information. I always recommend "Into Eternity" to understand why nuclear is one of the worst options for eternity ;)
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by kgarten 11y ago
they use a camera (so not really practical ;) )
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by kgarten 11y ago
actually we are working on an open source eye wear platform ... might take a while though.
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Affective Wear – Recognizing Facial Expressions(kaikunze.de)
4 points by kgarten 11y ago|6 comments
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by kgarten 11y ago
hmm ... seems Taylor Swift is not much better: https://junction10.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/those-in-glass-h...
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Telepresence using head mounted cameras(omnipresenz.com)
1 points by kgarten 12y ago|0 comments
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Design school vs. business school(jules.thegrommet.com)
1 points by kgarten 12y ago|0 comments
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JNS MEME Hackathon (page in Japanese)(japanese.engadget.com)
1 points by kgarten 12y ago|0 comments
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by kgarten 12y ago
are there download links for the videos somewhere? I don't have flash installed and need to travel tomorrow ;)
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by kgarten 12y ago
I preferred the Slate Google Graveyard with flowers: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/201...
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by kgarten 12y ago
Castle Crashers and Guacamelee work well. Unfortunately, The Force Unleashed does not recognize it. Yet, believe it's a game specific problem (the port is terrible ...). Haven't tried other games.
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by kgarten 12y ago
using the Xone-OSX https://github.com/FranticRain/Xone-OSX works quite fine for me. Anybody has an input about the differences?
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by kgarten 12y ago
You think that's good? Why should it be worse?
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by kgarten 12y ago
Have you ever considered that these drawings and CG images might prevent more children being abused? ( I don't think it's too much of a stretch of imagination ;) ) I just want to point out that we don't know ... yet what we k
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by kgarten 12y ago
How do gain oversight over something that's by definition secret? "Sorry, would like to tell you but doing so would be against the interest of the state ..."
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by kgarten 12y ago
I don't get it. The NSA is not a democratic government ... It's not elected by the people. The US people have no control over the NSA. There are also good reasons to argue that the US is not democratic: http://www.bbc.c
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by kgarten 12y ago
seems to me a lot of people flaged the story (443 points, 1 day ago, on page 3 with a couple of stories with 200 points also 1 day ago) ... wondering why conspiracy theories ;)
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by kgarten 12y ago
I don't think he wanted to equalize both. Yet, snooping on your private conversations is wrong, executing people for their sexuality is also wrong. It's worse but both are wrong according to my value set ... this is a bit off topi
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by kgarten 12y ago
somehow spurious correlations came to my mind when reading this http://www.tylervigen.com :)

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