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by kqr2 14y ago
Professor Gerald Sussman of MIT put together this great video on an electrical engineer's view of a mechanical watch: http://video.mit.edu/watch/an-electrical-engineering-view-of...
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by kqr2 14y ago
Slightly off-topic, but kill -9 even has a rap song dedicated to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4
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by kqr2 14y ago
I solve the problem by keeping the socks paired using sock holders while they are washed. Also by using different colors for each family member, you solve the distribution problem. http://www.sockpro.com/
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by kqr2 14y ago
A great essay on the power of the command line by Neal Stephenson. http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html
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by kqr2 14y ago
Silicon Valley : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/ Director & writer is Mike Judge who is known for his animated series Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill as well as the classic Office Space . http://www.imdb.com/titl
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by kqr2 14y ago
Actually, the Antonov An-225 Mriya is generally acknowledged as the largest plane in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya
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by kqr2 14y ago
How does the tax code work in other countries? Is US unique in its treatment of marriage versus singles?
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The torrent isn't his legacy but rather the spirit of his activism.
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by kqr2 14y ago
A big advantage for most people is that it is an automatic savings plan. Although you have more options investing on your own, many people would either spend it or forget to invest it.
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Aaron Swartz's Book Reviews(aaronsw.com)
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by kqr2 14y ago
This reminds me of Blackle : the black front end to Google Custom Search which claims to save energy when using CRT monitors. http://blackle.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackle
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Facing backlash, AIG won't join lawsuit against US(finance.yahoo.com)
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Also from the guidelines: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users wil
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by kqr2 14y ago
For an example of modern day "puppetry" on Japanese TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYWvygAbolM
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by kqr2 14y ago
There was a recent NPR interview with the author of this book. http://m.ttbook.org/book/kevin-dutton-wisdom-psychopaths
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by kqr2 14y ago
With regards to the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy: Cathleen Blackburn, lawyer for the Tolkien Estate in Oxford, recounts ironically, "These hugely popular films apparently did not make any profit! We were receiving statemen
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by kqr2 14y ago
If you understand entropy (which can be thought of as a measure of disorder or randomness), then I think the Wikipedia definition is pretty clear. Systems with positive temperature increase in entropy as one adds energy to the system
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Tesla and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk buys in Bel Air (blog.sfgate.com)
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by kqr2 14y ago
A lot of drugs can be detected in water, e.g. prozac: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3545684.stm
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Also check out http://www.bookcrossing.com/
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by kqr2 14y ago
There was a recent KQED forum podcast on the rise and fall of California: http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201212271000
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by kqr2 14y ago
For information on the various satellite navigation systems available: GPS (United States) GLONASS (Russia) Galileo (European Union) Compass/ Beidou (China) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_navigation
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by kqr2 14y ago
Also check out Marshall Brain's essay Robotic Nation . http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
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Robotic Nation(marshallbrain.com)
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Link to original source as recommended by HN guidelines: http://www.cabletv.com/doctor-who-timeline http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by kqr2 14y ago
What are good alternatives to expedia that provide good customer service and are also friendly to small businesses?
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by kqr2 14y ago
Also recommend Jeff Dean's tech talk Building Software Systems At Google and Lessons Learned which references those latency numbers. Slides: http://research.google.com/people/jeff/Stanford-DL-Nov-2010.... Video: http://www.youtube.com/
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by kqr2 14y ago
In the days since, it became clear that we failed to fulfill what I consider one of our most important responsibilities – to communicate our intentions clearly. They keep focusing on the fact that their TOS wasn't clear. I th
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I would also recommend The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-Computing-Systems-Princip... http://www.nand2tetris.org/
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Instagram star koci may delete account over new user terms (blog.sfgate.com)
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