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by meow 15y ago
When there are so many worries in the present, many people would not really care about problems that might come in the future. You can call it a kind of de-sensitivity to worries due to over exposure to them.
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by meow 15y ago
direct link: http://www.aakashtablet.com/
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by meow 15y ago
Thanks to recent rule for telemarketers in India, we get almost zero telemarketing calls/sms if we register for do not call service. My phone was surprisingly silent from the day this rule came into effect. Ironically, this whole thing was
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by meow 15y ago
Even now (after the long distance call cost has drastically come down), when ever I receive a call from my parents, I instinctively cut it (making it a missed call for them) and call them back :). In last two years increased competition am
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by meow 15y ago
"well meaning" I don't think we can assume that any more. Not with every amendment being shot down with glee and contempt.
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by meow 15y ago
Ironically, Ford fought tooth and nail against an overly generic patent for automobile (similar to a design patent because the guy who owns it is a lawyer and never built an actual model before getting the patent) and won. http://www.bpmle
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by meow 15y ago
Considering that US is an important market in terms of ad revenues, that might be as good as shutting down youtube.
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by meow 15y ago
Unfortunately, there are not many companies building these engines commercially (at least at these power outputs). Most of the engines I have seen are built by hobbyists (either too tiny or crude :( ). That's changing in recent years with i
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by meow 15y ago
It depends on what your power requirement is. For a 200C difference, you should be able to get around 500W to 600W with a properly built stirling engine.
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by meow 15y ago
One particular design that I'm very interested in is a quasiturbine based stirling engine. It seem to have a lot better power/volume ratio than other stirling designs. Unfortunately, I haven't seen even a single running model yet :(
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by meow 15y ago
aah, that's very interesting.. though I'm skeptical a pencil sized one will be able to output that much of power :). The problem with Stirling engines is that power output is kind of low when compared with a similar sized IC engine.
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by meow 15y ago
It will be kind of heavy though. For simple charging of appliances, other projects are very interesting: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryochijiiwa/bootstrapsol... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davefoster/lilypad-using...
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by meow 15y ago
Unlike other engines, a Stirling engine (like other external combustion engines) is more suited for using alternative power sources like solar energy. You can heat the end using a Fresnel lens or a solar concentrator ( http://en.wikipedia.o
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Kickstarter project for $100 - 1 kW - stirling engine(kickstarter.com)
68 points by meow 15y ago|61 comments
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by meow 15y ago
As much credit as we owe to thieves, for pointing out weaknesses in security of a house.
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by meow 15y ago
Steal the money - doesn't it bother anyone that if we equate earning money in business (in what ever way) with stealing, we have to equate what most of the oil companies, most of the investment banks, most of the media companies, most of ph
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by meow 15y ago
Considering that individual governments are already in a position to screw with internet using legislation (e-parasite, sopa, protect-ip bills), this may not be such a bad idea. When a council of countries are involved, may be governments w
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The three biggest myths about women in tech(venturebeat.com)
1 points by meow 15y ago|0 comments
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by meow 15y ago
Seriously, have storage costs become this low already... funny that google can't find the name yet... this is the direct link: https://www.backify.com/
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by meow 15y ago
May be she should move out and live in one of the african/asian countries. That way she can both have children and reduce the footprint at the same time. One of the interesting things is that, people were shocked when one of the commentator
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by meow 15y ago
It would have been much more intrusive if TRAI messed with the per sms pricing than the number of SMS. I'm glad they kept this limit. I used to receive 10-20 spam SMS per day and now I'm receiving none. If the system is working so well, 100
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by meow 15y ago
But can the people building projects on kickstarter even be called artists ? They got to be called engineers or entrepreneurs... An awesome site and resource for funding being roughed up for protection money.
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by meow 15y ago
"Since its discovery in 2004 (by pulling a thin layer off a piece of pencil graphite using sticky tape)" So can I just do that and get a layer of graphene ? I mean is it really that simple ?
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by meow 15y ago
Assuming you are implying they will sue over patents, they can't - because software patents are not legal in India.
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by meow 15y ago
May be they will produce a white paper on why Oracle's NoSQL is better than other NoSQLs :)
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by meow 15y ago
So is this statement : "Creative and industrious Americans will no longer be challenged by the low-cost assembly line workers of Southeast Asia and third world countries." It almost feels like political speech.
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Air pollution is stunting India's monsoon (newscientist.com)
1 points by meow 15y ago|0 comments
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Why the Kindle Fire Succeeds Where Honeycomb Tablets Fail(pcmag.com)
4 points by meow 15y ago|0 comments
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by meow 15y ago
I haven't noticed this till now and now I'm shocked. I hated the preview so much that I had to use a custom stylish addon script for firefox to block the annoying thing. Now that the cache is moved to preview, I'm stuck between getting anno
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by meow 15y ago
Unfortunately, when it comes to business, there is no feather-weight category. That said, Google it self overcame already entrenched competition in search through a better product and defended well against competitor with deep pockets (Mic

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