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by mertd 9y ago
"However, further experiments revealed that depth perception is not the driving force behind the effect."
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by mertd 9y ago
I feel this might be one of those cases where people would prefer to pay some feel -no matter how small- than bear the burden of the social and emotional cost of asking for a handout.
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by mertd 9y ago
Same could be said for "just finding cat videos."
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by mertd 9y ago
Sometimes parts are weaker than the whole. The strong economy is possibly part due to investments made with the assumption that Catalonia would be part of Spain for the foreseeable future. Would London have been the de-facto financial hub o
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by mertd 9y ago
As a mechanical keyboard fan, I'm quite impressed with how much tactile feedback the keys provide despite the short travel. I could live without the touchbar though.
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by mertd 9y ago
I'm referring to the case when the external speakers are playing music. It gets irritating to listen to somebody's music if they are riding your back wheel.
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by mertd 9y ago
Works great for you. Not so much for people who bike around you.
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by mertd 9y ago
The platform is there, just not quite visible because the upper floor is obstructing it. But you can see the bottom of the platform next to the accessible ramp.
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by mertd 9y ago
Not latent since you can directly measure it. You are thinking of confounding variable.
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by mertd 9y ago
This is another instance where the value of the work is visibly different than the value of the labor. Teachers are the classical example of providing much higher value than what they are compensated for.
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by mertd 9y ago
This reminds me of that infamous "Show HN: Dropbox" thread. It is 2017 and I don't know of any video conference system or software that "just works" everywhere, all the time, under all bandwidth conditions. If Face
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by mertd 9y ago
> I think it's reasonable to believe the average Giphy search can eventually monetize at > 1% of the average Google search query. Not too sure about that. I don't search for gifs of anything I want to buy but I certainly goo
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by mertd 9y ago
That reminds me of frequent lane switching in traffic congestion. Unless the lane next to you is moving faster because of a fundamental reason (early stage unicorn), you'll get stuck again 100 feet down the road.
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by mertd 9y ago
Do they really have shops in them or are they accessible through a building that has shops?
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by mertd 9y ago
You assumed that the trucking volume will stay the same when the cost goes down significantly.
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by mertd 9y ago
How is it that the secretary of state who was a fossil fuel CEO is against quitting?
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by mertd 9y ago
sweetmarias.com They have in depth reviews of all coffees. I've bought from them for years.
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by mertd 9y ago
"Clicking" on the little "x" to close the application window is near impossible with anything other than the mouse. We can't pretend interfaces like touch are gimmicks anymore. They're pushing a decade now i
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by mertd 10y ago
Numpy is not perfect but this is the first time I've heard it being referred to as abominable. What is it doing fundamentally wrong?
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by mertd 10y ago
Atatürk was not a beacon of democracy, he never pretended to be. As a military man, he did resort to heavy handed methods at times. The republic he left behind as his legacy is however one when you consider the circumstances. He created a s
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by mertd 10y ago
Is the Moon a planet?
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by mertd 10y ago
The one you left out (Alexa) is very common.
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by mertd 10y ago
I think the point here is not that the self driving software is already beter than humans but rather that the upside of cars driving themselves is so big that it is worth pursuing until we get it right.
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by mertd 10y ago
To be fair, we do not exactly have an oversupply of WSJ caliber journalism.
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by mertd 10y ago
For the sake of preserving the structure, I'd prefer WeasyPrint.
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by mertd 10y ago
Does the text remain text or does it become an image?
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by mertd 10y ago
Let's just spell it out. They were white Christians and therefore are welcome. Statue of Liberty weeps with sorrow.
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by mertd 10y ago
Timestamp must be wrong. Pi Zero did not exist in 2012.
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by mertd 10y ago
I have never heard of that reasoning. What's the advantage of dissolving in water? There are other advantages of cooking such as producing shelf stable foodstuffs and increasing the bioavailability of nutrients.
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by mertd 10y ago
Spending capacity of a single person does not scale though. A member of top 1% does not eat 1000 hamburgers in a day because they can afford it. They might spend $1000 on a single hamburger or several million $ on a car but it is hard to s

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