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by mertd 14y ago
Direct link to MIT news release: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/automatic-building-mappin... Wouldn't smoke scatter the IR pattern of Kinect? I think there might be some more work to be done before it can be a useful tool for firefig
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by mertd 14y ago
To me, Pinterest interface means random pictures and captions displayed in arbitrary sizes and order. When watching the preview video, the first thing I thought was "horizontal Pinterest".
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by mertd 14y ago
That's probably way more involvement than KS is willing to deal with. Also, no matter how many disclaimers they put, the curated score would put some of the liability on KickStarter's side, which I'm sure they definitely would not want.
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by mertd 14y ago
The existence of bike lanes is the number one proof that humans are incapable of peacefully sharing the road ;)
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by mertd 14y ago
There is another issue that everyone missed. These things will most definitely be used on bike lanes. Any cyclist who had to share a lane with a longboarder knows that this feat is impossible. Longboard takes up the entire lane due to th
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by mertd 14y ago
I don't think there is a strong case for either direction, therefore they are both fine.
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by mertd 14y ago
What about the other end of the spectrum, by which I mean mean low profile breaches affecting one person, caused by -for example- a jealous ex. Are the compounded losses due to these considered too minor in comparison to high profile breach
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by mertd 14y ago
I don't quite get it. Why should we pretend Warren Buffett et al. don't exist in this context? If these billionaires are a part of the US economy, they contribute to its strength.
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by mertd 14y ago
That looks like a software generator running on Arduino.
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by mertd 14y ago
Is it really the case for broadband? I pay as much as the guy frantically torrenting day and night but right now I'm just commenting on a text-only website.
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by mertd 14y ago
Because of no-signup, there is a great opportunity here for creating to-do lists for small collaborative projects. But Google-wave style simultaneous editing is not there (yet?).
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by mertd 14y ago
But SAT outcome for individuals is deterministic by design. If there was any significant luck component, it wouldn't be a good measure in the first place. Yet you can't deny the possibility that some fool could score 1500+ by merely circl
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by mertd 14y ago
Another complication is navigating through the museum without violating the personal space of the visitors. I guess they could only be allowed in the after hours but then how do you prevent the experience from deteriorating into high-tech
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by mertd 14y ago
Maybe one side was facing the sun slightly?
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by mertd 14y ago
I think one day we will come to terms with the fact that there are only 3 meals in the life of each one of us per day. How many different restaurants can we have?
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by mertd 14y ago
You mean something like these? https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/
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by mertd 14y ago
They understand it well. Problem is, you rarely produce big headlines without jumping to conclusions.
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by mertd 14y ago
Also notice how they magically wake up just before their stop? It is the oldest trick in the book to hold on to your seat.
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by mertd 14y ago
Purely speculating, but it may be the expected duration of rain. So 30% in one hour means on the average it will rain 18 minutes within that hour and 50% of 15 mins would be 7.5 rainy minutes. My real guess is that they have independent mod
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by mertd 14y ago
If the memory is going to go unused otherwise, why the hell not?
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by mertd 14y ago
I never understood the satiety argument. Fat also packs more than twice the calories of carbs. It needs to fill you up twice as fast or keep you full twice as long for this argument to work. Besides, the body takes about 20 minutes to send
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by mertd 14y ago
it's cute how they pretend Android and WP don't exist.
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by mertd 14y ago
I meant eating less in terms of calories.
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by mertd 14y ago
> It is definitely not common knowledge amongst the general population. For a good reason. First and foremost, general population just needs to eat less, a lot less. Once we get past that point, macro-nutrient composition can be the
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by mertd 14y ago
and if my memory serves me right, the bonuses were allegedly allocated based on how accurate the data entry job is. Um, how do you validate that without knowing the answer? Conversely, if you have the answer, why do you need data entry mon
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by mertd 14y ago
Here is the authors' hypothesis: We hypothesize that the durability features built into laptops (such as motion-robust hard drives) make these machines more robust to failures in general. Perhaps the physical environment of a home or of- f
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by mertd 14y ago
> knowing eating breakfast really kicks up your metabolism I'm not sure this is experimentally verified. There is also the "skip the breakfast" camp that advocates remaining in the catabolic state a little longer to keep burning the fa
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by mertd 14y ago
The difference here is that CL still has the content. We always end up in the same fruitless discussion with different subjects: software patents, content, digital media. Should you be able to own something if copying it is practically fre
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by mertd 14y ago
I don't get the joke. Is one of them supposed to be a more worthy science?
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by mertd 14y ago
I think gatekeeping example serves just as a proof of concept. It could be more useful for continuous monitoring. For example to tell you that somebody else may be using the computer that you are still logged in to.

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