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by morley 4y ago
Is there any research into causing flat surfaces to simulate a bump while still remaining flat? I think I've read about interfaces that can raise or lower some parts for buttons, but it would be a lot more convenient to have a glass di
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by morley 5y ago
Ological is his personal site!
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by morley 5y ago
The article has every right to be this good: the writer is John Teti, who used to be editor in chief of the AV Club (and hosted its short-lived tv show). If you've never read his football column Block and Tackle, it's great: and I
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by morley 5y ago
It's easy enough to start with an uncooked chicken, or better yet, wings for the high collagen content. When you start with a rotisserie chicken, you've a lost a lot of the chicken's flavor to the roaster's drip pan.
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by morley 5y ago
I think you're anchoring to the idea that Apple produces Veblen goods, and trying to work backwards from there. The more straightforward explanation is that Apple just wants to make it easy to buy on credit. I disagree that Apple produ
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by morley 5y ago
I rely on SeafoodWatch.org to advise on fish sustainability, and it doesn't look good for sardines: https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations/search?query=%3...
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by morley 6y ago
I wish there were more literature about film directors as managers, as opposed to visionaries. A lot of film workers talk about their favorite directors as "knowing exactly what they want" or "having a clear vision," but
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by morley 6y ago
I like his observation about unsupervised tinkering with dangerous chemicals as a childhood gateway into the sciences, but I don't know what to do with it. How do you _effectively_ convince your community that the gain in scientific cu
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by morley 6y ago
The think that stucks out to me about trying idea after idea is how many of them are abject failures. If you get a run of bad beats, it can seem like you're just headed in the wrong direction, even if on average you'd make winning
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by morley 6y ago
Are we looking at the same map? When I click on a station, I see a list of trains with their ETA, in minutes, next to them.
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by morley 6y ago
This is addressed in the article: federal programs promoting infrastructure growth provided the funds. Building new infrastructure generates lots of short-term income to a city in the form of sales tax, permit fees, etc. It's harder to
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by morley 6y ago
I think tech is other people. Tech doesn't suck because technology is bad: it sucks because life is complicated, and other people are prone to mistakes, or prioritizes that don't align with yours, or have limited attention. Case i
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by morley 6y ago
The divorce rate was going up long before online dating, and have actually been going down since the onset of online dating. Though I'm skeptical they're directly related. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/w
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by morley 6y ago
Your point is addressed earlier in the article: It's not about banning new words, killing off long words or promoting completely perfect grammar. Nor is it about letting grammar slip. A good complement to this article is Orwell's
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by morley 6y ago
Is it that odd? Some countries force you to partner with a local firm to enter their market. A great many use import taxes to give their home businesses a leg up in the industry. It's not fair, but it's not odd either.
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by morley 6y ago
Stratechery offers an RSS feed for subscribers; I subscribe to both because I normally feel the way you do, but I find I read the email more.
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by morley 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand your reference to Andrew Yang. Every presidential candidate I've seen in the late 20th and 21st century has gone overboard in showing their American-ness. What makes Andrew Yang stand out?
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by morley 6y ago
There's the old saying that if you know nothing about it, the Civil War was about slavery; if you know a little about it, it was about state's rights; and if you know a lot about it, it was about slavery. The "states rights&q
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by morley 6y ago
> Govt. SF health + planning made our lives hell. They didn't like our innovations. What innovations did they make that the health department didn't like?
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by morley 6y ago
It seems so bizarre that so much flour is being consumed now. Are people hoarding it, or would this demand otherwise have been met from restaurants?
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by morley 7y ago
For me, the Foursquare of today is a more accurate, more up-to-date Yelp. I find it more useful now than when it was first released as a check-in app. Not all pivots are net negatives.
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by morley 7y ago
I'm a little confused. Maybe I'm interpreting this news or other commenter reactions incorrectly? They seem to be saying that the price of gold is on the rise, but the price of the gold ETF has gone DOWN in the last few days: htt
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by morley 7y ago
It's ironic that this publication is ostensibly anti-censorship. One of the few things I know about this subreddit is how quick they were to delete posts and ban commenters that didn't fit in with their worldview.
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by morley 7y ago
This is directly addressed in the article: it estimates 66% right thumb, 33% left thumb use, and app screenshots are shown with left- and right-handed "reachability" heat maps.
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by morley 7y ago
I've heard the word "heuristics" more recently, but I think I learned (and later forgot) both terms when I was a kid. One interesting thing about heuristics is that it's important to learn when they _don't_ apply. I
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by morley 7y ago
> From what I see many techies are now aware and upset, and hardly anyone seems to want to defend Google anymore. To me, the explanation is simpler: people don't want to defend Google on HN because they'll get downvoted or shou
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by morley 7y ago
To answer your first question: the benefit of derivatives, of which CDOs are a type, are that they theoretically allow people to _reduce_ risk. The classic example is a put option. If you think a stock will go down in a future, you could sh
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by morley 7y ago
Your comment illustrates what I found so frustrating about The Big Short, and people who cite it whenever CDOs are brought up: the filmmakers made no effort in understanding the theory behind CDOs, nor did they attempt to explain the potent
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by morley 7y ago
Anyone care to make an educated guess how much this thing costs? Is an 8'x10' display going to be six figures, or seven?
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by morley 7y ago
Another tangential question I've been struggling with is: is there a human limit to a power density we'll tolerate? Any sufficiently powerful battery is a defect or bad actor away from becoming a weapon. We already see defects in

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